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Jo Eun-jin, who stayed overnight on the street, waits for the start of a rally calling for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down, near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)2025-04-03T20:11:33Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Koreas Constitutional Court is set to rule Friday on the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, either removing him from office or restoring his powers four months after the conservative leader threw the country into turmoil with an ill-fated declaration of martial law.The court was scheduled to issue its verdict in a nationally televised session to begin at 11 a.m. A ruling to uphold parliaments impeachment and remove Yoon from office requires the support of at least six of the courts eight justices.If the court orders Yoon removed, South Korea must hold a new presidential election within two months. If the court overturns his impeachment, Yoon will immediately return to presidential duties.Facing worries of potential violence after the ruling, police deployed crowd-control measures to their fullest extent. By Friday morning, they created an airtight maze of portable walls, folding fences, fiberglass barricades, and hundreds of buses and vans some of their wheels were tied together with ropes to prevent protesters from moving them to seal off nearly every road and alley leading to the court. Officers guarded the narrow gaps between vehicles and barricades, directing pedestrians through designated channels, checking IDs, and instructing them to walk only in a straight direction. Thousands of Yoon opponents rallied in nearby streets overnight, waving banners and sitting on the road with plastic cushions as they awaited the court ruling. The military said it plans to heighten its own surveillance posture. Yoons declaration of martial law on Dec. 3 lasted only six hours before he was forced to lift it after the liberal opposition-controlled legislature quickly managed to vote it down. Later in December, the assembly impeached Yoon, suspending his powers and sending his case to the Constitutional Court. Yoon is facing a separate criminal trial for alleged rebellion. Whatever Fridays verdict is, experts predict it will further deepen domestic divides. In the past four months, millions have taken to the streets to denounce or support Yoon, deepening South Koreas already severe conservative-liberal division. The most contentious issue at Yoons impeachment trial was why he sent hundreds of troops and police officers to the National Assembly, election offices and other places after declaring martial law.Yoon has said he dispatched soldiers to the assembly to maintain order and that his declaration of martial law was a desperate attempt to bring attention to the wickedness of the main liberal opposition Democratic Party. But senior military and police officials who were sent to the assembly have testified Yoon ordered them to detain rival politicians and prevent the assembly from voting to lift his order.Although the period of martial law ended without violence, the impeachment motion accuses Yoon of violating the constitution and other laws by suppressing assembly activities, attempting to detain politicians and undermining peace.Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, the countrys acting leader, has repeatedly urged the rival sides to accept whatever ruling the court makes. HYUNG-JIN KIM Hyung-jin is an Associated Press reporter in Seoul, South Korea. He reports on security, political and other general news on the Korean Peninsula. twitter mailto KIM TONG-HYUNG Kim has been covering the Koreas for the AP since 2014. He has published widely read stories on North Koreas nuclear ambitions, the dark side of South Koreas economic rise and international adoptions of Korean children. twitter mailto

