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Jordan Spieth gets his 14th straight appearance in PGA Tour playoffs without having a top 10 08/11/2026 10:29am • Jordan Spieth reached the PGA Tour postseason for the 14th consecutive year, this time with a most curious achievement. He finished the regular season at No. 54 in the FedEx Cup despite not finishing in the top 10 in any of his 21 tournaments. How was that possible? For starters, top 10 really doesn This Ebola outbreak has claimed over 2,000 lives. Here's why it is so hard to contain 08/11/2026 10:18am • More than 2,000 people have now died in the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and challenges keep coming in containing a rare type of the virus with no approved treatment or vaccine. Congo’s health authorities on Tuesday announced 4,381 confirmed cases, including 2,011 deaths. This death Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups' guidance 08/11/2026 10:14am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. The order advocates separating the measles, Today in Sports - Tiger Woods misses the cut at the PGA Championship, 1st time ever for a major 08/11/2026 10:10am • Aug. 12 1876 — Madeleine wins two straight heats over Canada’s Countess of Dufferin to defend the America’s Cup. 1936 — Rosalind, driven by Ben White, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats. 1937 — Shirley Hanover, driven by Henry Thomas, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight he Sports on TV for Wednesday, Aug. 12 08/11/2026 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, Aug. 12 COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN’S) 8 p.m. ACCN — LSU at Wake Forest 9 p.m. BTN — Duke at Southern Cal GOLF 3 p.m. NBCSN — USGA: 2026 U.S. Amateur, Round of 64, Merion Golf Club, Ardmore, Pa. HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL 2 p.m. Sales of existing US homes fall 1.7% as record prices and the highest mortgage rates in a year stifle house hunters 08/11/2026 10:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of existing US homes fall 1.7% as record prices and the highest mortgage rates in a year stifle house hunters. At least 14 artisanal miners killed in collapse at an illicit mine in South Africa 08/11/2026 09:54am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 14 artisanal miners died and eight were injured when the walls of a mine in South Africa caved in on them, police said Tuesday. North West provincial police commissioner Lt. Gen. Arthur Adams said a search was ongoing and it was not yet clear if there were more victims Grains mixed, livestock mixed 08/11/2026 09:45am • CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mixed in early trading Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Sept. corn rose by 0.25 cent at $4.38 a bushel. Sept. wheat was off 1 cents at $6.39 a bushel. Sept. oats was off 0.5 cent at $3.23 a bushel. Aug. soybeans was up 2.75 cents at $11.61 a bushel. Beef was m PGA Tour postseason begins and US Amateur returns to Merion 08/11/2026 09:39am • PGA Tour FEDEX ST. JUDE CHAMPIONSHIP Site: Memphis, Tennessee. Course: TPC Southwind. Yardage: 7,288. Par: 70. Prize money: $20 million. Winner's share: $3.6 million. Television: Wednesday-Thursday, 9-11 a.m. (ESPN), 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS); Sunday, Teenager killed in shooting at Fauquier County party over the weekend 08/11/2026 09:39am • A teenage boy was shot and killed at a party Saturday night in Fauquier County, Virginia, the sheriff's office said. The Fauquier County Sheriff's Office said deputies arrived to a private residence on Bowery Lane in Catlett around 9:30 p.m. for reports of a noisy outdoor party and sounds of gunf Trump pivots back to sanctions for Iran as other strategies to end his war fizzle 08/11/2026 09:30am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump likes to say that he started his war with Iran after 50 years of economic pressure had failed to stop its nuclear weapons ambitions — but he’s now betting that another financial squeeze can bring an end to that war. Trump's administration is hoping that Yemeni authorities say 4 killed in attack by Iran-backed Houthis on a vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait 08/11/2026 09:25am • CAIRO (AP) — Yemeni authorities say 4 killed in attack by Iran-backed Houthis on a vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait. For Nigel Farage, success brings new pressures and a showdown with Count Binface 08/11/2026 09:13am • LONDON (AP) — Nigel Farage depicts himself as an outsider taking on the establishment, but now the tables have turned. The leader of anti-immigration party Reform UK is running in an election as the incumbent favorite, and his main opponent is a man dressed as a garbage can. Farage, an ally of U.S LeBron James will play his first game with the 76ers against champion Knicks on NBA opening night 08/11/2026 09:13am • NEW YORK (AP) — LeBron James will visit the New York Knicks on opening night and the Los Angeles Lakers on Christmas. James' arrival in Philadelphia has made the 76ers must-see TV, and they are all over the NBA's biggest days of the season. James will make his 76ers debut against the NBA cha Key Amazon cases reach Brazil’s Supreme Court following Lula's defeats in Congress 08/11/2026 09:04am • SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Supreme Court is set to weigh a series of cases in the coming days that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and the Indigenous communities that depend on it. The cases span from Indigenous land rights, recent rollbacks on environmental safeguards and infra