The smells of warm apple pie or fresh baked bread are two of the pleasures of fall. Especially in today’s anxiety-provoking world, there’s a welcoming spot at home for cozy comfort foods. Consider some flavorful twists for making the most of two seasonal staples — in meals, with friends or just because. (The two even come together...

As the holidays approach, there’s one room in the home where the tantalizing aromas of good food and the chatter of good folk converge: the kitchen. More than mere culinary spaces, kitchens tend to embody the heart of a home. There’s the messiness and mayhem of communal meal making. Perhaps some pre-bedtime snacks. It’s a place whe...

It seems like the frost hasn’t even hit the pumpkin before “holiday cheer” starts showing up everywhere, from social media feeds to the aisles of CVS. Tis the season to decorate. But if you’re in a small apartment, there are limits to what you can do. A full-size artificial tree might take up half a room. You might have limited she...

Instants that demand respect. Compostable pods. High-altitude blends. And a myriad of related home-brew goodies that lift the senses with the familiar fragrant waft of a humble roasted bean: coffee. Coffee world can’t sit still, it seems — just ask Brooklyn Roasting’s founder and CEO Jim Munson. “The coffee market’s shifted focus s...

There’s a mountain on Oahu named for the Greek myth of Tantalus, for whom satisfaction was always just out of reach. The road up is winding, filled with switchbacks, hanging vines, and vistas where, on mild nights, couples linger in cars against the backdrop of Honolulu’s city lights. Hidden amid wild avocado trees and the heart-sh...

The term bathroom décor often conjures thoughts of decorative shelving, a framed print or perhaps a colorful shower curtain. But what about houseplants? Most houseplants are tender tropical plants that thrive best in the warm, humid conditions of their native climate, often a rainforest or jungle. So, a bathroom, especially one wit...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been eight months since I closed the door for the last time to my childhood home in suburban New Jersey and said goodbye to more than a half century of memories. I sometimes still struggle to let it go. Mom passed away in February 2023 after a brief battle with cancer. My sister and I didn’t want to sell the fa...

Dark hues have a bad rap as gloomy and depressing. More likely, they’re bringing home the good vibes, all year long. One weekend when I had the house to myself, I painted our family room Benjamin Moore’s Kendall Charcoal, a deep, earthy gray. I waited till I had two days alone to do it because it looked pretty shocking when I got s...

In a world where speed and convenience have been the siren song to consumers, there’s a movement toward buying more mindfully, sustainably, “slowly.” You’ve heard of slow fashion. Slow food. Slow travel. And when it comes to the home, “slow decorating.” A reaction against rooms filled with mass-produced “fast furniture,” slow decor...

The way a dish looks has been important to the dining experience since forever, but perhaps never more than now. Relaxed and homey. Or vibrant and celebratory. And perhaps shareable, too. “Chefs know that guests spend a lot of time looking at their plates,” says Chandra Ram, associate editorial director of Food & Wine magazine. “So...

WHY THIS MATTERS: Protests in Nepal have revealed the extent of young people’s frustration with the lack of opportunity in the Himalayan nation, as they spiraled into a broader challenge to the government. While around a fifth of young people are unemployed, many note that the children of the political elite seem to enjoy luxury li...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Police in Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu opened fire Monday on demonstrators protesting a government attempt to regulate social media that blocked some of the world’s largest platforms, including Facebook, X and YouTube. At least 17 people were killed. Rallies swept the streets around the Parliament building,...

NEW YORK (AP) — What does “home” mean? Different things to all of us, of course. A place of love, for some. One fraught with trouble, for others. An elusive concept for too many. “Home isn’t always a place of comfort. Nor is it always a location, or a place. Home can be a state of mind,” says Brooke Wyatt, curator of a show at the...

There’s a lot to be said for the work/play energy of a nice studio or other small apartment during the day. But how do you bring that energy down to get a good night’s sleep? With electronics, cookery, clothes and books all in one space, it can be a challenge to create a restful refuge. Prioritize a sleep space, starting with the b...

NEW YORK (AP) — Never say never... again? In July, Justin Bieber surprised fans by releasing his seventh studio album, “Swag,” hours after he teased it on billboards and social media posts. It turns out, he wasn’t done yet. On Thursday morning, Bieber shared that “Swag II” will arrive on Friday. The popstar posted the release’s art...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s government said Thursday it is blocking most social media platforms including Facebook, X and YouTube because the companies failed to comply with regulations that required them to register with the government. Nepal’s Minister for Communication and Information Prithvi Subba Gurung said about two doze...

Turns out Thomas Tuchel was right. The soccer season was only a few weeks old when the England coach expressed his belief that old-school tactics were back in vogue. Long throw-ins. Long clearances by goalkeepers. Crosses into the box for tall strikers. “All these patterns are back,” Tuchel said, generating some mild surprise among...

▶ Follow live updates on the assassination of Charlie Kirk NEW YORK (AP) — Matthew Dowd opened a floodgate. The MSNBC political analyst, who lost his job shortly after on-air comments about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, was the first of many figures to face consequences Thursday for public statements or action...

▶ Follow live updates on Charlie Kirk’s assassination They were careful with the explicit imagery — as usual. But did it make any difference? Traditional news organizations were cautious in their midafternoon coverage of Charlie Kirk’s assassination Wednesday not to depict the moment he was shot, instead showing video of him tossin...

Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech. The Himalayan country’s government said last week it was blocking several social media platforms including...

MILAN (AP) — Fendi on Tuesday named Maria Grazia Chiuri as its new creative director, replacing Silvia Venturini Fendi, who stepped aside last month to become honorary president of the fashion house founded by her grandparents and now owned by the French luxury conglomerate LVMH. Chiuri’s first collection for the Rome-based fashion...

