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Mauricio Pochettino says rebuilding US team is tougher than he imagined, but he's making progress 06/24/2026 06:42pm • DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Mauricio Pochettino's office during the World Cup has a terracotta-tiled terrace with a spectacular view of an iconic Orange County beach and a vast stretch of the Pacific. Surfers are constantly bobbing at the popular break below the clifftop hotel in which the coach and Ohio lawsuit alleges new NCAA rule unfairly denies high school Class of '22 athletes a 5th season 06/24/2026 06:42pm • Less than 24 hours after the NCAA Division I Cabinet approved a monumental change in eligibility rules, a group of 15 college basketball players filed a lawsuit in an Ohio state court claiming the new age-based model unfairly shuts them out of further competition. The NCAA will now allow athletes fi A magnitude-7.1 earthquake has shaken Venezuela, including its capital, according to the USGS 06/24/2026 06:31pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A magnitude-7.1 earthquake has shaken Venezuela, including its capital, according to the USGS. Freeman's bunt drives in go-ahead run, Carrigg has 3 RBIs as Rockies rally past Red Sox 8-6 06/24/2026 06:29pm • DENVER (AP) — Tyler Freeman's sacrifice bunt in the eighth inning drove in the go-ahead run, Cole Carrigg had three RBIs and the Colorado Rockies rallied past the Boston Red Sox 8-6 on Wednesday. After pinch-hitter Mickey Moniak and Willi Castro singled off Justin Slaten (0-4) and put runners on f NATO's Trump whisperer meets the president in an effort to appease him before next month's summit 06/24/2026 06:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte laid on the flattery with President Donald Trump on Wednesday, pressing the case for a military alliance that the volatile U.S. leader has sharply criticized as the Pentagon reviews the size of the U.S. military footprint in Europe. Trump has rep Trump-endorsed de la Espriella declared winner of Colombia’s presidential runoff election 06/24/2026 06:17pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire political neophyte, will be Colombia’s next president after electoral authorities on Wednesday declared him the winner of Sunday’s runoff election. The businessman and lawyer, whose ventures include a clothin Trump refuses to sign bipartisan housing bill into law. What does that mean for homebuyers, renters? 06/24/2026 06:12pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A sprawling legislative package aimed at lowering the cost of housing and spurring more home construction won bipartisan approval from Congress this week, but it's hit a major roadblock in becoming law: President Donald Trump. The White House supported the 21st Century ROAD to H Trip.com: Q1 Earnings Snapshot 06/24/2026 06:11pm • SINGAPORE (AP) — SINGAPORE (AP) — Trip.com Group Limited (TCOM) on Wednesday reported earnings of $363 million in its first quarter. The Singapore-based company said it had profit of 53 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and stock option expense, came to 83 cents per sha Rural area in Northern California jolted by its biggest quake since 1940 06/24/2026 06:07pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A rural area of Northern California experienced its strongest earthquake since 1940 on Wednesday morning, causing some injuries but no immediate reports of major damage, officials said. The epicenter of the quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6, was about 7 miles (12 kilo Agility Robotics heads to Wall Street in a $2.5B bet on staffing warehouses with humanoids 06/24/2026 06:06pm • A maker of humanlike robots that carry totes around warehouses is aiming to go public on Wall Street in a test of whether there is a market for putting AI-powered humanoid machines to work. Agility Robotics, based in Salem, Oregon, announced Wednesday a planned merger with an investment firm that wi As storms pick up, Pepco readies for storm season and shares ways to save on summer power bills 06/24/2026 06:05pm • The summer storm season has already arrived, and in some parts of the D.C. area, it’s already led to power outages. Getting the power back, especially when strong storms can lead to widespread outages, takes trained crews who can brave difficult conditions to get the juice flowing again. As Pentagon restores mandatory flu shots for all recruits as boot camp outbreak sickens nearly 300 06/24/2026 06:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Wednesday that boot camps for all the military services are once again requiring the flu vaccination for all recruits after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the shot optional for the military at the end of April. The development, confirmed to The Associated P Records: Rural Michigan ‘overlooked’ in Michigan’s $6B subsidy spending spree 06/24/2026 06:04pm • Tom Wdowik is relieved these days by waves of vacationers visiting cabins, restaurants and hotels along Lake Huron, despite worries that high gas and food prices this year could stall tourism. The region relies heavily on travel, and Wdowik wonders if he’d have less anxiety if the state spent mor Sparks hit hard as Kelsey Plum sidelined indefinitely, out at least 10 games 06/24/2026 06:00pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Sparks guard Kelsey Plum is out indefinitely with a lower left leg injury. The team said Wednesday that she'll be reevaluated in four weeks, in which she'll miss at least the next 10 games. Plum missed three games with a right ankle sprain she sustained in practice e Lake Mead’s dive team operations quietly suspended by National Park Service 06/24/2026 05:44pm • Dive team operations at Southern Nevada’s Lake Mead National Recreation Area, consistently ranked as one of America’s most deadly federal recreation sites, have quietly been suspended because of staffing shortages and unmet equipment and training needs. The temporary suspension of the team —