TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian man who died in 2019 has been identified as the perpetrator of three cold case homicides in Toronto, and investigators believe there could be more victims.Toronto police said Thursday recent forensic testing and genetic genealogy has conclusively identified Kenneth Smith, 72, of Windsor, Ontario, as the pe...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The rival leaders of divided Cyprus on Thursday agreed on multiple projects to boost mutual trust in hopes of getting back on track long-stalled formal talks to resolve the island’s 51-year-old ethnic cleave.Nikos Christodoulides, the island’s Greek Cypriot president, and Tufan Erhurman, the leader of the bre...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian officer working in military intelligence has been arrested and charged with passing classified information to a foreign entity, the Canadian Armed Forces said in a statement on Thursday. The statement said Matthew Robar, a member of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command with the rank of master w...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s governing Liberals were one seat short of a simple majority in Parliament after a Conservative lawmaker defected and joined Prime Minister Mark Carney’s party Thursday.Michael Ma was the second Canadian Conservative opposition lawmaker to join the Liberals in just over a month. Ma, who represents Markham–Uni...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media platforms.California-based Reddit Inc.’s suit filed in the High Court follows a case filed last month by...

TOKYO (AP) — A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after a stronger quake in the same region.Friday’s quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori prefecture, in the north of Honshu, the main Japanese island, at a depth of 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) at...

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as gritty Hollywood films.On Friday night, Naples’ Teatro San Carlo will stage Ennio Morricone’s only opera, “Partenope,” three full decades after its compo...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — World shares rose on Friday, tracking Wall Street’s climb to records despite a sell-off for Oracle as worries persisted about a potential bubble in artificial-intelligence technology.The future for the S&P 500 slipped less than 0.1%, while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.3%In early Eu...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s newly appointed armed forces chief called on Afghanistan’s Taliban government on Monday to choose between maintaining ties with Islamabad or supporting the Pakistani Taliban, the militant group blamed for a surge in deadly attacks in recent years.Gen. Asim Munir made his remarks at his headquarters in th...

CUTTACK, India (AP) — South Africa was all out for its lowest-ever total in Twenty20 cricket, scoring only 74 as India won the series opener by 101 runs on Tuesday.Hardik Pandya smashed an unbeaten 59 off 28 balls and India scored 175-6 after losing the toss. South Africa never got its chase off the ground and collapsed from 45-3 t...

Most of Bhavani Thekkada’s competitors grew up on skis. She grew up on a coffee farm — in southern India.So as a cross-country skier, she’s a little behind.Thekkada has been hitting European tracks in recent weeks trying to keep her Olympic dream alive. She’s a longshot to qualify for the Milan Cortina Winter Games, but she’s reach...

NEW CHANDIGARH, India (AP) — Opener Quinton de Kock was run out for 90 and South Africa’s batters restored some pride in a 51-run win against India in the second T20 on Thursday.South Africa scored 213-4 after losing the toss at New Chandigarh before dismissing India for 162 in 19.1 overs to tie the five-match series at 1-1.Medium...

BANGKOK (AP) — Higher tariffs have dealt a “severe blow” to the world economy, China’s premier said Tuesday, even as China’s own trade surplus has surged past $1 trillion. Premier Li Qiang made the remarks at a forum of top international organizations held in Beijing while top Chinese leaders are attending an annual economic planni...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Former Nepali ministers, officials and a Chinese company were charged with corruption over financial irregularities during the construction of an international airport.The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority filed on Sunday cases against 55 people and the China CAMC Engineering Company Limited...

Rejoice, New Year’s dieters: Oreos are getting a sugar-free option.Mondelez said Tuesday that Oreo Zero Sugar and Oreo Double Stuf Zero Sugar will go on sale in the U.S. in January. They’re a permanent addition to the company’s Oreo lineup.It’s the first time Mondelez has sold sugar-free Oreos in the U.S. They’re already sold in Eu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration may have softened its language on China to maintain a fragile truce in their trade war, but Congress is charging ahead with more restrictions in a defense authorization bill that would deny Beijing investments in highly sensitive sectors and reduce U.S. reliance on Chinese biotechnology co...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at blocking states from crafting their own regulations for artificial intelligence, saying the burgeoning industry is at risk of being stifled by a patchwork of onerous rules while in a battle with Chinese competitors for supremacy. Members of Congress from both partie...

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Days of torrential rain in Washington state has caused historic floods that have stranded families on rooftops, washed over bridges and ripped at least two homes from their foundations, and experts warned that even more flooding expected Friday could be catastrophic.Washington is under a state of emergenc...

KENNER, La. (AP) — Vilma Cruz, a mother of two, had just arrived at her newly leased Louisiana home this week when federal agents surrounded her vehicle in the driveway. She had just enough time to call her oldest son before they smashed the passenger window and detained her.The 38-year-old Honduran house painter was swept up in an...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was due to check-in with immigration authorities on Friday, some 14 hours after he was released from detention on a judge’s orders.Abrego Garcia became a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown earlier this year when he was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Sal...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — More than 400 civilians have been killed since the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group escalated its offensive in the South Kivu province in eastern Congo, regional officials said, adding that Rwandan special forces were in the strategic city of Uvira.“More than 413 civilians (have been) killed by bullets, grenades and...

PAPIRI, Nigeria (AP) — The children at St. Mary Catholic School in Nigeria’s Papiri community were jolted from their sleep with a loud crash at the school gate. Half asleep and confused, they dashed out of their dorms, some landing in the hands of gunmen.Onyeka Chieme, an elementary school student, waited with bated breath as the l...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — In a maternity ward in eastern Congo, Irene Nabudeba rested her hands on her bulging midsection, worried about giving birth in a city under rebel control.The conflict that flared this year has left many medical supplies stranded beyond the front line. Infrastructure like running water has collapsed, along with th...

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, Uganda (AP) — The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go — except up in the trees.Onesmas Ainebyona stalks the chimps with such spirtual determination that he’s been able to win the trust of a chimp leader named Jean, who came down a tree one recen...

CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese military aircraft crashed while attempting to land in the east of the country and killed all the crew members on board in the latest plane crash in the war-torn African nation, military officials said.The Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane experienced technical failure while attempting to land Tuesday in the Osman D...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring kingdoms.Last week, archaeologists finished excavating the most complete part ever discovered of the foundations of the walls,...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — María Corina Machado has long been the face of resistance to Venezuela’s 26-year ruling party. Now, she is also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who prompted millions of Venezuelans to reject President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s election, appeared in public for the...

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — At a dance hall in the heart of Buenos Aires, 14 men in elegant dark suits sat at separate tables while across the room, 14 women in dresses and high heels waited to be asked for a dance.As the first notes of a popular tango began to hum, the male dancers signaled to the women and crossed the dance floor in sear...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — There’s a saying in Mexico: “Not all Mexicans are Catholic, but all are Guadalupan.”The phrase conveys the deep connection between Our Lady of Guadalupe and the country’s identity. In the nation of 130 million people — the majority of whom identify as Catholic — this apparition of the Virgin Mary carries a symbol...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — For over 30 years, Javier Gámez and María Barahona worked, scrimped and studied to push their family ahead. Gámez filled bags with sand from the Choluteca River winding through the Honduran capital and shined shoes in a downtown park; Barahona sold bananas and oranges from a basket.They continued their...

HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — In a tiny room in the center of Herat, Afghanistan’s westernmost city, Shahabuddin uses his hands to propel himself along the floor to a freshly-made pile of socks waiting to be sorted and packaged.A double amputee since a roadside bomb took both his legs a decade ago, when Afghanistan was mired in conflic...

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer on a Korean resort island when he got an urgent call: Don’t return to China, a friend warned. You’re now a fugitive.Days later, a stranger snapped a photo of Li in a cafe. Terrified South Korea would send him back, Li fled, flew to the U.S. on...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s government resigned on Thursday after mass protests gripped the country and just weeks before the European Union nation is due to join the eurozone.The resignation of the minority coalition, led by the center-right GERB party, was announced minutes before parliament was scheduled to vote on a no-co...

NEW YORK (AP) — Onetime cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison after a $40 billion crash revealed his crypto ecosystem to be a fraud. Victims said the 34-year-old financial technology whiz weaponized their trust to convince them that the investment — secretly propped up by cash infusions — was saf...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Congress approved Wednesday most of the tariff increases proposed by the government on more than 1,400 products imported from China and other countries that do not have free trade agreements with Mexico.The Senate passed the measure Wednesday evening, following the lower chamber, which had approved the i...

RANDOLPH, Minn. (AP) — When Donald Trump promised new tariffs while running for president, Gene Stehly worried that trade disputes would jeopardize his international sales of corn, soybeans and wheat.A little more than a year later, Stehly said his fears have become a reality, and Trump’s latest promise of federal assistance is ins...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street set records on Thursday, even as a sell-off for Oracle and worries about a potential bubble in artificial-intelligence technology weighed on the market.The S&P 500 inched up 0.2% and eked past its prior all-time closing high, which was set in October. The Dow Jones Industrial leaped 646 points, or 1.3%,...

KYIV, UKraine (AP) — The European Union’s enlargement chief said Wednesday she is confident Hungary will not derail Ukraine’s path to membership, which she described as “inevitable.”“I’m not worried,” Commissioner Marta Kos told reporters while visiting a thermal power plant in Western Ukraine that was badly damaged by Russia’s cam...

The European Union on Thursday handed Ukraine a long list of reforms needed to join the bloc, determined to push the process forward despite the ongoing war and objections from EU member Hungary.Top EU officials and diplomats meeting in Lviv, in western Ukraine, said a list of demands covering roughly half of the required reforms w...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Gunmen killed three members of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan near the Pakistan border, state media reported.The Guard members were ambushed while patrolling near the city of Lar in a mountainous area about 1,125 kilometers (700 miles) southeast of the capital T...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Bulgarian court on Wednesday rejected Lebanon’s request to extradite the owner of a ship linked to a cargo of ammonium nitrate at the center of the massive 2020 port explosion in Beirut.Igor Grechushkin, 48, who holds Russian and Cypriot citizenship, was arrested in Sofia in September on an Interpol red not...

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — A separatist group has seized control of an oil-rich region in southern Yemen, shattering a relative calm in the country’s stalemated civil war — a significant move in a country located along a key international trade route that also threatens to bring new risks to the Persian Gulf region.The secessionist Souther...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — The woman, a member of Syria ‘s Alawite religious minority, was walking home on a sunny July day in her town on the Mediterranean coast when three gunmen stopped her and pulled her into their van. It was the start of a week of torment.They drove her to a town in northern Syria three hours away, where they lock...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Rain fell for the first time in months in Iran’s capital Wednesday, providing a brief respite for the parched Islamic Republic as it suffers through the driest autumn in over a half century. The drought gripping Iran has seen its president warn the country it may need to move its government out of Tehran by the...

CAIRO (AP) — The head of Yemen’s internationally recognized government called on separatists on Thursday to withdraw from territories they they have recently captured in the southeastern parts of the country, according to the government-run news agency. The secessionist Southern Transitional Council, STC, a group backed by the Unit...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan issued a megaquake advisory Tuesday after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan’s main island of Honshu, and just south of the northern island of Hokkaido. Damage from this quake was modest — 34 mostly mild injuries and some damage to roads and bui...

ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country.“Undoubtedly, Russia insists for us to give up territories. We, clearly, don’t want to give u...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Almost four years into Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, European Union leaders have committed to funding Kyiv’s economic and military needs for the next two years, one way or another. Ukraine is desperate and needs the money by early 2026.At a summit next week, the 27 EU leaders will weigh whether to use tens of...

LONDON (AP) — Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom-com “Confessions of a Shopaholic” sparked a millions-selling series, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer.The family said in a statement on Kinsella’s Instagram account that “she died peacefully, with her final days filled w...

China will soon start collecting a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products for the first time in over three decades, a move aligned with Beijing’s effort to get families to have more children after decades of limiting most to one child. “Contraceptive drugs and products” will not be tax-exempt as of Jan. 1, according to...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Parliament was dissolved Friday for new elections early next year as the country engaged in deadly fighting with Cambodia.Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved the House of Representatives after getting approval from King Maha Vajiralongkorn, whose endorsement became effective Friday with its public...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rains drenched Gaza’s tent camps and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them Thursday as winter storm Byron descended on the war-battered territory, showing how two months of a ceasefire have failed to sufficiently address the spiraling humanitarian crisis there.Families foun...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are trying to live and work under the same U.S. financial and travel restrictions brought against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Osama bin Laden. Nine staff members, including six judges and the ICC’s chief prosecutor, have been sanctione...

MIAMI (AP) — The oil tanker was navigating near the coast of Guyana recently when its location transponder showed it starting to zigzag. It was a seemingly improbable maneuver and the latest digital clue that the ship, the Skipper, was trying to obscure its whereabouts and the valuable cargo stored inside its hull: tens of millions...

CARACAS (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado indicated that she plans to return to Venezuela regardless of whether President Nicolás Maduro is overthrown or not, and noted that her government is at its weakest point due to the “decisive” measures of US President Donald Trump.Machado's statements to journalists c...

NEW YORK (AP) — The new Met Gala co-chairs have been announced, and it's a high-profile quartet: Beyoncé, Venus Williams and Nicole Kidman will join Vogue's Anna Wintour to host the star-studded event next May. Williams, who has never hosted before, takes on the role seven years after her younger sister and fellow tennis champion,...

QUITO (AP) — Ecuador and the American company Chevron celebrated on Tuesday a ruling by a European court that ordered the South American country to pay $220 million in a judicial dispute that has been going on for more than 30 years.“Chevron is pleased with the resolution of this matter,” said that company in a statement sent to Th...

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — One baby Jesus lays in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled “ICE.”In another Chicago suburb, not far from a...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV insisted Tuesday that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal and criticized what he said was the Trump administration’s effort to “break apart” the long-standing U.S.-European alliance.Leo spoke to reporters after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is on another tour to ral...

ATLANTA (AP) — After Atlanta pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell stopped dwelling on growing his congregation about three years ago, its attendance surged. Now, lines packed with young adults snake outside 2819 Church, some arriving as early as 5:30 a.m. to secure a spot for Sunday worship.Christian rap and contemporary music blast like...

Some of the most recognizable artwork depicting the American West is heading to auction at Christie’s, where dozens of pieces from billionaire Bill Koch’s collection are expected to fetch at least $50 million.The in-person “Visions of the West” sale will take place in New York over two sessions beginning Jan. 20, with the final lot...

LYNGBY, Denmark (AP) — It was a wedding that captivated the world — in 1981, Lady Diana Spencer said “I will” to Prince Charles, becoming Princess of Wales and bringing youth and glamour to Britain’s royal family.More than 40 years after the wedding and many years after the marriage fell apart, royal fans had the chance to buy a ra...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Microsoft on Tuesday announced its biggest-ever Asia investment, amounting to $17.5 billion, in India over the next four years to advance the country’s cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure.CEO Satya Nadella revealed this in an X post after meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.Na...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. suicide rate dropped slightly last year from some of the highest levels ever reported, preliminary data suggests. Experts say it’s hard to know exactly why, or whether the decline will continue.A little over 48,800 suicide deaths were reported in 2024, according to provisional data from the Centers for Dise...

Federal health officials on Wednesday expanded an outbreak of infant botulism tied to recalled ByHeart baby formula to include all illnesses reported since the company began production in March 2022.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said investigators “cannot rule out the possibility that contamination might have affected all B...

Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.Between Friday and Tuesday, South Carolina health officials confirmed 27 new measles cases in an outbreak in and around northwestern Spartanburg County. In two months, 111 people have been sickened by the vaccine-prev...

AMBLER, Alaska (AP) — Ice blocks drift past Tristen Pattee’s boat as he scans the banks of Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk River for caribou. His great uncle Ernest steadies a rifle on his lap. It’s the last day of September, and by every measure of history and memory, thousands should have crossed by now. But the tundra is empty, save fo...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Regulators voted Thursday to extend a shutdown preventing New England fishermen from catching shrimp, a historic industry that has recently fallen victim to warming oceans.New England fishermen, especially those from Maine, used to catch millions of pounds of small pink shrimp in the winter, but the business...

Warm water and air and unusual weather conditions tracing back as far as tropical cyclone flooding in Indonesia helped supercharge stubborn atmospheric rivers that have drenched Washington state with almost 5 trillion gallons (19 trillion liters) of rain in the past seven days, threatening record flood levels, meteorologists said.T...

The Nordic countries are no strangers to the long, dark winter.Despite little to no daylight — plus months of frigid temperatures — people who live in northern Europe and above the Arctic Circle have learned how to cope mentally and physically with the annual onset of the winter blues, which can begin as early as October and last i...

It’s normal for parents, or anyone, to have questions about vaccinations -- but what happens if your pediatrician urges a shot that’s under attack by the Trump administration?That’s getting more likely: The nation’s leading doctors groups are in an unprecedented standoff with federal health officials who have attacked long-used, li...

DETROIT (AP) — Colin Farrell’s had it done — many times. So have Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox. Heck, even Bart Simpson did.Whether it’s Marilyn Monroe’s face, Billy Bob Thornton’s name, a sultry rose or even Bart’s partially inscribed homage to his mother, some tattoos simply have to go for one reason or many others.But the process...

NEW YORK (AP) — The year the radio station company where he worked held its holiday party at a dive bar, Ryan Arnold walked in and saw coworkers passing around a tall glass boot filled with beer. He heard the office manager belting out ‘80s power ballads between whiskey shots. Arnold’s first thought was, “When can I leave?”More tha...

PETZAEL, West Bank (AP) — A bask of crocodiles brought to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank decades ago is meeting its end, as authorities euthanize the aging reptiles after years of their repeated escapes from a long-neglected farm.Israeli authorities said Monday that government veterinarians had culled the crocodiles because...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits jumped last week, but remain in the same historically healthy range of the past few years despite growing concern over the health of the labor market.U.S. jobless claim applications for the week ending Dec. 6 climbed by 44,000 to 236,000 from the previous...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sweeping taxes on imports have cost the average American household nearly $1,200 since Donald Trump returned to the White House this year, according to calculations by Democrats on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee.Using Treasury Department numbers on revenue from tariffs and Goldman Sachs estimates of who ends u...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son’s “paranoid delusions” and helped direct them at his mother before he killed her.Police said Stein-Erik Soelbe...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tramell Tillman didn’t dream of being an actor when he was growing up. He yearned to be a storm chaser.“I wanted to follow tornadoes. I wanted to study hurricanes. I wanted to see volcanoes up close. I wanted to experience an earthquake,” he says.There was something about the power of nature that was breathtaking to...

If you’d rather stay in than brave the elements or deal with holiday crowds, it’s a great time to catch up on the year’s standout television shows. A number of titles got people watching and also talking.In no particular order, here are 10 shows that broke out in 2025.“Dept. Q”When it comes to his TV credits, Matthew Goode has a hi...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Hollywood director was convicted Thursday on charges that he scammed Netflix out of $11 million for a show that never materialized, while he instead used the cash for lavish purchases that included several Rolls-Royces, a Ferrari and about $1 million in mattresses and luxury bedding. Carl Erik Rinsch, best known f...

▶ Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Sherrone Moore’s rise was stirring, a rugged lineman at Oklahoma who climbed the ranks to lead Michigan, the winningest program in college football, and a rare Black head coac...

Soccer fans have accused FIFA of a “monumental betrayal” after latest prices for World Cup tickets began to circulate on Thursday. The governing body allocates 8% of tickets to national associations for games involving their team to sell to the most loyal fans.And a list published by the German soccer federation revealed prices ran...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan and NASCAR chairman Jim France stood side-by-side on the steps of a federal courthouse as if they were old friends following a stunning settlement Thursday of a bruising antitrust case in which the Basketball Hall of Famer was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit accusing the top racing series in th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy and immigration have fallen substantially since March, according to a new AP-NORC poll, the latest indication that two signature issues that got him elected barely a year ago could be turning into liabilities as his party begins to gear up for the 2026 midterms.Only...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. As Republicans and Democrats have failed to find compromise, senators voted on two partisan bills instead that they...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican-led Senate decisively rejected a redrawn congressional map Thursday that would have favored their party, defying months of pressure from President Donald Trump and delivering a stark setback to the White House ahead of next year’s midterm elections. The vote was overwhelmingly against the pr...

The Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion by ordering national parks to purge their gift shops of items it deems objectionable.The Interior Department said in a memo last month that gift shops, bookstores and concession stands have until Dec. 19 to empty their shelves of retail items tha...

PHILIPSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was freed from immigration detention on a judge’s order Thursday while he fights to stay in the U.S., handing a major victory to the immigrant whose wrongful deportation to a notorious prison in El Salvador made him a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. U.S. D...

SURIN, Thailand (AP) — Cambodia said Thailand launched more airstrikes Thursday, as heavy fighting flared along the two countries’ border and both sides accused the other of violating their sovereignty along the contested border region.The latest large-scale fighting was set off by a skirmish Sunday that wounded two Thai soldiers a...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Thursday that “decisive” actions by the United States, including the seizure of an oil tanker, have left the repressive government of President Nicolás Maduro at its weakest point, and she vowed to return to the country to keep fighting for democracy.M...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that negotiators are wrestling with the question of territorial possession in U.S.-led peace talks on ending the war with Russia, including the future of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region and the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, one of the w...

India plans to continue buying cheap crude oil from Russia, despite sanctions imposed on major Russian oil companies by the United States and Europe.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Russia-India annual bilateral summit in New Delhi last week, during which Putin said: “Russia is r...

Australia has banned children under 16 from social media in a world-first, as other countries consider similar age-based measures amid rising concerns over social media’s effects on children’s health and safety.Under the new law, which came into effect at midnight local time on Wednesday (13:00 GMT on Tuesday), 10 of the biggest pl...

South Korea and Japan separately scrambled fighter jets after Russian and Chinese military aircraft conducted a joint air patrol near both countries.Seven Russian and two Chinese aircraft entered South Korea’s Air Defence Identification Zone (KADIZ) at approximately 10am local time (01:00 GMT) on Tuesday, according to the office of...

Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has continued for a third day, with cross-border shelling and air raids forcing more than half a million civilians to flee their homes and seek shelter, according to authorities.Officials from the two Southeast Asian neighbours on Wednesday also accused each other of restarting the conflict th...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that China is moving to “intensify cooperation” with Russia, particularly in the military-industrial sphere, amid deepening ties between the strategic partners since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbour.In comments on social media on Wednesday, Zelenskyy said a re...

Renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has entered its fourth day, as deaths rise on both sides, with both countries accusing one another of violating international law as they await a promised phone call from United States President Donald Trump.Three Thai civilians were killed as heavy combat continued along the country’s...

At least 33 people, including patients, have been killed, and about 70 wounded after an air strike by the country’s military government hit a major hospital in western Myanmar, according to a rebel group, aid workers and a witness.Myanmar has been gripped by attritional fighting in a raging civil war.Recommended Stories list of 4 i...

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has announced that he is “returning power to the people”, moving to dissolve parliament and opening the door to elections earlier than previously planned.Anutin submitted a request for the dissolution of parliament to the king, local media reported on Thursday.Recommended Stories list o...

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un praised the deployment of his troops in support of Russia’s war against Ukraine and promised to root out “evil practices” among some officials, state media reports.In remarks concluding a key meeting of his ruling party on Thursday, Kim condemned “the wrong ideological viewpoint and inactive and irresponsi...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has lifted a tsunami advisory for northern Japan’s Pacific coast that had been issued after an earthquake shook the region, national broadcaster NHK reported, days after a larger tremor injured at least 50 people.The magnitude 6.7 quake struck on Friday off the coast of Aomori Prefecture at 11:...

Fighting between Cambodia and Thailand has entered its fifth day, with Cambodia accusing the Thai military of continued shelling and Thailand’s caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul confirming that he is scheduled to speak with United States President Donald Trump.Thai forces allegedly carried out new attacks in three Cambod...

Hong Kong’s High Court is set to hand down a verdict in the case of pro-democracy campaigner and media mogul Jimmy Lai next week, bringing an end to his lengthy national security trial.Lai’s verdict will be delivered by a three-judge panel in a hearing that begins at 10am local time (02:00 GMT) on Monday, according to a court diary...

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Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born English playwright who entwined erudition with imagination, verbal pyrotechnics with arch cleverness, and philosophical probing with heartache and lust in stage works that won accolades and awards on both sides of the Atlantic, earning critical comparisons to Shakespeare and Shaw, has died at his home i...

On a sticky August day in London 23 years ago, I walked into the Royal National Theater with glazed eyes, a heavy tread and what felt like an unconquerable weariness. I was fresh — or rather stale — off a plane from New York, and before me lay nine-plus hours of people with unpronounceable names talking about Russian history.A pict...

When the writer Larry Mitchell showed his friend Ned Asta his latest manuscript in 1976, it didn’t take long for her to question Mitchell’s hopes for publishing it as a children’s book. The two had been living blissfully in a queer commune near Ithaca, N.Y., for some years, but outside reality was still something to consider. As Mi...

“Merrily We Roll Along” is an OK movie of a good production of a great musical: on balance, another worthy addition to the Stephen Sondheim canon, which can always stand to be expanded.The history of “Merrily” is perhaps better-known than the play itself. When it opened on Broadway in 1981, the show about a gifted composer who sell...

Intimidating and charming, and often both at once, Tom Stoppard, whose death was announced on Saturday, was a treasured collaborator to the hundreds of actors, directors and producers who worked on his plays. Here, 13 of them (plus Mick Jagger) try to find words for the man who always had the right ones.Glenn CloseThe actress won h...

Hamas handed over the last body of a hostage from Thailand taken during the militant group’s 2023 attack on Israel, Thai and Israeli officials said on Thursday.The Thai hostage, Sudthisak Rinthalak, was a farmworker at an orchard when he was taken away to Gaza and killed on Oct. 7, 2023, the Israeli Defense Forces said on social me...

Two companies racing to develop electric aircraft are teaming up.Eve Air Mobility, which was founded by the Brazilian airplane manufacturer Embraer, said on Tuesday that it planned to outfit its battery-powered planes under development with electric pusher motors made by Beta Technologies, a Vermont start-up. The motors drive a pro...

I have spent the last week telling clients that their asylum cases are indefinitely on hold.All of them have suffered persecution or fear persecution in their home countries. None has a criminal record, here or elsewhere. I have seen the photos of their torture scars, their burns. I have witnessed the impact on their mental health...

My partner and I have been in a monogamous same-sex relationship for 12 years. Since my partner went sober about nine years ago, his libido has gone way down. We have tried many things to meet in the middle, including counseling, scheduling intimacy and role play. These things work briefly, and then we resume a “normal” in which I...

The first ad Kerry Johnson noticed when she turned 50 this year wasn’t for birthday freebies, store discounts or last-minute getaways. It was for a medical alert device.“I’m getting my Life Alert phone calls, and our generation — we’re not that old,” said Ms. Johnson, a senior vice president at a communications firm who splits her...

A couple of years ago, my husband and I made a bold leap and moved our family from the city where we were both born and raised to another city hundreds of miles away. The catalyst was a job that promised a better life for us and our kids and a needed reset from longstanding, exhausting family dynamics. Our parents and siblings stil...

My family and I live in a wonderful, comfortable house in a lovely neighborhood. Our young children are approaching kindergarten age, and we’ve taken a tour of the school that we’re zoned for in our district. Online it receives a 3 out of 10 rating. The facilities are very low quality; last summer the air-conditioning went out scho...

My mother died almost 10 years ago, and as heartbreaking as it was, our family was so thankful to have incredible hospice support so she could pass peacefully at home. In the months leading up to her death, my siblings and I were able to spend about half of our time at my parents’ house (we lived a few states away). Near the end, w...

Q: I don’t drink often, but I like to partake a little more than usual around the holidays. Is it OK to have more than a drink or two every once in a while?While the term “binge drinking” might conjure thoughts of college parties and tequila shots, three glasses of wine and a hot toddy at Thanksgiving also counts. Federal health of...

Q: I’m trying to limit sugar, but I love sweets. Are “natural” sweeteners like honey and agave syrup healthier alternatives to table sugar?You probably know that the sugars in fruits, vegetables and other plants are far better for you than the added sugars often found in processed foods like sodas, candy bars and many baked goods.B...

Pantone, the self-styled color experts, have been predicting a “color of the year” since 1999. Their pick for what everyone will be wearing, wanting, eating and otherwise consuming in 2026: Cloud Dancer, officially PANTONE 11-4201. Either way, it’s a pretty fancy name for … white. Or “a symbol of calming influence in a frenetic soc...

How does The New York Times cover the fire hose of news from the Trump administration? What journalistic principles drive that coverage? Why does The Times publish work that challenges our audience’s assumptions at a time when many people want their views validated? Where do we wish we had more reporters based? And who makes these...

The Trump administration said on Monday that it was revoking the reinstatement of 14 employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who have been on administrative leave since August, when they wrote a letter to Congress warning that President Trump was gutting disaster response in the United States.The move was an abrupt rev...

After nearly five hours of talks on Tuesday between U.S. and Russian negotiators about ending the war in Ukraine, no breakthroughs emerged.According to a Russian negotiator, President Vladimir V. Putin was critical of the proposals. Before the talks, the Russian leader even said he was willing to wage war against Ukraine’s European...

The police in Tunisia on Tuesday arrested Ayachi Hammami, a prominent opposition figure and human rights lawyer, according to Human Rights Watch, the latest sign of backsliding toward authoritarianism in the country that ignited the Arab Spring. Mr. Hammami, who was arrested at his home outside the capital, Tunis, was sentenced by...

For two decades, Muhammad Abdulrahman, 58, lived with his wife and his beehives on a remote hillside in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.But in May, Israeli settlers set up camp about 200 yards away and took control of the road leading to Mr. Abdulrahman’s home, blocking him from returning, he said. Israeli soldiers then evicted him...

Last week, the world’s leading wildlife trade agreement increased protections for more than 70 species of sharks and rays. The move is a first for protecting shark and ray species from wildlife trade at the highest level.In Uzbekistan on Friday, at a conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild...

Ludwig Minelli, a Swiss lawyer who founded an organization that helps people die by suicide, an act that he maintained was a fundamental exercise of free will, died on Saturday at his home in Forch, a village outside Zurich. He was 92.Dignitas, the group he created in 1998, said in a statement that he took his own life with assista...

A 5,500-mile blob of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean that has menaced beaches across the Caribbean and Florida in recent years is exploding in size, while a second patch farther north is declining rapidly, driven by rapid changes in the region’s climate.A study published Thursday in the journal Nature Geoscience finds a big shift in...

Kim Batten, a physical therapist from Oakland, Calif., bought a trench coat earlier this year from a Dutch retailer for $456, a price that was a little above her budget.But after the coat was shipped, UPS told Ms. Batten in an email that she would have to pay over $250 in customs duties to receive it. With shipping, the whole trans...

When Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland accused Russian agents last month of planting explosives on a rail line, he called it “perhaps the most dangerous situation for the security of the Polish state” in years, even though no one was hurt.Around the same time, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto of Italy urged Europe to protect itse...

When an unemployed father of three received a phone call in July, asking if he wanted to do a yearlong bodyguard training program in Russia, he says he jumped at the opportunity.He said the woman on the other line identified herself as a daughter of Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s former president. He said she told him that after comple...

ImageIt’s Cookie WeekYou’ll get a new holiday cookie recipe and video each day this week. Read, watch, bake and enjoy!ImageSamantha Seneviratne’s coconut cake snowballs.Credit...Rachel Vanni for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Samantha Seneviratne. Prop Stylist: Megan Hedgpeth.Growing up, every time we stopped at a gas station on...

Q: I constantly have to get up at night to urinate. Is there anything I can do about this?Nightly trips to the bathroom are normal: About a third of adults over 30, and half over 65, do so.Waking up to relieve your bladder, formally known as nocturia, is only a medical issue if you have to do it more than twice a night — or if you...

It was only a few days after announcing his first run for Congress, and Assemblyman Alex Bores was already gathering big money from donors.At a Midtown Manhattan restaurant, Mr. Bores was a co-host of a fund-raiser that attracted a room full of software engineers and experts in artificial intelligence, many of whom support an A.I.-...

Good morning! Today we have for you:A zhuzhed-up beans and greens recipeA roast chicken recipe for a crowdAnd gluten-free mochi browniesImageAli Slagle’s beans and greens alla vodka.Credit...Ryan Liebe for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Hello, friends. We’ve hit the part of the year when I become overly attached to...

Walk into a typical supermarket in the United States, and much of what you see — breakfast cereals, frozen meals, processed meats, sodas — is considered ultraprocessed food.These products, typically defined as foods and drinks made with ingredients you wouldn’t find in a home kitchen, make up more than half of the calories people i...

Gavin Newsom, Erika Kirk, Dario Amodei, Scott Bessent and other leaders from across the worlds of business and politics discussed tariffs, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and how President Trump is reshaping global trade and the economy.At last year’s summit, tensions ran high ahead of Mr. Trump’s return to the White House....

If you had to convince a nonbeliever, in just a few minutes, why they should make musical theater their religion, what evidence would you offer?That’s the question we asked some major practitioners of the faith and some of our writers and editors. Their 13 answers are all over the genre map, including rock bangers, tender ballads a...

I don’t remember the court date. I don’t remember the notices in the mail, the missed phone calls, the messages from lawyers or much about the week before. What I do remember is the sheriff standing in the doorway and my sweet son watching from the bottom step of the staircase behind me.I Was Deemed Unfit to Be a MotherThe real wou...

Macy’s, the largest department store chain in the United States, on Wednesday raised its sales forecast for the year after reporting a better-than-expected performance across its brands.Macy’s recorded comparable sales growth of around 3 percent for the three months through Nov. 1, the strongest result in more than three years. It...

Collecting milk from a nursing seal is no easy task.“If you can imagine 180 kilos of rather unhappy toothed and clawed beast protecting its single offspring that year, you get a vague idea of what you’re dealing with,” said Patrick Pomeroy, a biologist at the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St. Andrews.But with help f...

Two wild Hawaiian monk seals, an endangered species, have become the first of their kind to receive vaccines for bird flu, part of a new effort to protect the animals from a virus that has been ravaging marine mammal populations around the world.The vaccinations represent the next phase of a small study that began this summer in no...

The Trump administration is snapping up ownership shares of private companies it deems essential to national security. It is an unusual new strategy that has already committed more than $10 billion in taxpayer funds and shows little sign of slowing.The government’s growing portfolio of corporate ownership involves minority stakes,...

In a world where a slow news day may seem like a quaint thing of the past, using an app to corral all your favorite subjects and news sites from around the web into one convenient place can offer a sense of organization. Many news apps use algorithms and artificial intelligence to serve up and summarize stories of interest, and you...

Two students, one white and one Asian, on Wednesday sued a nonprofit fund that provides scholarships for Hispanic students, saying the group illegally discriminates against people of other races and ethnicities.American Alliance for Equal Rights, an organization dedicated to dismantling racial and ethnic consideration throughout Am...

New York City’s skyline has changed once again. In October, JPMorgan Chase opened the city’s latest supertall skyscraper at 270 Park Avenue, which joined a handful of buildings looming above 300 meters (984 feet). The new construction stands out, even among its lofty peers: The top of the 1,388-foot building is cloaked in LED light...

European leaders had hoped to flex their collective muscles with a huge pot of money to fund Ukraine’s war effort, one so large that it would put Kyiv in a strong negotiating position with Moscow.That plan remains in jeopardy, and what was meant to be a show of strength is at risk of turning into a display of messy weakness when Eu...

Tom Stoppard, the playwright and screenwriter who died on Saturday at 88, set plays in imperial Britain, czarist Russia and Communist Czechoslovakia. He wrote movie lines for characters who included William Shakespeare and Indiana Jones. His work concerned love and divorce, poetry and rock ‘n’ roll.Yet, entering his ninth decade, S...

In 1965, when Chicago’s South Side brimmed with artistic possibility, a group of idealistic Black musicians started sketching a future for like-minded creators to follow. They called themselves the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and even that name felt like a declaration. At its core, the A.A.C.M. stood for...

A year ago, the price of Bitcoin hit a landmark of $100,000, sparking wild celebrations in the cryptocurrency world. With a pro-crypto president set to take office, industry boosters predicted that Bitcoin would surge as high as $250,000 by the end of 2025.Those rosy projections have not panned out.Over the last two months, Bitcoin...

Russian authorities have blocked access to Snapchat and Apple’s video calling service FaceTime in the latest move by Moscow clamping down on foreign tech platforms as it tightens control over the country’s internet and online communications.In separate announcements on Thursday, Russian state internet regulator Roskomnadzor accused...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have pledged deeper cooperation on global issues, as the two leaders met ahead of France’s hosting of the Group of Seven (G7) summit next year.Xi hosted Macron on Friday in the southwestern city of Chengdu, state media said, in a rare instance of the head of th...

A federal grand jury has rejected prosecutors’ attempt to revive a criminal case against New York Attorney General Letitia James, after a judge previously threw out charges levelled against the prominent critic of United States President Donald Trump.The indictment on Thursday marks the Department of Justice’s second failed attempt...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Moscow is ready to provide “uninterrupted shipments” of fuel to India, as he reached a deal in a New Delhi summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “reshape” their defence ties amid intensive United States pressure.“Russia is a reliable supplier of oil, gas, coal, and eve...