For many college students, dorm life is an introduction to independent living — their very first “home away from home.” And as exciting as this chapter is, it’s also a challenge: How do you turn one room into a work, sleep and hangout space? We got some advice from decor pros: 1. First, make sure you and your roommate/s are on the...

Immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot during a college event in Utah, graphic video of what happened was available almost instantly online, from several angles, in slow-motion and real-time speed. Millions of people watched — sometimes whether they wanted to or not — as the videos autoplayed on social media platforms. Video was e...

Clinics, advocacy groups and individuals who share abortion-related content online say they are seeing informational posts being taken down even if the posts don’t clearly violate the platforms’ policies. The groups, in Latin America and the United States, are denouncing what they see as censorship even in places where abortion is...

Charlie Kirk’s mastery of social media was key to his rise as an influence in conservative politics. So the extent to which his death and its aftermath have played out on those forums shouldn’t come as a surprise. In a microcosm of life today, social media is where Americans have gone to process last week’s killing in Utah and is t...

DENVER (AP) — A teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine and expressed neo-Nazi views online, according to experts. Since December, Desmond Holly, 16, had been active on an online forum w...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian authorities said Tuesday that social media platforms should not demand age verification for all account holders starting from December, when a ban on children under 16 having accounts goes into effect in the country. The government released guidelines on how platforms such as TikTok, Facebook,...

NEW YORK (AP) — Serena and Venus Williams are taking a swing at podcasting. The two sisters and tennis stars — Serena finished her career at the 2022 U.S. Open; Venus just competed at that tournament in singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles — will launch their podcast on X with a debut episode Wednesday. The podcast is called...

New York’s attorney general on Monday proposed regulations for its crackdown on addictive social media feeds for children, including rules for verifying a user’s age. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act, passed last year, prohibits social media companies from showing feeds personalized by algorithms to users u...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Caitlin Clark said referees couldn’t stop her Indiana Fever. The WNBA made her pay for it. The Fever’s All-Star guard, who is sidelined for the postseason with a right groin injury, posted on social media Saturday that she was fined $200 for tweeting “Refs couldn’t stop us” after Indiana’s Game 2 win over Atlanta i...

LONDON (AP) — Ellie Potts goes dancing with her friends most weeks. They don’t put on the latest Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran, though — they much prefer English country dances that were popular more than 200 years ago. As the music starts, about two dozen men and women curtsy and bow, extend a gloved hand to their partner, before dan...

Former No. 3-ranked Elina Svitolina said she will end her tennis season early because she is “not in the right emotional space.” “I haven’t been feeling like myself lately,” Svitolina said in a social media post on Instagram which was followed by a statement on the WTA Tour’s website. “I don’t feel ready to play, so I am therefore...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday said Meta and TitTok had breached their transparency obligations after an investigation that could result in billions of dollars in fines. “We are making sure platforms are accountable for their services, as ensured by EU law, towards users and society,” said Henna Virkunnen, the EU’s ex...

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough told an audience in 2012 that writing history was like working on a detective case. “And once on the case, you want to know more and more and more,” he said in remarks at Dartmouth College. “Follow your curiosity.” One thing that’s clear after reading “History Matters,” a p...

NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Gilbert’s “All the Way to the River,” a memoir that has already stirred up an online conversation, is Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick. In Gilbert’s book, published this week, the author writes of a consuming love affair with the self-destructive and terminally ill Rayya Elias, a onetime friend for whom...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A private passenger jet crashed Wednesday as it departed from Venezuela’s main airport outside Caracas, injuring at least two people, the country’s aviation agency said. The two people were rescued from the aircraft and were in stable condition after receiving medical attention, Venezuela’s National Instit...

NEW YORK (AP) — With his calm and cool demeanor, fashion disruptor and multi-hyphenate Virgil Abloh artfully challenged the fashion industry’s traditions to leave his mark as a Black creative, despite his short-lived career. In the years since his 2021 death at just 41, his vision and image still linger. Pulitzer Prize-winning writ...

When American Masters approached Marlee Matlin about doing a documentary, Matlin had one name in mind to direct: Shoshanna Stern. Like Matlin, Stern is deaf. She also hadn’t directed before. But Matlin, who herself became the first deaf person in the Directors Guild of America just a few years ago, was certain she was up to the tas...

Damson Idris was trying to tune out the noise, but that’s a little difficult at a Formula One race. The British-Nigerian actor was in the zone, in character, filming the high-octane summer movie “F1” with Brad Pitt at some of the world’s most famous racetracks. While Idris’ profile has been rising in recent years, after six seasons...

NEW YORK (AP) — John Lithgow is returning to Broadway in a play that might change the way we read bedtime stories to our kids. The two-time Tony Award-winner will star as Roald Dahl in “Giant,” which explores accusations of antisemitism against the beloved writer of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Matilda” and “James and the G...

NEW YORK (AP) — New fiction by Angela Flournoy and Susan Choi, a memoir of tragedy by Yiyun Li and a novel in translation by Nobel laureate Han Kang were among the nominees announced this week for the long lists of the National Book Awards. The National Book Foundation announced 10 books in each of five categories — fiction, nonfic...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Raphael Saadiq has always admired the boldness of stand-up icons like Dave Chappelle and Eddie Murphy who commanded the stage alone with only their stories. Now, the three-time Grammy winner is taking a similar leap, stepping into the spotlight solo for his own one-man show tour, announced Tuesday. The intimate N...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former MSNBC host Joy Reid and authors Percival Everett and John Edgar Wideman are among this years’ recipients of the 46th annual American Book Awards, which celebrate diversity in American art and culture. The awards are presented by the Before Columbus Foundation, the nonprofit that author-playwright Ishmael Reed...

