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2-time Olympic champion Chloe Kim injures shoulder, 'trying to stay optimistic' for Italy 01/08/2026 06:07pm • American snowboarding star Chloe Kim said Thursday that she took ���the silliest fall��� in training and dislocated her shoulder, threatening her chance to win a third straight gold medal at next month's Winter Olympics in Italy. Kim posted video of the accident in Laax, Switzerland, earlier this we Hochul and Mamdani unveil free child care plan in New York City 01/08/2026 05:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City parents would have access to free child care for their 2-year-olds under a plan unveiled Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the first step for the mayor in delivering on a signature campaign promise. The two Democrats announced the proposal at a c Ohio man accused of driving 100 mph during I-495 Christmas crash that killed teen, grandmother 01/08/2026 04:58pm • An Ohio man is accused of traveling in excess of 100 mph along Interstate 495 when he slammed his Dodge Ram pickup into the back of a minivan on Christmas night, killing a 75-year-old Annandale woman and her 15-year-old granddaughter. Investigators have obtained warrants charging Devin Julian Trump's proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget sends military contractor shares higher 01/08/2026 04:11pm • President Donald Trump caused some commotion for investors in U.S. defense contractors this week. First, Trump criticized the companies for taking too long to produce military equipment and also failing to maintain it while at the same time paying out billions in dividends and stock buybacks to inve DC Council committee recommends dissolving cooperation with ICE 01/08/2026 03:24pm • A D.C. Council committee is recommending the city's police department end cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one day after officials say an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The recommendation also comes after council members heard testimony fro TikTok picked by FIFA as video content partner at 2026 World Cup 01/08/2026 03:14pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� TikTok was picked by FIFA as the first ���preferred platform��� for video content on social media at a men���s World Cup, the soccer body said Thursday. The World Cup tie-in will see creators get special access at the 48-nation tournament being co-hosted in 16 cities ��� 11 in the Un Judge blocks Trump administration from purging DEI-related terms from Head Start grant applications 01/08/2026 02:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's efforts to remake Head Start, ordering it to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from grant applications and barring it from laying off any more federal employees in the Office of As a shooting unfolded at Brown, students turned to anonymous app for answers before official alerts 01/08/2026 01:58pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� When a gunman began firing inside an academic building on the Brown University campus, students didn't wait for official alerts warning of trouble. They got information almost instantly, in bits and bursts ��� through phones vibrating in pockets, messages from strangers, ru Anthony Joshua pays tribute to his friends killed in Nigeria car crash 01/08/2026 01:53pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has paid tribute to his two close friends who were killed in a car accident in Nigeria. Joshua sustained minor injuries in the late-December crash that killed Sina Ghami and Latif ���Latz��� Ayodele. The vehicle they were traveling in Russia frees French political scholar in a prisoner swap for a basketball player 01/08/2026 12:59pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Laurent Vinatier, a French political scholar serving a three-year sentence in Russia and facing new charges of espionage, has been freed in a prisoner swap with France, officials said Thursday. French President Emmanuel Macron said on X that Vinatier is "free and back in France,��� ex DeepSeek's AI gains traction in developing nations, Microsoft report says 01/08/2026 11:40am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� DeepSeek, the Chinese tech startup that rivals OpenAI's ChatGPT, has been gaining ground in many developing nations in a trend that could narrow the gap of artificial intelligence adoption with advanced economies, a new report suggested. In the Thursday report, researchers from Mi Wisconsin man accused of killing parents to fund Trump assassination plot pleads guilty to homicide 01/08/2026 11:37am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� A Wisconsin man accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to fund a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump pleaded guilty to two homicide counts in a deal with prosecutors Thursday, locking himself into two life prison sentences. Nikita Casap, 18, pleaded gui How Americans feel about crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe, according to an AP-NORC poll 01/08/2026 09:37am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Quintin Sharpe considers it a duty to support those without means. Whether collecting food pantry goods through local service groups or helping out his parents' nonprofit music school, he regularly gives back to his small-town waterside community in southeast Wisconsin. But the 27- At CES, auto and tech companies transform cars into proactive companions 01/07/2026 11:11pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� In a vision of the near future shared at CES, a girl slides into the back seat of her parents' car and the cabin instantly comes alive. The vehicle recognizes her, knows it���s her birthday and cues up her favorite song without a word spoken. ���Think of the car as having a soul a Trump administration funding threats set child care providers and parents on edge 01/07/2026 08:45pm • Without federal subsidies, Breyanna Rodriguez���s child care bill for her four children would run $4,400 a month, which would eat up most of her husband���s paycheck. With child care assistance, Rodriguez, who lives in Cortland, Illinois, is able to work part-time and take community college classes