WASHINGTON (AP) — Costco is joining other companies that aren’t waiting to see whether the Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump’s most sweeping import taxes. They’re going to court to demand refunds on the tariffs they’ve paid.The specialized U.S. Court of International Trade in New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals f...

ASHLAND, Va. (AP) — The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf, where the scotch and whisky were stored. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed, a ceiling tile collapsed and alcohol pooled on the floor.The suspect acted like an animal becau...

▶ Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Rap artist Toosii is taking time off from his multi-platinum music career by going forward with his dream to pursue football after saying he has committed to Syracuse University.The 25-year-old made...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin outlined the precarious situation facing NASCAR teams, testifying Tuesday in the federal antitrust trial against the stock car series that the race team he co-owns spent more than $700,000 to the series in 2022 alone and how agreeing to its charter proposal last fall...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday cited the “fog of war” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea in early September. During a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Hegseth said he did not see any survivors in the water, saying the vessel “exp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration warned on Tuesday that it will withhold money for administering SNAP food aid in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless those states provide information about people receiving the assistance.Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said at a Cabinet meeting...

A foreboding air greets the 23rd edition of the Art Basel Miami Beach fair opening this week, capping a year of sluggish sales that were financially devastating for many galleries. As collectors, curators and dealers swoop into South Florida for Wednesday’s V.I.P. preview, some analysts have pointed to the $2.2 billion results at t...

It is shocking but not surprising. Lightning crackles on Mars, scientists reported on Wednesday. What they observed, however, were not jagged, high-voltage bolts like those on Earth, arcing thousands of feet from cloud to ground. Rather, the phenomenon was more like the shock you feel when you scuff your feet on the carpet on a col...

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

The New York Times has obtained the four-page letter that former President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras sent President Trump.

The United Kingdom’s justice secretary, David Lammy, is limiting people’s right to a trial by jury in England and Wales. Under proposals he outlined in parliament on Tuesday, only defendants accused of rape, murder or manslaughter, or cases meeting a defined “public-interest” test, will undergo a jury trial.Reforms to the justice s...

As the United States continued its military campaign against what the Trump administration calls “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean, President Donald Trump announced he would pardon a former Honduran president notorious for his involvement in the US drug trade. Juan Orlando Hernandez was sentenced in 2024 to 45 years in prison aft...

Artificial intelligence risks increasing inequality between developed and developing countries, a United Nations report has warned. The report, titled “The Next Great Divergence” and released by the United Nations Development Programme’s Asia and Pacific regional bureau on Tuesday, calls for urgent, coordinated policy action to man...

Envoys for United States President Donald Trump are due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Washington’s proposed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. In advance of the meeting in Moscow on Tuesday, the White House said it was “very optimistic” about reaching a deal. However, Ukraine remains wary that despite meeti...

Kyiv, Ukraine – With his bear-like look and immense clout, Andriy Yermak towered over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for years – literally and figuratively. list 1 of 4How Ukraine turned into the world’s drone testing lablist 2 of 4Zelenskyy says territorial concessions remain Ukraine’s ‘biggest challenge’list 3 of 4Russia...

Bulgaria’s government has announced plans to drop a controversial budget proposal that triggered nationwide protests, the latest bout of unrest to hit the country as it moves towards adopting the euro. The government’s information service reported on Tuesday that it had asked parliament to withdraw the 2026 budget – which had provo...

The United States has witnessed the lowest number of mass killings in 2025 in two decades, according to a database tracking such incidents. A recent shooting at a family gathering in Stockton, California, that left four people dead, was the 17th mass killing this year, The Associated Press – which maintains the database alongside U...

The White House has confirmed that a top US Navy commander ordered a second round of strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat in September, despite almost completely destroying it in the first attack. A double-tap strike essentially means carrying out two strikes on the same target – often wounding or killing medics and civilians...

The Russian president met with the US special envoy on a proposal to end the war for around five hours in Moscow.

Tropical storms and heavy rainfall have caused devastating flooding and landslides across much of South and Southeast Asia in recent days, with officials saying more than 1,250 people have been killed across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand alone, and that many others are still missing.Two cyclones and a typhoon, all different kin...

A daughter of South Africa’s former president, Jacob Zuma, on Friday resigned as a lawmaker after explosive allegations that she tricked 17 South African men into joining a Russian mercenary group to fight in Ukraine.Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, who joined parliament in 2024 under her father’s opposition uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, is...

These were the updates on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.

These were the updates on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.

These were the updates on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has refuted a claim by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that it has seized control of the West Kordofan town of Babnusa. Sudan’s military government said in a statement issued on Tuesday that it had repelled an attack by the RSF. The paramilitary outfit had claimed the previous day to have...

A Russian-flagged tanker in the Black Sea has reported being attacked off the Turkish coast, the third such vessel to have been targeted within a week. The Turkish Directorate General of Maritime Affairs said on Tuesday that the Midvolga-2 had reported coming under attack about 130km (80 miles) from land. list 1 of 4Trump’s Russian...