NEW YORK (AP) — At age 29, with several novels and millions of copies sold behind her, R.F. Kuang is just getting started. The author of “Yellowface” and the current bestseller “Katabasis,” Kuang has an agreement with HarperCollins Publishers for four more books, including a pair of fantasy novels for the imprint Harper Voyager and...

NEW YORK (AP) — Reneé Rapp was clear on her intentions for her sophomore album, “Bite Me,” from the start. “That intention, and also wanting to prove it to myself, was really grueling,” Rapp told The Associated Press. “And also really fun.” The writing process gave Rapp, 25, an outlet to work through the burnout-inducing whirlwind...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you wondered why Miguel didn’t release a studio album for nearly a decade, his response is simple: life. “I needed to do some growing. I had to get my (expletive) together.” Since 2017’s “War & Leisure,” the world has experienced a variety of globally-impactful events: a second Donald Trump presidency, a coronavi...

NEW YORK (AP) — While classmates dreamed of becoming teachers, doctors and professional athletes, Burna Boy was clear on his future aspirations. “They would hand out the papers and the question would be, ‘What you wanna be?’ … I’d write ‘rock star,’” said the Afrobeats giant. “One of my teachers asked me, ‘What do rock stars do?’ I...

NEW YORK (AP) — A$AP Rocky had no idea Denzel Washington was going to throw Nas at him. Midway through Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest,” a New York riff on Akira Kurosawa’s “High to Low,” wealthy music executive David King (Washington) has cornered aspiring rapper Yung Felon (Rocky) after he tried to kidnap King’s son. They meet in a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Odenkirk ducks into a West Village coffee shop wearing sunglasses and a Chicago Cubs cap. Some degree of subterfuge might have been necessary for Odenkirk years ago. Surely fans of “Mr. Show” or “The Larry Sanders Show” might have recognized him. But with time, Odenkirk has traveled from the fringes of pop cultu...

NEW YORK (AP) — His is a Cinderella story. Before the big tours and country music award nominations, Bailey Zimmerman was growing up in the small town of Louisville, Illinois, working at the local meat processing plant and laying gas pipeline. Then, in 2020, he decided to upload videos of himself singing to social media — Black Sto...

MIAMI (AP) — His presence had remained a mystery, but Bad Bunny was there in person Thursday night to receive all the 2025 Billboard Latin Music Awards that were given to him, including the special Billboard Top Latin Artist of the 21st Century Award. Puerto Rican star Rita Moreno presented him with the accolade, and flirtatiously...

Since 2021, the USA Network had stacked its lineup with reality shows and sports, entirely forgoing original, scripted programming. Fans of “Suits”, “White Collar” and “Monk” were left with only memories of those shows’ case-of-the-week storytelling. But on Friday, the network returns to scripted TV with the legal thriller “The Rai...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — After three decades in Hollywood, Daniel Dae Kim has done spy thrillers, sci-fi epics and medical dramas. But there’s one role that’s eluded the Korean American actor: romantic leading man. “I’m still waiting to play a romantic lead after all these years,” Kim says with a laugh. His latest project, “Butter...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long before the Icelandic Chinese artist Laufey became recognized the world over for her neoclassical jazz-meets-pop music, she was a student, answering a familiar yearbook prompt: “Where do you see yourself in 10 years?” Her answer: Move to the U.S., sign a record deal and win a Grammy. The 26-year-old has done...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you were surprised when Mariah the Scientist’s “Burning Blue” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s rhythmic airplay chart, you weren’t alone. “It’s shocking. It’s almost like impostor syndrome, feeling, ’I have a number one song on the radio? This is crazy,’” said the 27-year-old with a bright smile. “It makes me feel like s...

For Rebecca F. Kuang, who has had six bestsellers before the age of 30, an eternal afterlife of leisure scares her more than the idea of going to hell. “As a child, I was told when you die you go to heaven and heaven is where you eat cake all day and just get to hang out with your friends,” said the 29-year-old Chinese American nov...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When asked where she lives, Big Thief lead vocalist Adrianne Lenker will tell you “the forests.” The Grammy-nominated writer drifts between the Northeast, Minnesota and Texas, like a folk-rock musician of another era. But as the band was splintering last year, she hunkered down with them in upstate New York. Bass...

The documentary crew that followed the employees at Dunder Mifflin paper company on “The Office” must sure love paper. In its new spinoff, the cameras are back up and filming the day-to-day at another paper company — a newspaper called the Toledo Truth Teller. In the premiere, Truth Teller managing editor Esmeralda Grand (Sabrina I...

Taylor Kitsch’s character ends up a villain in 2022’s Chris Pratt-led series, “The Terminal List,” and in a new series, viewers learn how he got that way. “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf,” now streaming on Prime Video, is set about five years before the original show. Kitsch plays Ben Edwards, a Navy SEAL deployed to Iraq who is assi...

TORONTO (AP) — The morning after Rian Johnson premiered his latest whodunit “Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” he and one of his stars, Glenn Close, were debating billing. Not among the main cast, which considering all the stars in “Wake Up, Dead Man” — Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, to name a few — w...

NEW YORK (AP) — The plots of Dan Brown’s novels have so many turns that even the author has to make sure he can keep it all organized. “Anybody who writes a thriller needs to have a plan. There’s a great saying that the thriller writer who starts a book without knowing where’s he’s going is just lying,” he told The Associated Press...

