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No. 4 Notre Dame begins the 2026 season still looking to end their national championship drought 08/19/2026 06:10am • No. 4 Notre Dame SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — 2025 record: 10-2 Expectations After reaching the 2024 CFP championship game and last year’s surprise absence from the 12-team playoff field, the Fighting Irish begin this season still looking to end their national championship drought. Their last one cam Clemson's Dabo Swinney, QB Vizzina out to turn things around after disappointing season 08/19/2026 06:10am • Clemson CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — 2025 record: 7-6 Expectations The Clemson Tigers entered last season with an experienced roster, a quarterback many viewed as a potential No. 1 NFL draft pick and a team ranked fourth in the nation in the preseason Top 25. They were poised to compete for a national cha Mike Norvell on the proverbial hot seat as Florida State tries to avoid another losing season 08/19/2026 06:10am • Florida State 2025 record: 5-7 Expectations Mike Norvell is coaching for his job and surely needs his team to be more than just competitive in Year 7, especially on the road and within the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Seminoles have lost 11 in a row away from home and are 3-13 in league play the With QB Steve Angeli healthy, Fran Brown-coached Syracuse seeks to rebound from 3-9 season 08/19/2026 06:10am • Syracuse SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — 2025 record: 3-9 Expectations Mixed at best, which essentially resembles Fran Brown’s first two seasons coaching the Orange. After raising hopes following a 10-3 finish in Brown’s first year, the Orange utterly unraveled by going 3-9 last season in which they los Duke has gone from winning an ACC title to retooling its 2026 roster after high-profile defections 08/19/2026 06:10am • Duke DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — 2025 record: 9-5 Expectations The Blue Devils took a big step by claiming their first outright Atlantic Coast Conference championship in 63 years. The image of Manny Diaz hoisting the trophy in his second year after beating Virginia comes amid a four-year run of sustained No. 7 Miami the pick to win the ACC title, and fully loaded Hurricanes eyeing bigger prizes as well 08/19/2026 06:10am • No. 7 Miami CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — 2025 record: 13-3 Expectations Here they go again. The seventh-ranked Hurricanes were the pick of 88% of voters in the Atlantic Coast Conference's preseason poll to win the league title, something Miami has not yet done despite being in the league for 22 seaso Stanford prepares for first season under new coach Tavita Pritchard, rugged schedule awaits 08/19/2026 06:10am • Stanford STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — 2025 record: 4-8 Expectations The Cardinal showed slight improvement last season under interim coach Frank Reich by following four straight three-win seasons with a 4-8 campaign that included a win over rival California in the Big Game. GM Andrew Luck brought in hi Lowe's: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot 08/19/2026 06:06am • MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Lowe's Cos. (LOW) on Wednesday reported fiscal second-quarter profit of $2.4 billion. The Mooresville, North Carolina-based company said it had net income of $4.27 per share. Earnings, adjusted for costs related to mergers and acquisitions, were The Miami Hurricanes have never won the ACC title. They're picked as the league's headliner in '26 08/19/2026 06:05am • Mario Cristobal got Miami back inside the top 10 by Year 3 and within a victory of a national championship in his fourth. Yet the Hurricanes are still chasing a first Atlantic Coast Conference championship after more than two decades in the league. His team is picked to accomplish that goal this yea Monaco parts with Pogba after the midfielder hardly played during an injury-hit stay 08/19/2026 05:57am • MONACO (AP) — Monaco has parted ways with midfielder Paul Pogba after the former France star's stay was hampered by injuries. Pogba signed a two-year-deal last year in order to relaunch a career derailed by injuries and a doping ban. But injury problems persisted and the 2018 World Cup winner made Roma seals Mora signing from Porto as emotional teenager gets a 500-fan welcome 08/19/2026 05:54am • ROME (AP) — Roma completed the signing of talented teenage midfielder Rodrigo Mora from Porto on a permanent basis on Wednesday. Roma announced the news in a brief statement but did not give any details of the deal. Italian media report Mora has penned a five-year contract. Mora, who turned 19 onl Queen Camilla wished she could share king's diagnosis during a visit to cancer charity 08/19/2026 05:47am • LONDON (AP) — Britain's Queen Camilla has said she knew about her husband’s cancer diagnosis days before it was publicly announced and found it difficult not to talk about his condition when she visited a cancer center during that period. King Charles III announced on Feb. 5, 2024, that he was b Congo’s Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases as it outpaces response efforts at unprecedented speed 08/19/2026 05:45am • BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 5,000 cases, government data showed Wednesday, as responders warn it is spreading at an unprecedented speed outpacing efforts to slow it in one of the country’s remotest regions. Data from Congo’s Ministry of Health showed the outbrea A Ukrainian man was arrested over undersea explosions that damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines, German officials say 08/19/2026 05:37am • BERLIN (AP) — A Ukrainian man was arrested over undersea explosions that damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines, German officials say. Shares in Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree soar in its Shanghai trading debut 08/19/2026 05:32am • HONG KONG (AP) — Shares of Unitree, one of China's largest humanoid robot makers, initially soared as much as 629% in its public stock trading debut Wednesday in Shanghai, in the latest highlight of investor optimism over China’s technological advances. The company, founded in 2016 by entreprene