Benjamin Netanyahu is the first sitting prime minister in Israel to stand trial after being accused of corruption, but he is hardly the only one to have been mired in such scandals.Nearly all Israeli prime ministers since 1996, including Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Olmert, alongside Netanyahu, have been investigated on charg...

Pope Leo XIV has offered prayers at the site of the 2020 Beirut port blast, one of the final stops in his three-day visit to Lebanon. The Catholic leader prayed silently and lit a lamp on Tuesday morning at a monument to the more than 220 people that were killed and 6,500 injured in the explosion. The United States-born pontiff has...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said an agreement with Syria is achievable, outlining expectations that Syrian authorities establish a demilitarised buffer zone stretching from Damascus to Jabal al-Sheikh, which Israel currently occupies. Netanyahu’s comments on Tuesday came a day after US President Donald Trump said...

Our critic A.O. Scott breaks down a scene from Kiran Desai’s lavish new novel, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.”

Early Ukrainian military recruitment ads were a call to arms in an existential fight. Now, they frame joining as cool, a good career move or a point of pride.

CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh (AP) — Tanzid Hasan’s record five boundary catches and unbeaten 55 led Bangladesh to a Twenty20 series-clinching win over Ireland on Tuesday. Ireland was bowled for 117 and Bangladesh raced to 119-2 in 13.4 overs. The home side won by eight wickets with 38 balls to spare and took the series 2-1. Tanzid became...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-nominated producer Jason Blum is now getting some recognition from the literary world. PEN America will honor him at its fundraising gala next spring with the Business Visionary award. PEN, the century-old free expression organization, also will present author-bookseller Ann Patchett with the PEN/Audible Liter...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Idle sometime gazes up into the heavens and wonders about something if we ever make contact with aliens: Will they have a sense of humor?“I think the answer must be yes, because it’s about self-awareness,” says the founding member of the comedy group Monty Python’s Flying Circus. “It’s about laughing at yoursel...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrat Mandela Barnes, who served four years as Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor and narrowly lost a 2022 U.S. Senate bid, said in an interview Tuesday that he jumped into the battleground state’s open race for governor because “the moment is too urgent.” Given his prominent name recognition and statewide fund...

If I asked you to name a holiday flower, my guess is poinsettia, amaryllis or paperwhite would be the first to come to mind. But there’s another, underused seasonal plant that deserves attention.Allow me to introduce you to cyclamen.There are roughly two dozen species of the perennial plants, some with rounded leaves and others wit...

As 2025 winds down, here are some moves to help you finish the year strong financially. Morningstar’s director of personal finance and retirement planning, Christine Benz, discusses strategies. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Benefits of Rebalancing Your Portfolio Q: What are the benefits of portfolio rebalan...

There are many luxury electric SUVs to choose from, but they are often out of reach financially for most buyers. This is especially true now that the $7,500 federal tax credit has been eliminated. But there are some options if you’re working with a modest luxury budget. Two of the most compelling are the Audi Q4 E-tron and Cadillac...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has set off a “code red” alert to employees to improve its flagship product, ChatGPT, and delay other product developments, according to The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper reported that Altman sent an internal memo to staff Monday saying more work was needed to enhance the artificial i...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s government said Tuesday it is withdrawing a controversial budget proposal after an evening demonstration drew tens of thousands of peaceful participants that was later marred by clashes between a much smaller group of masked men and police. Opposition and business groups have warned that plans for...

MILAN (AP) — The Prada Group closed the purchase of Milan fashion rival Versace in a $1.375 billion cash deal that puts the fashion house known for its sexy silhouettes under the same roof as Prada’s “ugly chic” aesthetic and Miu Miu ’s youth-driven appeal. The highly anticipated deal is expected to relaunch Versace’s fortunes, aft...

LONDON (AP) — Twelve police officers would have faced gross misconduct proceedings for their failings during and after the 1989 Hillsborough stadium soccer tragedy, a long-running investigation has found.In the latest development following Britain’s worst sports disaster which saw 97 people killed during a crush of Liverpool fans,...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Authorities in Belgium arrested three people on Tuesday after raiding the offices of the European Union’s diplomatic service in Brussels and a college in Bruges as part of a fraud investigation, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. Police searched the properties of suspects, several buildings...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities carried out a public execution at a stadium in the eastern city of Khost on Tuesday, putting to death a man who the country’s Supreme Court said had killed 13 members of a family, including several children, earlier this year.Tens of thousands of people, including relative...

LONDON (AP) — The right to trial by jury will be pared back in Britain in an attempt to clear a backlog of cases clogging up the justice system, the government announced Tuesday. Justice Secretary David Lammy said overload and delays had created “an emergency in our courts” that risks collapsing trust in British justice. The U.K. c...

