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Runners are used to toughing it out. A warming climate can make that deadly 08/30/2024 09:44am • Carolyn Baker, clad in a neon pink top and matching sunglasses, smiled as she ran the Falmouth Road Race on the shore of Cape Cod, looking around for friends as she neared the end of a race she’d completed more than a dozen times before. Suddenly, Baker collapsed, as her exertion on a sunny Aug One day, their children didn't make it back home. Faith helps these Mexican mothers' search for them 08/30/2024 09:10am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Each time the kidnapper hung up the phone, Veronica Rosas and her relatives did the only thing they could think of: kneel, grab each other’s hands and pray. “I told God: Please help me,” said Rosas, who has spent the past nine years searching for her son, Diego Maximiliano Japanese star Roki Sasaki pitches seven strong innings as his future in MLB comes into focus. 08/30/2024 08:44am • TOKYO (AP) — It's not clear if pitcher Roki Sasaki — the next big thing out of Japanese baseball — will move to Major League Baseball next season. He turns 23 in early November and his fate is in the hands of his Japanese club Chiba Lotte Marines. And of course, it will come down to money. Bu A local lactation consultant clears up common myths around breastfeeding 08/30/2024 05:27am • August is National Breastfeeding Month, a time to raise awareness about the benefits of breastfeeding and support new families. A local lactation expert says it shouldn't be so confusing. "One of the biggest myths is that breastfeeding has to be hard," said certified lactation consultant M Inflation fell to 2.2% in Europe, clearing the way for a European Central Bank rate cut in September 08/30/2024 05:24am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Inflation in the 20 European Union countries that use the euro fell sharply to 2.2% in August, opening the door for the European Central Bank to cut interest rates as the ECB and the U.S. Federal Reserve prepare to lower borrowing costs to support growth and jobs. The Aug The first election in a decade is planned in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Here's what to know 08/30/2024 05:13am • SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir are gearing up for their first regional election in a decade that will allow them to have their own truncated government, also known as a local assembly, instead of remaining under New Delhi's direct rule. Muslim-majority Kashmir is di North Carolina ekes out 19-17 win on Minnesota's missed FG as time expires; Heels QB Johnson injured 08/30/2024 02:45am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — North Carolina's primary goal for this work-in-progress season is figuring out how to avoid the late fade that spoiled the last two years with star quarterback Drake Maye. This finish in the season opener at Minnesota was a good first step. Noah Burnette made four field goals, t Luke Altmyer's four touchdown passes leads Illinois past Eastern Illinois 45-0 08/30/2024 01:53am • CHAMPAIGN, Ill (AP) — Luke Altmyer threw for 213 yards and a career-high four touchdowns to lead Illinois to a 45-0 victory over Eastern Illinois on Thursday night in the season opener for both teams. Altmyer spread the wealth while completing 19 of 24 passes. Eleven receivers caught passes, three Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli military says it killed 5 more militants in West Bank operation 08/30/2024 01:44am • The Israeli military says it has killed five more militants in a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank, including a well-known local commander. There was no immediate Palestinian confirmation on Thursday of the death of Mohammed Jaber, known as Abu Shujaa, a commander in the Islamic Jihad Division II-member Sioux Falls stymies St. Thomas in 34-13 season-opening win 08/30/2024 01:32am • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Division II-member Sioux Falls got two rushing touchdowns from Dylan Rudningen and the Cougars shut down the St. Thomas-Minnesota offense in a 34-13 season-opening win on Thursday night. The Tommies' loss brought their nation-long 31-game home winning streak to an end. The C Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter help Colorado hold off NDSU 31-26 to start Year 2 under Deion Sanders 08/30/2024 01:00am • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Shedeur Sanders was just trying to be the nice guy and get his teammate a late touchdown. It nearly backfired. Sanders threw for 445 yards and four touchdowns — three to Travis Hunter — and Colorado began Year 2 under Deion Sanders by holding off FCS power North Dakota St Transfer QB Green leads Arkansas to 70-0 win over UAPB as Hogs post largest win in almost a century 08/30/2024 12:11am • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Taylen Green, a transfer quarterback from Boise State, led unranked Arkansas to seven first-half touchdowns on seven possessions, and Arkansas cruised to a 70-0 win over FCS-level Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Thursday night. Green had 219 yards passing in his one half, going 16- Challenges of the Gaza humanitarian aid pier offer lessons for the US Army 08/30/2024 12:08am • WASHINGTON (AP) — It was their most challenging mission. U.S. Army soldiers in the 7th Transportation Brigade had previously set up a pier during training and in exercises overseas but never had dealt with the wild combination of turbulent weather, security threats and sweeping personnel restricti AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean 08/30/2024 12:06am • Aug. 2 -29, 2024 Nearly 3,000 Indigenous people protest in the streets of Bogotá, demanding that the government take action against the growing violence generated by illegal armed groups. Soccer fans mourned the death of Uruguayan soccer player Juan Izquierdo who died in a São Paulo hospital days When the US left Kabul, these Americans tried to help Afghans left behind. It still haunts them 08/30/2024 12:02am • The United States’ longest war officially ended in August 2021. But in the three years since, hundreds of people around the country have struggled in obscurity to help the Afghans left behind. Working in isolation or in small grassroots networks they became committed to helping these former allies