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North Carolina guard Seth Trimble committing to Louisville after Colorado eligibility ruling 08/12/2026 03:45pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� North Carolina guard Seth Trimble is transferring to Louisville and taking advantage of the recent preliminary injunction from a Colorado judge giving student-athletes who graduated from high school in 2022 a fifth season of eligibility for the upcoming year. ESPN reported W Russell Westbrook retires from the NBA with a farewell video narrated by Michael B. Jordan 08/12/2026 03:45pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Russell Westbrook, the NBA's career leader in triple-doubles and the 2017 MVP, announced Wednesday he's retiring after 18 seasons during which he was selected to the league's 75th anniversary team. The two-time scoring champion shared his decision on social media in a White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, youngest person to hold the role, will leave at month's end, Trump says 08/12/2026 03:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, youngest person to hold the role, will leave at month's end, Trump says. Scheffler begins chase for a FedEx Cup title as postseason starts in sweltering Memphis 08/12/2026 03:42pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� The PGA Tour postseason starts with a $20 million tournament, with only a 69-man field, and with a sense of urgency for only about half of the players at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Scottie Scheffler is the No. 1 seed and bracing for three straight postseason tournaments Rockies third baseman Kyle Karros lands on 7-day concussion injured list 08/12/2026 03:29pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� The Colorado Rockies placed third baseman Kyle Karros on the seven-day concussion injured list on Wednesday. Karros was injured in a collision with teammate shortstop Ezequiel Tovar when going to field a ground ball in the sixth inning of Tuesday night���s game, a 3-2 victory over t Israel says Gaza drone strike targeted a Hamas commander, and other developments in the Mideast 08/12/2026 03:21pm • The Israeli military said it struck a Hamas commander Wednesday in northern Gaza using a targeted drone strike despite pressure to halt such attacks from officials overseeing peace efforts. Here���s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be fo A Kansas town will pay $850K to end a reporter's lawsuit over a 2023 raid on her paper's offices 08/12/2026 03:19pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper's offices in 2023 that ignited a national furor over press freedom. Now-retired Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn said Delle Donne, Fletcher and Maryland���s title team get Hall of Fame call 08/12/2026 03:13pm • A WNBA champion, one of the most popular Washington football players of his generation and the team that gave Maryland basketball its greatest moment are headed to the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame. Former Washington Mystics star Elena Delle Donne, longtime Washington linebacker London Fletcher and Ma US strikes targeting Houthis killed 153 civilians in Yemen last year, Pentagon review says 08/12/2026 03:13pm • Washington (AP) ��� U.S. airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last year killed more than 150 civilians, according to a Pentagon review of the attacks, which comes as concerns rise over civilian casualties during military campaigns under the Trump administration. The unclassifi England scraps midnight curfew on men's cricket team under new captain Joe Root 08/12/2026 03:08pm • LONDON (AP) ��� The midnight curfew imposed on the England men's cricket team has been scrapped under newly appointed captain Joe Root. The restriction was put in place by England managing director Rob Key after controversial late-night incidents on the winter tours of New Zealand and Australia. For Trump���s ���energy emergency��� could fast-track massive expansion of Plaquemines LNG export terminal 08/12/2026 03:06pm • Less than two years after opening, a liquefied natural gas terminal near New Orleans is seeking a multi-billion-dollar expansion under a new Trump administration ���emergency��� permitting process that shortens environmental review and may weaken protections for surrounding wetlands and waterways. T Jonas Brothers to headline halftime show for NFL season opener in Australia 08/12/2026 03:05pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� The Jonas Brothers will perform at halftime of the NFL's season opener between the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia. The NFL announced the headliners for the halftime show Wednesday. The game will air on Netflix Walls HRs from both sides of the plate for 2nd time in his career as Rays beat A's 12-4 08/12/2026 02:56pm • WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Taylor Walls homered from both sides of the plate for the second time in his career, Nick Martinez tossed a complete game and the Tampa Bay Rays won their eighth straight game, 12-4 over the Athletics on Tuesday night. The 30-year-old Walls, whose homers were his fir Overturned scoring decision helps Athletics' Jacob Wilson extend shortstop-record errorless streak 08/12/2026 02:55pm • WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Athletics shortstop Jacob Wilson's major league-record errorless streak at the position reached 113 games Tuesday night after a postgame scoring change overturned what was initially ruled a throwing error. Wilson threw wide of Donovan Walton at second base in the eig New indictment alleges Nick Reiner was lying in wait before killing parents Rob and Michele Reiner 08/12/2026 02:52pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killings of his parents, actor Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, and adds the allegation that he was lying in wait before attacking them. The grand jury, which had been meeting in secret, retur