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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)
The Origami Holiday Tree stands at the American Museum of Natural History, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Joe Frederick)
Holiday tree featuring thousands of origami works opens at NYC’s American Museum of Natural History
A beloved Christmas tree tradition is returning to Manhattan for the holiday season next week. No, it’s not the towering spruce at Rockefeller Center, which is lit in early December. The comparatively smaller Origami Holiday Tree that’s delighted crowds for decades at the American Museum of Natural History opens to the public on Monday. The colorful, richly decorated […]
NOV. 20, 2025
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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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FILE - An emotional Roger Federer, left, of Team Europe sits alongside his playing partner, Rafael Nadal, after their Laver Cup doubles match against Team World's Jack Sock and Frances Tiafoe in London, Sept. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Roger Federer elected to International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1st year of eligibility
Well, this will come as no surprise to anyone who’s paid any attention over the past quarter-century: Roger Federer was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, the Rhode Island-based Hall announced Wednesday. The first man to win 20 Grand Slam singles titles, and part of an era of unprecedented greatness with […]
NOV. 19, 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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A driver charges his electric truck at a charging station on the outskirts of Beijing, on Nov. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China’s diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand
China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport. In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran on diesel. By the first half of 2025, battery-powered trucks accounted for 22% of new heavy truck sales, up from 9.2% in the […]
NOV. 19, 2025
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Andrii Dzhuma, 58, poses for a portrait while waiting out an air alarm on the job, where his team was supposed to fix power lines damaged following a Russian attack, Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, in Chernihiv, Ukraine. “Somehow, but we still give people light,” Dzhuma says with a shy smile, acknowledging that he is proud of his work and of his colleagues. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
PHOTO ESSAY: Portraits of workers keeping Ukraine out of the dark
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Utility workers in Ukraine are risking their lives as they battle to keep the lights as Russia repeatedly attacks the energy system.
NOV. 18, 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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This image shows a recipe for pan fried polenta with sauteed mushrooms. (Cheyenne M. Cohen via AP) i
This simple polenta and mushroom dish will elevate your Thanksgiving table
This simple recipe is a marriage of two even simpler foods, that add up to one flavorful appetizer, main dish or side. This would be welcome any time from breakfast to lunch to dinner, and also a nice entertaining idea. And they would be a great addition to a Thanksgiving table, a cheery little side dish, or […]
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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