El segundo año de lucha contra la invasión de Rusia no ha dado tregua ni los soldados ni a la población civil de Ucrania. Los fotógrafos de The Associated Press documentaron los 12 últimos meses de muerte y destrucción, de agonía y dolor — además de los atisbos de alegría — que marcan la vida durante una guerra. Los campos …

WASHINGTON (AP) — So many sanctions. Once again, the United States, United Kingdom and European Union are hitting Russia with a new wave of sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. This time, they come in response to the death of noted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony last week. With Friday’s latest round of sanctions …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Texas State Bobcats (11-17, 4-11 Sun Belt) at Georgia State Panthers (13-14, 7-8 Sun Belt) Atlanta; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Texas State travels to Georgia State …

SHASTA LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Two children died after falling into a rushing river near a Northern California campground Thursday morning, authorities said. Deputies responded around 9 a.m. following reports that the children were swept away near Shasta Dam, the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Rescue crews including a dive team searched the water and later recovered …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. East Tennessee State Buccaneers (14-14, 6-9 SoCon) at Samford Bulldogs (24-4, 13-2 SoCon) Birmingham, Alabama; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Samford will try to earn its 25th …

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Argentina scheduled exhibitions against El Salvador and Nigeria in the United States next month as part of Copa America preparations, replacing a China tour canceled after Lionel Messi didn’t play at Inter Miami’s preseason game in Hong Kong. Argentina will play El Salvador on March 22 at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Field and Nigeria four days later at …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched attacks Thursday on both Israel and a ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden, setting the vessel ablaze and again demonstrating their ability to launch assaults despite facing U.S.-led airstrikes targeting their forces. The rebels’ supreme leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, announced an “the escalation in sea operations” conducted by his …

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. WACO, Texas (AP) — Dre’una Edwards scored 20 points and No. 24 Baylor defeated Kansas 69-61 on Wednesday night, reaching 20 wins for the 24th-straight season.. The Bears …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Radford Highlanders (13-14, 3-9 Big South) at Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs (13-14, 8-4 Big South) Boiling Springs, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Runnin’ Bulldogs -5; …

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for April delivery rose 70 cents to $78.61 per barrel Thursday. Brent crude for April delivery rose 64 cents to $83.67 per barrel. Wholesale gasoline for March delivery rose 4 cents to $2.33 a gallon. March heating rose 4 cents to $2.75 a gallon. March natural gas fell 4 cents to $1.73 per 1,000 cubic feet. …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a dry start to winter, California’s rainy season is finally well under way. December downpours sent water racing through streets in coastal Ventura County and the city of Santa Barbara. Flash floods hit San Diego in late January, and back-to-back atmospheric river-fueled storms arrived earlier this month, causing wind damage in Northern California and hundreds …

HOBE SOUND, Fla. (AP) — The PGA Tour will have to wait for the 15-year-old son of Tiger Woods. In a pre-qualifier for the Cognizant Classic on Thursday, Charlie Woods took a 12 on one hole and shot 86. The teenager didn’t make a birdie at Lost Lake Golf Club and tied for 110th among the 112 players who turned …

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Set against the blue and yellow of Ukraine’s flag, the vast image of a masked fighter holding a grey-and-white cat towers over a street on the side of an apartment block in Kyiv. The painting depicts volunteer Oleksiy Movchan, a 49-year-old who was killed by Russian shelling in May 2022 in the eastern Donetsk region shortly …

DES MOINES, Iowa, EE.UU. (AP) — Las autoridades estadounidenses han acusado a otra compañía de limpieza de contratar ilegalmente por lo menos a dos docenas de menores para limpiar peligrosas plantas procesadoras de carne, en el ejemplo más reciente de trabajo infantil que según funcionarios se está volviendo común. El Departamento de Trabajo le pidió a un juez federal emitir …

VALENCIA, España (AP) — Un incendio que se registró el jueves en dos edificios residenciales en la ciudad de Valencia, en el este de España, dejó al menos cuatro muertos, mientras que otras 19 personas continúan desaparecidas horas después de que inició la conflagración, informaron las autoridades. Las llamas obligaron a algunos residentes a resguardarse en los balcones, de donde …