AP National News

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A new surveys shows nearly one in five U.S. adults bet money on sports over the past year. The report from the Pew Research Center shows that 19% of adults surveyed said they bet on sports. The most common way they did so involved bets

PARIS (AP) — French officials say soccer star Paul Pogba’s brother is in police custody along with four other people as part of an extortion investigation. Investigators are examining allegations that Mathias Pogba and childhood friends attempted to extort millions from Paul Pogba, a World Cup winner. Mathias Pogba came to see police about the

By JAN M. OLSEN and VANESSA GERA Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A right-wing bloc that includes a nationalist anti-immigration party has won a narrow majority in Sweden’s parliament. It’s a major political shift in the Scandinavian country that had a decades-long history of welcoming refugees, but is grappling with a crime wave linked

By The Associated Press A flare-up in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan has killed 155 troops on both sides since early Tuesday. The neighboring countries at the crossroads of Asia and Europe are longtime adversaries in a conflict over the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region. The mountainous region is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the

By DAVE COLLINS and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars empire acknowledged on the witness stand Wednesday that the show and website spread falsehoods about the Sandy Hook school shooting. “I don’t think that we disagree that there were false statements made,” Brittany Paz testified

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say newly tested DNA evidence helped them make an arrest in the killings more than eight years ago of a family, including two boys, who were shot in their suburban Houston home. Feng Lu, 58, who had long been considered a suspect in the case, was arrested on Sunday by police

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s center-left Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has conceded defeat in a weekend election while the leader of a nationalist anti-immigration party declared victory for his right-wing bloc. Jimmie Akesson, leader of the populist Sweden Democrats, said Wednesday his party would be “a constructive and driving force in this work” of rebuilding

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Children are back in school in Seattle following a weeklong teachers strike that delayed the start of classes. Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education Association announced Monday night that they had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, and late Tuesday they announced that the

By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation is accusing North Dakota officials of tampering with the tribes’ efforts to collect royalties from oil and gas production underneath a riverbed on the Fort Berthold Reservation. The state says the tribes have no legal claim. The latest grievance is

By ELENA BECATOROS and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Hand on heart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched his country’s flag rise Wednesday above the recaptured city of Izium, making a rare foray outside the capital that highlights Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Members of one union rejected a tentative deal with the largest U.S. freight railroads Wednesday while three other unions remained at the bargaining table just days ahead of a strike deadline, threatening to intensify snarls in the nation’s supply chain that have contributed to rising

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The governor of Mississippi in 2017 was “on board” with a plan for a nonprofit group to pay Brett Favre more than $1 million in welfare grant money so the retired NFL quarterback could help fund a university volleyball facility, according to a text messages

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordanian teams on Wednesday rescued an infant and were working to save others from the rubble of a collapsed building, as officials said they had arrested three people in connection to the disaster. State media said at least six people were killed and eight others remained missing Wednesday, a day after

By MARCIO SANCHEZ and CHRISTOPHER WEBER OAK GLEN, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers are searching for a person missing in a mudslide that swept boulders down fire-scarred slopes in Southern California mountain communities. Cleanup efforts and damage assessments continue Wednesday in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles. With thunderstorms forecast and more flash floods

By MIKE CORDER, JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks edged higher in afternoon trading on Wall Street Wednesday following the market’s worst day in two years on fears about higher interest rates and the recession they could create. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% as of 1:34 p.m. Eastern. The benchmark index is coming

MIAMI (AP) — A tropical depression formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday morning and forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it could strengthen to a tropical storm. Tropical Depression Seven was located about 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) east of the Leeward Islands, and tropical storm watches could be issued later Wednesday, forecasters

By COLLEEN LONG and TOM KRISHER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — President Joe Biden is showcasing his administration’s efforts to promote electric vehicles during a visit to the Detroit auto show. Biden is a self-proclaimed gearhead who owns a 1967 Corvette Stingray. He got behind the wheel of a snazzy new Corvette Wednesday at the

By WILL WEISSERT and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Retired Army Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc won New Hampshire’s Senate Republican primary on Wednesday and will face potentially vulnerable Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan in November – setting up another test of whether a fierce conservative can appeal to more moderate general election voters.

By COLLEEN NEWVINE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Walk and sit. Walk and sit. Covering the length of a city by foot gives you a feel for its character and neighborhoods that you can’t get by driving through. AP’s Colleen Newvine and her husband are fans of what they call super walks. They’ve walked