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Rosie Pino wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in New Jersey's 9th Congressional District 06/12/2026 09:21am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Rosie Pino wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in New Jersey's 9th Congressional District. US OPEN '26: Scottie Scheffler trying to make history and Shinnecock tries to avoid recent history 06/12/2026 09:19am • So much history is involved when the U.S. Open returns to Shinnecock Hills, the only golf club to host this major championship in three centuries. Scottie Scheffler will try to take his place in history when the No. 1 player goes after the final leg of the career Grand Slam. Should he win, he would Olympic and worlds medalist runner Tsegay banned 4 months in season-ending doping case 06/12/2026 09:16am • MONACO (AP) ��� Two-time world champion runner and Olympic medalist Gudaf Tsegay was banned for four months in a doping case, track and field authorities said Friday, effectively ending her season. The 29-year-old Ethiopian ��� who once held the indoor world record in the women���s 1,500 meters ��� America 250: The strange story of phreaking: How hobbyists hacked the phone system and shaped the digital age 06/12/2026 09:15am • Long before the word ���hacker��� became part of everyday language, a different kind of tech tinkerer was making waves ��� and free long-distance calls ��� across the country. They called themselves ���phone phreakers,��� and their underground experiments in the 1960s and ���70s would end up influen Taylor Swift becomes the youngest woman inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at age 36 06/12/2026 09:10am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night at age 36. "It was instinctual. No one taught me how to do it," she said of songwriting through a raspy voice she attributed to screaming along to the night's performances and Wedn Music Review: Olivia Rodrigo's 'You seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' is her best work yet 06/12/2026 09:08am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Olivia Rodrigo���s done it again. Her third album, ���You seem pretty sad for a girl so in love,��� is her best yet ��� a giant step forward for the songwriter who emerged a promising young talent before she could even parallel park. Across 13 tracks, Rodrigo telegraphs the story o Niger military junta introduces new penal code criminalizing homosexuality with 5-10 years in prison 06/12/2026 09:00am • NIAMEY, Niger (AP) ��� Niger's military junta announced a new penal code that criminalizes homosexuality, an adviser to the justice minister said Friday. The West African nation is the latest to criminalize homosexuality, following similar measures earlier this year in Senegal. The new penal code pu Here's what to know about Timmy, the humpback whale whose life and death captivated Germany 06/12/2026 08:04am • BERLIN (AP) ��� The remains of Timmy, the humpback whale whose life and death captivated Germany for months, will be turned into biodiesel as some of the mammal's bones are set to go to a Danish museum. A series of failed rescue attempts split the scientific community and a private initiative over 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' seizes the small-story moment in prestige TV with Dunk and Egg 06/12/2026 08:01am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Ser Duncan is tall, but his story is small. And Ira Parker, showrunner of ���A Knight of the Seven Kingdom,��� HBO's latest entry to the ���Game of Thrones��� universe that has charmed and disarmed viewers with its humble story of big, raw, aspiring knight Dunk and his tiny, cue Bosnia-Herzegovina embraces underdog role in World Cup opener against Canada 06/12/2026 08:00am • TORONTO (AP) ��� Bosnia-Herzegovina made it to the World Cup on the last day of European qualifying. Now it���s facing one of the three co-hosts, Canada, in its opener. Doesn���t bother the Balkan side at all. ���Even if we are underrated or underdogs, we did something that everyone knows who we are What to know about the EU's new rules on migration and asylum as they come into effect 06/12/2026 07:58am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The European Union is set to implement a new set of rules Friday governing how each of its 27 member states will deal with irregular migration and asylum seekers. The European Migration and Asylum Pact is the culmination of years of grueling negotiations that overhauled the previo Disaster drills helped prevent more deaths when powerful quake hit the southern Philippines 06/12/2026 07:38am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� Philippine officials said Friday that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south and left 46 people dead with 38 others missing. The 7.8 magnitude offshore quake, which st Canada is ready to become a soccer nation as it hosts World Cup opener against Bosnia-Herzegovina 06/12/2026 07:00am • TORONTO (AP) ��� Luke Reece never played hockey growing up in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga. Instead, he played soccer, like many Canadians who are now adults. The sport is so popular it has surpassed hockey and all other sports in youth participation, according to a recent report by Jumpstart, A Myanmar rights group urges FIFA to drop Mytel���s World Cup rights over connections to military 06/12/2026 06:54am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� A Myanmar rights group is urging FIFA to reverse its decision to grant exclusive World Cup broadcast rights to a U.S.-sanctioned company linked to the country's military government that seized power of the five years ago. The group, Justice For Myanmar, told The Associated Press on Timmy, Germany's humpback whale, likely lived for only 5 days after controversial rescue effort 06/12/2026 06:47am • BERLIN (AP) ��� The humpback whale that kept Germany spellbound for months likely lived for roughly five days after the final controversial rescue attempt failed to guide it back to its natural habitat in the Atlantic Ocean, officials said Friday. The whale, nicknamed ���Timmy��� and ���Hope��� by G