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America will celebrate its 250th birthday next year. There’s a commemorative ornament for it

When the nonprofit organization planning America’s 250th birthday celebrations decided it wanted an ornament to commemorate that milestone in history, its leadership knew just where to turn for guidance. America250.org worked with the White House Historical Association, which, since 1981, has sold a popular Christmas tree ornament honoring a president or a key White House anniversary. More than 1 […]

NOV. 17, 2025

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

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

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

AP Interview: Security guard who foiled Stade de France bomber recounts traumatic night

Salim Toorabally’s mental scars from the Paris terror attacks 10 years ago have not healed with time and the images of that night at Stade de France remain indelible. The November 2015 attacks began at France’s national stadium and spread across the city in assaults that killed 132 people and injured over 400. One person died and least 14 […]

NOV. 13, 2025

Workers turn to ‘polyworking’ to combat frozen salaries and inflation

As workers face frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs, some have decided to branch out from their traditional careers. They’re taking on side jobs to bring in additional income and provide a backup plan should they find themselves out of work, or adding second, third and sometimes fourth jobs — what some call “polyworking” — to the […]

NOV. 13, 2025

Week in Pictures Nov. 7 – 13, 2025

NOV. 13, 2025

AP, Frontline documentary ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’ to premiere on PBS and begin streaming online

On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, Frontline, the PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, and The Associated Press will present the U.S. broadcast and streaming premiere of “2000 Meters to Andriivka”: a stunning and immersive portrayal of the men fighting on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. From the Oscar®-winning team behind “20 […]

NOV. 13, 2025

As China cracks down on stories about men in love, female fans mourn the idealized romances

For Cindy Zhong, like many young Chinese women, a relaxing night used to mean curling up with a steamy story about two men in love. Then her favorite authors, and their tales, started disappearing. Fans of the popular Danmei same-sex romance genre, written and read mainly by straight women, say the Chinese government is carrying out the […]

NOV. 13, 2025

Lifelong drugs for autoimmune diseases don’t work well. Now scientists are trying something new

Scientists are trying a revolutionary new approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus and other devastating autoimmune diseases — by reprogramming patients’ out-of-whack immune systems. When your body’s immune cells attack you instead of protecting you, today’s treatments tamp down the friendly fire but they don’t fix what’s causing it. Patients face a lifetime of pricey pills, shots or infusions […]

NOV. 13, 2025

Nicolas Cage’s ‘The Carpenter’s Son’ turns an apocryphal text about Jesus’ youth into a horror film

In the second century, as the canonical Gospels were being copied and circulated throughout the Roman Empire, another text about the life of Jesus was simultaneously spreading. Although the Infancy Gospel of Thomas didn’t make it into the New Testament, it remained popular among Christians for centuries. When filmmaker Lotfy Nathan was introduced to the apocryphal text […]

NOV. 13, 2025

Zanzibar’s ‘solar mamas’ are trained as technicians to help light up communities

When darkness came, so did the smoke. Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the 2 million people in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, did not have a house connected to the electricity grid. After sunset, she would turn to smoky oil lamps that provided the only light for her eight children to study. ”The light was too weak,” […]

NOV. 13, 2025