News

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Winter has set in, the Christmas lights have been switched on, and London’s top cocktail bars have added their seasonal favorites to bar menus. From a festive Old-Fashioned to a boozy hot chocolate, these after-dinner drinks might inspire your own menu of holiday cocktails, to be supped slowly by the

AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Jeremy Bloom is taking over as the CEO of X Games. The ex-Olympic freestyle skier and Colorado football player will lead the annual summer and winter events as it transitions into a new, team-friendly format in addition to individual awards. In June, X Games unveiled a style change starting

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and mismanagement. The agency informed employees and Congress on Thursday that it plans to shutter

ATLANTA (AP) — Police say a passenger on a Florida-bound Greyhound bus was shot and killed by officers after running onto a major freeway in Atlanta while armed with a knife. Atlanta police say it happened shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday on Interstate 75 south of downtown Atlanta. Police say officers made repeated attempts to

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy spent several hours Thursday swapping ideas with lawmakers about President-elect Donald Trump’sDOGE initiative to dismantle parts of the federal government. Meeting behind closed doors at the Capitol, Musk told the mostly Republican lawmakers they would be keeping a “naughty and nice” list

AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas officials say their investigation into the bottle-throwing incident that disrupted the Texas-Georgia game in October could not identify anyone responsible and that no one has been caught or punished. The disruption drew a harsh rebuke and a fine from the Southeastern Conference, which also ordered the school

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ten of the best songs of the year, as determined by Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman, in no particular order. “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey It is not only the biggest song of the year, but one of the longest-reigning No. 1s of all time, as far

Associated Press Three days after a Pennsylvania woman searching for her cat disappeared at the chasm of a three-story deep sinkhole, the digging crews were back at it Thursday, hoping for a miracle but expecting to recover her remains. The scope of the effort was scaled down after authorities concluded 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard is not

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s parliament speaker has ejected several lawmakers of the ethnic Serb minority from the chamber because of their several recent absences. The move could spark new frictions in the tense relations with neighboring Serbia. Speaker Glauk Konjufca on Thursday accused the nine Srpska List party lawmakers of being provocative and misusing

Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — More than two dozen historic prints that depict Native American life and culture on the Upper Missouri River nearly 200 years ago will soon be more accessible to the public, thanks to a donation. The State Historical Society of North Dakota recently acquired 26 aquatints produced from 1839 to

An Afghan TV station has been shuttered over allegedly vulgar content and working with exiled media. The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice alleged that Arezo TV in Kabul was working with media outside Afghanistan and that it was paying temporary workers to dub “vulgar serials and programs” that went against

Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, VA. (AP) — The sprawling, windowless warehouses that hold rows of high-speed servers powering almost everything the world does on phones and computers are increasingly becoming fixtures of the American landscape, popping up in towns, cities and suburbs across the United States. Demand for data centers ballooned in recent years due to

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The police commissioner of the Bahamas has resigned after two officers and a sergeant were recently indicted in the U.S. in what federal authorities have described as a case of massive drug trafficking. The Bahamas’ prime minister announced on Wednesday that Clayton Fernander was stepping down, noting that he