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NATO chief downplays US military cutbacks as top commander makes backup plans 06/17/2026 09:49am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte played down on Wednesday the impact of the Trump administration���s decision to cut back the number of troops and military equipment it would provide its allies should they come under attack. NATO���s supreme allied commander, an American, is worki Hot mics at the G7 capture world leaders' chats between weighty topics 06/17/2026 09:45am • EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) ��� The leaders of the world���s richest democracies are talking about how to tackle some of the world���s biggest problems this week, but hot mics at the G7 summit revealed that conversations also covered lighter fare. Sports. Cigarettes. The weather. And something abou Grains mostly higher, livestock mixed 06/17/2026 09:45am • CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mostly higher in early trading Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Jul. corn was up 0.5 cent at $4.14 a bushel. Jul. wheat was down 0.25 cent at $5.96 a bushel. Jul. oats rose by 0.25 cent at $3.05 a bushel. Jul. soybeans was unchanged at $11.30 a bushel. Beef Musetti withdraws from Wimbledon and opens up spot for fellow Italian Berrettini 06/17/2026 09:42am • LONDON (AP) ��� Former Wimbledon semifinalist Lorenzo Musetti has pulled out of the upcoming grass-court Grand Slam as he continues to recover from a left thigh injury. Musetti���s withdrawal opens up a spot in the main draw for fellow Italian Matteo Berrettini, a Wimbledon finalist in 2021, who is Japanese fair trade officials raid 6 ice cream makers on suspicion of price fixing 06/17/2026 09:39am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japanese government fair trade watchdog officials have raided six major ice cream makers on suspicion of price fixing. Tokyo-based Meiji Co. said in a statement Tuesday that it had been raided on suspicion of violating anti-monopoly laws. ���We accept with sincerity the fact that our US Open host Shinnecock shares a complicated past with golf and American history 06/17/2026 09:22am • SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) ��� A slice of golf history merges with a piece of American history whenever the U.S. Open returns to one of its most storied landscapes, Shinnecock Hills. The golf course, a links-style masterpiece that was one of the USGA's five founding clubs in the 1890s, lies across ancie Spain's former PM Zapatero questioned by judge in corruption probe 06/17/2026 09:05am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Jos�� Luis Rodr��guez Zapatero, the former prime minister of Spain, appeared before a judge in Madrid on Wednesday in connection with his alleged role in a government airline bailout and links to jewelry discovered in a police raid on his office. It was Zapatero���s first a A look at presidential libraries as the Obama Presidential Center opens to the public this week 06/17/2026 09:04am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Whenever historian Geoffrey Ward visits the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum to do research, he finds himself caught up in the spirit of FDR himself, the sense of landed contentment and cheerful disarray that helped define his public image. "It feels like you'r As crime surges in some Latin American countries, a far-right backlash is brewing 06/17/2026 09:02am • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� At the start of this decade, Latin America was hurtling to the left. Progressives, seizing on public outrage over entrenched inequities exacerbated by the pandemic, swept to power in many of the region���s biggest economies, including Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. A pol Spinners Zampa and Davies shine as Australia wins opening T20 vs Bangladesh 06/17/2026 09:01am • CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Slow bowlers Adam Zampa and Joel Davies claimed three wickets apiece to lead Australia to a four-wicket victory over Bangladesh on Wednesday in the opening game of their three-match T20 series. Leg-spinner Nikhil Chaudhary, the first India-born male cricketer to repre Retail sales up a solid 0.9% in May as the weather warmed and gasoline prices cooled 06/17/2026 08:33am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Retail sales up a solid 0.9% in May as the weather warmed and gasoline prices cooled. Protesters block copper exports to China from Rio Tinto mine in Mongolia 06/17/2026 08:29am • ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) ��� Protesters blocked copper exports from a huge Rio Tinto mine in Mongolia on Wednesday, partially cutting off the supply of a mineral vital to China���s renewable energy ambitions. The protest group, called the Radical Reform Movement, is pushing for a greater share of DC voters face a new political era without Eleanor Holmes Norton, after her 18 terms in Congress 06/17/2026 08:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� For the first time in a generation, Washingtonians woke up to a general election lineup that doesn't include Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. Norton, who served 18 terms as the District of Columbia���s nonvoting representative in Congress, chose not to run for reelection after mountin Canada's Carney isn't having a bilateral meeting with Trump at G7 but says it's not a snub 06/17/2026 07:58am • EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) ��� Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will leave the G7 summit on Wednesday without a formal meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump as the free-trade agreement between their countries faces an uncertain future. Canadian leaders typically get a bilateral meeting with Iran and Egypt will meet, uncomfortably, in Seattle's World Cup 'Pride Match' 06/17/2026 07:45am • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Egypt and Iran are two of the most repressive places in the world for gays and lesbians. But by sheer coincidence they will square off in a World Cup ���Pride Match��� in Seattle coinciding with the city's annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community. It has already gotten awkward, wi