Passersby walk past Sayles Hall on Brown University's campus in Providence, R.I., May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)2025-04-04T00:26:27Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants awarded to Brown University, adding to a list of Ivy League colleges that have had their federal money threatened as a result of their responses to antisemitism, a White House official said Thursday. Nearly $510 million in federal contracts and grants are on the line, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the plan and spoke on condition of anonymity. In an email Thursday to campus leaders, Brown Provost Frank Doyle said the university was aware of troubling rumors about government action on its research money. At this moment, we have no information to substantiate any of these rumors, Doyle said. Brown would be the fifth Ivy League college targeted by President Donald Trumps administration, which is using federal money to enforce its agenda at colleges. Dozens of universities including every Ivy League school except Penn and Dartmouth are facing federal investigations into antisemitism following a wave of pro-Palestinian protests last year. Columbia University was the first one targeted, losing $400 million in federal money with threats to terminate more if it didnt make the campus safer for Jewish students. The school agreed to several demands from the government last month, including an overhaul of student discipline rules and a review of the schools Middle East studies department. The government later suspended about $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender swimmer who previously competed for the school. On Monday, a federal antisemitism task force said it was reviewing almost $9 billion in federal grants and contracts at Harvard University amid an investigation into campus antisemitism. And on Tuesday, Princeton University said the administration had halted dozens of its research grants. The pressure has created a dilemma for U.S. colleges, which rely on federal research funding as a major source of revenue.Trumps administration has promised a more aggressive approach against campus antisemitism, accusing former President Joe Biden of letting schools off the hook. It has opened new investigations at colleges and detained and deported several foreign students with ties to pro-Palestinian protests. An incoming assistant professor of medicine at Brown was deported to Lebanon last month for having openly admitted to supporting a Hezbollah leader and attending his funeral, the Department of Homeland Security said. During last school years campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war, Brown stood out for a deal it struck with student activists. In exchange for the students dismantling an encampment, the university committed to having its governing board vote on whether to divest from companies that protesters said were facilitating Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.The Corporation of Brown rejected the divestment proposal.___AP Education Writer Collin Binkley contributed. Mumphrey reported from Phoenix.___The Associated Press education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find APs standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org. CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Mumphrey is a national writer who covers higher education. twitter mailto SEUNG MIN KIM Seung Min is a White House reporter. twitter mailto

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St. Louis forward Dylan Holloway left the Blues' game Thursday night against the Penguins in the first period because of a lower-body injury.

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Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman, who slipped and fell in the shower on Sunday morning, was put on the injured list for his ankle injury.

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The Reds lost 1-0 to the Brewers on Thursday to become only the second team in the live-ball era (since 1920) to lose three consecutive 1-0 games.

Lewis Hamilton said Red Bull's decision to swap Liam Lawson with Yuki Tsunoda after just two races shows the unfair pressure placed on young drivers in Formula 1 today.

