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The NBA draft lottery: 14 ping-pong balls, and the right to pick No. 1 overall on the line

Sometime around 6 p.m. EDT Monday, locked inside a secure room with no way of communicating with the outside world, team executives and others will watch 14 ping-pong balls start to bounce inside a machine. The balls will be numbered, 1 through 14. One will be drawn, then a second, then a third, then a […]

MAY 12, 2025

The church where MLK gave his final speech is getting a $1.2 million renovation

Standing in the spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Church of God in Christ leaders said Monday that a $1.2 million federal grant will be used to modernize the treasured piece of the Civil Rights Movement. Located near the former Lorraine Motel, where King was […]

APRIL 13, 2026

Bestselling author Jen Hatmaker says she’s no longer worried about saving Christianity

When bestselling Christian author, podcaster and influencer Jen Hatmaker’s life fell apart following the discovery of her husband’s affair, she just wanted to “bubble wrap my little family and tuck us away from prying eyes forever,” she writes in her new memoir “Awake.” But that wasn’t an option for the woman whose brand was built on writing […]

OCT. 2, 2025

The US Christian population has declined for years. A new survey shows that drop leveling off

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans who identify as Christian has declined steadily for years, but that drop shows signs of slowing, according to a new survey Wednesday from the Pew Research Center. The Religious Landscape Study finds 62% of U.S. adults call themselves Christians. While a significant dip from 2007, when 78% of […]

FEB. 28, 2025

WHO member countries agree on a draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to try to avoid COVID-19 mistakes

Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization’s member countries agreed on a draft “pandemic treaty” that sets guidelines for how the international community might confront the next global health crisis. After the world’s largely disastrous response to the coronavirus, countries tasked the WHO with overseeing a pandemic treaty in 2021. Negotiations concluded early Wednesday on […]

APRIL 16, 2025

Homes and construction show strains on the economy

Houthi rebels attacks in the Red Sea

LA’s largest wildfire destruction

AP severs ties with photographer who altered work

In a photo taken, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, a Syrian opposition fighter takes cover during an exchange of fire with government forces in Telata village, a frontline located at the top of a mountain in the Idlib province countryside of Syria. In the original image (top photo), a fellow journalist’s video camera is visible on […]

JAN. 22, 2014

Mattise appointed AP’s WV statehouse reporter

Jonathan Mattise (AP Photo) Mattise, 28, will be based at the Statehouse in Charleston. He joins the AP from Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, based in Stuart, Fla., where he covered government and politics, including legislative sessions in Tallahassee. In 2012, he won the Florida Society of News Editors’ Sunshine Award for best 2012 election coverage […]

DEC. 26, 2013

Myanmar government under Suu Kyi cracks down on journalists

Myanmar journalist Thet Oo Maung, known as Wa Lone, right, stands with other journalists with their mouths taped, symbolizing the government’s crackdown on media, in Yangon, Myanmar, July 12, 2014.  (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, File) BANGKOK (AP) — When five Myanmar journalists were sentenced to decade-long prison terms for reporting the alleged existence of a military-run chemical […]

FEB. 15, 2018

April Fools’ Day “pranks”?

At April Fools’ time, we’re sometimes asked how we feel about people planting “prank stories” in the media.