INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis will host the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game for the first time at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on July 19, the league announced Wednesday. This summer’s game featured the All-Star team against the U.S. Olympic team and was played in front of a sellout crowd of 16,407 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix. A
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that the country’s military has taken full control of the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region near the border with Ukraine. Here is a glance at Sudzha: How big is Sudzha and where is it located? The town, which had a population of about 5,000 before the Ukrainian
BANGKOK (AP) — Wednesday’s decision by Thailand’s Constitutional Court to oust Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin after just under a year in office was jarring, but not entirely a surprise given what critics say is the expanding overreach of unelected bodies. Thais have long been accustomed to sudden changes of government due to military coups, numbering
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday morning that he still doesn’t recognize Nicolás Maduro as the winner of last month’s presidential election in Venezuela , and that his counterpart could call for a new vote “if he has good sense.” “Maduro still has six months left in his
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is asking the judge in his New York hush money criminal case to delay his sentencing until after the November presidential election. In a letter made public Thursday , a lawyer for the former president and current Republican nominee suggested that sentencing Trump as scheduled on Sept. 18 —
BERLIN (AP) — A court in Greenland ruled Thursday that veteran environmental activist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson must remain in custody as authorities consider Japan’s request for his extradition, police said. The court ruled that Watson must remain in detention until Sept. 5 to ensure his presence in connection with a decision on extradition
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Clashes between local rebels and pro-government militias in eastern Congo killed 16 villagers Thursday, a government official said, the latest violation of a cease-fire announced to help millions displaced in the region. The villagers were killed in the Rutshuru territory in North Kivu province during fighting between the M23 rebel group
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans stepped up their spending at retailers last month by the most in a year and a half, easing concerns that the economy might be weakening under the pressure of higher prices and elevated interest rates. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that retail sales jumped 1% from June to July, the biggest
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s government Thursday ended a weeklong information campaign urging caution and preparedness for a possible “megaquake” — an earthquake of magnitude 8 strength or higher — striking the Pacific coast. The announcement came after no abnormal seismic activity was detected during the past week. Still, officials urged people not to let their
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that drug price negotiations will knock hundreds of dollars — in some cases thousands — off the list prices of 10 of Medicare’s most popular and costliest drugs . The discounts , agreed to after months of negotiations with drug manufacturers, range between 38% and 79% on
