AP College Football Writer Ohio State, Miami and Clemson plunged in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday following their losses during a wild weekend, eight of the top 10 teams moved up one spot and Oregon was No. 1 for the seventh straight week. The shakeup creates two top-five matchups in conference
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer A historically poor season has led Purdue athletic director Mike Bobinski to fire coach Ryan Walters after just two seasons at the helm. Walters went 5-19 in his tenure with the Boilermakers while posting a 3-15 mark in Big Ten play. The Boilermakers finished 1-11, set a school single-season record by losing
Continue Reading Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump says Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman who is the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, will be a senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. During the presidential campaign, Boulos arranged Trump’s efforts to engage the Arab American community in Michigan. Boulos organized dozens
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — The Italian league title race didn’t seem so important this weekend after a player collapsed on the field during a Serie A match. League leader Napoli had won 1-0 at Torino and was waiting on the outcome of the match between close rivals Fiorentina and Inter Milan. Fiorentina midfielder
Continue Reading Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, says he’s joined the race to lead the national party after an election that swept Donald Trump and Republicans to power in Washington. Since losing control of the White House, the Senate and the House, Democrats are looking
Continue Reading OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) — Authorities have charged a 37-year-old Chicago man with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a suburban police detective. Oak Park Detective Allan Reddins was killed Friday morning after responding to a report of a man leaving a bank with a gun in the suburb just west of Chicago. The
Continue Reading AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Christmas came early at the box office this year. “Moana 2” brought in a tidal wave of moviegoers over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, setting records with $221 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. That, combined with “Wicked” and “Gladiator II,” made for an unprecedented weekend
Continue Reading By Ray Sanchez, Andi Babineau and Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — A smiling James Craig appears online promoting his Colorado dental practice, saying his treatment philosophy “begins with sincerely listening to the patient and wanting to find out more about where they’re coming from and what they’re looking for and what they want.” “I love
Continue Reading Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s drive to upend the FBI was welcomed by Republican senators although it was not clear on Sunday how strongly members of the incoming majority party would embrace his move to install ally Kash Patel as the next director of the Justice Department’s top investigative arm. Patel, a onetime
Continue Reading Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution for a week in South Korea won’t reach an agreement and plan to resume the talks next year. They are at an impasse over whether the treaty should reduce the total plastic on Earth and
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COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ) Officials are urging drivers to stay cautious when driving on icy roads following mid-Missouri’s first snowfall of the season. According to a Sunday morning post with updated numbers, the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop F responded to 289 calls for service. Of those calls, there were: 83 crashes without injuries 7 crashes
Continue Reading Associated Press TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli jets Sunday launched an airstrike over a southern Lebanese border village, while troops shelled other border towns and villages still under Israeli control, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported. The attacks come days after a US-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect. There were no
Continue Reading Associated Press KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin suffered a deep puncture wound on the right side of her abdomen and “severe muscle trauma” during her scary crash in a giant slalom race on Saturday but no serious bone, ligament or organ damage. The five-time overall World Cup champion was sidelined for the Killington Cup
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — A new top prosecutor for the nation’s largest county is taking office Monday with a promise to usher in a tougher-on-crime approach after Los Angeles voters took heightened anxiety over crime and public safety to the polls last month. Nathan Hochman, a former Republican candidate for California attorney general
Continue Reading CNN By Ashley R. Williams, Sarah Dewberry, Zenebou Sylla, Dakin Andone and Amanda Jackson, CNN (CNN) — As biting cold temperatures sweep across a large swath of the US, parts of the Great Lakes face more than a foot of additional lake-effect snow through Tuesday – the latest complication for cities already blanketed by snowfall
Continue Reading Associated Press/Report for America PHOENIX (AP) — Recipients of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are bracing for potential challenges to their status in the country during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. The program benefits some 535,000 immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children. Trump tried unsuccessfully
Continue Reading Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Belgium is granting sex workers full labor rights, including health insurance, paid leave and pensions, starting Sunday. The law, following 2022’s decriminalization of sex work, also establishes key rights such as refusing clients and stopping acts at any time. Employers must meet strict licensing and safety standards while unregulated hiring
Continue Reading By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — OK, deep breaths everyone … you made it through the meal prep, or the long lines at the register, the airport or on the freeway. Maybe you were so busy you didn’t have time to appreciate the holiday, so take a look at Thanksgiving week in
Continue Reading NOVI SAD, Serbia (AP) — Thousands joined a protest march on Sunday in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad to mark one month since a concrete canopy on the outside of the city’s railway station crashed down, killing 15 people and injuring two. Protesters held a huge banner with a red handprint at the
Continue Reading By Hanna Ziady, CNN (CNN) — Police in Australia said a woman was forced to fend off a deadly tiger snake in her vehicle while driving 50 miles per hour on a freeway outside Melbourne. Police officers responded to reports of a barefoot woman trying to flag down vehicles on the side of the Monash
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