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Kentucky distillery bounces back from massive flood that briefly halted bourbon production

The long history of bourbon production at Buffalo Trace Distillery has been connected to the Kentucky River — summed up as a blessing and curse by a plaque on the grounds. In the 1800s, long before the Buffalo Trace name was attached to the distillery, the river served as a floating highway to bring in […]

SEPT. 23, 2025

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week kicks off with online voting to crown the most oversized ursine

After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular online voting contest called Fat Bear Week. Those casting votes online starting Tuesday will choose between 11 mammoth brown bears and […]

SEPT. 23, 2025

Scientists discover a new dinosaur from Argentina with a crocodile bone in its mouth

Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur from Argentina with powerful claws, feasting on an ancient crocodile bone. The new find was possibly 23 feet (7 meters) long and hailed from a mysterious group of dinosaurs called megaraptorans. They prowled across what’s now South America, Australia and parts of Asia, splitting off into different species over millions of years. Megaraptorans were known […]

SEPT. 23, 2025

What Americans think about legal immigration, according to a new poll

As President Donald Trump’s administration imposes new restrictions on the legal immigration system, U.S. adults are more likely than they were a year ago to think these immigrants benefit the country, according to a new poll. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Americans are more likely than they were in […]

SEPT. 23, 2025

Rome’s airport opens luxurious dog hotel with pampering services

Dog owners often face a dilemma before traveling: leave your beloved pet with a sitter or at a kennel? Both require quite some planning and logistics, which can be stressful and time-consuming for fur parents. Rome’s Fiumicino International Airport has sought to streamline the process by opening one of the first on-site hotels at a major European […]

SEPT. 22, 2025

High-tech tax authority helps Greece return to Europe’s financial mainstream

With a pristine white exterior, the Greece tax authority’s new headquarters looks out of place on a clogged industrial artery outside Athens. A former shopping mall and ice rink, the building has been overhauled into an ultramodern digital center that has led the rescue of the nation’s ailing finance and tax sector. It is teeming with inspectors who […]

SEPT. 22, 2025

Ukrainian refugee’s train stabbing death becomes early flashpoint in 2026 North Carolina Senate race

 Republicans in North Carolina and beyond are making a concerted effort to turn the stabbing death of a Ukrainian woman on a Charlotte commuter train into a political liability for Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper in his bid to win a key U.S. Senate race that is still more than a year away. GOP candidate Michael Whatley has said Cooper […]

SEPT. 22, 2025

AP CEO: Factual journalism essential for AI

At the Axios Media Trends Live event on Thursday, AP President and CEO Daisy Veerasingham discussed the most important issues facing the news industry, including the global news organization’s industry-leading efforts in the AI content licensing space. “We established two principles right at the beginning of this and the two principles are what’s helped guide our decision […]

AP unravels deportation of a Brazilian woman to peel away at the complexities of immigration debate

The deportation of Maria Pires, who was adopted from a São Paulo orphanage at age 11 and imprisoned as an adult, tells a nuanced story about President Donald Trump’s deportation machine. Pires was abused by her adoptive father, who neglected to obtain her citizenship, making her stateless as an adult. She was not perfect herself, […]

SEPT. 19, 2025

No longer a dull formality, NFL kickoffs require a new set of skills for kickers and returners

The biggest gaffe of the NFL season so far may have occurred in Pittsburgh last weekend, when a Steelers rookie let a kickoff bounce into the end zone and left the ball sitting there, apparently unaware that Seattle could — and did — score a touchdown by falling on it. That type of mistake is a coach’s […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

One of the rarest birds in the world finds a city sanctuary in Hong Kong

Critically endangered yellow-crested cockatoos found an unexpected sanctuary among Hong Kong ’s towering skyscrapers, but like their human neighbors they now face trouble finding a place to call home. Native to Indonesia and East Timor, the snow-white birds, their crests flashing like yellow crowns, squawk through the urban parks of the Asian financial hub. They make up roughly […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia is ready to raise its highest tower and become Europe’s tallest church

After well over a century under construction, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica is ready to raise its immense central tower and become the tallest Christian church in Europe. The basilica’s General Director Xavier Martínez said Thursday that “the tower will be finished at the end of this year or the beginning of 2026.” “This is an important moment […]

SEPT. 18, 2025