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What's in Burns' backpack? Maybe the secret to Avalanche defenseman soon playing in 1,500th NHL game 10/10/2025 12:53pm • DENVER (AP) — Brent Burns carries a lot of weight on his shoulders these days. Not pressure-related or anything, just from his heavy, military-style backpack that’s crammed with all the necessities to keep the 40-year-old Colorado defenseman humming along. The precise contents remain a mystery, Broncos dismiss notion of a trap game as they face winless Jets in London after emotional victory 10/10/2025 12:26pm • The Denver Broncos have left the thrill of a stunning victory far behind. After all, their 21-17 win over the previously unbeaten Philadelphia Eagles was last week — and a continent away. “Yes, we definitely have to get back honed in, get back focused and move on to the next game,” Broncos out Mike Greenwell, longtime Red Sox outfielder who finished second in 1988 MVP voting, dies at 62 10/10/2025 11:27am • BOSTON (AP) — Mike Greenwell, an outfielder who played 12 seasons with the Boston Red Sox and finished second in the 1988 American League MVP voting, died Thursday, his wife said. He was 62. The Boston Globe reported in mid-August that Greenwell had medullary thyroid cancer. Tracy Greenwell told W Caesars Sportsbook Promo Code WTOP20X: Claim 20 100% Boosts for ALDS Game 5, NCAAF Games 10/10/2025 11:25am • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Claim profit boosts for MLB, college football and NFL bets with the Caesars Sportsbook promo code WTOP20X. Register here to place your Estevao and Rodrygo score 2 goals each as Brazil overpowers South Korea 5-0 10/10/2025 10:36am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Two goals each from Estevao and Rodrygo powered Brazil to a 5-0 win over South Korea in Seoul on Friday in an early warm-up for next year's World Cup. Brazil, which beat South Korea 4-1 at the 2022 World Cup, again proved too strong for the hosts in the friendly match wat Manchester is saying its last goodbye to boxing icon Ricky Hatton 10/10/2025 10:24am • MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester is saying its last goodbye to boxing icon Ricky Hatton. The former world champion died last month aged 46. His funeral was held Friday in the city’s cathedral and fans lined up as the cortège made its way through the streets. Former boxing world champions a Spain's La Liga plans to make its international match an annual event 10/10/2025 10:18am • NEW YORK (AP) — La Liga plans to make an international soccer match an annual event after announcing Barcelona and Villarreal will play outside Miami on Dec. 20, Spanish league president Javier Tebas said during an interview with The Associated Press. Becoming the first major European league to mo An AP photographer shares the stories behind some of her most poignant Gaza images 10/10/2025 10:14am • CAIRO (AP) — After two years of war in Gaza, and as a ceasefire raised hopes for the end of the conflict, Associated Press photographer Fatima Shbair looked back at some of her most poignant images. Shbair has seen conflict and violence in the territory since she was a young girl, and when Hamas� Syria's foreign minister visits Lebanon as the two nations seek to rebuild ties after Assad's ouster 10/10/2025 08:34am • BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's foreign minister arrived in Lebanon's capital on Friday as the two neighbors attempt to reset relations which have been tense for decades. Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani held talks with his Lebanese counterpart, President Joseph Aoun, and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam. It wa China hits US ships with retaliatory port fees before trade talks 10/10/2025 08:19am • HONG KONG (AP) — China has hit U.S.-owned vessels docking in the country with tit-for-tat port fees, in response to the American government’s planned port fees on Chinese ships, expanding a string of retaliatory measures before trade talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader X Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened species 10/10/2025 08:09am • Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, according to an annual assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature. One bright s Justin Brazeau's late goal propels Penguins to 4-3 win over Islanders 10/10/2025 08:03am • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Justin Brazeau beat Ilya Sorokin on a breakaway with 5:39 left to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins past the New York Islanders 4-3 on Thursday night. Brazeau collected a lead pass from Evgeni Malkin, then deked his way by a sprawled Sorokin as the Penguins won for the second time in Minami Katsu sets course record with 11-under 61 to lead LPGA Shanghai 10/10/2025 07:26am • SHANGHAI (AP) — Minami Katsu holed a long putt on the 18th to finish with a course record 11-under 61 on Friday and take a two-shot lead at the halfway point of the LPGA's Shanghai tournament. Katsu had six birdies on the front nine and, after a bogey at the par-4 10th, she finished with six more Burkina Faso rejects proposal to accept deportees from the US 10/10/2025 06:43am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso says it has refused a proposal from the Trump administration to accept deportees from the United States. The West African country was asked whether it would accept non-citizens expelled by the U.S., in addition to its own nationals, Foreign Minister Karamoko Jean The DC region is becoming more diverse. Where are Latinos moving? 10/10/2025 06:21am • The D.C. region is becoming increasingly diverse, and it’s drawing a large number of Latinos in because of the opportunities available, experts said. According to a WTOP analysis of 2024 census data released this summer, every D.C.-area suburb added to its Hispanic population. In Virginia, Fair