UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Korea’s president has asked President Donald Trump to become “a peacemaker” and use his leadership to get North Korea to talks to reduce military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the South’s top diplomat said Friday. Trump “welcomed” the request from President Lee Jae Myung and “he expressed his willing...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam evacuated thousands of people from its central and northern provinces Sunday as Typhoon Bualoi raced toward the country faster than expected and made landfall in the early hours of Monday. The storm came ashore in northern coastal province Ha Tinh and forecasters said it would move inland before weaken...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Sunday freed a U.S. citizen from an Afghan prison, weeks after they said they had reached an agreement with U.S. envoys on a prisoner exchange as part of an effort to normalize relations. The deputy spokesperson for the Taliban Foreign Ministry, Zia Ahmad Takal, identified the man as Amir Amiri. He d...

Starbucks said Thursday it’s closing hundreds of stores in the U.S., Canada and Europe and laying off 900 nonretail employees as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround. The Seattle coffee giant said store closures would start immediately. Starbucks said affected baristas will be offered severance packages and transfers to...

DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — There is an intimate portrait of a lesbian couple, a painting of young naked men enjoying themselves by the water and one of a flamboyantly dressed, androgynously looking person at a fairground. Queer art has often been neglected and marginalized in the past but a new exhibition in Germany called “Queer M...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia on Thursday said it was banning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from entering the European Union country to underscore its defense of international law. The decision was linked to an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against the Israeli prime minister, Foreign Mi...

CAIRO (AP) — The decomposed bodies of five suspected migrants have been recovered in eastern Libya, local aid groups said. Recovery crews worked with local authorities to recover the remains which were located around 550 kilometers (341 miles) south of Tobruk, in an area called the Great Sand Sea. Libya, which shares borders with s...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Rory McIlroy understood all that the Ryder Cup means three days before he ever hit a shot. As a 21-year-old rookie in 2010, he was in the team room at Celtic Manor in Wales with the rest of the Europeans. On the phone was Seve Ballesteros, the soul of Team Europe, dying from a brain tumor. “I look around an...

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — The leader of Moldova’s pro-European ruling party is blunt about the stakes in Sunday’s tense parliamentary election: a continued path toward the European Union or a country brought back under Russia’s orbit. “The results of these elections will define the country’s future not just for the next four years,...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. captain Keegan Bradley made sure a most anticipated Ryder Cup would get off to a most explosive start Friday at Bethpage Black. Bryson DeChambeau with all his power and energy will be leading off in foursomes for the Americans. Europe counters with the equally fiery Jon Rahm, who has never lost a fours...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — All that talk about Bethpage Black being a beast — well, maybe not this week. The setup for this week’s Ryder Cup looks more like a regular tour event than a major, with the rough cut down to a manageable 2 inches, some of the tee boxes — including on the par-4 first — moved up and a drenching bout of rain...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Bryson DeChambeau, the ultimate showman, stared into the crowd to prepare it to be entertained in the Ryder Cup. Only that wasn’t the indelible image from Friday at Bethpage Black, not even close. Neither was the sight of Air Force One flying low over the 15th fairway for President Donald Trump to make his...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Everyone wanted to see the first shot. The last one told the story better. Justin Thomas needed to make a 5-foot putt on the 15th green to keep Friday’s most highly anticipated match going at the Ryder Cup. But that putt — like so many others — skimmed the edge. Thomas slumped his shoulders and headed over...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Chinese student who became a vocal advocate for Tibet while living in Europe has been detained by Chinese authorities, according to two of her close friends, as Beijing is becoming more aggressive in its efforts to silence dissenting voices not only at home but also abroad. State security officers from the centr...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump started Friday by warning that more of his enemies will face prosecution, shaking the foundations of the American justice system by treating it as a tool of political retribution. And then he jetted off to the Ryder Cup to enjoy the rest of the day as the golfer-in-chief, watching the...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Jon Rahm got partner Tyrrell Hatton out of trouble from the rough in the morning and ruled the greens in the afternoon. As Europe relies on familiar pairings and its most dependable players at the Ryder Cup, Rahm was on the leading edge of getting his team off to a strong start, leading 5 1/2-2 1/2. He made...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Capsules from the foursomes and fourballs matches Friday at the Ryder Cup, with Europe taking a 5 1/2-1 1/2 lead at Bethpage Black: The most-hyped match of the morning started off strong for the Americans. DeChambeau hit a 344-yard drive to 40 yards away to set up a birdie that gave the U.S. a 1-up lead. It...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Results from the 45th Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black: EUROPE 11 1/2, UNITED STATES 4 1/2 Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Young, United States, def. Matt Fitzpatrick and Ludvig Aberg, Europe, 4 and 2. Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood, Europe, def. Harris English and Collin Morikawa, United States, 3 and 2. Jon Ra...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A brief look at the opening round Friday of the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black (all times EDT): THE LEADER: Europe 5 1/2, United States 2 1/2. FOURSOMES: Europe went 3-1 and won the first three morning matches so soundly that none of them reached the 16th hole. FOURBALLS: The Americans had a chance for a split...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — When the U.S. needed a spark, Cameron Young delivered. The New York native, playing about an hour’s drive from where he grew up, sank five birdies in his Ryder Cup debut Friday as he and Justin Thomas beat Europe’s Rasmus Højgaard and Ludvig Åberg 6 and 5. Young ended the match with a birdie on the par 5 13...