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian police said Tuesday that two suspects have been arrested in Ukraine after the body of a 21-year-old man was found in a burnt-out car in Vienna last week. The police statement said the motive was unclear but “withdrawals from the victim’s crypto wallet were detected and a large amount of cash was seized from t...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — St. Lucia Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre has secured a second term in office after a decisive electoral win in the eastern Caribbean island. Pierre’s Saint Lucia Labor Party beat Allen Chastanet’s United Workers Party to secure 14 of 15 seats in Parliament following Monday’s general election. “There is...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Tensions between Lithuania and Belarus have escalated after meteorological balloons from Belarus forced Lithuania to repeatedly shut down its main airport in the past weeks, leaving thousands of people stranded. While the balloons are used to smuggle cigarettes into Lithuania, officials in Vilnius see the...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday nominated the former military chief as defense minister just weeks after he was made to step down. There was no immediate explanation for why Gen. Christopher Musa, who led the military from 2023 to October, was returning, pending parliamentary confirmation. Musa had b...

NEW YORK (AP) — The year in publishing saw such notable releases as the latest “Hunger Games” novel and the first book in years from Thomas Pynchon. Readers also sought life advice from Mel Robbins, campaign books by former Vice President Kamala Harris, among others, and the posthumous memoir from one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers,...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — U.S.-operated flights returning deported migrants to Venezuela will continue despite President Donald Trump’s assertion that the airspace of the South American country should be considered closed. The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced Tuesday that the twice-weekly flights will go...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia and the Netherlands on Tuesday agreed to repatriate two Dutch nationals convicted on drug offences in Indonesia, including one facing the death penalty and another serving a life sentence. The agreement was signed by officials in both Jakarta and Amsterdam following a request by the Dutch king an...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan is in good health but is largely being kept under solitary conditions, one of his sisters said Tuesday after authorities allowed her the first family visit in weeks. Uzma Khan’s remarks appeared aimed at reassuring Khan’s millions of supporters in Pakistan and...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Two former apartheid-era police officers in South Africa were found guilty of murder Tuesday in the 1987 killing of activist and student leader Caiphus Nyoka. Nyoka’s fatal shooting at his family home near Johannesburg during the period of white minority rule was one of many alleged abuses by aparthei...

KACHEHEMBE, Congo (AP) — Measles vaccines have arrived in a rebel-held area of eastern Congo nearly a year after a deadly outbreak of the highly contagious disease began. The seizure of parts of the region early this year by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels has affected the delivery of health care in one of the world’s most dire humanitari...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Haiti’s transitional presidential council has backed an electoral law in the latest step toward holding a general election for the first time in nearly a decade. The approval late Monday means that the government can finally publish an official and long-awaited electoral calendar, after fears that the c...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Guinea-Bissau’s electoral commission said Tuesday that it’s unable to finalize results of a disputed presidential vote after armed men broke into its office and stole vote tally sheets the same day the military seized power. The announcement did not identify the armed men. It said the break-in happene...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world economy has proven surprisingly durable in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday, upgrading its outlook for global and U.S. economic growth this year. The 38-country OECD now forecasts that the world economy will grow 3.2%...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Libyan man accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in a Tripoli prison has been sent by Germany to the International Criminal Court to face justice. ICC prosecutors allege Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri was a senior commander at the Mitiga prison, where they say he ordered or oversaw atrociti...

CAIRO (AP) — Iran has sentenced acclaimed director Jafar Panahi to a year in prison in absentia, even as he received new awards for his latest movie. The Tehran court also imposed a two-year ban on Panahi leaving Iran after convicting him on charges of “propaganda activities against the system,” his lawyer Mostafa Nili said in a po...

Talks between Russia and the U.S. on ending the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were constructive, but much work remains, Yuri Ushakov, a senior adviser to President Vladimir Putin, told reporters on Wednesday.Putin met U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner in the Kremlin in talks that began...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking operation that moved hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump, officials confirmed Tuesday.Herná...

NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion Tuesday to provide 25 million American children 10 and under an incentive to claim the new investment accounts for children created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation. The historic gift has little precedent, with few single chari...

Instead of hiring a florist for her October wedding, Emily Day decided to grow her own flowers in her front yard in Calgary, Canada — a creative challenge that turned into a lesson on the hidden climate costs of the global flower industry. She said her homegrown arrangements were just as beautiful as store-bought ones and cost a fr...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid sounded downright defiant Monday when asked about his team’s dwindling playoff hopes, which took a hit not only last week amid a Thanksgiving loss to the Cowboys but over the weekend when other results didn’t go their way. The reigning AFC champions are 6-6 with five games...

NEW YORK (AP) — It arrived in 2024. And it never left. Rosé and Bruno Mars’ massively popular, Grammy-nominated “APT.” topped Apple Music’s global song chart in 2025 as the giant music streamer released year-end lists Tuesday and provided listeners with data on their own most listened-to tunes. “APT.” is both artists’ first No. 1 o...

United States President Donald Trump’s administration is facing a political and legal firestorm over reports that its military carried out a second strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, which Washington claims was carrying drugs, after two people survived the initial attack. At the heart of the controversy are two questions: Who o...

Hong Kong’s leader said an independent committee will be established to investigate the cause of the city’s deadliest fire in decades, which killed at least 151 people and left almost 80 injured. John Lee, the chief executive of the Chinese-administered region, pledged on Tuesday to overcome vested interests and pursue accountabili...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the UN will cut its budget by 15.1 percent and reduce staff by 18.8 percent in 2026 as unpaid dues from member states climb to $1.59 trillion. The UN chief announced next year’s budget on Monday, which he set at $3.24bn – a reduction of $577m from 2025. list 1 of 4Indonesia...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A tanker carrying sunflower oil from Russia to Georgia was attacked in the Black Sea, the Turkish maritime authority said Tuesday, days after two Russian “shadow fleet” oil tankers were attacked by Ukrainian naval drones. The Turkish Directorate General of Maritime Affairs said the MIDVOLGA-2 came under attack...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants ambushed a vehicle carrying a government administrator in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing him, two of his guards and a passerby, officials said. The attack took place in the Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said Alam Khan, a police official. He identified the admini...

BATANG TORU, Indonesia (AP) — Emergency crews raced to reach survivors and recover more bodies Tuesday as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides surged past 1,300 in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, with nearly 1,000 people missing. Days of heavy monsoon rains inundated vast areas, leaving thousands st...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Tuesday said it had received remains handed over by Palestinian militants in Gaza to the Red Cross. They were believed to be one of the two hostages still in the territory: an Israeli and a Thai national. Israel’s government said the “findings” were taken for forensics testing. Palestinian...

HONG KONG (AP) — Uncomfortable questions are being raised over who is to blame for Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades. As the territory mourns over the high-rise apartment fire that killed at least 156 people, anger and frustration are mounting over building safety lapses, suspected construction corruption and lax government ov...

TURMUS AYYA, West Bank (AP) — The fear is palpable in this Palestinian village. It’s clear in how farmers gather their harvests quickly, how they scan the valley for movement, how they dare not stray past certain roads. At any time, they say, armed Israeli settlers could descend. “In a matter of minutes, they get on their phones. T...

VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say these threats from the world’s two largest nuclear powers put pressure on nonproliferation efforts and endanger global peace and secu...

Sri Lanka’s recent history has been riddled with serious setbacks. But President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has declared that the cyclone that hit the country last week is the “largest and most challenging natural disaster in our history.” In 2004, as the island nation of 22 million was trying to wind down a decades-long civil war, t...

For small businesses all around the world, selling their goods in the United States has become a headache-inducing patchwork of new tariffs, customs duties and paperwork. But Anna Worthington has not been deterred. As the product director of Ruffians, a small chain of British barbershops, Ms. Worthington has forged ahead with plans...

The economic relationship between the United States and China is as fraught as it has been in recent memory, but that has not stopped a wave of Chinese food and beverage chains from moving aggressively into the United States for the first time. Chinese tea shops in New York and Los Angeles are offering consumers drinks topped with...

Much of the world had never seen or heard of the Jamaica that Jimmy Cliff introduced in 1972’s “The Harder They Come.” The island nation’s first independent full-length film, directed by Perry Henzell and co-written by Trevor Rhone, reflected an authentic glimpse of Jamaica’s slums, poverty, divisions and the Rastafarian way of lif...

When Kyle Kjoller, a 57-year-old welder, was ordered held without bail in Nevada County, Calif., in April, he protested. The charges against him — multiple counts of illegal gun possession — were not grave enough under California law to warrant keeping him in jail for months awaiting his trial, he argued. Prosecutors disagreed, and...

This holiday season, shoppers have more artificial intelligence to help with their gift lists. Target, Walmart, Ralph Lauren and other retailers this year unveiled chatbots that act as conversational stylists and shopping assistants. That means people who want to find matching pajamas for the family can ask a chatbot to sort throug...

Home Depot said on Tuesday that it had cut its full-year profit forecast and missed analysts’ earnings targets last quarter, citing consumers’ reluctance to spend on housing amid economic uncertainty and elevated mortgage rates. The big-box retailer, a bellwether for the housing market, said it expected that adjusted earnings for t...

Produced by Alex Stern and Nina Feldman With Diana NguyenJessica Cheung and Rikki Novetsky Edited by MJ Davis Lin and Patricia Willens Contains music by Marion LozanoPat McCuskerDan Powell and Diane Wong Once primarily limited to severely disabled people, autism began to be viewed as a spectrum that included children and adults far...

The day before President Trump announced tariffs on trading partners across the globe in April, the German toymaker Tonies, which makes brightly colored audio boxes loved by legions of toddlers and their parents, celebrated the opening of a new factory in Vietnam. The timing was a coincidence; preparations for the plant had begun a...

