AP National News

By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The newest player on the U.S. men’s national soccer team feels like he fits right in. While former high school classmates are getting ready for Thanksgiving break of their college freshman semesters, 18-year-old defender Joe Scally could make his debut as a reserve in Tuesday

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer DENVER (AP) — For a guy who wouldn’t put himself in harm’s way or Darius Slay’s path, Teddy Bridgewater sure didn’t have any problem falling on the sword. Or was he pushed? Broncos coach Vic Fangio called out Bridgewater in a team meeting Monday for being a bystander

By ILAN BEN ZION Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is appearing in court for the first time in over half a year as a one-time confidant prepares to take the stand against him in a high-profile corruption case. Nir Hefetz, a former Netanyahu aide, is a star prosecution witness

By MEHMET GUZEL and SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Many people in Turkey are facing increased hardship as prices of food and other goods have soared. While rising consumer prices are affecting countries worldwide as they bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic, economists say Turkey’s eye-popping inflation has been exacerbated by economic mismanagement,

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press GOLEM, Albania (AP) — Hundreds of Afghans who were evacuated from their homeland are staying at a beach resort in Albania, enjoying the warm welcome and a normal daily life free from fear. A group of judges, sportsmen, journalists, activists, artists, law enforcement officers and scientists arrived last month. They

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have issued a 40-day temporary custody order for a man considered a suspect in the July 7 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and placed him in a prison in Istanbul. The suspect, businessman Samir Handal, was detained at Istanbul Airport where he arrived on

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian health officials say a 26-year-old Palestinian man has been shot and killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry says the 26-year-old man was shot on Tuesday at the entrance to Tammun, a town near the northern city of Nablus. The circumstances of the shooting were

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A defense lawyer angrily accused the prosecution at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial of lying. The lead prosecutor struck a measured tone, even as he raised the accused’s rifle at one point and sighted at a courtroom wall. How the indignation and theatrics during Monday’s

By LEE KEATH Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A strange, new relationship is developing in Afghanistan following the takeover by the Taliban three months ago. The Sunni hard-liners are now the only protection for Afghanistan’s mainly Shiite Hazara minority from a more brutal enemy, the Islamic State group. For decades, the Taliban targeted the

REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In recent years, hundreds of people once destined to spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of crimes as juveniles have gone free. That’s due to Supreme Court decisions ruling that young people are capable of change and should be given a second

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets are higher after President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping held a summit meeting by video link. Market benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong advanced. Sydney fell. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index lost less than 0.1% as makers of household goods

By AAMER MADHANI and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping are agreeing they need to tread carefully as their nations find themselves in an increasingly fraught competition. The two leaders talked for more than three hours Monday by video amid mounting tensions in the U.S.-China relationship. Facing

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ruled that Kobe Bryant’s widow must turn over her therapy records to Los Angeles County in her lawsuit claiming she suffered emotional distress after first responders shared photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball star and his teenage daughter. District Court Judge Charles

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration’s competition with China for influence hasn’t gotten off to a great start in Africa. In August, the top U.S. diplomat planned a visit but postponed it because of turmoil in Afghanistan. Now, as two significant African crises worsen, Secretary of State Antony Blinken

By COLLEEN LONG and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Joe Biden was in New Hampshire, he was being trounced in the state’s 2020 Democratic presidential primary. On Tuesday, Biden returns to New Hampshire as president, eager to talk up his new $1 trillion infrastructure deal and what all that money

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon appeared before a judge Monday to face federal contempt charges for defying a subpoena from a House committee investigating January’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Bannon appeared briefly before a federal magistrate judge in Washington just hours after

By MICHAEL TARM, AMY FORLITI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Jurors will begin deliberating Tuesday at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial after two weeks of testimony in which they were given starkly different portrayals of his actions the night he shot three men on the streets of Kenosha. Prosecutors say Rittenhouse was

HOUSTON (AP) — Calls for an independent investigation into what led to 10 deaths at the Astroworld music festival have gone unheeded. Houston-area officials instead chose Monday to direct a county administrator to conduct a review with other governmental entities. County Judge Lina Hidalgo had proposed a third-party probe of the planning and execution of

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Jimmy Garoppolo threw two touchdown passes, Jimmie Ward returned one of his two first-quarter interceptions for another score and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Los Angeles Rams 31-10 for their first home win in more than a year. The Niners had lost