A screen displays financial news as traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)2025-04-04T03:29:20Z HONG KONG (AP) Asian markets retreated Friday after Wall Street shuddered with a level of shock unseen since the COVID-19 impact tore on Trumps latest set of tariffs damage on the worlds economy.Futures for U.S. stocks and the oil prices declined.Tokyos Nikkei 225 lost 2.6% to 33,818.18, and Koreas Kospi fell 0.8% to 2,467.14 after the two countries pivoted to negotiating lower tariffs with Trumps administration.Australias S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.9% to 7,713.60. Chinese markets were closed for a holiday.Trump announced a minimum tariff of 10% on imports, with the tax rate running much higher on products from certain countries like China and those from the European Union. Its plausible the tariffs altogether, which would rival levels unseen in roughly a century, could knock down U.S. economic growth by 2 percentage points this year and raise inflation close to 5%, according to UBS. Such a hit would be so big that it makes ones rational mind regard the possibility of them sticking as low, according to Bhanu Baweja and other strategists at UBS.Trump has previously said tariffs could cause a little disturbance in the economy and markets, and on Thursday he again downplayed the impact as he left the White House to fly to Florida. The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom and the country is going to boom, Trump said.The S&P 500 sank 4.8% to 5,396.52 Thursday, more than in major markets across Asia and Europe, for its worst day since the pandemic crashed the economy in 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 4% to 40,545.93, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 6% to 16,550.61. Little was spared in financial markets as fear flared about the potentially toxic mix of weakening economic growth and higher inflation that tariffs can create. Everything from crude oil to Big Tech stocks to the value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies fell. Even gold, which hit records recently as investors sought something safer to own, pulled lower. Some of the worst hits walloped smaller U.S. companies, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks dropped 6.6% to pull more than 20% below its record. Investors knew Trump was going to announce sweeping new tariffs, and fears surrounding it had already pulled Wall Streets main measure of health, the S&P 500 index, 10% below its all-time high. But Trump still managed to surprise them with the worst case scenario for tariffs, according to Mary Ann Bartels, chief investment officer at Sanctuary Wealth. Wall Street had long assumed Trump would use tariffs merely as a tool for negotiations, rather than as a long-term policy. But Wednesdays announcement may suggest Trump sees tariffs more as helping to solve an ideological goal than as an opening bet in a poker game. Trump talked about wresting manufacturing jobs back to the United States, which could take years. If Trump follows through on his tariffs, stock prices may need to fall much more than 10% from their all-time high in order to reflect the recession that could follow, along with the hit to profits that U.S. companies could take. The S&P 500 is now down 11.8% from its record set in February. Markets may actually be underreacting, especially if these rates turn out to be final, given the potential knock-on effects to global consumption and trade, said Sean Sun, portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management, though he sees Trumps announcement as more of an opening move than an endpoint for policy.Trump offered an upbeat reaction after he was asked about the markets drop as he left the White House to fly to his Florida golf club on Thursday.I think its going very well, he said. We have an operation, like when a patient gets operated on and its a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is.One wild card is that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates in order to support the economy. Thats what it had been doing late last year before pausing in 2025. Lower interest rates help by making it easier for U.S. companies and households to borrow and spend. Yields on Treasurys tumbled in part on rising expectations for coming cuts to rates, along with general fear about the health of the U.S. economy. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.04% from 4.20% late Wednesday and from roughly 4.80% in January. Thats a huge move for the bond market.The Fed may have less freedom to move than it would like, though. While lower rates can goose the economy, they can also push up inflation. And worries are worsening about that because of tariffs, with U.S. households in particular bracing for sharp increases to their bills.The U.S. economy at the moment is still growing, of course. A report Thursday said fewer U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week. Economist had been expecting to see an uptick in joblessness, and a relatively solid job market has been the linchpin keeping the economy out of recession. A separate report said activity for U.S. transportation, finance and other businesses in the services industry grew last month. But the growth was weaker than expected, and businesses gave a mixed picture of how they see conditions.Worries about a potentially stagnating economy and high inflation knocked down all kinds of stocks, leading to drops for four out of every five that make up the S&P 500. Best Buy fell 17.8% because the electronics that it sells are made all over the world. United Airlines lost 15.6% because customers worried about the global economy may not fly as much for business or feel comfortable enough to take vacations. Target tumbled 10.9% amid worries that its customers, already squeezed by still-high inflation, may be under even more stress. In other trading early Friday, the U.S. dollar rose to 146.05 from 145.93 Japanese yen. The euro gained to $1.1068 from $1.1052.

Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson celebrates his team's victory over Tennessee in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA college basketball tournament Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)2025-04-03T21:19:35Z Follow APs full coverage of March Madness.Get the AP Top 25 mens college basketball poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. SAN ANTONIO (AP) A decade ago, Bruce Pearl of Auburn and Kelvin Sampson of Houston were emerging from exile two coaches who had been handed the harshest sanction imaginable by the NCAA and were looking to resurrect their once-successful careers. This week, theyre both coaching at the Final Four, the show-cause penalties that once stood as a scarlet letter in college sports now barely visible in their rearview mirrors. Their ascension from pariahs to the cusp of a championship Auburn plays Florida in one semifinal Saturday, while Houston faces Duke in the other look different, but no less impressive when viewed through the lens of the shifting priorities that have overtaken college sports over the last four years. The recruiting misdeeds that nearly submarined their careers seem almost quaint now in a cash-saturated world of name, image, likeness endorsement deals for players who can move around as freely as the coaches while the coaches worry as much about what the schools can pay them as the players they recruit. I can make a case that its easier if you have the funds to compete at the NIL level, Tennessee coach Rick Barnes told The Associated Press recently. If you dont, it makes it really difficult. I think thats where administrators have to realize: Are we giving coaches what they need to be at the level we want to? Coaching carousel brings questions about players, tooTheres nothing new about the college coaching carousel kicking into full swing this time of year. Whats unusual about 2025 is the nature of some of the moves. Five high-profile changes were made by coaches who won at least a game in March Madness. That was two more than last year, four more than in 2023 and two more than 2019, two years before NIL started.But while virtually all those moves were seen as steps up for the coaches taking new jobs nobody blinked when, say, Dusty May went from Florida Atlantic to Michigan or Nate Oats left Buffalo for Alabama this year seems different. In a move dripping with recriminations, bad feelings and a departing athletic director, Kevin Willard left a Power Four school at Maryland to coach a non-P4 school, albeit one with a better hoops resume, at Villanova. The next domino had Buzz Williams departing the SEC and the Texas A&M program he built to fill the opening at Maryland. One of the more traditional moves involved Will Wade, also a show-cause casualty from a now seemingly bygone era, parlaying success at McNeese to return to the big time, at North Carolina State of the ACC.Wades involvement in paying for recruits cost him his job at LSU and wrapped him in an FBI investigation that sent coaches to jail and, he said, ruined a lot of peoples lives for very little reason. That none of what he did would be considered wrong in todays world of above-the-table NIL payments to players is no excuse for him, he said. It wasnt right to do then and, you know, I paid for it, Wade told the AP after his hiring at NC State. Pearl, Sampson had recruiting tussles that would barely register todayThe stumbling blocks for both Sampson and Pearl also had to do with recruiting. Sampson made too many phone calls to a player who had already given verbal commitments to another school. Pearl invited a recruit to a barbecue at his house, then lied about it. Decades before that, Pearl was an assistant at Iowa when he recorded a call in which he asked a player, Deon Thomas, if an Illinois assistant had offered him a car as a recruiting enticement. Pearl didnt get in trouble for that one, though his reputation suffered and it took him nearly 15 years before hed get another chance in the big time.All that feels antiquated these days, when headlines about Dukes Cooper Flagg making $4.8 million or BYU star recruit AJ Dybantsa making $7 million in NIL raise eyebrows not because its against the rules, but simply because it lays out the vastly different stakes involved in college sports. A resource grab at schools that need footballPearl and Sampson are creatures of basketball at schools and conferences that need football to succeed. Neither of their athletic departments could be blamed for pushing their NIL resources heavily in the direction of the sport that produces the most revenue.Pearl remains confident that the Southeastern Conference, which placed a record 14 teams in March Madness this year, is on solid footing.Im sure in the SEC were going to be committed to being excellent in everything across the board men, women, all sports, Pearl said, while acknowledging the reality that the rulebook for this new era is still being written. Even with the Big 12s perennial success in basketball the conference has had a Final Four team in seven of the past 10 seasons Houston still has strides to make with a football program that went 4-8 last year. The question there, and many other places, is whether the Cougars have the resources to rebuild football while staying great at hoops. If one school decides to give 70% of its money to football, another school decides to give 75% to football, that 5% is a big number, UMass coach Frank Martin said of the calculations driving athletic department, coaches and players these days. We all want to be in a fair game. Itd be like asking one team to play in the NCAA Tournament with four players, instead of five.___AP Sports Writers Teresa Walker and Aaron Beard contributed. ___AP March Madness bracket: https://apnews.com/hub/ncaa-mens-bracket and coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here.

The Reds lost 1-0 to the Brewers on Thursday to become only the second team in the live-ball era (since 1920) to lose three consecutive 1-0 games.

Chattanooga became the first team from the Southern Conference to win the NIT championship after beating UC Irvine 85-84.

Aaron Judge on Thursday became the third-fastest Yankees player to reach 500 extra-base hits, trailing only Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig.

NHL leading goal scorer Leon Draisaitl left the Oilers' game against the Sharks on Thursday night with an undisclosed injury and is doubtful to return.

