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New York sues prediction market platform Kalshi alleging 'illegal gambling operation' 07/31/2026 12:41pm • New York officials sued prediction market platform Kalshi for potentially billions of dollars on Friday, calling it an ���illegal, unlicensed gambling operation��� that includes sports wagering as the state seeks to halt its operations and force the company to forfeit its profits. New York joins a g A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV, and says 'Hi' 07/31/2026 12:41pm • ROME (AP) ��� Rock legend Patti Smith was giddy and almost at a loss for words when she met Friday with Pope Leo XIV. ���Hi,��� she said softly as she sat down across from Leo at his desk in the Apostolic Palace. Wearing a crucifix necklace and hair in her trademark braids, Smith has become an Spanish League MVP Mario Hezonja returns to NBA on 1-year contract with Cleveland Cavaliers 07/31/2026 12:40pm • CLEVELAND (AP) ��� Forward Mario Hezonja will return to the NBA for the first time in six years after signing a one-year contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Hezonja has played the last four years for Real Madrid and was the Spanish League MVP after averaging 13.3 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.4 assi Hamas says it will disarm if Israel halts strikes and withdraws from Gaza, but obstacles remain 07/31/2026 12:40pm • CAIRO (AP) ��� Hamas said Friday that it will begin disarming as part of a deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump that also requires Israel to end its strikes and withdraw from Gaza. It marks a potential breakthrough in ending the war, but implementation faces major challenges. Hamas also sa Chelsea hit with $13M fine but no suspended points deduction after agent breaches 07/31/2026 12:33pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Chelsea was fined 10 million pounds ($13.4 million) and given a suspended two-window transfer ban on Friday after appealing penalties for breaching English Football Association agent rules. The club was initially given a suspended six-point deduction along with the fine but the point Jets coach Aaron Glenn turns to analytics, science and rest to reshape training camp schedule 07/31/2026 12:32pm • FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) ��� Aaron Glenn and the New York Jets took an unusual but well-researched approach to Day 3 of training camp practice. They rested. Glenn mapped out the team's practice schedule this summer by incorporating analytics and sports science, trying to maximize the production on th Eddie Howe confirms exit as Newcastle coach weeks before Premier League season 07/31/2026 12:25pm • NEWCASTLE, England (AP) ��� Eddie Howe confirmed he's stepped down as coach of Newcastle on Friday less than a month before the start of the Premier League season. As players headed to a preseason training camp in Spain, Newcastle released a statement in which Howe announced his departure. ���After Senior FIFA executive says staff were deceived over Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan 07/31/2026 12:17pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� FIFA's chief operating officer said its staff were deceived by their president Gianni Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan, and suggested on Friday the project must not go ahead. Zurich-based executive Kevin Lamour all but invited Infantino to fire him in a statement to The Associated Pakistan's military rejects UN report alleging hundreds of civilian deaths in strikes on Afghanistan 07/31/2026 12:15pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistan���s military on Friday rejected as ���baseless��� a recent U.N. report that said Pakistani cross-border military operations killed nearly 500 civilians and wounded over 1,000 in neighboring Afghanistan between October and June. At a televised news conference, military spo Romo on leave from CBS Sports after arrest on suspicion of operating vehicle under the influence 07/31/2026 12:12pm • Tony Romo has been placed on leave from his role as the lead analyst on CBS��� NFL coverage following his arrest last week on suspicion of operating a vehicle while under the influence. CBS Sports announced Friday that the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback was on leave ���until further notice.��� JJ Republican Indiana Senate leader who defied Trump on redistricting leaving post 07/31/2026 12:10pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� The Republican leader of the Indiana Senate announced Friday that he would give up his position after six GOP incumbents who opposed President Donald Trump on his congressional redistricting push in the state lost their primaries. Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray dr Kansas City Life: Q2 Earnings Snapshot 07/31/2026 12:09pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� Kansas City Life Insurance Co. (KCLI) on Friday reported earnings of $7.8 million in its second quarter. On a per-share basis, the Kansas City, Missouri-based company said it had profit of 80 cents. The insurance company posted revenue of $125.9 mi France's forest management may need to change to prevent more wildfires in Les Landes 07/31/2026 11:25am • PARIS (AP) ��� History keeps repeating itself in the smoldering forests of southwest France, now ash-covered and charred. Devastated by previous blazes in 2022 and 1949, when 82 people died, the largest human-made woodland in Western Europe has again been ravaged by wildfires which burned an area fo Johns Hopkins researcher detained by ICE transferred to rural Louisiana 07/31/2026 11:19am • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has transferred Fatima Ameaka, a public health researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to a detention facility in Louisiana, according to a government website that tracks those detained by ICE. Agents from federal agency arrested Daily life around the world, in photos 07/31/2026 11:15am • A look at everyday moments across countries, cultures and communities worldwide. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.