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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks, at a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump, at the Johnny Mercer Theatre Civic Center in Savannah, Georgia, U.S. September 24, 2024. Megan Varner | ReutersRepublican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia announced on Friday that she will resign her seat in the House of Representatives in early January, after a dramatic falling out with President Donald Trump over the Jeffrey Epstein files and other issues.Greene cited Trump’s recent attacks on her — which included calling her a “traitor” and a “lunatic” — in a video and statement…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of firefighters were battling a blaze on a container ship docked at a Los Angeles port on Friday night, according to officials.All of the 23 crew members were accounted for and there were no injuries from the electrical fire, which appears to have started below deck, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The ship’s cargo includes hazardous materials. By about 7 p.m., the fire had spread to several levels of the ship, according to the fire department, and later an explosion took place mid-deck. It was not immediately clear how the fire started.More than…

Nov 21, 2025, 07:24 PM ETBayern Munich winger Luis Díaz has been banned for three games by UEFA following his red card against Paris Saint-Germain earlier this month.UEFA determined that Díaz had committed “serious rough play” with his tackle on Paris Saint-Germain’s Achraf Hakimi in first-half stoppage time of Bayern’s 2-1 Champions League win at the Parc des Princes.- Díaz gets 2 goals, red card in 1st half vs. PSG- Sources: Hakimi out for 6 weeks after Díaz tackleDíaz had a particularly eventful outing in Paris, having scored both Bayern goals in the first half before he was sent off.The…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — And Rosalía said, “Let there be Lux.”Rosalía, the global Spanish pop star loved by millions for fusing flamenco with Latin hip-hop and reggaeton, has amazed her fans with a radical shift.The singer and songwriter’s new album, “Lux” (“Light” in Latin), is unabashedly spiritual. Fifteen songs, sung in 13 different languages, including fragments in Latin, Arabic and Hebrew, are laden with a yearning for the divine.And it is receiving praise from on high.Xabier Gómez García, bishop of Sant Feliu de Llobregat which includes Rosalía’s hometown of Sant Esteve Sesrovires near Barcelona, was one of the first church…

CAIRO (AP) — Ahmed al-Yamani’s family went from joy of celebrating his daughter’s wedding to terror the next day, when masked troops stormed into their home in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital held by the country’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, and arrested him.The family didn’t hear from him for months. His only crime, they suspect, was having worked for local humanitarian groups.Al-Yamani is among dozens of Yemeni workers with aid groups, United Nations agencies and nongovernmental organizations who have been detained since last year by the Houthis in the rebel-held northern part of the country. The crackdown has seen homes and offices raided,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — With his new 28-point plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump is resurfacing his argument that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy doesn’t “have the cards” to continue on the battlefield and must come to a settlement that heavily tilts in Moscow’s favor.Trump, who has demonstrated low regard for Zelenskyy dating back to his first term, said Friday he expects the Ukrainian leader to respond to his administration’s new plan to end the war by next Thursday. “We think we have a way of getting peace,” Trump told reporters in an Oval Office appearance. “He’s going…

WASHINGTON (AP) — What began as a campaign-trail promise to release the Jeffrey Epstein files has become one of the most fraught tests of President Donald Trump’s second term — opening a rift in his political coalition and raising the stakes for an administration now under intense pressure to produce documents that may fall far short of public expectations.The issue came to a head this week. After months of efforts by the Trump administration to quash it, both chambers of Congress passed a measure forcing the release of the Epstein files with near-anonymous support. Trump, who changed course days before…

Startup Figure AI is developing general-purpose humanoid robots.Figure AIFigure AI, an Nvidia-backed developer of humanoid robots, was sued by the startup’s former head of product safety who alleged that he was wrongfully terminated after warning top executives that the company’s robots “were powerful enough to fracture a human skull.”Robert Gruendel, a principal robotic safety engineer, is the plaintiff in the suit filed Friday in a federal court in the Northern District of California. Gruendel’s attorneys describe their client as a whistleblower who was fired in September, days after lodging his “most direct and documented safety complaints.”The suit lands two months…

The Dutch government’s latest decision to halt its intervention in Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, may ease tensions with Beijing but it underscores what analysts describe as an accelerating Western push to decouple from China’s semiconductor supply chain. To understand the dynamic, start with the less-than-two-months sequence of events leading up to and including the latest Dutch move. On September 29, the US Bureau of Industry and Security expanded its Entity List rules to automatically cover any firm majority‑owned by a sanctioned entity. On September 30, the Dutch government invoked the Goods Availability Act to take temporary control of Nexperia, citing “serious…

Jeff KassoufNov 21, 2025, 06:39 PM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.SAN JOSE, Calif. — NJ/NY Gotham FC head coach Juan Carlos Amorós said that “the main characters” are who will decide Saturday’s NWSL Championship against the Washington Spirit at PayPal Park.”The main characters of the game are the players,” Amorós told a news conference Friday. “As the coaches, we try to create the scenes for them to respond to…