The experiment was a remarkable success. In 2023, the Hybe Corporation and Geffen Records set out on a quest to create a massively popular global girl group. The following year, their process was documented on the Netflix series “Popstar Academy: Katseye.” That June, the sextet Katseye debuted. But this was no ordinary pop act. Mem...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sarah McLachlan’s first album in over a decade was supposed to be her last. At least, it felt that way to her for a short while. Out Friday, the release, titled “Better Broken,” has been many years in the making. “It had been so long since I’d made a record,” she told The Associated Press. “I kind of thought, maybe...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel’s television future hung in the balance Thursday after ABC suspended his late-night show following the host’s comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, leaving the network’s parent company to decide whether supporting him is worth the risk to its business. Two other companies that operate dozens...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Samara Joy’s voice has the ability to transform listeners to the early jazz clubs, filling them with warm nostalgia for legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. At 25, Joy is a five-time Grammy winning recording artist, whose album, “Linger Awhile” won her best new artist and best jazz vocal album in 2023....

ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show following comments he made about the killing of Charlie Kirk drew reactions from across the entertainment and political worlds, including from President Donald Trump. Fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert got the news Wednesday while taping an episode of his own show in New York, telling a s...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from late night is not the first time a TV host has faced pushback or punishment for their on-air comments or off-air actions. Career fabrications, romances, racial discussions, conflicts of interest, slurs, lewd language and sexual assault: TV hosts have faced career repercussions or pushb...

President Donald Trump’s contentious relationship with U.S. news organizations has led to a host of legal battles and disputes, the latest of which came with ABC’s suspension and — days later — return of the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show. Trump had celebrated the suspension of Kimmel, a veteran late-night comic and frequent critic of t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off its historic 50th season, “Saturday Night Live” is kicking off its 51st with some familiar faces: Bad Bunny, Amy Poehler and Sabrina Carpenter. The trio, no stranger to Studio 8H, will host the first three episodes of the season, NBC announced Thursday. All three were heavily involved in the Season 50 cele...

The training facility of the Maine Space Corporation, the quasi-governmental agency tasked with building the infrastructure for the state’s nascent space industry, sits at the end of a humming hallway in Brunswick Landing’s Hangar 5. On an exceptionally hot day in mid-July, in the absence of air conditioning, the windows were shutt...

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers hosted their late-night shows Thursday using a mix of humor and solidarity with suspended ABC host Jimmy Kimmel. Stewart opted for satire to critique ABC suspending “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” indefinitely following comments he made about the assassination of conservative activist...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two ABC affiliate owners say they’ll continue to preempt late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel with their own local programming, even after ABC said they would reinstate his show nationally. Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group’s decision highlights the influence and sometimes-tenuous relationship local...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine. Instead of normal programing, Ukrainian viewers saw parade footage beamed in from Moscow: waves of tanks, soldiers and weaponry. The message was meant to intimida...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As late-night talk shows undergo major changes and controversy, a new poll finds that while most Americans don’t watch them regularly, the ones who do make such programming part of their routine are more likely to be Democrats. Only about one-quarter of Americans say they have watched a late-night talk show or var...

KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — Deep in the Swedish forest, where reindeer roam and scientists ski in winter, lies one of Europe’s hopes for a spaceport that can ultimately compete with the United States, China and Russia. For decades, Europe has relied upon the U.S. for its security among the stars. But the Trump administration’s “America F...

Doja Cat’s 15-track album “Vie” and James Gunn’s “Superman” flying to HBO Max are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: The fifth season of the misfit espionage dram...

Talk about fake news: In 1907 a New York Times banner headline declared, “There Is Life On the Planet Mars.” Upping the ante the next year, the stodgy Wall Street Journal claimed “proof” of “conscious, intelligent human life” on our red neighbor. A decades-long cultural phenomenon is revisited in the “The Martians: The True Story o...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Archaeologists in Cambodia have unearthed a dozen centuries-old sandstone statues in a “remarkable discovery” at the Angkor World Heritage Site near the city of Siem Reap, authorities said Wednesday. The statues — depicting so-called “door guardians” — were discovered last week near the north gate leadin...

CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations’ mission in Libya said a rocket struck near its headquarters in the country’s largely lawless western region while the UN envoy was briefing the Security Council. No casualties were reported after the rocket was launched late Thursday in the vicinity of the mission’s compound in the Mediterranean cit...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting...

CAIRO (AP) — Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials near the famed city of Luxor, Egyptian authorities said. Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said in a statement Friday the tomb, which dates back to the Middle Kingdom (1938 B.C.-1630 B.C.), was found in the South Asas...

ROME (AP) — The Pompeii archaeological park plans to limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day and introduce personalized tickets starting next week in a bid to cope with over-tourism and protect the world heritage site, officials said Friday. The move comes after what authorities called a record summer that saw over 4 million people v...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A two-month multinational police operation spanning nine Latin American countries resulted in 225 arrests for environmental crime and hundreds of new investigations into illegal logging, wildlife trafficking and gold mining, Interpol said Friday. The announcement marked the first public comments about the cr...

With their distinctive shaggy orange manes, pale blue faces and dense fur covering their hands and feet, it’s hard to mistake China’s endangered golden snub-nosed monkeys for any other animal. These rare and charismatic monkeys, unique to the frigid mountains of central China, have recently joined the country’s famous pandas as fur...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has launched a new spy satellite that defense officials described as a strategic cornerstone, saying it will strengthen their surveillance capacity across the Middle East in the years ahead. Military officials and Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that the satellite, launched late Tuesday, will enh...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The Trump administration is telling Colorado to stop importing gray wolves from Canada as part of the state’s efforts to restore the predators, a shift that could hinder plans for more reintroductions this winter. The state has been releasing wolves west of the Continental Divide since 2023 after Colorado...