Dialing down the use of social media for a week reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia in young adults, according to a study published on Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open. Researchers followed 295 volunteers, ages 18 to 24, who opted to take a break from social media. Instructed to stay off social media as much...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most commonly diagnosed form of dementia, but it’s far from the only one. In fact, most people who have dementia (including Alzheimer’s) show signs of several different types of neurodegenerative disease in their brains.That can include the amyloid plaques and tau tangles that are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s...

For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairment as they age, as well as a group with normal cognition. Both patients, a man and a woman, had agreed to donate their brains after they died for further research. “An...

Dr. Ralph Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named the second in command at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Department of Health and Human Services did not announce the appointment,...

You could say Rapa Nui is in the middle of nowhere, but it’s even less central than that. Moored in the empty South Pacific, this barren outcrop of land, also known as Easter Island, is some 1,300 miles southeast of its closest inhabited neighbor and about 2,200 miles west of mainland Chile. For centuries, scholars have been puzzle...

These were the updates on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.

These were the updates about the impact of floods in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka on December 1, 2025.

These were the updates about the impact of floods in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka on December 1, 2025.

These were the updates about the impact of floods in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka on December 1, 2025.

These were the updates about the impact of floods in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka on December 1, 2025.

Medan, Indonesia – As floodwaters burst into Nurdin and his wife’s home in Indonesia’s Aceh Province last week, the elderly couple crawled onto their bed. Nurdin, who uses a wheelchair following a stroke, resigned himself to his fate. list 1 of 4Zelenskyy says territorial concessions remain Ukraine’s ‘biggest challenge’list 2 of 4I...

Russian attacks on Ukraine continue even as diplomatic efforts to end the war gain momentum.

Russian attacks on Ukraine continue even as diplomatic efforts to end the war gain momentum.

Russian attacks on Ukraine continue even as diplomatic efforts to end the war gain momentum.

Russian attacks on Ukraine continue even as diplomatic efforts to end the war gain momentum.

Here’s where things stand on Tuesday, December 2: Russian forces launched a ballistic missile on Ukraine’s Dnipro, killing four people and wounding 40 others, according to Ukrainian authorities. Russia claimed the capture of the strategic eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, the logistics hub that has been under attack for months b...

Russian forces say they have captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub that has been under siege for almost two years. The Kremlin announced the news in a Telegram post on Monday, citing Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov. The post said the eastern Ukrainian city of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region ha...

Canada has joined a multibillion-dollar European Union defence fund, becoming the first non-European country to do so, as Ottawa looks to diversify its military spending away from the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Monday that participation in the EU’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative would g...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has repeated calls for peace and pledged “absolute loyalty” to his people at a rally attended by thousands in Caracas, as tensions escalate over potential military action by the United States. The rally on Monday came as US President Donald Trump met with his national security team at the White H...

A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Experts warn that the drop doesn’t necessarily me...

The latest mass killing in the United States occurred Saturday night when three children ages 8, 9 and 14, and a 21-year-old adult were killed in a shooting at a child’s birthday party in California. Eleven people were also wounded at a Stockton banquet hall. This is the country’s 17th mass killing this year. The killings are track...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The first major storm of the winter covered parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic with snow and ice Tuesday, making roads hazardous, disrupting travel and closing schools as some areas braced for several inches of heavy snowfall. The storm could deliver up to a foot of snow (30 centimeters) as well as wind...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” was crowned best feature film and the dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi won three awards Monday at the 35th annual Gotham Awards, a starry kickoff to the film industry’s awards season. The Gothams, presented by the Gotham Film & Media Institute, aren’t conside...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — James Solomon was elected mayor of Jersey City on Tuesday, thwarting former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey’s bid for a political comeback more than two decades after a scandalous resignation. Addressing supporters who had gathered to watch returns and cheer him on, Solomon said: “Now the mission is clear, an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed likely on Tuesday to side with a faith-based pregnancy center raising First Amendment concerns about an investigation into whether it misled people to discourage abortions. The facilities often known as “crisis pregnancy centers” have been on the rise in the U.S., especially since the Sup...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Matt Van Epps won a nationally watched special election in Tennessee for a U.S. House seat Tuesday, maintaining his party’s grip on the conservative district with help from President Donald Trump. But the comparatively slim margin of victory fueled Democratic hopes for next year’s midterms as the...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Armed men entered through a window to ambush Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the most elusive of the Sinaloa cartel’s leaders, who was then loaded onto a plane, drugged and spirited across the border to the United States, according to details revealed Monday in the plea hearing of the drug trafficker who abducted him....

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia said Monday it sent 26 members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor to the United States after determining that the rights of some of the children in the group were at risk. Authorities detained the group of 17 children and nine adults on Nov. 22 following a raid on their hotel in Yarumal, a...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market held steady on Tuesday as both bond yields and bitcoin stabilized. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% following its first loss in six days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 185 points, or 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.6%. Boeing soared 10.1% and was one of the strongest forces lifting the S&...

