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NOV. 20, 2025
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FILE - Devotees pray Rakher Upobash ritual, a religious festival honoring Hindu saint Loknath Brahmachari, at a temple in Chakla, India, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Bikas Das, File)
This image provided by The Public Interest Network shows artificial intelligence-powered toys tested by consumer advocates at PIRG. (Rory Erlich/The Public Interest Network via AP)
Advocacy groups urge parents to avoid AI toys this holiday season
They’re cute, even cuddly, and promise learning and companionship — but artificial intelligence toys are not safe for kids, according to children’s and consumer advocacy groups urging parents not to buy them during the holiday season. These toys, marketed to kids as young as 2 years old, are generally powered by AI models that have […]
NOV. 20, 2025
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Alek Schott works on his computer next to a map showing the United States and Mexico at his home, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate […]
NOV. 20, 2025
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Pauline Baker and her son, Yaba Baker, pose with one of the pots created by their enslaved ancestor, David Drake, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Descendants obtain works of enslaved potter in landmark restitution deal
Inside the wide mouth of a stoneware jar, Daisy Whitner’s fingertips found a slight rise in the clay — a mark she hoped was a trace left behind by her ancestor, an enslaved potter who shaped the vessel nearly 175 years ago in South Carolina. Standing in the gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts […]
NOV. 20, 2025
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This photo made available by Wisconsin Historical Society Maritime Archeologist Tamara Thomsen, shows the remains of an ancient canoe sitting on the bottom of Lake Mendota, in Madison, Wis., in June 2025. (Tamara Thomsen/Wisconsin Historical Society via AP)
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake ‘parking lot’
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore. The Wisconsin Historical Society announced Wednesday that archaeologists have mapped the location of 16 canoes submerged in the lake bed of Lake Mendota in Madison. Tamara Thomsen, the state’s […]
NOV. 19, 2025
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ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips walks on the field before an NCAA college football game between Pittsburgh and Notre Dame in Pittsburgh, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Commissioner Jim Phillips says ACC freed to focus on future with legal fight resolved
The Atlantic Coast Conference opened 2025 mired in a legal fight with two member schools while waiting on broadcast partner ESPN to extend a media deal with the league for the long term. Those issues long resolved, the league has been focused on the future, building its brand with the arrival of revenue sharing and adapting to the constantly shifting […]
NOV. 18, 2025
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FILE - Sarah Mullally, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world's 85 million Anglicans, speaks inside Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, England, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)
Global Anglican ties are under stress. It’s unclear if they’re at the breaking point
After decades of fierce controversies over sexuality and theology in the Anglican Communion, some leaders of a conservative coalition say it’s time to make a final break from what has long been one of the world’s largest Protestant church families. That would make a slow-growing Anglican schism complete — if it happens. But how many church provinces […]
NOV. 18, 2025
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Purdue guard Fletcher Loyer (2) celebrates after a win over Alabama in an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)
Purdue reclaims No. 1 from Houston in AP Top 25, Louisville and Illinois jump into top 10
Purdue moved back to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday ahead of Houston, which spent a single week there after leapfrogging the Boilermakers. It’s hardly a two-team race for the top, though. UConn, Arizona and Duke also got No. 1 votes from the 61-member media panel in a poll that also […]
NOV. 17, 2025
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UConn guard Blanca Quinonez (4) celebrates with UConn forward Sarah Strong (21) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Ohio State, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025, in Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Michigan and TCU climb into top 10 of women’s AP Top 25 after big wins over ranked opponents
Michigan and TCU vaulted into the top 10 of The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll on Monday after big victories over ranked opponents. The sixth-ranked Wolverines climbed eight spots after routing then-No. 18 Notre Dame 93-54 on Saturday. No. 10 TCU moved up seven places as the Horned Frogs topped then-No. 10 N.C. State on the road […]
NOV. 17, 2025
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Dr. Kailey Anderson examines a white-cheeked gibbon during a wellness checkup at the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, N.J., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Visitors to a New Jersey zoo get to watch veterinarians treat the animals
Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown tortoise getting a veterinary checkup. Over the next half-hour, spectators watched through a plate-glass window as the young sulcata tortoise — an endangered species […]
NOV. 17, 2025
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The U.S. Capitol is pictured from the base of the Washington Monument, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
One issue is uniting Americans in a time of polarization, according to a new poll
Pessimism about the country’s future has risen in cities since last year, but rural America is more optimistic about what’s ahead for the U.S., according to a new survey from the American Communities Project. And despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that crime is out of control in big cities, residents of the nation’s largest metropolitan centers are less […]
NOV. 17, 2025
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This photo provided by the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center shows nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School grounds in Carlisle, Pa., in March 1891, wearing the clothing they arrived in. (John N. Choate/Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center via AP)
AP breaks news as tribes find path to recovering Native American children from U.S. boarding school cemeteries
It’s a process that has been going on for years — returning to tribes the remains of Native American children who died and were buried at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The AP has covered the annual repatriations each year. When Mark Scolforo set out to report on this year’s return, he embraced a digital-first […]
NOV. 14, 2025
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