A person familiar with the situation says Matt LaFleur has agreed to terms on a contract extension to remain the Green Bay Packers’ coach a week after their season ended with a wild-card playoff loss to the Chicago Bears. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity becasue the deal hasn’t been announced. ESPN and NFL Network first reported the deal. LaFleur had one year remaining on his contract once the Packers’ season ended. New Packers president/CEO Ed Policy had said last summer he'd prefer not to have a coach enter the final year of his contract without an extension.

Elliot Cadeau scored 17 points and No. 4 Michigan defeated Oregon 81-71 at Matthew Knight Arena. Nimari Burnett scored 15 points and Aday Mara added 12 points as Michigan (16-1, 6-1) won its second straight game following its lone loss of the season. Morez Johnson Jr. scored nine points in 17 minutes despite foul trouble and Yaxel Lendeborg added six and a game-high 10 rebounds for the Wolverines. Sean Stewart scored a career-high 22 points to go with eight rebounds for Oregon (8-10, 1-6). Kwame Evans Jr. had 18 points and seven rebounds while Takai Simpkins scored 12 for the Ducks.

A blast of winter weather has brought snowfall and subfreezing wind chills across the Midwest and East Coast as well as near-freezing temperatures in parts of the South, including Florida. The National Weather Service said Saturday that below-average temperatures were forecast for the Central and Eastern U.S. this weekend into early next week. In northeastern Ohio sudden bursts of heavy snow and gusty winds created whiteout conditions. Tallahassee, Florida, and parts of central Georgia may see some snowfall Sunday morning.

Abigail Spanberger has become Virginia's first female governor after centuries of men holding the state's top office. The Democrat was inaugurated around noon Saturday outside the state Capitol. Spanberger defeated Republican Winsome Earle-Sears to succeed Gov. Glenn Youngkin, also a Republican. It marks a new chapter as Democrats pull the levers of power in Virginia while Republican Donald Trump sits in the White House in neighboring Washington. Two other Democrats are also being sworn in. Ghazala F. Hashmi, the first Muslim woman to serve in statewide office in the U.S., is the new lieutenant governor. Jay Jones is the first Black person elected attorney general in Virginia.

The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries have formally signed a long-sought landmark free trade agreement. The deal inked on Saturday caps more than a quarter-century of torturous negotiations to strengthen commercial ties in the face of rising protectionism and trade tensions around the world. The signing ceremony in Paraguay’s humid capital of Asunción marks a major geopolitical victory for the EU in an age of American tariffs and surging Chinese exports. It expands the bloc’s foothold in a resource-rich region increasingly contested by Washington and Beijing. The agreement also sends a message that South America cultivates diverse trade and diplomatic relations even as U.S. President Donald Trump declares dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

A third round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in Syria has resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader. U.S. Central Command says Bilal Hasan al-Jasim had a direct tie to the Islamic State member responsible for last month’s ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter in the country. It was the latest strike as part of a broader U.S. operation by President Donald Trump to target “ISIS thugs” trying to regroup after the ouster of autocratic leader Bashar Assad a year ago. Trump has stressed that Syria is fighting alongside American troops as the U.S. military is expanding its cooperation with security forces as part of a coalition fighting the militant group.

President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” that was initially seen as a mechanism focused on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is taking shape with ambitions to have a far broader mandate of other global crises. It could mean potentially rivaling the United Nations in what would be a major upheaval to the post-World War II international order. In letters sent Friday to various world leaders inviting them to be “founding members” of the board, Trump says the body would “embark on a bold new approach to resolving global conflict.” Leaders from Argentina, Paraguay, Canada, Egypt and Turkey have been invitated to join the board, according to their governments.

The New York Giants have hired John Harbaugh as coach, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. Harbaugh joins the Giants 11 days after he was fired by the Baltimore Ravens. He is a Super Bowl champion who guided Baltimore to the playoffs in 12 of his 18 seasons there. He and the Ravens won it all a year after the Giants' most recent championship in the 2011 season. Harbaugh is now tasked with turning around a beleaguered franchise that has just two playoff appearances over the past decade. He gives New York a proven winner after seven coaches since Tom Coughlin failed to get past the divisional round.

Israel’s government is objecting to a White House announcement about leaders overseeing the next steps in Gaza as the ceasefire enters its challenging second phase. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Saturday the Gaza executive committee was not coordinated with Israel. It's rare criticism from Israel of its close ally in Washington. The executive committee includes a mix of international figures but no Israeli officials. One member is the foreign minister of Turkey, which has a strained relationship with Israel but good relations with Hamas. The ceasefire's second phase focuses on deployment of an international security force, disarmament of Hamas and reconstruction.

The Associated Press has learned that Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's acting president, has been on the radar of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for years and in 2022 was even labeled a “priority target,” a designation DEA reserves for suspects believed to have a “significant impact” on the drug trade. That's according to records obtained by the AP and more than a half dozen current and former U.S. law enforcement officials. U.S. President Donald Trump identified Rodríguez as America’s preferred partner to stabilize Venezuela after the U.S. military's audacious capture of her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, who now faces drug trafficking charges in the U.S.

A Minneapolis couple says federal officers rolled a tear gas canister under their SUV, flooding it with toxic fumes and leaving them and several of their six children, including an infant, in need of hospital treatment. The incident happened Wednesday during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities. Destiny Jackson says they were driving home from a basketball game when they reached a blocked street. After stopping to talk to her mother, the situation grew tense. Jackson says they tried to leave but were caught in the chaos. The Department of Homeland Security says officers were responding to crowds and did not target the family.

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Thousands of Greenlanders marched through snow and ice in the capital, Nuuk, to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed threats to take control of the island, chanting “Greenland is not for sale” and waving national flags…

As its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis intensifies, the Trump administration is leaning into messaging that borrows from phrases, images and music about national identity that have become popular among right-wing groups. The various social media posts have come from the White House and at least two federal agencies. One from the White House that says: “Which way, Greenland man” refers to a meme that riffs off the title of a notorious white supremacist book titled “Which Way Western Man?” that for years has created enthusiasm among white supremacist groups, who see his nationalist and anti-immigrant stance as validating their own. A White House spokeswoman says those on the left claim that “everything they dislike must be Nazi propaganda.”

The NFL will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by displaying “Choose Love” in the end zones and on helmet decals for all divisional round playoff games this weekend. “Choose Love” and “It Takes All of Us” will appear on opposite end zones at the Super Bowl next month. Teams will select the end zone stencils for the conference championship games. “Choose Love” was first introduced 2022 when the Bills adopted it as a unifying message for their community after a shooting in Buffalo. NFL teams have widely embraced the stencil, which was featured at the Super Bowl last year following an attack in New Orleans.

President Donald Trump’s new Gaza ceasefire plan includes a committee to manage Gaza's daily affairs. The White House announced this on Friday. The plan features an executive committee with international experts and a "Board of Peace" led by Trump. Key figures named to the executive committee include Marco Rubio, Tony Blair, and Jared Kushner. The plan aims to disarm Hamas and rebuild Gaza. It also involves an international security force. The appointments mark a significant step in the plan's second phase. The committee includes officials with strong regional ties, aiming to leverage influence over Israel and Hamas.