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US stocks fall while a break in gold fever sends metals prices plunging 01/30/2026 04:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Financial markets churned on Friday as investors tried to figure out what President Donald Trump’s new nominee to lead the Federal Reserve will mean for interest rates. U.S. stocks fell, with the S&P 500 down 0.4% after sinking as much as 1.1% earlier in the day. The Dow Jone Packers announce extensions for coach Matt LaFleur, GM Brian Gutekunst and executive VP Russ Ball 01/30/2026 04:17pm • GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst and executive vice president/director of football operations Russ Ball have joined coach Matt LaFleur in signing multi-year contract extensions. Packers president/CEO Ed Policy announced the extensions for all three on Friday Judge hears testimony from DNA expert as man convicted of killing Laken Riley seeks new trial 01/30/2026 04:13pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A judge considering whether to grant a new trial to the Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley heard testimony Friday from a DNA expert retained by his attorneys to analyze evidence in his murder case. Jose Ibarra's trial attorneys had asked the Trump's choice of Warsh to lead Fed could reshape the world's most influential central bank 01/30/2026 03:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh to chair the Federal Reserve could bring about sweeping changes at a central bank that dominates the global economy and markets like no other. Warsh, if approved by the Senate, will be under close scrutiny from financial markets NFL says it will discuss using review for player safety penalties missed by officials 01/30/2026 02:44pm • The NFL will discuss using video review to assess penalties for player safety-related violations that are missed by officials, the league said Friday. Non-calls are currently not reviewable, but penalties such as grabbing the facemask, unnecessary roughness, roughing the passer and hip-drop tackles WNBA and the players' union to resume stalled CBA negotiations on Monday 01/30/2026 02:42pm • The WNBA and the players' union will meet Monday in New York for the first time in several weeks to try to move the stalled collective bargaining negotiations forward. Kelsey Plum, who is vice president of the players union, mentioned the meeting to reporters while she was preparing for a game in Ph Kon Knueppel is giving former Duke teammate Cooper Flagg a challenge in NBA Rookie of the Year race 01/30/2026 02:12pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Cooper Flagg entered the season as the overwhelming favorite to win NBA Rookie of the Year. But his old college roommate is giving the No. 1 draft pick a run for his money. Charlotte's Kon Knueppel is in the midst of the most productive rookie season in Hornets history, rank Sundance Film Festival: Channing Tatum drama ‘Josephine’ wins top jury and audience awards 01/30/2026 02:04pm • PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Beth de Araújo’s potent family drama “Josephine,” about an 8-year-old girl who witnesses a sexual assault, won top prizes at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. The juries announced the winners Friday in Park City, Utah. “Josephine,” starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Polygamous sect's sway has dwindled in twin towns on Arizona-Utah line. Residents enjoy new freedoms 01/30/2026 01:37pm • COLORADO CITY, Ariz. (AP) — The prairie dresses, walled compounds and distrust of outsiders that were once hallmarks of two towns on the Arizona-Utah border are mostly gone. These days, Colorado City, Arizona, and neighboring Hildale, Utah, look much like any other town in this remote and pictures ‘I Can’t Tell You’: Attorneys, Relatives Struggle To Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees 01/30/2026 01:26pm • Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone. A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front yard in Glendale, California. Now, he was in a hospital after suffering a ministroke. He was shackled to the bed by his hand and foot, he tol Freezing reptile dubbed 'Lizard in a blizzard' is rescued after being buried in Rhode Island snow 01/30/2026 01:22pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Wildlife officials say a “lizard in a blizzard” has been rescued after a man discovered the large cold-blooded reptile buried in snow in Rhode Island, somehow surviving the frigid temperatures. According to the New England Wildlife Center, the Providence man spotted th After 200 years, the Farmers’ Almanac bets on a digital reboot and new owner 01/30/2026 01:09pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Farmers' Almanac isn't going out of business after all, but it is leaving Maine for the bright lights of New York City and a new owner. Beloved by farmers and gardeners, the almanac was first printed in 1818 and — like the arguably more famous Old Farmer’s Almanac South Africa expels Israel's top diplomat in a move that could prompt a strong reaction from the US 01/30/2026 12:43pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa ordered Israel's deputy ambassador to leave the country within 72 hours on Friday, accusing him of undermining relations between the countries with social media posts that insulted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and violating diplomatic protocol A look at the US military assets in the Middle East 01/30/2026 12:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has sent a host of U.S. military assets into the Middle East over the past several weeks, including an aircraft carrier group and its thousands of troops, as President Donald Trump indicates he is maintaining the possibility of strikes on Iran. “We have a lot of ve Panama Canal ports will keep operating after court finds concession unconstitutional, president says 01/30/2026 12:23pm • PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama's president moved to assure the public on Friday that critical ports at both ends of the Panama Canal will continue to operate without interruption — a day after the country’s Supreme Court ruled that the concession held by a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison H