PARIS (AP) — Just arrived at Paris Saint-Germain, Ferran Torres is already setting records.
The World Cup final hero for Spain, Torres scored a hat trick in PSG's 6-1 rout of Slovan Bratislava in the Champions League late Wednesday.
He's the first player in the club's history to score three goals in his first Champions League match.
Torres is also the first player to score during his Champions League debut with PSG since Neymar and Kylian Mbappe against Celtic on Sept. 12, 2017.
Titleholder PSG bolstered its star-studded attack by signing Torres from Barcelona on a five-year contract this summer.
The 26-year-old forward scored Spain’s winning goal during extra time of the World Cup final against Argentina in July. It was his only goal of the tournament and he said it was “scored by 47 million people,” referring to Spain’s population.
More of a roaming forward than a prolific scorer, he netted 65 goals in 207 games for Barcelona, including a career-high 21 in all competitions last season.
Torres played briefly alongside PSG forward Ousmane Dembélé when the France star was at Barça. Dembélé scored PSG's first goals of the new Champions League campaign against Slovan Bratislava and also set up a goal in each half for Torres.
Torres seems to have settled in quickly in Paris. He is only the second player in PSG history to score at least five goals in his first four matches across all competitions, after Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
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PSG's Ferran Torres celebrates after scoring his third goal during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between PSG and Slovan Bratislava in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
PSG's Ferran Torres, left, challenges with Slovan's Peter Pokorny during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between PSG and Slovan Bratislava in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court again rejected a push to use Missouri congressional maps backed by President Donald Trump on Thursday, a loss for Republicans trying to maintain control of the House in the fast-approaching midterm elections.
The decision appears to clear the way for use of the old maps.
It comes after a pitched court battle shortly before ballots begin going out for the pivotal November elections. The maps were drawn to help Republicans gain an additional U.S. House seat.
It’s the second time the high court has refused to intervene to keep the Trump-backed maps in place.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has allowed Missouri’s top court to proceed with a contempt hearing Thursday against Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in a tense and twisting legal battle over whether new congressional districts supported by President Donald Trump can be used in the November election.
Missouri’s battle over its congressional districts has spanned more than a year and spawned confusion over which districts will be in place for voters.
The state’s top court previously ordered Hoskins not to use a Trump-backed map in the general election and instead use districts passed after the last census. But U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark on Tuesday barred Hoskins from using anything other than the new map Trump supports.
The state Supreme Court then ordered Hoskins to appear for a contempt hearing Thursday for not following its orders and instructing local election authorities to use the Trump-backed districts.
State attorneys representing Hoskins had asked Clark to halt the contempt hearing. But Clark declined to do so.
The contempt hearing for Hoskins is scheduled to occur as the U.S. Supreme Court simultaneously considers a request from redistricting opponents to halt Clark's order favoring the Trump-backed congressional map.
Missouri was the second Republican-led state, after Texas, to enact new districts after Trump urged Republicans last year to redraw House districts to their advantage ahead of the midterm elections.
The revised Missouri districts target a Kansas City-based seat held by Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver by shedding parts into neighboring districts and stretching the remainder into rural Republican areas. The goal is to help Republicans win seven of the state’s eight House seats in the midterm elections — a gain of one seat.
Redistricting opponents collected hundreds of thousands of petition signatures seeking to force a statewide vote on the new districts. They submitted the signatures in December. But Hoskins waited until August — on the same day as Missouri’s primary — to reject the petition. Hoskins asserted that a referendum petition could not be used for congressional redistricting.
The delay allowed Missouri to use the new districts in its August primary. Republican state officials have argued it would violate voters' federal rights to switch districts before the general election.
But the Missouri Supreme Court last week ordered Hoskins to put the redistricting referendum on the November ballot, which he did. It also ruled that the new districts never became law and instead were suspended retroactively to the December petition submission.
The court barred Hoskins from using the new map and said the old map — passed by Republican lawmakers in 2022 after the last census — must be used in the November election. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal of that decision. But Clark issued his conflicting order moments later.
FILE - Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins talks to reporters Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, at his office in the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, File)
In this photo taken with a smartphone, people opposed to a congressional redistricting plan rally outside the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)