ROME (AP) — Italian authorities announced Tuesday the seizure of an illegal excavation of an Etruscan burial site in the central Umbria region and are investigating two people for suspected theft of urns, sarcophagi and other artifacts worth 8 million euros ($8.5 million) intended for sale on the black market. The illegal dig was a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize. The findings were published Friday in Sci...

SEATTLE (AP) — For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the foundation of the marine food web and helps regulate the planet’s climate, will decline sharply as seas heat up....

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has reached a deal worth about $17 billion with EchoStar for spectrum licenses that it will use to beef up its Starlink satellite network. The deal for EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses includes up to $8.5 billion in cash and up to $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock. SpaceX will make approximately $2 billi...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has likely carried out an undeclared missile test at its Imam Khomeini Spaceport, satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press showed Thursday, underlining Tehran’s effort to maintain its weapons program despite the 12-day war with Israel in June. Iran has not formally acknowledged last...

The sun is about to pull another disappearing act across North America, turning day into night during a total solar eclipse. The peak spectacle on April 8 will last up to 4 minutes, 28 seconds in the path of total darkness — twice as long as the total solar eclipse that dimmed U.S. skies in 2017. This eclipse will take a different...

NEW YORK (AP) — Where will you be watching the April 8 total solar eclipse? There are just a few weeks left to pick your spot to see the skies darken along a strip of North America, whether by land, sea or air. For those who live inside the 115-mile-wide (185-kilometer-wide) path of total darkness, it may be a matter of just steppi...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at the same site. The torso, believed to be from the 12th or 13th century, was discovered during a dig by a te...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru. The preserved skin of the mummies and the black tattoo ink used show a stark contrast — revealing fine details in tattoos dati...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. A resident discovered the 80-centimeter (31-inch) headless statue beside a trash bin in Neoi Epivates, outside Greece’s second-largest city....

WASHINGTON (AP) — A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was found in northern Spain in 2022. The fossil is between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old, according to research publis...

VIENNA (AP) — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors in a battle involving Germanic tribes. On Wednesday, after archaeo...

NEW YORK (AP) — The deadline to file your taxes is less than a month away, and if you’re doing them for the first time, you might be feeling added pressure. “It’s an incredibly daunting and stressful experience for many of them,” said Miklos Ringbauer, a certified public accountant based California. Planning ahead, doing your resea...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Niède Guidon, the Brazilian archaeologist known for discovering hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil and for her research challenging theories of ancient human presence in the Americas, died Wednesday at 92, the Serra da Capivara National Park announced. Guidon first documented the red...

NEW YORK (AP) — Taxes may not be the first thing on your mind when you celebrate a joyous occasion like a marriage or a new baby. But once you return from your honeymoon or while your newborn is napping, you’ll need to spend some time thinking about them. Keeping your documents organized, updating your withholding and knowing which...

BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor. Now an international team of archaeologists has found new evidence to support the theory. The team undertook testing to determine the construct...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you know or suspect you can’t pay the taxes you owe this tax season, you should still file a return with that information or file for an extension. That’s the top piece of advice that tax professionals want you to know. “The IRS wants to work with you,” said Tom O’Saben, director of tax content and government rel...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt unveiled three new tombs of prominent statesman in the Dra Abu al-Naga necropolis in Luxor, officials said Monday. Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.) and identified the names and titles of their owners through inscriptions found within, according t...

NEW YORK (AP) — If your life has been upended by a wildfire, hurricane, flood, tornado, or another disaster this past year, the IRS recognizes that you may need more time to file your taxes and grants you an automatic extension beyond the normal filing deadline, which is Tuesday. You’re also permitted to write off a certain amount...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Search and rescue teams recovered the bodies of a Belgian mother and her son on Monday in Jordan, police said a day after the woman and her three children were reported missing in flash flooding. The other two children were found alive. Sunday’s flooding in southern Jordan also led to the evacuation of hundreds...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Texas judge earlier this month threw out a federal rule that would have capped credit card late fees at $8. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau finalized the rule last year as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to do away with what it called junk fees. It was paused by the courts before it could take ef...

NEW YORK (AP) — Between collections resuming, courts blocking student loan programs and layoffs at the Education Department, borrowers might be confused about the status of their student loans. Recently, the Education Department announced it would start involuntary collections on defaulted loans, meaning the roughly 5.3 million bor...

NEW YORK (AP) — Financial markets are volatile. Consumer confidence is at its lowest level in five years. Economists say recession risks are rising. It all adds up to financial uncertainty for a lot of Americans. Roughly half of U.S. adults say that President Trump’s trade policies will increase prices “a lot,” according to a recen...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you’ve waited till the last minute to file your taxes, don’t panic. You still have time to get it done. And if you’re worried that you still might not be able to finish in time, you can file for an extension, which will give you until Oct. 16 to file your return. What do I need to file my tax return? Generally, e...

Overall net worth (assets minus liabilities) The ultimate insight from a net worth statement is exactly what it says: the net worth number, which is simply assets minus liabilities. The number in isolation doesn’t tell you too much, but it is a useful benchmark to track over time. A negative net worth figure would obviously indicat...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Top officials at the Los Angeles firefighters labor union were suspended Monday after an audit conducted by its parent organization found over $800,000 in credit card spending, some of it by the union’s president, could not be accounted for. The International Association of Fire Fighters, which oversees firefight...

NEW YORK (AP) — More Klarna customers are having trouble repaying their “buy now, pay later” loans, the short-term lender said this week. The disclosure corresponded with reports by lending platforms Bankrate and LendingTree, which cited an increasing share of all “buy now, pay later” users saying they had fallen behind on payments...