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovans head to the polls Sunday to cast ballots in a tense parliamentary election fraught with claims of Russian interference. The vote could decide the country’s geopolitical future: a stark choice between East and West. Landlocked between Ukraine and European Union member Romania, Moldova has spent rec...

FARMINGDALE, N. Y. (AP) — Some six hours after Rory McIlroy turned to a row of hecklers standing outside the ropes and told them to “Shut the (expletive) up,” he must have loved what he witnessed at the Ryder Cup. It was hundreds of people who paid $750 or more for the hottest ticket in town streaming for the exits as he walked up...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Walking the fairway on the second hole at Bethpage Black, a U.S. fan in a flag-inspired suit and a red, white and blue chain around his neck with a cocktail in hand found a moment of clarity at the Ryder Cup. “Nobody’s got any spirit right now,” he said to anyone around who would listen. “Maybe we need to b...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Team Europe already had demolished and disheartened the Americans in another Ryder Cup romp on Saturday, and it wasn’t finished. The final match of a long, loud and obnoxious day at Bethpage Black was all square when Matt Fitzpatrick blasted out of a fairway bunker and heard European cheers when his ball sp...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — There was wine, margaritas and some kind of “strawberry lemonade vodka thing.” Tyrrell Hatton’s celebration just for making the Ryder Cup team sounds like quite a blast. Europe might have another one coming Sunday, thanks in part to Hatton’s sterling play alongside partner — and drinking buddy, during that...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Europe made a late switch to its Saturday afternoon lineup at the Ryder Cup because Viktor Hovland had neck pain, an injury he said has bothered him on and off for a couple of months. Hovland teamed with Robert MacIntyre for a 1-up victory over Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley in the morning and origina...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A capsule summary of the matches Saturday in the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black: Young, the best U.S. player on Day 1, nearly holed out after DeChambeau hit his opening drive to 70 yards. Aberg made an 11-footer to tie that hole and not until No. 3 did the Americans take a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. The Am...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Tee times for the Ryder Cup singles matches Sunday at Bethpage Black. All times EDT: 12:02 p.m. — Cameron Young, United States vs. Justin Rose, Europe. 12:13 p.m. — Justin Thomas, United States vs. Tommy Fleetwood, Europe. 12:24 p.m. — Bryson DeChambeau, United States vs. Matt Fitzpatrick, Europe. 12:35 p.m...

ALCSÚTDOBOZ, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in rural Hungary on Saturday at a country estate that has increasingly become a symbol of alleged corruption involving the country’s populist prime minister, Viktor Orbán. Hatvanpuszta, once an agricultural manor house erected in the 19th century by a member of the Habs...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — As new tensions rise between Russia and NATO powers, Moscow’s top diplomat insisted to world leaders Saturday that his nation doesn’t intend to attack Europe but will mount a “decisive response” to any aggression. At the same time, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov took a notably measured tone toward the United S...

