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Cubs place catcher Miguel Amaya on the 10-day IL and bring up Owen Caissie from Triple-A Iowa 08/14/2025 06:09pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� The Chicago Cubs placed catcher Miguel Amaya on the 10-day injured list on Thursday and brought up top prospect Owen Caissie from Triple-A Iowa. Amaya sprained his left ankle in the eighth inning of Wednesday night's 4-1 victory over the Blue Jays. His foot landed awkwardly at the f Japan marks end of WWII as survivors remember wartime emperor's surrender speech 80 years ago 08/14/2025 06:04pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the war should be taught to younger generations. A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo���s Bud Judge appoints receiver to sell off Alex Jones's Infowars assets to help pay Sandy Hook families 08/14/2025 05:31pm • A state judge in Texas has appointed a receiver to take over and sell conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars assets to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes in legal judgments to the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The order by Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Aust Supreme Court allows Mississippi to require age verification on social media like Facebook and X 08/14/2025 04:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Thursday refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children, an issue of growing national concern. The justices rejected an emergency appeal from a tech industry group representing major platform Prosecutors seek death penalty against Zizians member charged with murdering Vermont border agent 08/14/2025 04:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Justice Department said Thursday it will seek the death penalty against a member of the cultlike Zizians group accused of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont in the latest Trump administration push for more federal executions. Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Seattle, is a Los Angeles school year begins amid fears over immigration enforcement 08/14/2025 04:21pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Los Angeles students and teachers returned to class for the new academic year on Thursday amid worries that schools could become targets in the Trump administration���s aggressive immigration crackdown after a summer filled with raids. At 93rd Street Elementary School in souther Judge strikes down key parts of Florida law that led to removal of books from school libraries 08/14/2025 04:11pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� A federal judge has struck down key parts of a Florida law that helped parents get books they found objectionable removed from public school libraries and classrooms. It is a victory for publishers and authors who had sued after their books were removed. U.S. District Judge Ca 3 people charged with helping suspected killer of 4 are accused of giving him shelter, phones 08/14/2025 01:49pm • TIPTONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Three people charged with helping a Tennessee man accused of fatally shooting four people are suspected of providing him with shelter, phones and rides as he evaded authorities after the killings, a prosecutor said Thursday. Austin Robert Drummond made a brief court appea Md. education leaders to local education officials: Follow state law 08/14/2025 01:20pm • With the 2025-26 school year starting next week in some counties, Maryland���s two top education leaders had a message for local school officials: Follow state law. The calm, but stern warning came Wednesday during a back-to-school news conference in Baltimore with State Superintendent Carey Wrig Man accused of faking his death to avoid rape charges is found guilty of sexual assault in Utah 08/14/2025 10:57am • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� A Rhode Island man accused of faking his death and fleeing the United States to evade rape charges was found guilty late Wednesday of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in his first of two Utah trials. An eight-person jury in Salt Lake County found Nicholas Rossi guilty For these incarcerated students, online school has been a disaster 08/14/2025 10:14am • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� To earn his freedom, 15-year-old Cayden Gillespie had to complete three school assignments a day. But school had gone virtual for Cayden and other incarcerated young people in Florida. And sometimes, he didn't understand it. One day last summer, he kept failing an online US applications for jobless benefits fell last week and remain in historically healthy range 08/14/2025 09:58am • The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly last week, remaining in the historically low range since the U.S. economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 9 fell by 3,000 to 224,000, the Labor Department reported Th Takeaways from AP's investigation into online school for incarcerated teens 08/14/2025 12:42am • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� No matter the offense, states must educate students in juvenile detention. It���s a complicated challenge, no doubt ��� and success stories are scarce. In Florida, where more than 1,000 students are in long-term confinement, the state last year put those kids' schooling on The Latest: Trump warns of ���very severe consequences��� if Putin continues Ukraine war 08/13/2025 10:09pm • U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that there will be ���very severe consequences��� if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop his war in Ukraine after their Friday summit in Alaska, though he did not say what those consequences might be. Trump���s comment came after a virtu How Can You Get Student Loans for Trade School? 08/13/2025 08:00pm • As the cost of college continues to increase, some students may find trade schools and vocational programs more appealing than four-year bachelor's degrees. "Trade school" is an informal term for career-focused education, and programs that fall into this category may also be called career and techni