A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other animals in the wild that are increasingly showing up for sale on internet marketplaces and becoming popular on social media. The two-week Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and...

Students applying to college know they can’t — or at least shouldn’t — use AI chatbots to write their essays and personal statements. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using artificial intelligence to read them. AI tools are now being incorporated into how student applications are screened and analyzed, admis...

NEW YORK (AP) — Video shown in court Tuesday documented how police approached, arrested and searched Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s — moments that underlie key questions about what evidence can and can’t be used in the case surrounding the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The footage was taken on Dec. 9,...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s telecoms ministry has directed smartphone manufacturers to pre-install a government-run cybersecurity app on all new devices, according to a government order, raising concerns of data privacy and user consent in one of the largest handset markets in the world. The Ministry of Communications’ order issued Mo...

BANGKOK (AP) — Behind the hoopla over the promise of artificial intelligence lay difficult realities, including how such technology might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world. A new report by the United Nations Development Program notes most of the gains from AI are likely to be reaped by wealthy nations unles...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will set up an independent committee headed by a judge to determine the cause of a deadly high-rise fire that shocked the city and to recommend changes to prevent a future tragedy, its leader said Tuesday. John Lee, the chief executive of the southern Chinese territory, pledged to overcome vested interest...

BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and called for justice to prevail, as he offered words of consolation to Lebanon’s people — including in the war-battered south — on the final day of his first overseas trip. Rel...

DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Moving between damp basements and muddy dugouts to fend off constant Russian attacks in the nearly 4-year-old war, exhausted Ukrainian soldiers say their motivation is fortified by knowing they’re fighting for higher cause: the defense of their homeland. But as negotiators try to hammer out a p...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that protecting Ukraine’s territorial integrity remains the “biggest challenge” in ongoing negotiations over a US plan to end the war, following discussions in Paris with European and US officials. Speaking alongside French President Emmanuel Macron at a joint news conference on Mond...

The top Democrat in the United States Senate, Chuck Schumer, has said that three of his New York state offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats alleging the “2020 election was rigged”. In a statement on social media, Schumer said that local law enforcement on Monday received bomb threats referencing his offices in Rochester,...

Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old who allegedly killed the chief executive of the biggest health insurer in the United States in December 2024, admitted that he had a 3D-printed gun in his backpack, a prison guard testified at a pretrial hearing in the case on Monday. The hearing in a New York City court is part of a process that wil...

Veteran opposition figure Anicet Ekane has died in military custody in Cameroon, his family and legal representatives have said. Ekane, 74, passed away on Monday morning in Yaounde, the country’s capital, 38 days after security forces detained him in the port city of Douala, France’s public radio RFI reported. list 1 of 3Opposition...

United States President Donald Trump will host the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday, the White House has announced. Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told reporters that DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwanda President Paul Kagame will sign a “historic peace and economic agreement that [Tr...

Pope Leo has called for “coexistence” during the second day of his visit to Lebanon, gathering clerics from across the religious spectrum on both sides of a former civil war dividing line, and appealing for unity in a region fractured by violence. Standing in Martyrs’ Square on Monday, a site that once marked the “green line” divid...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it has taken Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, who is wanted for allegedly committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in Libya between 2015 and 2020, into custody. El Hishri was “surrendered to the custody” of the court in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Monday, by authorities in German...

Pennsylvania resident Andrew Tepper likes to stage festivals on pasture land he owns outside of Hilo, gatherings inspired by the famous “Burning Man” events in Nevada. Hundreds of people have attended, but now some of his neighbors are upset. Last year the Hawaii County Planning Department warned Tepper not to hold another festival...

For nearly a year and a half, Andrea Weiskircher has been pleading with prison officials, state leaders and law enforcement to look at the evidence. In the summer of 2024, Weiskircher accused five Idaho prison workers of sexually abusing her while she was incarcerated. She had sexually explicit texts, Facebook messages and emails...

SEATTLE (AP) — An anonymous donation expected to exceed $50 million is helping cover tuition costs for medical laboratory science students at the University of Washington for the next half-century. The dean of the university’s School of Medicine, Dr. Tim Dellit, made the surprise announcement Monday to about 30 grateful undergrads,...

A push to reshape congressional voting districts, instigated by President Donald Trump, is sweeping across states as political parties vie for an edge in next year’s elections. Trump is hoping to buck historical trends of the president’s party losing seats in midterm elections. Republican state officials have responded to his call...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee congressional seat that President Donald Trump and Republicans have previously won with ease became the unlikely epicenter of the fight for Congress on Monday, as House Speaker Mike Johnson headlined rallies and former Vice President Al Gore and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Democrats they co...