ISTANBUL (AP) — A powerful earthquake shook northwestern Turkey Sunday, causing people to flee their homes, emergency services said. No casualties were immediately reported. The magnitude 5.4 quake was centered in the town of Simav in Kutahya province at a depth of 8 kilometers (5 miles), emergency agency AFAD said. The quake struc...

PARIS (AP) — French authorities announced the discovery Sunday of a body on a beach used as one of the launch points for migrants attempting the perilous sea crossing from northern France to the U.K on flimsy inflatable boats. The prefecture of northern France’s Pas-de-Calais region said the body of a young man, “very likely” a mig...

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Keir Starmer never had much of a political honeymoon. Now some members of his political party are considering divorce. Little more than a year after winning power in a landslide, Britain’s prime minister is fighting to keep the support of his party, and to fend off Nigel Farage, whose hard-right Reform UK...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” isn’t part of the New York Film Festival’s lineup, but its agitated sense of inheritance and keeping a fighting spirit alive are all over this year’s cinematic convergence at Lincoln Center. The New York Film Festival kicks off Friday, the same day Anderson’s antic A...

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert B. Barnett, a powerhouse Washington attorney who became a fixture in the political and publishing worlds as the literary representative for Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton and dozens of other leaders, has died at age 79. One of Barnett’s partners at Williams & Connolly, Michael F. O’Connor...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group brought Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show back to their local TV stations on Friday night, ending a dayslong TV blackout for dozens of cities across the U.S. The companies suspended the program on Sept. 17 over remarks the comedian made in the wake of conservativ...

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A portion of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s prized horror memorabilia collection was auctioned off Friday, with the highest-ticket item selling for $325,000. Del Toro, one of the industry’s most respected filmmakers and long-time horror buff, auctioned over 100 of the 5,000 items in his collection. The other two parts of the auctio...

LONDON (AP) — Prince William has told “Schitt’s Creek” star Eugene Levy that 2024 was the hardest year of his life. The royal made an appearance on Levy’s show “The Reluctant Traveler” and spoke about last year, which saw his wife Kate, the Princess of Wales, and his father King Charles III both undergoing cancer treatment. “I’d sa...

BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A 10-foot statue of rock n’ roll queen Tina Turner was unveiled Saturday in the rural Tennessee community where she grew up — before becoming a Grammy-winning singer, an electrifying stage performer, and one the world’s most recognizable and popular entertainers. The statue was revealed during a ceremony a...

BERLIN (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger took up the baton at Munich’s Oktoberfest. The former Republican governor of California spontaneously conducted a live music band and the singing crowd in a beer tent on Friday night — and clearly enjoyed himself. Afterward, the Austrian-born star of “The Terminator,” “Total Recall” and “True Lie...

NEW DELHI (AP) — A stampede at a rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu killed at least 36 people and injured 40 others, the state’s health minister said late Saturday. Ma Subramanian told The Associated Press that the victims were dead by the time they were taken to a hospital and that...

NEW YORK (AP) — ABC will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show in the wake of criticism over his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, officials with the network said Monday. “We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the de...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night television Tuesday after a nearly weeklong suspension and, in an emotional monologue where he appeared close to tears, said that he wasn’t trying to joke about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. “I have no illusions about changing anyone’s mind, but I do want to ma...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel is back on his ABC late-night show, but it’s still a mystery when — or if — viewers in cities such as Washington, Seattle and St. Louis will be able to see him again on their televisions. ABC stations owned by the Nexstar and Sinclair corporations took Kimmel off the air last week on the same day the ne...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven years after her last album and 35 years into a powerhouse career, Mariah Carey continues her reign as the queen of pop and R&B with “Here for It All.” If good things come to those who wait, fans are about to audibly feast on Carey’s evolution with this musically layered project. Carey’s 16th studio album, o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Chastain says she disagrees with Apple TV+'s decision to postpone the release of the political thriller series “The Savant” following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Chastain, who is also the show’s executive producer, took to Instagram Wednesday to says she was “not aligned on the decision to pause the r...

