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Former NCAA players and fixers charged over rigged basketball games, prosecutors say

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A sprawling betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games ensnared 26 people, including more than a dozen college basketball players who tried to fi...

Live updates: Trump set to meet Venezuelan opposition leader

President Donald Trump is set to meet Thursday at the White House with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, whose political party is widely considered to have won 2024 elec...

Right-hander Michael Lorenzen and the Colorado Rockies finalize $8 million, 1-year contract

DENVER (AP) — Right-hander Michael Lorenzen and the Colorado Rockies finalized their $8 million, one-year contract on Thursday. Lorenzen gets a $7.75 million million salary this year, and th...

Court ruling jeopardizes freedom for pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil

A federal appeals panel on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that released former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail, bringing the government...

What you need to know about Grok and the controversies surrounding it

NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk's Grok keeps getting into trouble, and this time, more of the world's governments are trying to intervene. First launched in 2023, Grok is Musk’s attempt to outdo ...

An app’s blunt life check adds another layer to the loneliness crisis in China

BEIJING (AP) — In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young Chinese people is definitively the latter. It's calle...

Grok blocked from undressing images in places where it's illegal, X says

BANGKOK (AP) — Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok won’t be able to edit photos to portray real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal, according to a statement posted on X. T...

Ailing astronaut returns to Earth early in NASA's first medical evacuation

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation...

Moscow agrees with Trump that Ukraine is holding up a peace deal, the Kremlin says

Moscow agrees with U.S. President Donald Trump’s view that Ukraine is holding up a peace deal to end the almost four years of fighting since Russia invaded its neighbor, a Kremlin official s...

Skeleton athlete Katie Uhlaender's Olympic hopes take another hit as complaint dismissed

U.S. skeleton athlete Katie Uhlaender's complaint that she was robbed of a chance to qualify for the Milan Cortina Games was dismissed by the sport's governing body Thursday, another blow to...

In a warming world, freshwater production is moving deep beneath the sea

CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of desalination’s biggest problems by moving the technology deep below the oc...

Vance Joseph focuses on stopping Josh Allen, not head coaching opportunities

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Vance Joseph interviewed with five teams during the Denver Broncos’ bye week in his quest for a second crack at an NFL head coaching job. What’s really on the defens...