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New St. Jude CEO Dr. Charles Roberts says childhood cancer treatments are at 'the dawn of a new era' 08/18/2026 01:30pm • St. Jude Children���s Research Hospital named Dr. Charles W. M. Roberts its new president and chief executive officer Tuesday, replacing Dr. James R. Downing, who led the nonprofit for 12 years. Roberts, who has been director of St. Jude���s Comprehensive Cancer Center and an executive vice presiden AP Interview: Klaveness slams Infantino's FIFA for firing top executive in 'management by fear' 08/18/2026 01:26pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� Norway���s soccer federation president on Tuesday accused FIFA of fear tactics for the removal of a senior official who publicly opposed FIFA leader Gianni Infantino���s now-withdrawn World Cup sell-off plan. Lise Klaveness, who heads the Norwegian Football Federation since 2022, tol Venus Williams gets a US Open singles wild card at 46, with maybe a spot being held for Serena 08/18/2026 01:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Venus Williams was given a U.S. Open singles wild card on Tuesday and the tournament is keeping one on hold ��� perhaps in case her sister Serena wants to join her. Sloane Stephens, the 2017 U.S. Open champion, was one of six other women to receive a wild card, and the U.S. Tennis Penn State frat pledges were made to cut and bag cocaine for college drug ring, authorities say 08/18/2026 01:18pm • STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ��� Penn State fraternity pledges were made to cut and package cocaine for a drug ring that was run out of two off-campus frat houses, authorities said. The illicit initiation was revealed Monday as Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday charged 14 people ��� including 13 Emitari Defense Ministry says two missiles fired from Iran toward the UAE landed in the water off its coast 08/18/2026 01:18pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Emitari Defense Ministry says two missiles fired from Iran toward the UAE landed in the water off its coast. Connecticut's first state-funded methadone vans expand access to treatment 08/18/2026 01:17pm • Mobile methadone units did not exist in Connecticut when Frankie DeJesus started his recovery in 2012. He wishes they did. DeJesus, a recovery support specialist for Community Health Resources, has spent nearly all his life in Enfield, right by Connecticut���s northern border. After a Percocet presc Shakira makes surprise visit in earthquake-damaged Colombia and commits to rebuilding schools 08/18/2026 01:14pm • BOGOT��, Colombia (AP) ��� Colombian superstar Shakira made a surprise visit to a hard-hit region of her home country Monday, announcing multiple commitments to rebuild schools and a university there after Colombia suffered a devastating earthquake last week. The globally recognized ���Hips Don't Li Justice Department pushes to revive criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia 08/18/2026 01:10pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� The Justice Department is pushing to revive criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, telling a federal appeals court late Monday that a judge erred in his scathing ruling that called the case against the man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison an ���abuse of Bieniemy jokes wife Mia gave him blessing to rejoin Chiefs after she was shot at their Virginia home 08/18/2026 01:09pm • ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) ��� Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy joked Tuesday that he had the blessing of his wife, Mia, to return to the team after she was shot at their Virginia home because, well, ���I know I was driving her and a bunch of my family members crazy in the house.��� How one gardener's neighbors shared their land to help her start a flower business 08/18/2026 01:09pm • When Marisa Mender-Franklin walks through any of the nine flower farms she runs in Memphis, Tennessee, her first thoughts are of gratitude. Partly for the flowers and the bees, but mostly for the support of her neighbors. That's because members of her local Facebook Buy Nothing group shared their un Rare photos reveal how DC changed in the years after World War II 08/18/2026 01:04pm • The D.C. Archives has released nearly 3,000 digitized photographs offering a glimpse of a city undergoing significant change in the years after World War II. The collection, released last month, includes D.C. government photographs taken between 1947 and 1959. ���They cover about 13-year The CDC has zombie programs. Congress funds them, but few people are left to do the work 08/18/2026 01:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still has an Alzheimer���s disease program. Congress appropriated $41 million to it this year. There���s just no one staffing it. Then there���s the agency's Office on Smoking and Health. Congress allocated $246 million for that. Its s Pulling from ancient cooling principles, the 'swamp cooler' remains important today 08/18/2026 12:58pm • Before air conditioning spread across the United States, before temperatures increased and the world heated up, people in the Southwest sweltered. Dry heat and minimal relief were day-to-day life, and many had to get a little creative. Some slept outdoors under damp sheets. Others adjusted schedules Senator presses Hegseth, Caine for commitment to keep US military out of the midterm elections 08/18/2026 12:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday to confirm he won���t send U.S. troops to polling places during November���s midterm elections, as Democrats have raised concerns that the Trump administration could use the military to interfere with th Judge blocks the Trump administration from moving FBI headquarters to DC office building 08/18/2026 12:49pm • A U.S. judge on Monday blocked plans to move the FBI's headquarters to a federal office building in Washington, finding that President Donald Trump's administration illegally tossed out a previously approved plan to build a new facility nearby in Maryland. The ruling is the latest development in a