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President Donald Trump, center, arrives on Air Force One at Miami International Airport, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)2025-04-04T03:42:02Z WASHINGTON (AP) Top congressional Democrats on Thursday protested the reported firing of Gen. Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, with one lawmaker saying the decision makes all of us less safe.The Washington Post reported late Thursday that Haugh and his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, had been dismissed from those roles. Haugh also headed U.S. Cyber Command, which coordinates the Pentagons cybersecurity operations. The Post report cited two current U.S. officials and one former U.S. official who requested anonymity.Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement: General Haugh has served our country in uniform, with honor and distinction, for more than 30 years. At a time when the United States is facing unprecedented cyber threats ... how does firing him make Americans any safer? Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said he was deeply disturbed by the decision.I have known General Haugh to be an honest and forthright leader who followed the law and put national security first I fear those are precisely the qualities that could lead to his firing in this Administration, Himes added. The Intelligence Committee and the American people need an immediate explanation for this decision, which makes all of us less safe. Earlier Thursday, President Donald Trump said he had fired some White House National Security Council officials, a move that came a day after far-right activist Laura Loomer raised concerns directly to him about staff loyalty. Loomer during her Oval Office conversation with Trump urged the president to purge staffers she deemed insufficiently loyal to his Make America Great Again agenda, according to several people familiar with the matter. They all spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive personnel manner. Always were letting go of people, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he made his way to Miami on Thursday afternoon. People that we dont like or people that we dont think can do the job or people that may have loyalties to somebody else.The firings come as Trumps national security adviser Mike Waltz continues to fight calls for his ouster after using the publicly available encrypted Signal app to discuss planning for the sensitive March 15 military operation targeting Houthi militants in Yemen. Warner said Thursday night, It is astonishing, too, that President Trump would fire the nonpartisan, experienced leader of the National Security Agency while still failing to hold any member of his team accountable for leaking classified information on a commercial messaging app even as he apparently takes staffing direction on national security from a discredited conspiracy theorist in the Oval Office.Haugh met last month with Elon Musk, whose Department of Government Efficiency has roiled the federal government by slashing personnel and budgets at dozens of agencies. In a statement, the NSA said the meeting was intended to ensure both organizations are aligned with the new administrations priorities. Haugh had led both the NSA and Cyber Command since 2023. Both departments play leading roles in the nations cybersecurity. The NSA also supports the military and other national security agencies by collecting and analyzing a vast amount of data and information globally.Cyber Command is known as Americas first line of defense in cyberspace and also plans offensive cyberoperations for potential use against adversaries. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered the office to pause some offensive cyberoperations against Russia, in another sign of how Trumps administration is transforming the work of the nations intelligence community.__Associated Press writers Matthew Lee, Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller and David Klepper contributed to this report.

