Venice’s growing flamingo population finds haven in healing wetlands

Colleen Barry 05/31/2026

Perhaps nothing better illustrates the flamingo’s status as a newcomer to the Venetian Lagoon than the fact that the local dialect has no word for them. …

French Open: Kostyuk stuns Swiatek on her birthday, reaches quarters

Samuel Petrequin 05/31/2026

PARIS (AP) — There will be a first-time women’s champion at Roland-Garros this year, and the odds are stacked in Marta Kostyuk’s favor. Undefeated this season on clay, the 15th-seeded Ukrainian player reached the quarterfinals at the…

Bruce Springsteen chides White House, bares protest festival

Rebecca Santana 05/30/2026

Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard and Joan Baez will headline a star-studded protest festival set for the Washington, D.C., area a month before the midterm elections.…

Spurs rout Thunder in Game 6 to force decider

05/29/2026

The San Antonio Spurs crushed the Oklahoma City Thunder, 118-91, in Game 6 to force a Game 7 in the NBA Western Conference Finals. Victory Wembanyama led the Spurs with 28 points as San Antonio took off…

French Open heat gets to Jannik Sinner, who exits in the second round

Andrew Dampf 05/28/2026

PARIS (AP) — Formidable title favorite Jannik Sinner is out of the French Open in the second round. Sinner lost to 56th-ranked Juan Manuel Cerundolo 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1 while struggling with the heat and wasting…

Pope, in first encyclical, calls for robust regulation of AI

Kaitlyn Houman, Nicole Winfield, Paolo Santalucia 05/25/2026

Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from…

Potential Iran deal: Trump says not to rush as details emerge

Darlene Superville, Melanie Lidman, Samy Magdy 05/25/2026

The United States is close to reaching a deal with Iran that would end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and see Iran give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, regional officials told The Associated…

Wembanyama tows Spurs to Game 4 win vs Thunder

05/25/2026

SAN ANTONIO— Victor Wembanyama had 33 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three blocks and the San Antonio Spurs held Oklahoma City to its second-lowest postseason total, beating the Thunder 103-82 in Game 4 on Sunday night…

Taylor Swift at Cavs-Knicks in Cleveland with fiance Travis Kelce

Tom Withers 05/24/2026

The global music superstar sat courtside at Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals on Saturday night along with fiance and Cleveland native Travis Kelce.…

Pope Leo meets kin of youth lost to toxic waste dumping in Italy

Silvia Stellacci 05/23/2026

 Pope Leo XIV on Saturday greeted one by one families who lost loved ones to illegal toxic dumping in an area near Naples.…

Confrontational Britney Spears tested low for alcohol in DUI stop

Andrew Dalton 05/23/2026

 Britney Spears refused to get out of her BMW for about 10 minutes before her driving under the influence arrest in March. When she did, the singing superstar smelled of booze and appeared drunk in field sobriety…

A round of a-paws for ‘La Perra,’ winner of the Palm Dog award at Cannes

Louise Dixon 05/23/2026

A round of a-paws for “La Perra,” winner of this year’s Palm Dog award at the Cannes Film Festival. The Chilean movie took the top canine prize Friday, a day before the festival’s official awards ceremony. …

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