If Neko Case had just one word to describe her first solo album in seven years, she would settle on “formidable.” Fair enough. Writers have twisted themselves into knots trying to describe Case’s sound — “gothic Americana” is one iteration — yet it’s generally a thrill ride through shifting tones and tempos, anchored by her vivid i...

NEW YORK (AP) — Zara Larsson is no stranger to packing dance floors around the world, boasting a catalog with several songs that have earned more than a billion streams. But despite possessing all the individual pieces a superstar career requires, her jigsaw has yet to be fully completed in the way she’s hoped. “I feel like it’s be...

Olivia Dean, the rising British soul pop singer-songwriter, has returned with a confident sophomore album, “The Art of Loving.” Across 12 tracks, Dean cements her spot in a growing class of talented young U.K.-born vocalists — think Raye and Lola Young — as she embraces her role as a traditionalist and a romantic. The album lands F...

NEW YORK (AP) — Receiving an award from one of Manhattan’s oldest cultural institutions, The New York Historical, had Robert Caro thinking about childhood. “It (New York Historical) has been a very integral element of my life since I was a little boy,” Caro said Wednesday night during his brief remarks as he accepted the first-ever...

LONDON (AP) — When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. There are a lot more fictional dystopias than utopias. Ian McEwan has good news and bad news about what lies ahead in “ What We Can Know,” a book he calls “science fiction without the science.” The British author’s 19th novel, published Tuesday in the U.S. by...

LONDON (AP) — Booker Prize -winning Indian author Kiran Desai is a favorite to win the coveted fiction trophy for a second time with her first novel in two decades. “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” is on a U.S.-dominated six-book shortlist announced Tuesday by a judging panel that includes Irish writer Roddy Doyle and actor Sara...

NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty-six years after he teamed up with Keanu Reeves to play a pair of well-intentioned dimwits on the big screen, Alex Winter finds himself beside the same guy on Broadway playing another set of sweet, low-bulbed guys. The two actors have had different trajectories in the years since they kicked off the “Bill & Te...

NEW YORK (AP) — In his dreams, Raymond Chandler could conjure tales as unsettling as some of his greatest novels, as if haunted by the spirits of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe. “Nightmare,” a brief and rarely seen sketch published this week in The Strand Magazine, finds the author of “The Long Goodbye,” “Farewell, My Lovely” and other...

NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Heine, 35, is often multitasking when she watches TV shows or movies at home. “I’ll be playing on the phone, loving on my animals, maybe cleaning, picking up,” she says. So she watches with the subtitles turned on. “That way I can kind of switch back and forth, be able to listen to it or look back at the scre...

First of all, is this really what retirement looks like? The food at this dreamy manor house nestled in the English countryside is scrumptious, with a choice of wines at lunch. The apartments are huge, the antiques tasteful, the archery and life-drawing classes top-notch. And the emotional support animals are llamas. Yes, llamas. T...

There are all kinds of movies that are either endangered or practically extinct. The big-studio comedy. The original musical. But the sweet and shaggy regular-people movie — more a province of the 1970s, always one that required a little hunting down — is a particularly rare breed. “Baltimorons” is one of those little movies you mi...

There are four words in the title of the latest entry in the “Conjuring” universe, but only one sounds good. It’s the word “last.” “The Conjuring: Last Rites” seems to finally nail the coffin shut on this part of the franchise, saying goodbye to a series that revels in timeless scary stuff — swing sets that mysteriously move, creak...

If the algorithm was overseeing casting for a tender, queer romance, it’s likely that at least one combination would involve Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor. They are two of Hollywood’s most promising next generation stars, and, not insignificantly, internet boyfriends who have captured the popular imagination on and off screen. The...

James Sweeney never had a twin, though he wanted one. The filmmaker grew up a military brat, and says he dreamed of a having a twin that would serve as a kind of built-in best friend. Alas, he was twinless. Of course, not all twins remain or ever become best friends, which is one of the painful truths we encounter in “Twinless,” th...

In an early scene from “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” the blisteringly obtuse Nigel Tufnel asks his wife a question after he and his bandmates have reunited after many years: “I don’t know whether this was a good idea or not.” Fans may ask that very same question after an albeit mercifully short sequel hits theaters Friday fro...

Change comes slowly to the Downton Abbey universe and its Crawley family. Just watch Robert Crawley go flat-hunting in London. Wait, what? FLAT-HUNTING? The Earl of Grantham? Well, yes, and it’s the most amusing scene in “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” (a self-announcing title if there ever was one). Just look at proud and starch...

Early on in “Adulthood,” siblings Meg and Noah Robles suddenly — and unhappily — learn why they never got to have a dog growing up. It’s not because their parents didn’t think they could handle the responsibility or because dogs can be messy. It’s because there was a body walled up in the basement. “How could our parents act like n...

On Nov. 8, 2018, the day one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history burned the town of Paradise, California, and killed 85 people, a school bus driver was sent to pick up 22 elementary school students to take them to safety. The Camp Fire was quickly spreading, communications were down and what was supposed to be a straightforw...

American society probably puts more pressure on producing a good quarterback than anything else, which makes it all the more confounding that the Jets can never have one. OK, OK. So that’s not necessarily the takeaway from “Him,” a new horror thriller about the religious fervor that goes with football. For some of us long-suffering...

Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc is back. So are the stars of “Wicked” and the animals of “Zootopia.” Summer may be known as sequel season, but part twos, and threes, will play big roles this fall at the movies. That goes not just for the likes of Rian Johnson’s “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” “Wicked: For Good” and “Zootopia...

There is a lovely story of friendship, grief and starting over at the heart of “Eleanor the Great.” The film, directed by Scarlett Johansson in her feature debut, gets tangled in a plot contrivance that is, at best, unnecessary and at worst, loathsome. That’s the problem with the elevator pitch mentality, though. A story about a 90...

There’s something about Laura Sharp and Simon Tavistock. Close friends since college, they share jokes that no one else understands and instinctively know how to make the other feel better. “What’s the deal with you two?” a woman asks Simon after watching them interact. “We’re like BFFs,” he responds, which is true and also not com...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Allen White grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen. He doesn’t even remember a time in his life when he wasn’t aware of his music. But sing his songs? It wasn’t until White began preparing to play the rock ’n’ roll legend for “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” that he even tried. “I had never really sang...

TORONTO (AP) — Anyone will tell you it’s the audiences that make the Toronto International Film Festival. They aren’t purely industry folks, like they are in Cannes or Venice, but more boisterous, enthusiastic moviegoers with their own rituals, like growling like buccaneers at the piracy warning that plays before each screening. Th...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Since it first premiered in 1926, F.W. Murnau’s “Faust” has been lauded as one of the greatest silent films ever made. And in the century that’s followed, striking a deal with the devil has been one of cinema’s most enduring tropes. “Him,” the Jordan Peele-produced horror film reaching theaters Friday, is the lat...

In Paul Thomas Anderson ’s gloriously messy, madcap roller coaster ride through modern America, objects in the rear view may go out of sight, but they don’t disappear. Political struggles never die in “One Battle After Another,” they just repeat. Or maybe they grow older and become paranoid, pot-smoking, pajama-wearers like Bob Fer...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Selena Gomez has married music producer and songwriter Benny Blanco, announcing the news in an Instagram post showing the couple kissing and embracing on a lawn. “My wife in real life,” Blanco responded to the post Saturday by the Grammy- and Emmy-nominated performer. Gomez wore a white halter bridal dr...

NEW YORK (AP) — “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s widely acclaimed American epic of rebellion and resistance, opened with $22.4 million in ticket sales from North American theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Anderson’s ultracontemporary opus signifies a major gamble by Warner Bros. With...

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu’s launch of new building permit software last month to speed up construction approvals has not gone smoothly, with permits being issued much more slowly than they were a year ago. Since the introduction of HNL Build in early August, the city has issued fewer than 500 building permits, according to city data...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Over the last five months, Florida law enforcement officials have arrested more than 6,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a U.S. Border Patrol official announced Friday, as the state continues its aggressive approach to help carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Th...