The interior of the destroyed Gordon-Hardy building after a severe weather passed through an industrial industrial park on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Jeffersontown, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)2025-04-04T05:35:30Z LAKE CITY, Ark. (AP) Parts of the Midwest and South faced the possibility of torrential rains and life-threatening flash floods Friday, while many communities were still reeling from tornadoes that destroyed whole neighborhoods and killed at least seven people.Forecasters warned of catastrophic weather on the way, with round after round of heavy rains expected in the central U.S. through Saturday. Satellite imagery showed thunderstorms lined up like freight trains to take the same tracks over communities in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, according to the national Weather Prediction Center in Maryland.The bulls-eye centered on a swath along the Mississippi River and included the more than 1.3 million people around Memphis, Tennessee.More than 90 million people were at risk of severe weather from Texas to Minnesota to Maine, according to the Oklahoma-based Storm Prediction Center. Those killed in the initial wave of storms that spawned powerful tornadoes on Wednesday and early Thursday were in Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana. They included a Tennessee man and his teen daughter whose home was destroyed, and a man whose pickup struck downed power lines in Indiana. In Missouri, Garry Moore, who was chief of the Whitewater Fire Protection District, died while likely trying to help a stranded motorist, according to Highway Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Clark Parrott. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said entire neighborhoods in the hard-hit town of Selmer were completely wiped out and said it was too early to know whether there were more deaths as searches continued. He warned people across the state to stay vigilant with more severe weather predicted. Dont let your guard down, he said during a Thursday evening news conference. Dont stop watching the weather. Dont stop preparing yourself. Have a plan.With flattened homes behind him, Dakota Woods described seeing the twister come through Selmer.I was walking down the street, Woods said Thursday. Next thing you know, I look up, the sky is getting black and blacker, and its lighting up green lights, and its making a formation of a twister or tornado. Flash flood threat looms over many states By late Thursday, extremely heavy rain was falling in parts of southeastern Missouri and western Kentucky and causing very dangerous/life threatening flash flooding in some spots, according to the National Weather Service.Heavy rains were expected to continue there and in other parts of the region in the coming days and could produce dangerous flash floods capable of sweeping away cars. The potent storm system will bring significant, life-threatening flash flooding each day, the National Weather Service said.Water rescue teams and sandbagging operations were being staged across the region, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency was ready to distribute food, water, cots and generators.Water rescues were already underway in flooded parts of Nashville, Tennessee, where the rain could persist for days after an unnerving period of tornado warnings that drained the batteries of some city sirens, the fire department said. Western Kentucky prepared for record rain and flooding in places that normally do not get inundated, Gov. Andy Beshear said. At least 25 state highways were swamped, mostly in the west, according to a statement from his office Thursday.Flash flooding is particularly worrisome in rural areas of the state where water can quickly rush off the mountains into the hollows. Less than four years ago, dozens died in flooding across eastern Kentucky.Extreme flooding across the corridor that includes Louisville, Kentucky, and Memphis, which have major cargo hubs, could also lead to shipping and supply chain delays, said Jonathan Porter, chief meteorologist at AccuWeather.Forecasters attributed the violent weather to warm temperatures, an unstable atmosphere, strong wind shear and abundant moisture streaming from the Gulf. Tornadoes leave path of damage, and more could be comingUnder darkened skies Thursday morning, the remains of a used car dealership in Selmer stood roofless and gutted, with debris scattered across the car lot and wrapped around mangled trees. Some homes were ripped to their foundations in the Tennessee town, where three tornadoes were suspected of touching down.The Tennessee Highway Patrol released video of lightning illuminating the sky as first responders scoured the ruins of a home, looking for anyone trapped.In neighboring Arkansas, a tornado near Blytheville lofted debris at least 25,000 feet (7.6 kilometers) high, according to weather service meteorologist Chelly Amin. The states emergency management office reported damage in 22 counties from tornadoes, wind, hail and flash flooding.The home where Danny Qualls spent his childhood but no longer lives was flattened by a tornado in northeast Arkansas.My husband has been extremely tearful and emotional, but he also knows that we have to do the work, Rhonda Qualls said. He was in shock last night, cried himself to sleep. Workers on bulldozers cleared rubble along the highway that crosses through Lake City, where a tornado with winds of 150 mph (241 kph) sheared roofs off homes, collapsed brick walls and tossed cars into trees.Mississippis governor said at least 60 homes were damaged. And in far western Kentucky, four people were injured while taking shelter in a vehicle under a church carport, according to the emergency management office in Ballard County.___Walker IV reported from Selmer, Tennessee, and Seewer from Toledo, Ohio. Associated Press writers Andrew DeMillo in Little Rock, Arkansas; Jonathan Mattise in Nashville, Tennessee, Seth Borenstein in Washington; Isabella OMalley in Philadelphia; Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire; Bruce Schreiner in Louisville, Kentucky; Jeff Martin in Atlanta; Hallie Golden in Seattle; and Ed White in Detroit contributed. JOHN SEEWER Seewer covers state and national news for The Associated Press and is based in Toledo, Ohio. twitter mailto

The USMNT remained at 16th in the latest FIFA rankings released Thursday, while Canada climbed to a new all-time high and Mexico moved up two spots following last month's Concacaf Nations League finals.

Angel City FC sporting director Mark Parsons said forward Alyssa Thompson has set the standard in the opening weeks of the 2025 National Women's Soccer League season.