DETROIT (AP) — Two conservative political operatives were sentenced to probation Monday for a scheme to discourage Black Detroit voters from voting by mail in the 2020 presidential election, the last court hearing in a multistate effort to blast thousands of robocalls. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were accused of creating robocalls...

Outlets that reach millions of news consumers are being denied access to rare briefings by Pentagon officials this week — sessions that are being held instead for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s hand-picked media organizations. It’s not as if there’s little to talk about, with both the Senate and House Armed Services committees op...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four Republican-led states agreed to settle lawsuits against the federal government over access to voters’ citizenship data, ending a dispute that began with the Biden administration in advance of the 2024 presidential election. Officials in Florida, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio entered the settlement with the Dep...

▶ Follow live updates on the AP Top 25 poll. Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky fired the Southeastern Conference’s longest-tenured coach, ending Mark Stoops’ tenure in his 13th season with the Wildcats after ba...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Visiting Bolivia became a little easier for certain travelers on Monday, when the South American nation’s first conservative government in nearly 20 years eliminated visa requirements for citizens from the United States and Israel, among several other countries, as part of a broader geopolitical and economic...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada has joined a major European Union defense fund, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office said Monday, as the country looks to diversify its military spending away from the United States. The plan allows Canadian defense companies access to a 150 billion euro ($170 billion) EU loan program, known as Security Action...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies, alleging they failed to stop Sean Gardner from preying on girls despite repeated complaints about the coach’s behavior. The lawsuits allege USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Center...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military would have committed a crime if it killed the survivors of an attack on an alleged drug boat, legal experts say. It doesn’t matter whether the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels as the Trump administration asserts. Such a fatal second strike would have violated peacetime laws and thos...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Since last week’s shooting of two National Guard members in the nation’s capital by a suspect who is an Afghan national, the Trump administration announced a flurry of policies aimed at making it harder for some foreigners to enter or stay in the country. The administration said it was pausing asylum decisions, re...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Prosecutors in Colombia on Monday charged two former members of President Gustavo Petro’s government with corruption for their alleged role in a congressional vote buying scheme. Colombian authorities have launched a spate of corruption proceedings. The former heads of Colombia’s senate and house of represen...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ken Johnson, 63, just got a new roommate last week — a black bear living in the crawl space under his home in Southern California. The bear was seen on video footage clambering out from beneath his house Tuesday. He had installed a camera near the space back in June when he saw what looked like damage caused by a...

Michigan jumped to No. 3 in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s basketball poll on Monday as rival Michigan State and Iowa State both climbed into the top 10. No. 1 Purdue and No. 2 Arizona remained atop the rankings. The Boilermakers received 40 first-place votes from a 61-person media panel, Arizona got six and Michigan got 15 afte...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Titans running back Julius Chestnut said Jacksonville Jaguars punter Logan Cooke said he was going to kill him during Sunday’s game. Chestnut blocked Cooke as the punter got a leg up to trip Titans returner Chimere Dike at the end of a 47-yard return with 14:06 left. Cooke was hurt and evaluated fo...

A federal appeals court ruled that Alina Habba has been serving unlawfully as U.S. attorney in New Jersey.

Senior United Kingdom special forces leaders covered up potential war crimes in Afghanistan, a former senior officer has told a public inquiry. The former high-ranking officer alleged that two former directors of Britain’s special forces failed to act on claims that soldiers unlawfully killed civilians in Afghanistan while operatin...

United States President Donald Trump has met his national security team to discuss “next steps” on Venezuela, according to media reports, as his government continues to defend a controversial double strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean. The meeting on Monday came as the US military continued to surge assets to the Cari...

A delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has visited Guinea-Bissau for mediation talks with leaders of last week’s coup, as regional pressure mounts on the military leaders who seized power after a disputed election. The mission, led by ECOWAS chairman and Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, c...

United States President Donald Trump has called on Israel to maintain “strong and true” dialogue with Syria, adding it is very important “that nothing takes place that will interfere with Syria’s evolution into a prosperous state”. The statement on Truth Social on Monday came days after Israel launched its latest incursion and stri...

Megan Harrigan hurried around the Union Street Brick Church in Bangor in September, gathering clients and bringing them to the back corner of the church where there was a makeshift clinic of folding tables and metal chairs. Each client was homeless, and most had an opioid addiction. Harrigan knew them all by name. Between helping...

Melany Kahn was hosting a local dollhouse club last spring when she first eyed the 3-foot-tall model Victorian “painted lady” in need of a facelift. “I didn’t see its warts,” Kahn recalled of torn clapboards and tarnished copper. “I just saw its possibilities.” As a half-dozen club members repaired and restored the aging micro-mans...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Landlords in Baltimore are being held liable for hiring a convicted sex offender with a violent criminal record who then attacked two tenants and set them on fire, with a jury awarding the victims $21.5 million. The same man murdered a tech CEO just days after attacking April Hurley and Jonte Gilmore in their home...

