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FIFA slashes price of some World Cup tickets to $60 after global fan backlash 12/16/2025 06:16pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� FIFA slashed the price of some World Cup tickets for teams' most loyal fans following a global backlash and some will get $60 seats for the final instead of being asked to pay $4,185. It was a rare climbdown by the soccer body and its president Gianni Infantino after soaking up waves Trio of Russian athletes barred from luge World Cup in Lake Placid amid neutrality concerns 12/16/2025 06:10pm • The International Luge Federation has withdrawn the eligibility of three Russian athletes who intended to slide in Lake Placid, New York, this weekend in hopes of moving closer to qualifying for the Milan Cortina Olympics, the governing body announced Tuesday. The federation's executive board made t Rapper Kay Flock sentenced to 30 years in prison for conviction in shootings 12/16/2025 06:08pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Rapper Kay Flock was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for a series of shootings in his Bronx neighborhood, derailing a music career that was just taking off before his 2021 arrest. The 22-year-old rapper, whose real name is Kevin Perez, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Doctor who helped sell ketamine to actor Matthew Perry before his overdose death avoids prison time 12/16/2025 06:06pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A doctor who pleaded guilty in a scheme to supply ketamine to actor Matthew Perry before his overdose death was sentenced Tuesday to 8 months of home confinement. Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence that included 3 years of supervised release to 55-year-old Dr. Bills sign kicker Michael Badgley to practice squad to fill in while Matt Prater is sidelined 12/16/2025 06:05pm • ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) ��� The Buffalo Bills on Tuesday signed kicker Michael Badgley to their practice squad, with the expectation he���ll take over on an interim basis for injured veteran Matt Prater. Badgley has seven seasons of NFL experience and most recently appeared in seven games with the I Indiana's Curt Cignetti becomes the first back-to-back winner of AP coach of the year 12/16/2025 06:03pm • Indiana's Curt Cignetti exceeded expectations again this season and it earned him a second consecutive honor as The Associated Press coach of the year in college football. Cignetti is the first coach to win the award in back-to-back years since it was first presented in 1998. He is the fourth coach Driver who rammed through crowd at Liverpool soccer parade sentenced to over 21 years 12/16/2025 06:02pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A driver who injured more than 130 people when he plowed his car into a crowd of soccer fans celebrating Liverpool���s Premier League championship was sentenced Tuesday to more than 21 years in prison. Paul Doyle rammed his minivan through a sea of fans on May 26 in two minutes of ho Chelsea reaches English League Cup semifinals as subs make difference in win over 3rd-tier Cardiff 12/16/2025 06:01pm • Chelsea���s substitutes made the difference Tuesday as wingers Alejandro Garnacho and Pedro Neto scored second-half goals to secure a 3-1 win at third-tier Cardiff City and a place in the English League Cup semifinals. Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca started with a largely second-string lineup for the Movie Review: Will Arnett finds therapy at the open mic, in moving marriage tale ���Is This Thing On?��� 12/16/2025 05:55pm • A pair of mini-toothbrushes. A set of kids��� socks, fresh from the dryer. It���s often the tiniest things in the debris field of a failed relationship that trigger the most pain. Bradley Cooper clearly believes this, and repeatedly goes for the smaller-scale choice in ���Is This Thing On?,��� his t Fellow Wisconsin judge 'shocked' by Hannah Dugan's response to immigration officers 12/16/2025 05:54pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� A colleague of the Milwaukee judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant evade arrest testified Tuesday that she was shocked by her fellow judge's behavior. ���Judges shouldn���t help defendants evade arrest,��� Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Kristela Cervera testified at Hannah Takeaways: Susie Wiles pulls back the curtain on the Trump administration in revealing interviews 12/16/2025 05:53pm • White House chief of staff Susie Wiles offered an unusually candid look inside President Donald Trump's administration in a series of interviews published Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine, delivering details and reservations that presidential aides usually save for memoirs. From criticizing Attorney Gaza families struggle to recover from days of torrential rains that killed 12 people 12/16/2025 05:50pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Palestinians in Gaza struggled to recover Tuesday from torrential rains that battered the enclave for days, flooding camps for the displaced, collapsing buildings already badly damaged in the two-year war and leaving at least 12 dead, including a two-week-old baby. Darts player creates a buzz by bringing insect spray onto the stage at worlds 12/16/2025 05:47pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Wasps are causing mayhem on the stage at the world darts championship, so one player came prepared to deal with them. After walking onto the stage ahead of his first-round match on Tuesday, Jurjen van der Velde created a bit of a buzz by pulling out insect repellant from his pocket a Members of a secretive California religious group have been charged with murder in 2 deaths 12/16/2025 05:41pm • SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) ��� Members of a secretive California religious group have been charged with murder in the deaths of a man who disappeared in 2023 and a child who died in 2010. Shelley ���Kat��� Martin, 62, who was described as a leader and ���prophetess��� of His Way Spirit Led Assembli Israel blocks a Canadian delegation from visiting the occupied West Bank 12/16/2025 05:41pm • OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) ��� Israel on Tuesday blocked a private Canadian delegation that included six members of Parliament from entering the occupied West Bank. The Israeli Embassy in Canada said the group was denied entry because of its links to Islamic Relief Worldwide, a nongovernmental organizatio