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Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy, left, and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot address the media during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)2025-04-04T06:59:11Z BRUSSELS (AP) Britain and France on Friday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of dragging his feet in ceasefire talks to bring a halt to fighting in Ukraine and ramped up pressure on Moscow by insisting that he owes the United States an immediate answer.Russia has effectively rejected a U.S. proposal for a full and immediate 30-day halt in the fighting after a Kremlin official said on Monday that Moscow views efforts to end its three-year war with Ukraine as a drawn-out process.Our judgment is that Putin continues to obfuscate, continues to drag his feet, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told reporters at NATO headquarters, standing alongside his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot in a symbolic show of unity.Britain and France are helping to lead a multinational effort known as the coalition of the willing to set up a force to police any future peace in Ukraine. Lammy said that while Putin should be accepting a ceasefire, he continues to bombard Ukraine. Its civilian population. Its energy supplies. We see you, Vladimir Putin. We know what you are doing.Barrot said that Ukraine had accepted ceasefire terms three weeks ago, and that Russia now owes an answer to the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed frustration with Putin and Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after he promised last year to bring the war to a swift conclusion. Russia has been flip-flopping, continuing its strikes on energy infrastructure, continuing its war crimes, Barrot said. It has to be yes. It has to be no. It has to be a quick answer. He said that Russia shows no intention of halting its military campaign, noting that Putin on Monday ordered a call-up intended to draft 160,000 conscripts for a one-year tour of compulsory military service.The two foreign ministers pledged to continue helping to build up Ukraines armed forces the countrys best security guarantee since the U.S. took any prospect of NATO membership off the table. Coalition army chiefs were due to meet in Kyiv on Friday. Defense ministers from the group will meet at NATO headquarters next Thursday. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Delia Acarapi, who says her daughter died in an explosive attack, cries near the Hijos de Ingenio gold mine in Yani, Bolivia, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)2025-04-03T17:29:50Z SORATA, Bolivia (AP) A powerful explosion killed at least five people, including a pregnant woman and 1-year-old baby, during a standoff between rival groups of gold miners early Thursday in northwestern Bolivia, police said, a rare instance of territorial disputes between the nations mining cooperatives turning fatal.The blast thundered through the Yani mining camp as two rival mining groups dispute access to the gold mine near the mountain town of Sorata, some 150 kilometers (about 90 miles) northwest of the countrys administrative capital of La Paz, said Col. Gunther Agudo, a local police officer. Several gold deposits straddle the remote area. Agudo had initially reported six people killed but revised the toll to five after firefighters finished recovering the bodies from under the rubble. The dead included three men, a pregnant woman and an infant, he said. Bolivias deputy interior minister, Jhonny Aguilera, said the suspected perpetrator of the attack was killed by the explosion, which was detonated by remote control.The predawn explosion at the mine struck a three-story house and set cars and tractors alight. The fires wrecked several other structures and cut electricity. Bolivias mining industry stands out for its huge sector of cooperatives legal groups of artisanal miners which drive 58% of mining production, according to the latest government figures. The thousands of groups also wield political clout in the resource-rich country where they have representation in Parliament. Cooperatives historically emerged in Bolivia as more established mining operations dismissed legions of workers in the risky, boom-and-bust business, compelling miners to organize themselves when commodity prices slumped and lay-offs loomed. Over the decades, cooperatives have increasingly fought over the chance to extract minerals hurling rocks and dynamite sticks at each other and against unionized, salaried workers from Bolivias state-run mining company, Comibol. Comibol came to dominate the crucial industry under former President Evo Morales, a socialist leader who governed the landlocked Andean nation from 2006 to 2019 and barred foreign companies from having a controlling stake in mineral extraction.In Thursdays clash, the struggle for control of certain veins of the gold reserve between two rival cooperatives had simmered for years, said Jhony Silva, a legal adviser to one of them. Gold remains one of Bolivias main mineral exports, with almost $2.87 billion worth of the mineral shipped out of the country in 2023. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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