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Shane Gills will host ESPN’s annual awards show, the ESPYS. The ceremony, which honors the top athletes and sports moments of the past year, will be held in Los Angeles on July 16 and broadcast live on ESPN. The 37-year-old Gillis is one of…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City on Tuesday closed the arrival center for migrants it had established at the Roosevelt Hotel, a once-grand Manhattan hotel that had become an emblem of the city’s fraught efforts to manage the flood of new…

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Mark Davis, a television news journalist who covered Connecticut politics for three decades for a local ABC affiliate, has died. He was 76. Davis died on Monday, WTNH-TV announced on Tuesday. He worked at the station…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — South of Gaza City, along the Sea Road that runs beside the Mediterranean, Palestinian youth are producing fuel by melting plastic in makeshift burners. With limited access to commercial fuel, they collect…

People are marking the start of the winter and summer solstices across the globe. North of the equator, celebrations welcome summer, while those in the south observe the beginning of winter. In Romania, dancers wearing crowns of wheat…

Brazil's government says that a young Brazilian hiker who had plunged hundreds of meters from the ridge of a towering Indonesian volcano and was trapped there for almost four days has been found dead. The tourist, 26-year-old Juliana…

Former teen idol Bobby Sherman has died at 81. His winsome smile and fashionable shaggy mop top helped make him into a star in the 1960s and ’70s with bubblegum pop like “Little Woman” and “Julie, Do Ya Love Me.” His wife, Brigitte Poublon,…

CHICAGO (AP) — Noah Syndergaard will attempt to make a comeback with the Chicago White Sox, who have signed the veteran right-hander to a minor league deal. Syndergaard has reported to the team's spring complex in Glendale, Arizona, the…

Four members of a family from Northern California celebrating a birthday were among eight people killed when a boat capsized in a fierce weekend storm on Lake Tahoe in California. It was one of the deadliest accidents on the lake in years.…

Two Florida men have been indicted in what prosecutors describe as a scheme to steal more than $100 million from a nonprofit that managed funds for people with disabilities and special needs. Federal authorities this week unsealed an…

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and…

A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the…

Nonfiction 1. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 2. What Could Go Wrong? by Scott Z. Burns, narrated by the author (Audible Originals) 3. Atomic Habitsby James Clear, narrated by the author…

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List) 1. Nightshade by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company) 2. Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah (Random House Publishing Group) 3. The River Is Waiting (Oprah’s Book Club) by Wally Lamb (S&S/ Marysue…

There's a new top Democrat on the influential House Oversight Committee. Rep. Robert Garcia of California won the job in a closed-door vote Tuesday, defeating Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts. Garcia will be in the spotlight as…