If unanticipated expenses exceed your emergency fund, here’s a look at where to go next. 1. Your own emergency fund/short-term securities Emergency funds should be held outside of tax-sheltered wrappers and include highly liquid investments like bank savings accounts, money market accounts, and so on. 2. Low-risk assets in taxable...

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores suffer now that the U.S. government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. After 90 days of non-payment, student loan servicers report delinquent, or past-due, accounts to major credit bureaus, which use the information to recalcul...

LONDON (AP) — A consortium led by U.S. investment firm RedBird Capital Partners has agreed to buy the publisher of Britain’s 170-year-old Daily Telegraph newspaper for about 500 million pounds ($674 million), the two sides said Friday. Redbird said it has reached an agreement in principle to become controlling owner of the Telegrap...

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores drop now that the U.S. government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. But there are things you can do to help your score rebound. Courtney Alev, consumer advocate at Credit Karma, said it’s understandable that people have missed...

Charities received $592.5 billion in donations in 2024, a 3.3% increase over 2023, after adjusting for inflation, according to the most recent ” Giving USA ″ report, which takes a comprehensive look at U.S. philanthropy. Only one major cause — religion — saw an inflation-adjusted decline in giving. The increase, reported Tuesday, m...

NEW YORK (AP) — Recent layoffs from technology and media companies and government agencies might have you thinking about job security. Losing your job is a difficult thing to process and you might feel the impact in several parts of your life. But there are things you can do to alleviate some of the stress and anxiety. If you’ve be...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of millions of ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ loans will soon affect credit scores for millions of Americans who use the loans to buy clothing, furniture, concert tickets, and takeout. Scoring company FICO said Monday that it is rolling out a new model that factors the short-term loans into their consumer scores. A m...

Sierra Freeman has a rare genetic disorder that makes her prone to aneurysms and has sent her to the hospital repeatedly. In July 2022, the Stockton resident had surgeries to repair an aortic tear and a ruptured blood vessel in her brain and spent two months at Stanford Medical Center, which hosts one of the leading programs in con...

NEW YORK (AP) — A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have made it easier for consumers to end unwanted subscriptions, has been blocked by a federal appeals court days before it was set to go into effect. But there are ways to end those subscriptions and memberships, even if they take some work. The rule would also have required co...

NEW YORK (AP) — As job-seekers look for work in a challenging environment, an increasing number are falling victim to job scams that promise good pay for completing easy online tasks, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The scams start innocuously, often with a tailor-made text or WhatsApp message, and the scammers take time...

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of student borrowers could begin having their wages garnished as soon as this summer, according to estimates from credit bureau TransUnion. The company predicts that by August roughly 3 million borrowers could move into default, meaning they’re 270 days past due on payments. At that point, loan holders are...

NEW YORK (AP) — Between rising prices and dwindling job growth, using “buy now, pay later” on everything from concert tickets to fast food deliveries is becoming increasingly appealing. But greater use could also mean greater trouble, as more people fall behind on repaying these loans. Buy now, pay later loans gained popularity dur...

NEW YORK (AP) — The seemingly relentless rally on Wall Street drove U.S. stocks to more records on Monday. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% after erasing a modest loss from the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 66 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.7%. It’s the third straight day where all three indexes set an a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amid a federal overhaul of student loan plans, many borrowers have been left wondering what it means for their hopes of loan forgiveness. In particular, those who are enrolled in a repayment plan known as income-based repayment, or IBR, have wondered if forgiveness will still be available to them. A recent update fr...

Many of the best investing moves are made on autopilot. Just look at the track record of automatic payroll deductions and savings increases. Other investing decisions, like a transition into retirement, require a more hands-on approach. Christine Benz, Morningstar’s director of personal finance and retirement planning, recommends t...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Texas removed a Biden-era finalized rule by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed medical debt from credit reports. U.S. District Court Judge Sean Jordan of Texas’s Eastern District, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, found on Friday that the rule exceeded the...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the 2026-27 school year has opened for a limited number of students as part of a beta test, the Department of Education says. The department is rolling out two beta testing phases before the application is fully available to everyone in October. At first, the FAFSA fo...

After a deadly flash flood swept through Kerr County in central Texas this summer, rescuers combed dozens of miles along the Guadalupe River, looking for survivors. The grueling job was made more difficult because the radio system they needed to coordinate the response was not up to the task. Some rescuers got busy signals. Others...

Dimitrios Petsas’s love for downtown Manhattan ran so deep he couldn’t bring himself to leave. “I never lived above Bleecker,” he said. “I took great pride in it — and I can actually recite all of my apartments.” There was Murray Street and William Street, two different apartments on 80 John Street and the place in Tribeca Tower. “...

When Jamie Lenore McKillop and her husband moved to Venice Beach at the end of 2019, the couple felt as if they had secured their Los Angeles dream home. The 3,000-square-foot property straddles the line between midcentury-modern and modernist, a rarity at a time when the area’s newly developed houses look more or less the same. Ms...

Maureen Gangaram is tired of putting money into her mother’s apartment. A tenant in a rent-stabilized unit in Brooklyn, Ms. Gangaram moved into the prewar building full time around 2020, after her mother’s dementia worsened. Her mother, who immigrated to New York from Guyana, has lived there since 1989. At one point, Ms. Gangaram’s...

Q: I live in a rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn, and my landlord won’t accept checks. Tenants are charged a processing fee for every rent payment. If we pay with a bank transfer, we’re charged a $3 fee, and if we pay with a credit card, the fee is $10. There are no other ways to pay. Is this legal? Shouldn’t they have a way fo...

