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FILE - THe Major League Baseball logo is seen on the field before a spring training baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Atlanta Braves Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Bradenton, Fla. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

MLB revives 'This Week in Baseball' as a digital series

12:55 PM on Wednesday, April 1

Major League Baseball is bringing back “This Week in Baseball” by giving it a digital flair

FILE - President Donald Trump gestures next to Britain's King Charles III before leaving Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)

A speech from a British monarch returns to Capitol Hill as US-UK tensions simmer

10:56 AM on Wednesday, April 1

King Charles III will deliver an address to Congress during his visit to Washington in late April

In this image made from video provided by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, Russian soldiers prepare to fire a grenade launcher towards Ukrainian positions on an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia claims full control of Ukraine’s Luhansk region but Kyiv denies it ahead of US envoy talks

10:29 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Russia’s Defense Ministry claims its forces have taken control of the entire Luhansk region in Ukraine

Editorial Roundup: United States

10:09 AM on Wednesday, April 1

University of Vermont graduate student Delaney Bullock gathers runoff samples from two agricultural fields to be analyzed for nutrient concentrations on Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Bridport, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)

Warming winters lead to more nitrate pollution in the drinking water near farms

9:03 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Pollution levels in Iowa's water have been abnormally high this winter

FILE - Pipes carrying brackish feed water run through the Carlsbad desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif., Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag, File)

What you need to know about desalination, a growing source of drinking water

9:00 AM on Wednesday, April 1

As droughts worsen and freshwater grows scarce, desalination is expanding rapidly

A Greenpeace boat approaches the humpback whale, which is still stuck off near the island of Poel, Germany, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Marcus Golejewski/dpa via AP)

Rescuers give up hope for the humpback whale stranded in the Baltic Sea

8:11 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Rescuers say they lost hope for the humpback whale that has become stranded repeatedly off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast

Ricky Brinkley, a 65-year-old Democrat, is a retired truck driver working in his daughter's beauty supply store in Nashville, N.C., March 11, 2026. Brinkley says he votes in every presidential election but not all midterms — and never hears directly from candidates for high office. Voters like Brinkley will be critical to Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper's campaign this fall. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)

North Carolina's electoral future may hinge on rural Black voters who feel ignored by Democrats

7:09 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Democrats in North Carolina are scrambling to turn out rural Black voters and say the party cannot win the state without them

A street view shows the street corner in central Baghdad's Saadoun Street where U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 1 2026. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

US and Iraqi officials say kidnapped journalist had been warned of threats

6:05 AM on Wednesday, April 1

U.S. and Iraqi officials say U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was warned of threats before she was kidnapped in Baghdad

Gas prices are displayed at a Chevron gas station, in downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Stopgap measures aren't enough to halt rising gas prices as the world scrambles for more oil

5:58 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Global leaders have been scrambling to contain the rising cost of oil and gasoline since the start of the Iran war

Joy and heartbreak as final World Cup spots are decided, in photos

5:22 AM on Wednesday, April 1

FILE - Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast and his wife Maria Pia Adriasola greet supporters at the Santiago Cathedral after attending Mass in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

Chile’s new President José Antonio Kast brings openly religious views to a changing country

4:17 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Chile’s new president is a devout Catholic in a country that has grown increasingly secular but retains conservative traits in various areas

FILE - This satellite image provided by Vantor shows the Natanz nuclear complex in Iran on March 7, 2026, with no new damage seen at the facility or the tunnels. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor via AP, file)

Securing Iran's enriched uranium by force would be risky and complex, experts say

3:56 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Should the United States decide to send in military forces to secure Iran’s uranium stockpile, experts and former U.S. government officials say it would be a complex, risky and lengthy operation, fraught with radiation and chemical dangers

FILE -From left, Peter Wittebrood-Lemke, Frank Wittebrood, Ton Jansen, Louis Rogmans, Helene Faasen and Anne-Marie Thus, the pairs who were among four couples to get married under the world's first law allowing same-sex marriages with equal rights. cut the wedding cake after exchanging vows at Amsterdam's City Hall early April 1, 2001. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Amsterdam celebrates 25 years since the world's first same-sex weddings

1:01 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Amsterdam is marking 25 years since the world's first gay marriages were celebrated in the Netherlands

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., departs following votes at the Capitol, Thursday, March 5, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

A messy California governor's race raises Democratic fears of potential loss

12:19 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Democrats have run California for years

This photo combination shows Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Vice President JD Vance, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Rubio's and Vance's differing postures on Iran war highlight their challenges ahead of 2028 election

12:10 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance are both seen as the Republican Party’s strongest potential candidates in the next presidential election, but the Iran war could prove to be a political millstone for them

President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump plans to attend Wednesday's Supreme Court hearing on his bid to limit birthright citizenship

10:13 PM on Tuesday, March 31

President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend a Supreme Court hearing in which judges will hear arguments on his executive order limiting birthright citizenship

FILE - The Department of Homeland Security logo during a news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

DHS pauses new immigrant warehouse purchases amid review of Noem-era contracts

9:53 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy new warehouses for immigrant detention as it reviews contracts signed under former secretary Kristi Noem

FILE - Steve Jobs, left, chairman of Apple Computers, John Sculley, center, president and CEO, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, unveil the new Apple IIc computer in San Francisco, Calif., April 24, 1984. (AP Photo/Sal Veder, File)

Apple's 50-year odyssey has redefined technology, pop culture and comeback stories

4:31 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago and then — no joke — pulled it off

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