NEW YORK (AP) — A record low 54 major league players were given permission to use medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, down from 61 last year and 119 in 2013. The total was revealed Monday in the annual report of Thomas M. Martin, the independent program administrator of the drug program for Major League Basebal...

More Twin Cities area metro counties are embedding social workers into 911 call centers to field calls from those struggling with problems like mental health, homelessness and substance use. One is Melanie Yang, who began working as an embedded social worker in the Minneapolis 911 call center this fall through a pilot program part...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man charged with killing a University of Mississippi graduate who was prominent in the LGBTQ+ community pleaded guilty on Monday to second-degree murder and tampering charges as he faced a second trial. Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr. entered the plea in the death of Jimmie “Jay” Lee, who disappeared from...

Three lawmakers who represent Piedmont, South Dakota, hope to change weak state mining laws that allowed a proposed limestone mine to be sited without notification or input by any local officials or residents. The plan by Simon Contractors to begin mining limestone on 300 acres within the city of Piedmont and in the surrounding Bla...

Starting on Thursday, Texas will implement Senate Bill 8 — also known as the Texas Women’s Privacy Act, or more commonly known as a “bathroom bill” — aimed at restricting transgender people’s access to certain restrooms in the state. Republicans in Texas worked for more than a decade to pass a bathroom bill like SB 8. The new law a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the “2020 election was rigged.” Schumer said in a statement that local law enforcement received bomb threats referencing his offices in Rochester, Binghamton...

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Michigan farm property values are going gangbusters, rising 7.8% in the past year and leading the nation, according to an annual report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. National values increased 4.3% percent — coming amid fluctuation in farm revenue and markets, in part due to tariff volatility — means prices are “remarkab...

Despite efforts in recent years to gain clarity, the roughly 110-mile state line between Michigan and Indiana remains blurry as ever. The last official survey of the dividing line between Michiganders and Hoosiers was conducted in 1827, and wooden markers placed by federal surveyors at that time have largely rotted into the pastor...

Air travelers in the U.S. without a REAL ID will be charged a $45 fee beginning in February, the Transportation Security Administration announced Monday. The updated ID has been required since May, but passengers without it have so far been allowed to clear security with additional screening and a warning. The Department of Homelan...

Nearly 44% of the 16,000 truck driving programs listed nationwide by the government may be forced to close if they lose their students after a review by the federal Transportation Department found they may not be complying with minimum requirements. The Transportation Department said Monday that it plans to revoke the certification...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia National Guard member who was shot last week in a brazen daytime attack in Washington, D.C., remains in serious condition but showed positive signs by giving a thumbs-up that he could hear a nurse’s question and wiggling his toes, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Monday. Morrisey said the family o...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In West Africa’s latest military takeover, soldiers in Guinea-Bissau followed up a disputed presidential election by seizing power last week in what some critics allege was a staged coup to avoid having the incumbent lose. Here’s what to know about the Nov. 26 coup in Guinea-Bissau: Takeover announced after a...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Black ice, snow showers and fog pestered post-holiday travelers in the Midwest on Monday while the Northeast geared up for its first major snowstorm of the season. More than 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) of snow fell at Chicago O’Hare International Airport this weekend, setting a record for the highest single...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday that a Navy admiral acted “within his authority and the law” when he ordered a second, follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea in a September U.S. military operation that has come under bipartisan scrutiny. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered the j...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Babson College has instructed faculty and staff to provide “academic and community support” to a student who was deported to Honduras when she tried to fly home to visit family for Thanksgiving. Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she tried to board a...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial vaccine advisory committee will be meeting later this week under a new chairperson, federal officials announced Monday. Martin Kulldorff is leaving the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to take a leadership role within the Department of Health an...

After two installments of his “Knives Out” franchise skewered old and new money, director and writer Rian Johnson targets religion in his third, a gloomy and clunky outing that may test fans’ faith in the filmmaker. “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” gets a new starry cast to orbit Daniel Craig’s foppish detective Benoit Blan...

Apple has removed from its App Store several programs that alert users to sightings of immigration agents after Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded they be taken down. Most prominently, ICEBlock, a free app with hundreds of thousands of users, was no longer available as of Thursday evening to download on the App Store. ICEBlock all...

Rasheeda Purdie started her business with baby steps: first meal kits and then a pop-up followed by a Bowery Market stall in 2023, a cult favorite that closed last spring. Now she has opened this six-seat, reservation-only storefront for her signature asa, or breakfast, ramens, including an upcoming soup that turns the bodega class...

The environmental rollbacks came one after the next this week, potentially affecting everything from the survival of rare whales to the health of the Hudson River. On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed to strip federal protections from millions of acres of wetlands and streams, narrowing the reach of the Clean Wat...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris to bolster support for Kyiv, as Ukrainian and European defence chiefs gathered in Brussels for talks centred around Ukrainian and collective security. The meetings came on Monday amid a diplomatic flurry of activity to end Russia’s almos...