Breanna Stewart scored 22 points, Jackie Young added 18 and the U.S. beat France 97-79 to win its fifth consecutive women’s FIBA World Cup championship
September 14, 2026State-run media in Iran say an Iranian commercial vessel has been struck off Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, with one person killed and four wounded
September 13, 2026Home rider Enric Mas ended years of frustration by winning the Spanish Vuelta cycling race
September 13, 2026Partial results from Sweden’s national election showed conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s four-party alliance locked in a close race with opposition parties on the left including former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats
September 13, 2026President Donald Trump says he plans to remove a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey
September 13, 2026Lamine Yamal produces another double and Barcelona also gets a goal from another 19-year-old product of its famed youth academy in a 4-2 win at Levante on Sunday
September 13, 2026The conflict in Yemen is intensifying, as government forces launch attacks against Iran-backed Houthi rebels along the Red Sea and Houthis fire into neighboring Saudi Arabia, which supports Yemen’s government
September 13, 2026A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after senior visiting officials, including the former prime ministers of the U.K. and Sweden, passed through
September 13, 2026Somali businesses are seeking alternative shipping routes due to disruptions and security concerns around the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Strait of Hormuz after Iran-backed Houthis captured a key port city and an island, sending thousands of Yemenis fleeing to neighboring Djibouti
September 13, 2026An ambassador in Ljubljana, but not in London: Israel’s foreign policy shifts away from longstanding allies
September 13, 2026Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned that rising geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions and climate crises are affecting people worldwide
September 13, 2026The CEO of Anthropic says the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up
September 12, 2026Thousands of people have gathered in Romania’s capital to set a Guinness World Record with a miles-long table made of recycled materials
September 13, 2026Mississippi police say they were still investigating the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month, a day after a man was arrested in connection with the killing
September 12, 2026Michigan landscaping company demanding answers after 6 workers stopped by ICE agents
September 13, 2026NYPD officer accidentally discharges weapon, injuring 2nd officer, bystander, police say
September 13, 2026Russian strikes have killed eight civilians and wounded dozens in Ukraine, according to local officials
September 12, 2026Thirty charred bodies found inside a burned passenger ferry in the western Philippines have arrived at a port for identification after a ship fire that killed at least 35 people
September 12, 2026The McClatchy newspaper chain has made significant layoffs at The Miami Herald and other papers, cutting over 90 unionized journalists across 17 publications
September 12, 2026Mississippi police have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month
September 12, 2026UK man pleads guilty to using online forum to encourage sexual assault of unconscious women
September 12, 2026A fishing crew in Alaska’s Bering Sea rescued a teenager who clung to a capsized boat for roughly two days in the frigid waters
September 12, 2026The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to briefly extend the current arms embargo on Sudan’s western Darfur region while negotiations continue on a contentious U.S. proposal to expand the embargo throughout the country
September 12, 2026The price of diesel is hitting record highs just as many U.S. farmers are harvesting two of the nation’s largest commodities, soybeans and corn
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