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5 reasons why Italy has failed to qualify for 3 consecutive World Cups 04/01/2026 08:22am • ROME (AP) ��� Italy won't get a chance at redemption for Roberto Baggio���s miss in the 1994 World Cup final at the Rose Bowl. The four-time champion isn���t even going back to North America for this year���s tournament after a penalty shootout loss to 66th-ranked Bosnia-Herzegovina in the qualifyin Italy's Bastoni was already facing boos even before getting the blame for latest World Cup failure 04/01/2026 08:15am • MILAN (AP) ��� Inter Milan defender Alessandro Bastoni was having a bad month even before he became the face of Italy's latest failure to qualify for the World Cup. Bastoni had already been getting booed regularly in Italy over his role in another sending-off, and the jeers aren't likely to stop af Swedish prime minister says he'll let a hard-right party enter a future government 04/01/2026 08:15am • STOCKHOLM (AP) ��� Sweden's prime minister said Wednesday that his center-right party would allow a rival with far-right roots to enter the government if the country's election this year produces a right-wing majority, taking a further decisive step to bring it into the political mainstream. Prime M UniFirst: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot 04/01/2026 08:09am • WILMINGTON, Mass. (AP) ��� WILMINGTON, Mass. (AP) ��� UniFirst Corp. (UNF) on Wednesday reported net income of $20.5 million in its fiscal second quarter. The Wilmington, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of $1.13 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.25 per Chelsea announces Premier League-record losses of $350M 04/01/2026 08:06am • LONDON (AP) ��� Chelsea made pre-tax losses of 262.4 million pounds ($350 million) in its latest financial results, the club announced Wednesday, a record high in the Premier League era. Chelsea, whose owners are from U.S. private equity, attributed the losses in part to ���increased operating costs Potential No. 1 WNBA draft pick Awa Fam has signed on to also play in Project B 04/01/2026 08:00am • Potential No. 1 WNBA draft pick Awa Fam has signed on to also play in Project B ��� the new five-on-five basketball competition. The young Spanish star was thrilled to be part of the fledgling organization that will play all over Europe, Asia and South America from November-April in mini 10-day sto 3 more men arrested in suspected antisemitic ambulance torching in London 04/01/2026 07:55am • LONDON (AP) ��� Three additional suspects were arrested Wednesday on arson charges in the torching of four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity in London, police said. Two British men, ages 20 and 19, and a 17-year-old boy with dual British and Pakistani nationality, were arrested on suspicion of co Food assistance slashed for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees trapped in Bangladesh camps 04/01/2026 07:38am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees struggling to survive in Bangladesh���s overcrowded camps will see their food assistance slashed starting on Wednesday, raising alarm throughout the increasingly desperate community. Currently, the 1.2 million Rohingya trapped in the squalid Boat carrying Afghan migrants capsizes off Turkey, killing 19 04/01/2026 07:32am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ��� A fast-moving boat carrying Afghan migrants capsized in the Aegean Sea on Wednesday while attempting to evade the coastguard in rough waters, leaving 19 dead ��� including a baby, officials said. The Turkish Coast Guard Command said the boat carrying dozens of migrants ignor Hiker's dog lost in a wild New Zealand forest rescued by helicopter after strangers fund search 04/01/2026 07:22am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� When a hiker fell from a 55-meter (180-foot) waterfall in wild New Zealand bush, rescuers were forced to evacuate the badly hurt woman without her dog, which couldn't be found. After strangers raised thousands of dollars for a search, border collie Molly was flown to Apple's 50-year odyssey has redefined technology, pop culture and comeback stories 04/01/2026 07:21am • CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) ��� A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools' Day 50 years ago and then ��� no joke ��� pulled it off. The improbable odyssey began April 1, 1976, when a then-sha North Carolina's electoral future may hinge on rural Black voters who feel ignored by Democrats 04/01/2026 07:09am • NASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) ��� Ricky Brinkley has lived in rural North Carolina nearly all of his 65 years, and he likes it ���out in the county,��� past the street lights and bustle of the small towns that carpet the landscape. But the former truck driver can feel left out when elections roll around in t Man charged after a car plowed into a crowd outside a British pub 04/01/2026 06:57am • LONDON (AP) ��� A man charged after a car plowed into a crowd outside a pub in the English city of Derby over the weekend, injuring seven people, appeared in court Wednesday and was jailed pending trial. Sandhu Ponnachan, 36, appeared in Southern Derbyshire Magistrates��� Court on six counts of cau Italy's latest World Cup failure labeled ���3rd apocalypse.��� It's the new norm for the 4-time champion 04/01/2026 06:54am • ROME (AP) ��� The first time was considered a fluke. The second was treated as a crisis. Now, with Italy failing to qualify for a third consecutive World Cup, it has become almost expected for the once-proud soccer nation. The four-time champion���s penalty shootout loss to 66th-ranked Bosnia and He Serbian journalists protest reported attacks, pressure on media 04/01/2026 06:50am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� Dozens of journalists blocked traffic on Wednesday outside the office of Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic to protest what they say are mounting attacks and pressure on the media in the Balkan country. The gathering in Belgrade was organized after journalists rep