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AP reconstruction of the attempt to remove Guatemalan children from U.S. custody breaks news

After closely reporting on the Trump administration’s late-night efforts to remove Guatemalan children from U.S. government custody, Rebecca Santana, Valerie Gonzalez and Sonia Pérez D. still had questions. What was Guatemala’s role? How were the children, woken up in the middle of the night and almost removed from the country, doing? To recreate what happened, […]

SEPT. 12, 2025

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Now summer’s over, here’s what to do with all those photos on your camera roll

The summer holidays are over, and all those great times you had on vacation have been memorialized in hundreds of smartphone photos. Now what? Some highlights — the prettiest sunset, the best group shots — have been posted on Instagram or shared in the family chat group. But many more will likely languish in your […]

SEPT. 11, 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 US Orthodox influencer spoke against Russia’s war. Then she was ousted as a nun

Before 2022, Sister Vassa Larin was best known as an Orthodox nun who taught thousands on YouTube about saints and holy days. She became one of the most prominent female intellectuals in Orthodoxy — widely respected within the highly patriarchal religion where all clergy and bishops are male. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. Larin publicly opposed it. Eventually […]

SEPT. 11, 2025

Americans still give awards shows consideration, a new AP-NORC poll finds

Many Americans still want to thank the academy, at least a little. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve watched all or most of an awards show on TV or streaming in the past year, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, while just over half say they’ve watched clips from […]

SEPT. 11, 2025

How to use 8 arms? Octopuses tend to explore with their front limbs

Humans may be right-handed or left-handed. It turns out octopuses don’t have a dominant arm, but they do tend to perform some tasks more often with their front arms, new research shows. Scientists studied a series of short videos of wild octopuses crawling, swimming, standing, fetching, and groping — among other common activities — to analyze how each of […]

SEPT. 11, 2025

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on […]

SEPT. 9, 2025

Climate tracking apps measure your carbon footprint. Here’s how they work

This idea of a carbon footprint comes up a lot in news coverage about personal climate impact. The concept is simple: It includes anything that you add to planet-warming emissions, ranging from the gas consumed by your car to the energy required to produce the food you eat. Reducing your carbon footprint means contributing less […]

SEPT. 9, 2025

Apple’s iPhone 17 line-up includes a new ultra-thin model and $100 price hike for Pro model

Apple on Tuesday rolled out its next generation iPhones, which include a new ultra-thin model and a slight price hike for one of its high-end models, while the company feels the squeeze of a global trade war. The iPhone 17 line-up includes a new slimmed-down model that will adopt the “Air” name that Apple already […]

SEPT. 9, 2025

Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, a new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds

Most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, according to a new poll, while fewer blame a lack of government support. However, just over half also think the government spends too little on those in need, the new poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy […]

SEPT. 9, 2025

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