By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer Bruce Springsteen is dedicating his new song to the people of Minneapolis, taking aim at President Donald Trump’s ongoing immigration enforcement operations in the city. The lyrics of “Streets of Minneapolis,” released Wednesday, describe how “a city aflame fought fire and ice ’neath an occupier’s boots,” which Springsteen calls
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By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The crime was in London, the suspect was Russian and the witness who saw the beating on a video call was in the United States and happened to be the youngest son of U.S. President Donald Trump. Barron Trump called police in the British capital and his
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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — FBI agents were executing a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta on Wednesday, an agency spokesperson confirmed. An FBI spokesperson said agents were “executing a court authorized law enforcement action” at the county’s main election office in Union City, just south of Atlanta.
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By MICHAEL BIESECKER and LAURA BARGFELD Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man who squirted an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis has a criminal history and has made online posts supportive of President Donald Trump. Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, was convicted of felony auto theft in 1989,
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Wednesday, Jan. 28
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKC–T25-COLORADO-IOWA ST DESCRIPTION: AMES, Iowa — No. 8 Iowa State hosts Colorado in a Big 12 game
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— BKC–T25-COLORADO-IOWA ST DESCRIPTION: AMES, Iowa — No. 8 Iowa State hosts Colorado in a Big 12 game
Continue ReadingTo see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— IOWA ————-——————— ENT–Books-Carnegie Medals New Carnegie Medal winners Megha Majumdar and Yiyun Li love libraries SUMMARY: Novelist Megha Majumdar has won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for
Continue ReadingTo see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— IOWA ————-——————— ENT–Books-Carnegie Medals New Carnegie Medal winners Megha Majumdar and Yiyun Li love libraries SUMMARY: Novelist Megha Majumdar has won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for
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By THOMAS ADAMSON AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — Valentino’s first couture show since house founder Valentino Garavani’s funeral in Rome opened under a somber shadow — then snapped it off with a jolt of pure theater. VIP guests including Sir Elton John were guided through near-darkness to their “seats”: simple stools set against circular
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By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — “Sirāt,” Spain’s latest Oscar contender, follows Luis as he treks through the North African desert with his 12-year-old son and his dog to find his missing daughter. Blending the grit of “Mad Max” with the underground rave culture of the 1990s, the film is set against
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By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 68th annual Grammy Awards are Sunday, airing live from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on CBS and Paramount+. What can viewers expect? According to the Recording Academy: some new, some old and a lot of excitement. Executive producers Raj Kapoor, Ben Winston and Jesse Collins
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By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer NEWELL, Iowa (AP) — The streets of Newell and Fonda are quiet. Rural decline has taken a toll on these northwest Iowa towns with main street storefronts shuttered and vacant houses scattered here and there. Yet the heart of these communities separated by 9 miles isn’t hard to find.
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By The Associated Press The number of girls high school basketball players in the United States has dropped at least 21% since 2000 based on National Federation of State High School Associations’ annual participation surveys. The federation, which relies on individual schools to self-report numbers for each sport, said girls high school basketball participation declined
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By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer NEWELL, Iowa (AP) — The streets of Newell and Fonda are quiet. Rural decline has taken a toll on these northwest Iowa towns with main street storefronts shuttered and vacant houses scattered here and there. Yet the heart of these communities separated by 9 miles isn’t hard to find.
Continue Reading By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, Jan. 29 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 5 p.m. CBSSN — Samford at Furman 7 p.m. CBSSN — Liberty at MTSU FS1 — Colorado at Iowa St. 8 p.m. ESPN2 — FAU at Memphis PEACOCK — Penn St. at Northwestern 9 p.m. CBSSN
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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The number of sexual abuse cases being treated at a clinic in Haiti’s capital has tripled in the past four years as gang violence surges across the troubled Caribbean country, a health charity warned Wednesday. Doctors Without Borders said it was “alarmed and outraged” by the overwhelming
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Continue Reading All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 29 17 .630 — New York 28 18 .609 1 Toronto 29 19 .604 1 Philadelphia 25 21 .543 4 Brooklyn 12 33 .267 16½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 25 22 .532 — Orlando 23 22 .511 1 Atlanta 23
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Continue Reading All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 51 33 14 4 70 179 130 14-9-0 19-5-4 6-3-1 Carolina 52 32 15 5 69 180 150 18-8-2 14-7-3 11-3-0 Detroit 54 32 17 5 69 168 162 18-9-1 14-8-4 10-4-2 Buffalo 52 30 17 5 65
Continue Reading All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf Detroit 34 11 .756 — 8-2 W-2 18-5 15-6 22-6 Boston 29 17 .630 5½ 6-4 W-1 14-7 15-10 21-11 New York 28 18 .609 6½ 5-5 W-3 18-6 9-12 20-11 Toronto 29 19 .604 6½ 6-4 W-4 13-10 16-9 22-12
Continue Reading All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB L10 Str Home Away Conf Boston 29 17 .630 — 6-4 W-1 14-7 15-10 21-11 New York 28 18 .609 1 5-5 W-3 18-6 9-12 20-11 Toronto 29 19 .604 1 6-4 W-4 13-10 16-9 22-12 Philadelphia 25 21 .543 4 4-6 W-1 13-13
Continue ReadingBy LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — If you haven’t heard of gay ice hockey TV drama “Heated Rivalry” and its two lead stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie yet … then get your skates on. What started as a word-of-mouth hit in the U.S. and Canada in December 2025 has spread to become
Continue ReadingBy LOUISE DIXON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — If you haven’t heard of gay ice hockey TV drama “Heated Rivalry” and its two lead stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie yet … then get your skates on. What started as a word-of-mouth hit in the U.S. and Canada in December 2025 has spread to become
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By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump has endorsed U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin’s open race for governor, solidifying the congressman’s front-runner status in the Republican primary in the battleground state while also bolstering Democrats’ attempts to tie Tiffany to unpopular elements of the president’s agenda. Trump announced the
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By The Associated Press FBI agents were executing a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta on Wednesday, an agency spokesperson confirmed. An FBI spokesperson said agents were “executing a court authorized law enforcement action” at the county’s main election office in Union City, just south of Atlanta. The spokesperson declined to
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Sarah Mullally walked into St. Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday morning as the bishop of London. When she walked out in the afternoon as bells rang out, she was the spiritual leader of millions of Anglicans around the world. Mullally, 63, became the archbishop of Canterbury, making her
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By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A court on Wednesday ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the effects of climate change — a sweeping victory for the islanders. The Hague District Court, in a stunning rebuke of
Continue ReadingBy NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited a southern town in Sicily on Wednesday that has been left teetering on the edge of a cliff after days of heavy rains from a cyclone triggered a huge landslide that brought down properties and forced the evacuation of over 1,500 people.
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