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Sarah Huckabee Sanders tests political waters by headlining GOP event in early-voting South Carolina

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to headline the latest iteration of an event previously billed as the largest annual gathering of Republicans in South Carolina, a state traditionally key to picking the GOP’s presidential nominees, and one in which she already has deep relationships. Rep. Sheri Biggs of South Carolina’s 3rd District told The Associated […]

JULY 30, 2025

Japanese women struggle to find a place in the Japanese sumo world

 Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from the traditional ring, the dohyō in Japanese. That legacy is facing quiet resistance. While professional sumo — the sumo that the world […]

SEPT. 11, 2025

A federal judge in Seattle blocks Trump’s effort to halt the refugee admissions system

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s suspension of the nation’s refugee admissions system, saying that while the president has broad authority over who comes into the country, he cannot nullify the law passed by Congress establishing the program. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by individual […]

FEB. 25, 2025

First Black Republican woman in Congress honored in Utah after her death from brain cancer

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to honor the life and legacy of the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress after she died of brain cancer last month at age 49. The former lawmaker from Utah, a daughter of Haitian […]

APRIL 7, 2025

A year after fame found him in Paris, Stephen Nedoroscik, aka ‘Pommel Horse Guy,’ is back for more

The glasses haven’t gone anywhere. And they aren’t going anywhere. The same goes for Stephen Nedoroscik’s hair, which remains a bit of a floppy, curly brown mess. Nor, insists the gymnast who became forever known as “Pommel Horse Guy” after winning a pair of bronze medals in Paris, has his devotion to the discipline that made him one of the breakout […]

AUG. 7, 2025

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are awarding $5 million to a leader in neurodiversity education

Mega billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, former news anchor Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are awarding $5 million to the founder of a neurodivergent student support network, a recognition that the lesser-known recipient credits to the students powering his fast-growing movement for more inclusive classrooms. “I feel like there’s a narrative sometimes that our little […]

DEC. 17, 2025

Probe Journalists, activists among firm’s spyware targets

Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, talks to members of the media in Istanbul, July 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) BOSTON (AP) — An investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data provides further evidence that military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire outfit, is […]

JULY 18, 2021

Why does AP call US elections?

For 178 years, The Associated Press has played a vital role in U.S. elections, counting the vote and declaring the winners – and reporting them to the world, without fear or favor.  

The AI boom may give Three Mile Island a new life supplying power to Microsoft’s data centers

The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said Friday that it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers with carbon-free energy. The announcement by Constellation Energy comes five years after its then-parent company Exelon shut down the […]

SEPT. 20, 2024

Good wood: MLB hitters cutting down on strikeouts, even in age of increased velocity

Arizona’s Ketel Marte was on the defensive in the 10th inning of a recent game between the Diamondbacks and Reds, desperately fouling off a handful of 100 mph heaters and 90 mph sliders from Cincinnati flamethrower Graham Ashcraft in a riveting battle. Then on the 13th pitch of the at-bat, the All-Star second baseman muscled a […]

AUG. 27, 2025

NATO leaders are set to agree on a historic defense spending pledge, but the hike won’t apply to all

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The head of the NATO military alliance warned Monday that no country could have an opt-out from a massive new hike in defense spending, and that progress they make toward reaching the new target will be reviewed in four years. At a summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday, NATO leaders […]

JUNE 23, 2025

Israelis bid farewell to Shiri Bibas and her 2 young sons killed in captivity in Gaza

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Holding flags, orange balloons and signs saying “forgive us,” tens of thousands of Israelis lined highways as the bodies of a mother and her two young sons, killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip, were taken for burial on Wednesday. The plight of the Bibas family has come to embody […]

FEB. 28, 2025