Intense rainfall in Sri Lanka has complicated recovery efforts in the wake of a powerful cyclone last week that killed hundreds and left tens of thousands displaced, according to officials.More than 130mm (5.1 inches) of rain poured down in southern Sri Lanka over 15 hours on Thursday, said local authorities, with more heavy downpo...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools.The mental health program, which was funded by Congress after the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, T...

He said it four times in seven seconds: Somali immigrants in the United States are “garbage.” It was no mistake. In fact, President Donald Trump’s rhetorical attacks on immigrants have been building since he said Mexico was sending “rapists” across the border during his presidential campaign announcement a decade ago. He’s also ech...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The steelpan, a percussion instrument created in Trinidad and Tobago in 1939, is making a comeback as a new generation embraces its bright, melodious sound on stage and on the dance floor.Fans say new technology has made the steelpan more accessible — and affordable — and a growing number of schools i...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — For Googoosh, Iran’s most-famous singer, life always has been balancing act of one kind or another. It began as a child, performing with her acrobat father who balanced her on a chair atop another chair resting only on his chin. Then later, as an icon of stage and screen during the last years of t...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market rose to the edge of its all-time high on Friday.The S&P 500 added 0.2% and finished just 0.3% shy of its record closing level, which was set in October. It had briefly topped the mark during the day, before paring its gain.The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 104 points, or 0.2%, and the Nasd...

KENNER, La. (AP) — The doors of Carmela Diaz’s taco joint are locked, the tables are devoid of customers and no one is working in the kitchen. It’s one of many once-thriving Hispanic businesses, from Nicaraguan eateries to Honduran restaurants, emptied out in recent weeks in neighborhoods with lots of signs in Spanish but increasin...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s aviation watchdog temporarily rolled back restrictions on airline crew duty hours, days after the previous order disrupted operations at major Indian airports as the country’s biggest airline, IndiGo, scrambled to restore normal services.The new regulations mandated longer rest periods and limited night fly...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday at an annual summit and agreed to diversify mutual economic ties, as the United States presses India to revise its decades-old partnership with Russia.The 23rd Russia-India Summit comes at a pivotal moment as the U.S. pus...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ship traveling Friday through the narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait came under attack by suspected pirates, officials said.The incident saw a ship chased by smaller vessels that opened fire on it, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said....

DUMAYR, Syria (AP) — A raid by U.S. forces and a local Syrian group aiming to capture an Islamic State group official instead killed a man who had been working undercover gathering intelligence on the extremists, family members and Syrian officials have told The Associated Press.The killing in October underscores the complex politi...

The New York Times newspaper, one of the largest in the United States, has filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon that seeks to overturn new rules limiting access to media outlets.In the filing on Thursday, the newspaper said the rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violate the US Constitution’s First Amendment freedom of...

The United States military has conducted another deadly strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean, killing four, according to the Pentagon.The attack on Thursday comes as the administration of US President Donald Trump has faced renewed scrutiny over the strikes after it was revealed that a targeted boat had been st...

A United States appeals court has issued a stay on a lower court’s order requiring the administration of US President Donald Trump to withdraw the National Guard from Washington, DC, in the coming weeks.The decision on Thursday by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit granted a Trump administration reque...

Here’s where things stand on Friday, December 5:Fighting Ukraine’s military said its forces had struck a large chemical plant in the Stavropol region in southern Russia, triggering a fire. The military’s General Staff said the Nevinnomyssk Azot plant was hit overnight and added that the facility produced components for explosives....

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the southern state of Texas may proceed with using a controversial map of congressional districts designed to favour Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections.Thursday’s decision was split along ideological lines, with the court’s six conservative justices giving the new map the go-ahe...

United States President Donald Trump has hosted the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to sign a peace deal that could end the conflict between the two countries.Although the violence on the ground has not stopped, Trump hailed the US-brokered deal on Thursday as a new chapter for the region.Recommende...

Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing transgender video game developer who fled a miserable home life as a teenager, taught herself to code and was crowned the first champion of a large-scale national video game tournament in the United States before becoming a respected programmer and entrepreneur, died on Nov. 17 in Rockwall, Texas. S...

A few years ago, Paul Wieland, a 44-year-old information technology professional living in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, was wrapping up a home renovation when he ran into a hiccup. He wanted to be able to control his new garage door with his smartphone. But the options available, including a product called MyQ, required connect...

Two New York City police officers won’t be charged in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man during a mental health crisis last year as his mother and brother begged the officers not to open fire, state Attorney General Letitia James’ office said Thursday.Win Rozario was shot five times by the officers at his family’s home in Quee...

The spots gave it away. Just like a human fingerprint, the rosette pattern on each jaguar is unique so researchers knew they had a new animal on their hands after reviewing images captured by a remote camera in southern Arizona.The University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center says it’s the fifth big cat over the...

ELMORE, Ala. (AP) — Family and advocates of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons on Thursday said they want to keep a public spotlight on problems in state lockups and said inmates are planning another work stoppage to protest conditions. “For decades, incarcerated men and women in Alabama have lived in conditions that violate hu...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A pup that was swept out to sea by a rip current must be feeling doggone lucky after her unlikely rescue off the San Diego coast.Sadie, a black Labrador retriever-mix, stole away from the home where her owners were staying during a football game last month, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said in a social medi...