A powerful storm is expected to bring several days of heavy rain, strong winds and mountain snow to parts of the Western United States this week. The storm is the result of an atmospheric river, a long, narrow band in the atmosphere that transports water vapor sometimes hundreds of miles. Sometimes called rivers in the sky, when th...

As they raised three children in Malibu, Calif., Jennifer Kell and Dominic Surprenant bought, renovated and sold numerous houses, rarely staying in one place for long. “We were doing a lot of house flipping,” said Ms. Kell, 56, an architect, who noted that she loved the process of renovating homes. By the 2010s, however, all the co...

Frothy reality television shows like “Selling Sunset” and “Buying Beverly Hills” may make it seem otherwise, but the average real estate agent in the United States is not pulling up to open houses in a Lamborghini and navigating the cobblestone pathway to the front door in Louboutin heels. In fact, one makes around $50,000 a year,...

Fayetteville, Texas | $799,999 A circa 1856 farmhouse, on 0.2 acres This four-bedroom, three-bathroom house, most recently used as a short-term rental property, is in the center of Fayetteville and within walking distance of a diner, a convenience store and a handful of antiques stores. Round Top, home of an antiques fair that draw...

Three people were killed in a landslide near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as Tropical Storm Melissa crawled its way through the Caribbean, and on Friday authorities across the region were preparing for additional heavy rain and hurricane-strength winds throughout the weekend from the storm. Forecasters with the U.S. National Hurricane Ce...

On a brisk Saturday morning last week, Adam Kushner anxiously glanced outside his door on Minetta Lane, where an orderly queue had begun to form on the sidewalk. Teeming crowds are not unusual on this quiet Greenwich Village block, which has an Off Broadway theater, a couple of restaurants and a music club. This time, though, they...

While many tropical storms move across the Atlantic Ocean at a steady pace, Tropical Storm Melissa is lumbering over the warm waters of the western Caribbean, coming to a near standstill just southeast of Jamaica as it collects moisture and gains strength. The stalled storm was dumping rain over Haiti on Friday and has already kill...

There was no other way to put it: The house had bad bones. A late-19th-century rowhouse, it contained a hallway to nowhere, a backdoor that opened to empty space above an alley, a staircase that didn’t quite reach the second floor (wooden wedges had been added haphazardly to fill the gaps) and a square tub that resembled a roasting...

Think of it as an alternative houseplant, a method for decorating an indoor space with a bit of the great outdoors. Wasp nests have become a surprisingly sought-after home décor commodity, with some priced at up to $250 per specimen. The nests have a kind of odd beauty that has compelled people to hang them in their living rooms, o...

Manhattan | 347 West 22nd Street, No. 9 A two-bedroom, two-bath, roughly 1,300-square-foot apartment with an open floor plan, marble countertops, a breakfast bar, a full bathroom, a fireplace, French doors and a balcony on the lower level. Two bedrooms, a full bathroom, a washer/dryer and 11-foot ceilings are on the upper floor. It...

Westchester | 1422 Arlington Street, Mamaroneck, N.Y. A three-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, 1,750-square-foot, expanded and renovated house built in 1929 with original hardwood floors, a formal living room with a fireplace, a formal dining room, two sunrooms (one all-seasons), a kitchen with a breakfast nook, a primary bedroom suit...

To own a dog in New York City is to be privy to a world of street-level folk art. Around front stoops, fences and tree beds, homeowners and street gardeners erect handmade fencing made of rustic driftwood or found pieces of mesh or metal. They knit skinny spiderwebs of string or wire meant to keep dogs from diving into the dirt or...

As housing costs rise, more Americans are being forced to break a long-held home-budgeting guideline: the “30 percent rule,” which states that your home is “cost burdened” if you spend more than 30 percent of your income on housing. Newly released U.S. Census Bureau data shows that in 2024, elevated mortgage and insurance fees have...

The mothers arrived at the emergency feeding center all day long, their faces tight with anxiety, their children limp in their arms. Nurses quickly weighed each child and checked for infection. The frailest were given tubes threaded up their noses and down into their bellies, for a slow drip of fortified milk. Those a little bigger...

The Treasury Department says Americans have lost more than $16.6 billion to an online scam industry largely based in Southeast Asia that targets victims around the world. Scam centers rely on forced labor, and they proliferated during the pandemic. By some estimates they take in at least $64 billion a year. The authorities in sever...

Westmere | $2.87 million (NZD $5 million) A steel-clad modernist house by an award-winning architect This 2,200-square-foot house in Westmere, an Auckland suburb, was designed by Andrew Patterson, recipient of a 2017 Gold Medal from the New Zealand Institute of Architects. The home’s cladding, in industrial long-run steel, contrast...

The idea of “mistress dispelling” sounds like something made up for a movie: A spouse hires someone to break up their partner’s extramarital relationship. But it’s a real industry that’s emerged in China in the past decade, and it’s the subject of Elizabeth Lo’s haunting new documentary, “Mistress Dispeller” (in theaters). Lo’s pre...

India has a teeming population of able-bodied workers, tens of millions more than its employers can accommodate. Many other countries have the opposite problem: more jobs than workers. Today, across the Indian government and business sector, a movement is gaining steam to begin exporting more workers. The idea, which economists cal...

A motorcycle struck a bus on a highway in southern India and got lodged underneath, turning the bus into a speeding fireball that killed 20 people, the authorities said Friday. The collision created sparks that ignited the bus’s gas tank as it was dragged down the highway. “Ninety percent of the bus has been charred and only the...

