Today is Friday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2026. There are 363 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Jan. 2, 2016, a heavily armed group led by brothers Ammon and ...
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — While fans trickled into the Orange Bowl stadium for a quarterfinal where tickets were going for as little as $39, the commissioner of the Big 12 sa...
PITTSBURGH — Aaron Rodgers isn't talking like someone who's on the verge of retirement.
Maybe because there's a chance he's not.
The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, who...
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Lamar Jackson says he's expecting to play when the Baltimore Ravens take on the Steelers in Pittsburgh for the AFC North title Sunday night.
“A hundre...
NEW YORK — The year 2025 was scary good for investors.
It was scary because the U.S. stock market plunged to several historic drops on worries about everything from Presi...
LOS ANGELES — Betty Boop and “Blondie” are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain.
The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characte...
Richard Smallwood, a gospel singer and recording artist nominated eight times for Grammy Awards, has died. He was 77.
Smallwood died Tuesday of complications of kidney f...
NEW YORK — From Sydney to Paris to New York City, crowds rang in the new year with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous fireworks or light shows, while others to...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that come...
ROME — Pope Leo XIV opened 2026 on Thursday with a plea for peace, singling out in particular countries “bloodied by conflict” and families wounded by violence.
Leo cele...