No. 18 Baylor beats No. 12 Arizona 63-58 in freebie for fans
WACO, Texas — MaCio Teague scored 19 points, Freddie Gillespie had 17 points and 13 rebounds and No. 18 Baylor defeated No. 12 Arizona 63-58 on Saturd...
Chiefs head into Patriots showdown with ground game in flux
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs will head into arguably their biggest game of the season Sunday in New England with the very real possibilit...
Protests subside, but economic aftershocks rattle Haitians
Port-au-Prince — The flaming barricades are mostly gone, protesters have largely dissipated and traffic is once again clogging the streets of Haiti’s ...
Nobel laureate: Face up to climate change, no escaping Earth
STOCKHOLM — An astronomer who shares this year's Nobel physics prize for discovering a planet outside the Earth's solar system is taking issue with pe...
Chicago chief’s firing again rattles confidence in force
CHICAGO — The unceremonious firing of Chicago's police superintendent just weeks before his retirement has rattled a department that, under his leader...
Q&A: Does a manufacturing slump threaten the US economy?
WASHINGTON — Defying fears and predictions, the U.S. economy is still shrugging off President Donald Trump’s trade conflicts.
AP PHOTOS: St. Nicholas and devils parade in Czech villages
VALASSKA POLANKA, Czech Republic — Dozens of people in grim reaper and devil costumes accompany St. Nicholas on his journey through the village of Val...
Impeachment collides with funding deadline, testing Congress
WASHINGTON — The impeachment drama is dominating Washington, but leading figures such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still have their day jobs to do.
Pro-government protesters denounce Hong Kong ‘rioters’
HONG KONG — Only after finding safety in numbers, joining hundreds of other pro-government protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday, did Reddy Lin drum up ...
Cavaliers defend rookie coach John Beilein amid skid
CLEVELAND — Cavaliers forward Tristan Thompson battled Orlando's big men and then defended his rookie coach.
No malarkey: Biden courts Iowans, balances national campaign
STORM LAKE, Iowa — Minutes after Joe Biden met Cathy Buxengard, he commandeered her cellphone to talk with her 99-year-old mother about her service as...
No. 1 Louisville pulls away from Pittsburgh, 64-46
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jordan Nwora scored 19 points, Malik Williams had 13 points and 11 rebounds off the bench, and No. 1 Louisville used a 17-4 second-h...
Thunder hit buzzer-beater to force OT, then top Timberwolves
OKLAHOMA CITY — Chris Paul scored a season-high 30 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder pulled off an improbable 139-127 overtime victory over the Min...
Haley: Killer ‘hijacked’ Confederate flag meaning for some
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said in an interview that a man who gunned down nine worshipers at an African American church in 2015 “hijacked...
No. 4 Michigan tops Iowa 103-91 despite 44 points from Garza
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Franz Wagner led a balanced scoring effort for No. 4 Michigan with 18 points, and the Wolverines opened Big Ten play with a 103-91 ...
Elon Musk cleared of defamation in ‘pedo guy’ tweet trial
LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk defeated defamation allegations Friday from a British cave explorer who claimed he was branded a pedophile when the Tesla CEO ...
Buttigieg calls on McKinsey to release list of his clients
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is calling on his former employer McKinsey & Co. to release a list of the clients he...
Knicks fire David Fizdale, make Mike Miller interim coach
NEW YORK — The New York Knicks have made another coaching change, firing David Fizdale after barely 100 games on the job.
Man who offered $500 for killing an ICE agent is acquitted
BOSTON — A man who tweeted that he would give $500 to anyone who would kill a federal immigration officer was acquitted Friday in a case that centered...
NFL coaching carousel started spinning early this year
Judging by the jump start, it looks like we're headed for a ninth consecutive season with at least a half-dozen NFL head coaches getting canned.
Evidence tampering alleged in police chief firing case
CHICAGO — A female Chicago police officer who was reportedly seen on video drinking with and kissing the now-fired police superintendent the night he ...
Jerry Jones tries everything, but Cowboys can’t get it right
Jerry Jones tried ripping the coaching staff of the Dallas Cowboys after the first loss in the current three-game skid, then took the gentle approach ...
Woodland leads in the Bahamas as Tiger gets within 2 shots
NASSAU, Bahamas — Two big birdies from Gary Woodland gave him the lead in the Hero World Challenge. A closing birdie on a hole that has vexed Tiger Wo...
Hitting the plastic: US credit card use jumped in October
WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers ramped up their credit card spending in October.
Activists cheer for “Greta!”, urge climate action in Madrid
MADRID — Activists of all ages and from all corners of the planet demanded concrete action Friday against climate change from leaders and negotiators ...
Bloomberg: His news reporters need to accept restrictions
NEW YORK — Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg says employees at his news organization need to accept restrictions with their paycheck...
Rochester diocese request led to beatification delay
NEW YORK — The Catholic diocese of Rochester, N.Y., confirms it made the request for further investigations that prompted the Vatican to take the rare...
Billy Joel, Kardashians Diplo descend on Miami for Art Basel
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — As gallerists and collectors descend on Miami's most prestigious art fair by day, the Hollywood crowd knows it's all about the exc...
Let’s cancel ‘OK Boomer’ in 2020, and the humblebrag, too
NEW YORK — Either loudly sing your own praises or don’t in the new year, but let’s leave the humble brag behind, along with a few other oversaturated,...
AP’s top albums of 2019: Ari Lennox, Summer Walker, Anitta
NEW YORK — The top 10 albums of the year by Associated Press Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu: