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The Latest: Two cauldrons are lit for the first time at a Winter Olympics 02/06/2026 06:38pm • MILAN (AP) ��� An unprecedented four-site, dual-cauldron Winter Olympics opening ceremony replete with references to Italian icons and culture has officially kicked off the Milan Cortina Games, as the sports spectacle returns to a nation that last hosted the event 20 years ago. Italian President Ser New Catholic archbishop of New York wants a church that 'shows respect for all' and builds unity 02/06/2026 06:13pm • Ronald Hicks was installed Friday as the 11th archbishop of New York in a ceremony at the revered St. Patrick���s Cathedral in Manhattan, calling on Catholics to spread the faith while respecting all people and helping the vulnerable. With a few thousand people in the cathedral and hundreds more pac What to know about the search for 'Today' show host Savannah Guthrie's missing mother 02/06/2026 05:50pm • The Arizona sheriff investigating the apparent kidnapping of ���Today��� co-anchor Savannah Guthrie 's mother said Friday he remains concerned about the 84-year-old's health as her family anxiously waits for proof she is alive, days into the search. ���Her conditions, I would imagine, are worsening Actor Timothy Busfield indicted in New Mexico on 4 counts of sexual contact with a child 02/06/2026 04:35pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� ���West Wing��� and ���Field of Dreams��� actor Timothy Busfield has been indicted by a grand jury on four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child under age 13, a New Mexico prosecutor announced Friday. The allegations are tied to Busfield's work as a director on th Here are the DC-area athletes competing in the Winter Olympics 02/06/2026 03:01pm • Winter sport athletes will have their moment in the spotlight once the opening ceremony Friday kicks off the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Italy, and several of Team USA's competitors, including one of its brightest starts, are from the D.C. area. Team USA's roster includes athletes from D.C A 76-year-old British man sentenced to nearly 24 years for drugging and abusing boys at summer camp 02/06/2026 01:56pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A 76-year-old retired British veterinarian was sentenced on Friday to 23 years and 10 months in prison on charges of child abuse after lacing candy he gave his victims with sedatives at a summer camp in England last year. Jon Ruben was arrested in July after eight boys between the ag Leadership changes in Minnesota follow tensions among agencies over immigration enforcement tactics 02/06/2026 01:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� White House border czar Tom Homan's announcement that enforcement in Minnesota was being unified under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement followed months of internal grumbling and infighting among agencies about how to carry out President Donald Trump's mass deportation cam In Minnesota, sending a child to school is an act of faith for immigrant families 02/06/2026 12:59pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� In some ways, 10-year-old Giancarlo is one of the lucky ones. He still goes to school. Each morning, he and his family bundle up and leave their Minneapolis apartment to wait for his bus. His little brother hefts on his backpack, even though he stopped going to day care weeks ag The US said a Marine could not adopt an Afghan girl. Records show officials helped him get her 02/06/2026 09:43am • The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he���d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency ��� that the child injured on the battlefield in Afghanistan was on death���s door, with neither a family nor a country to claim her. A lawyer for the fed EU accuses TikTok of 'addictive design' that harms children, seeks changes to protect users 02/06/2026 08:11am • LONDON (AP) ��� The European Union on Friday accused TikTok of breaching the bloc's digital rules with ���addictive design��� features that lead to compulsive use by children, in preliminary charges that strike at the heart of the popular video sharing app's operating model. EU regulators said thei Takeaways on AP report about how US government worked against itself to let Marine adopt Afghan girl 02/06/2026 07:09am • Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government���s official policy to unite the child with her family. The Associated Press fought for three years for access to Newly obtained emails undermine RFK Jr.'s testimony about 2019 Samoa trip before measles outbreak 02/06/2026 06:54am • Over two days of questioning during his Senate confirmation hearings last year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the same answer. He said the closely scrutinized 2019 trip he took to Samoa, which came before a devastating measles outbreak, had ���nothing to do with vaccines.��� Documents obtained by T Fear in Minnesota's Somali community deepens, hampering progress on measles vaccination 02/06/2026 06:46am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Public health officials and community leaders say that even before federal immigration authorities launched a crackdown in Minneapolis, a crisis was brewing. Measles vaccination rates among the state's large Somali community had plummeted, with the myth that the shot causes aut Amazon's shares fall after announcing surge in capital spending but posts strong 4Q holiday sales 02/05/2026 08:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Amazon sales surged 14% during the fourth quarter, helped by strong holiday spending and a better-than-expected growth in its prominent cloud computing unit. But shares fell 11% in after hours trading on Thursday as investors appeared to be spooked by the Seattle-based tech company IVF Loans: Fertility Financing Options, Explained 02/05/2026 07:00pm • On your family-building journey, you may need to consider how to pay for in vitro fertilization and other fertility-related expenses. The good news is that you likely won't be at a loss for IVF financing or financing for other costs, thanks to the wide variety of options in the marketplace. Fertilit