US blanks newcomer Hungary for 2nd straight shutout at hockey worlds, Canada routs Latvia

HERNING, Denmark (AP) — The United States routed newcomer Hungary 6-0 for its second shutout victory at the ice hockey world championship on Sunday.

Canada recorded its second win from two games by routing Latvia 7-1.

Frank Nazar had two goals and an assist, Cutter Gauthier scored twice and Conor Garland and Logan Cooley added a goal and an assist each for the Americans in the Group B game in Herning.

Nazar deflected in a shot by Logan Cooley to open the scoring with 5:53 left in the opening period and added his second 2:47 later from behind the goal line off goalie Adam Vay.

“It felt really good, obviously,” the 21-year-old Chicago Blackhawks forward said. “There’s nothing like scoring a goal and getting that feeling, especially after the NHL season’s over, continuing to score and just build that confidence and feel good out there on the ice.”

Gauthier made it 3-0 from the right circle midway through the second period.

The next two goals came within 41 seconds of each other early in the final period.

Gauthier roofed his second 1:13 into the frame and Garland netted the fifth from close range.

Cooley finished the scoring into an open net.

Goaltender Jeremy Swayman stopped 13 shots.

The U.S. had previously blanked Denmark 5-0 and will face Switzerland on Monday.

Travis Konecny had two goals and an assist, Kent Johnson scored twice and Nathan MacKinnon, Macklin Celebrini and Barrett Hayton also scored for Canada in Group A in Stockholm.

Captain Sidney Crosby recorded his first three assists of the tournament and Marc-Andre Fleury made 16 saves.

Crosby is playing at his third worlds and his first since 2015 when he captained Canada to gold.

Eduards Tralmaks surprised the 40-year-old Fleury in his debut at the worlds 7:05 into the game with a wrist shot, the first shot on goal.

Konecny and MacKinnon needed a 61-second span to turn things around.

Konecny leveled at 9:30 into the opening period, redirecting a pass from Travis Sanheim into the net. MacKinnon was in front of the goal to net off a pass from Bo Horvat.

Johnson increased the lead 7:11 into the middle period with a backhand shot and added his second after skating to the slot before wristing a shot past goalie Gustavs Grigals midway through the period.

Konecny netted a shorthanded goal with 24 seconds remaining to make it 5-1.

Celebrini scored from the left circle and Hayton finished it off with a slap shot in the final period.

Next, Canada plays France on Tuesday.

In Herning, defending champion Czech Republic had to fight hard to top Norway 2-1, while Germany defeated Kazakhstan 4-1.

In Stockholm, Finland's Juuso Parssinen scored 1:24 into overtime as Finland beat France 4-3, and Slovakia recorded its first win in Group A, a 3-1 victory over Slovenia.

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USA's forward Frank Nazar, second left, scores his side's fourth goal during the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship group B match between USA and Hungary in Herning, Denmark, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Canada celebrates the 1-1 goal by Travis Konecny, during the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship group A match between Latvia and Canada at Avicii Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday May 11, 2025. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

Canada's Kent Johnson scores his side's fourth goal during the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship group A match between Latvia and Canada at Avicii Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

USA's forward Cutter Gauthier, left, celebrates his goal with his teammates, during the IIHF 2025 World Championship preliminary round group B game between USA and Hungary, at the Jyske Bank Boxen, in Herning, Denmark, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Hungary's defender Gabor Tornyai, left, vies for the puck with USA's forward Mikey Eyssimont, during the IIHF 2025 World Championship preliminary round group B game between USA and Hungary, at the Jyske Bank Boxen, in Herning, Denmark, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Over two dozen families from one of the few remaining Palestinian Bedouin villages in the central West Bank have packed up and fled their homes in recent days, saying harassment by Jewish settlers living in unauthorized outposts nearby has grown unbearable.

The village, Ras Ein el-Auja, was originally home to some 700 people from more than 100 families that have lived there for decades.

Twenty-six families already left on Thursday, scattering across the territory in search of safer ground, say rights groups. Several other families were packing up and leaving on Sunday.

“We have been suffering greatly from the settlers. Every day, they come on foot, or on tractors, or on horseback with their sheep into our homes. They enter people’s homes daily,” said Nayef Zayed, a resident, as neighbors took down sheep pens and tin structures.

Israel's military and the local settler governing body in the area did not respond to requests for comment.

Other residents pledged to stay put for the time being. That makes them some of the last Palestinians left in the area, said Sarit Michaeli, international director at B’Tselem, an Israeli rights group helping the residents.

She said that mounting settler violence has already emptied neighboring Palestinian hamlets in the dusty corridor of land stretching from Ramallah in the West to Jericho, along the Jordanian border, in the east.

The area is part of the 60% of the West Bank that has remained under full Israeli control under interim peace accords signed in the 1990s. Since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted in October 2023, over 2,000 Palestinians — at least 44 entire communities — have been expelled by settler violence in the area, B'Tselem says.

The turning point for the village came in December, when settlers put up an outpost about 50 meters (yards) from Palestinian homes on the northwestern flank of the village, said Michaeli and Sam Stein, an activist who has been living in the village for a month.

Settlers strolled easily through the village at night. Sheep and laundry went missing. International activists had to begin escorting children to school to keep them safe.

“The settlers attack us day and night, they have displaced us, they harass us in every way” said Eyad Isaac, another resident. “They intimidate the children and women.”

Michaeli said she’s witnessed settlers walk around the village at night, going into homes to film women and children and tampering with the village’s electricity.

The residents said they call the police frequently to ask for help — but it seldom arrives. Settlement expansion has been promoted by successive Israeli governments over nearly six decades. But Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government, which has placed settler leaders in senior positions, has made it a top priority.

That growth has been accompanied by a spike in settler violence, much of it carried out by residents of unauthorized outposts. These outposts often begin with small farms or shepherding that are used to seize land, say Palestinians and anti-settlement activists. United Nations officials warn the trend is changing the map of the West Bank, entrenching Israeli presence in the area.

Some 500,000 Israelis have settled in the West Bank since Israel captured the territory, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war. Their presence is viewed by most of the international community as illegal and a major obstacle to peace. The Palestinians seek all three areas for a future state.

For now, displaced families of the village have dispersed between other villages near the city of Jericho and near Hebron further south, said residents. Some sold their sheep and are trying to move into the cities.

Others are just dismantling their structures without knowing where to go.

"Where will we go? There’s nowhere. We’re scattered,” said Zayed, the resident, “People’s situation is bad. Very bad.”

An Israeli settler herds his flock near his outpost beside the Palestinian village of Ras Ein al-Auja in the West Bank, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

A Palestinian resident of Ras Ein al-Auja village, West Bank burns trash, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian children play in the West Bank village of Ras Ein al-Auja, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village, West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village, West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)