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Hurricanes' top-line performers come through as Carolina moves within a win of claiming Stanley Cup 06/12/2026 06:00am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour spent weeks answering the same question about needing more goal-scoring pop from top-line forwards Andrei Svechnikov and Sebastian Aho. ���We need them to get going,��� Brind'Amour said early in the Stanley Cup Final. Maybe now, with a Tarik Skubal, the Cleveland Browns and other athletes credit a tiny new scope for faster recoveries 06/12/2026 06:00am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Several top pro athletes and their surgeons say a modern version of an old tool is shaving weeks off the recovery time for certain injuries. And some top doctors think this is only the beginning. Cy Young Award winners Tarik Skubal and Blake Snell let doctors use the instrument on t US OPEN '26: Player capsules of 10 contenders for Shinnecock Hills 06/12/2026 06:00am • A capsule look at 10 players expected to contend at the U.S. Open, to be played June 18-21 at Shinnecock Hills in Southampton, New York: Scottie Scheffler Age: 29. Country: United States. World ranking: 1. Worldwide wins: 23. Majors: Masters (2022, 2024), PGA Championship (2025), British Open (2025) Knicks fever is colliding with World Cup buzz, and New York soccer bars are trying to juggle both 06/12/2026 06:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Sitting among a pint-raising crowd at a Manhattan soccer bar on the first day of the World Cup, George Carson described himself as a huge soccer fan who hopes to catch all 104 games of the global tournament. But on Saturday? ���We got to watch the Knicks,��� he said. In most natio This DC election could reshape political landscape and leadership 06/12/2026 05:56am • D.C. is in the middle of a major political shift as voters get set to choose a new mayor, multiple council members and a new delegate to Congress. It���s a rare moment of turnover that could reshape how the city is led and how its leaders work together. It���s also the first time the city is David Hockney, an icon of 20th-century art, has died at age 88, his publicist says 06/12/2026 05:45am • LONDON (AP) ��� David Hockney, an icon of 20th-century art, has died at age 88, his publicist says. 2 collisions on a Hungarian highway kill 8 people 06/12/2026 05:42am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) ��� Two collisions one after another on a highway in western Hungary early Friday killed eight people, police said. A truck caught fire after colliding with a construction vehicle near the city of Gy��r around 4.30 a.m., killing one person and snarling traffic, police said. ���A festival of all nations���: DC fans celebrate Mexico���s World Cup opening win 06/12/2026 05:32am • Hundreds of fans swarmed into a viewing party at La Cosecha in Union Market in Northeast D.C. to watch Mexico���s 2-0 shutout of South Africa in the opening match of the FIFA World Cup. Nine minutes into the game, Mexico scored its first goal, which caused the soccer fans to jump to their World Tour Libema Open Results 06/12/2026 05:30am • Friday At Autotron Convention Center Den Bosch, Netherlands Purse: ���723,535 Surface: Grass DEN BOSCH, NETHERLANDS (AP) _ Results Friday from Libema Open at Autotron Convention Center (seedings in parentheses): Men's Doubles Quarterfinals Botic Van de Zandschulp and Tallon Griekspoor, Netherlands, Philippines protests China's sanctions against its defense chief as 'an unfriendly act' 06/12/2026 05:19am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� The Philippine government said Friday that China���s imposition of sanctions, including an entry ban, against Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. was ���an unfriendly act��� that could further strain relations, while he vowed to continue defending Manila���s interests 'I wouldn���t like it': Trump threatens DC takeover if Janeese Lewis George wins mayor���s race 06/12/2026 05:14am • President Donald Trump is warning that the federal government could move to take greater control over D.C. if progressive candidate Janeese Lewis George wins the race to become the District���s next mayor. Speaking to reporters at a White House news conference on Thursday, Trump was asked wha Independents helped Trump win his second term, but many have since soured on him, a new AP-NORC polling analysis finds 06/12/2026 05:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Independents helped Trump win his second term, but many have since soured on him, a new AP-NORC polling analysis finds. Man indicted in a string of shootings and carjackings across Prince George's County 06/12/2026 04:28am • A Glen Burnie, Maryland, man has been indicted on 71 criminal counts in a string of shootings and carjackings that occurred in five Prince George's County neighborhoods within hours on a single Friday afternoon last month. Prince George's County State's Attorney Tara Jackson told reporters Th First Fairfax County varsity girls��� wrestlers recruited to compete in college 06/12/2026 04:11am • When Kaelyn MacKay was 8 years old, her mom wanted her to learn about self-defense. So she learned Brazilian jiu-jitsu, competing locally and working her way up. She did it for eight years, but then had the realization that jiu-jitsu isn���t an option in college. As she started classes Today in History: June 12, 49 people killed in Pulse nightclub shooting 06/12/2026 04:10am • Today is Friday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2026. There are 202 days left in the year. Today in history: On June 12, 2016, a gunman opened fire at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded in what was then the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history; the gunm