In the first week of July, staff members at the Suuqa Xoolaha Center for Mothers and Children, a hospital in southern Somalia, closed its doors and locked its high front gate. Funding from the United States, which paid for salaries and medical supplies, had been cut by the Trump administration, and the aid organization that managed...

Kenya held a state funeral on Friday for Raila Odinga, a former prime minister and opposition leader whose decades of political struggle made him a powerful symbol of the country’s democracy. Thousands of people attended the funeral, held at Nyayo National Stadium in the capital, Nairobi, many waving handkerchiefs and bearing large...

A growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill have raised concerns about President Trump’s expanding war against drug cartels carried out without consultation or authorization by Congress, and are pressing for more information and involvement in a campaign whose legal basis remains murky. Most in the group have not expressed expl...

Two days after the ouster of Madagascar’s president, the desperate conditions that led the country’s young people to rise up in mass protest were as evident as their anger. At the University of Antananarivo in the capital city, the smell of sewage filled the air in a building on campus. Hallways were dark because the electricity wa...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford as well as its accompanying warships and attack planes to waters off Latin America, the Pentagon said on Friday, in a dramatic escalation of military might in the region. The enhanced American presence “will bolster U.S. capacity to det...

The teenagers arrived at the restaurant in Montgomery, Ala., bright-eyed, chatty and ready to grill. But as the conversation turned to the events of a recent Saturday night, their demeanor quickly shifted. At school, online and in their neighborhoods, everyone was talking about the explosion of gunfire downtown on Oct. 4, blocks fr...

A cease-fire announced by Afghanistan and Pakistan on Sunday has brought respite from the worst flare-up of tensions between the neighboring countries in years. For nearly two weeks, Afghanistan and Pakistan exchanged military attacks that killed dozens of people, injured hundreds and threatened to turn into full-on conflict. After...

The gold in the Oval Office can be scraped off by a future president. The Rose Garden lawn can be replanted, reversing the experiment of turning it into a Mar-a-Lago-style patio. But the destruction of the East Wing is different, for two reasons that may explain why the images of giant metal claws ripping down a symbol of American...

At least 46 people were killed in a bus crash involving multiple vehicles in central Uganda, the police said on Wednesday, one of the deadliest road accidents in the East African country in decades. The crash took place overnight on the main highway between the capital, Kampala, and the northern city of Gulu. Uganda’s police force...

In calling a halt to trade talks with Canada, President Trump pointed to an ad paid for by the province of Ontario that used a speech President Ronald Reagan made decades ago. In it, Mr. Reagan speaks against tariffs, a tool Mr. Trump has widely deployed, including against Canada, and warns against protectionism. Mr. Trump claimed...

China has accused the United States of “double standards” after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose an additional 100 percent tariff on Chinese goods in response to Beijing’s curbs on exports of rare earth minerals. China says its export control measures announced last week were in response to the US restrictions on its...

After struggling for weeks to find a foreign country willing to accept Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March, the Trump administration floated a new plan on Friday. It said that the African nation of Liberia had agreed to take him in. In a brief court filing, lawyers for the...

The Trump administration began an investigation on Friday into whether China complied with the terms of a trade agreement it reached with President Trump in his first term, ramping up tensions between the world’s largest economies. The investigation could result in more tariffs on Chinese imports. It comes as Mr. Trump is preparing...

Again and again in Chicago and elsewhere in recent weeks, masked federal agents have accosted people who appear to be Latino, and have confronted them with questions about their immigration status. Targeting people for immigration enforcement based on race or ethnicity alone was forbidden by the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous de...

Bay Area cities beyond San Francisco have been spared from the Trump administration’s earlier plans to conduct a surge of immigration enforcement, two federal officials familiar with the situation said on Friday. President Trump announced a day earlier that he had called off the deployment in San Francisco after being persuaded by...

China tightened export controls for critical rare-earth metals on Thursday. The new restrictions, announced by the Ministry of Commerce, come in advance of an expected meeting between United States President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, later this month. The world’s two largest economies have been locked in...

Mayor Daniel Lurie of San Francisco did what he does best after the Trump administration prepared to send border agents to the Bay Area for a major crackdown on immigration this week. He stayed calm. He worked the phones. In doing so, Mr. Lurie and his team visualized concentric circles of prominent business leaders who could persu...

The Dutch government has intervened to take effective control of technology group Nexperia, which is owned by Chinese group Wingtech Technology. The decision comes amid a growing rift between China and the West over the development of technology such as computer chips and semiconductors, which are essential components for the manuf...

President Trump said that an anonymous private donor has given $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the government shutdown. It is not clear how far the donation would go toward covering the salaries of the more than 1.3 million troops who make up the active-duty military. According to the Congressional Bud...

World leaders gathered in New York from September 23 to 29 for the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Israel faced growing isolation as speaker after speaker condemned its ongoing war on Gaza, and delegates from multiple countries staged walkouts when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage...

Coast Guard police shot two people on Thursday night outside a base in Alameda, Calif., where protests against a planned federal immigration raid had drawn more than 200 people earlier in the day. Around 10 p.m. on Thursday, Coast Guard security spotted a U-Haul truck driver operating the vehicle erratically and trying to ram into...

The man accused of starting a small fire on New Year’s Day that later rekindled and grew into the destructive Palisades fire in Los Angeles pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges in connection to the blaze. The suspect, Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, was arrested on Oct. 7 and charged with “maliciously” starting a fire that damaged...

Pakistan has sent its first-ever hyperspectral satellite into orbit, a “major milestone” it says will help advance national objectives from agriculture to urban planning. The country’s space agency, SUPARCO, announced the “successful launch” of the H1 satellite from northwestern China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on Sunday. Hy...