Joel Embiid signs a 3-year, $193 million contract extension with the 76ers
Already an NBA MVP and an Olympic gold medalist, All-Star center Joel Embiid now has until the end of the decade to try to ...
A night with Peter Cat Recording Co., the New Delhi band that’s found global appeal
There’s an unspoken reverence emanating from the crowd as Peter Cat Recording Co. begins to play the blend of disco and jazzy psychedelic melodies that intro ...
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Woman whose firm was linked to the exploding pagers is under Hungarian protection, her mother says
ROME (AP) — The woman whose company was linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria this week is under the protection of the Hungarian secret services, her mother told The ...
50 years after ‘The Power Broker,’ Robert Caro’s dreams are still coming true
Robert A. Caro stands between two giant columns in a second-floor library of the New-York Historical Society, looking out on dozens of friends, family members and colleagues. A ...
Fall equinox to winter solstice; how a cataclysmic event caused us to have seasons on Earth
In this First Warning Weather University lesson, chief meteorologist Nick Bannin explains why seasons are different depending on which hemisphere you live in, and why temperature doesn't mark the ...
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Arundhati Roy’s first memoir, ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me,’ to be published in September 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy’s first memoir is coming out next fall, a book inspired by the death of her mother. Scribner announced Friday that the Indian author and activist’s ...
Tourists can finally visit the Oval Office. A replica is opening near the White House on Monday
Washington is getting a new tourist stop that offers visitors the next best thing to being in the Oval Office: an identical replica of President Joe Biden ‘s office, right ...
Takeaways from AP’s report on churches starting schools in voucher states
Some churches are launching new Christian schools on their campuses, seeking to give parents more education options that align with religious values. State school voucher programs are not the ...
Vouchers ease start-up stress for churches seeing demand for more Christian schools
Florida pastor Melvin Adams knows a few hours of church programming every week is no match for the more than 30 hours children spend at secular schools, absorbing lessons that he says run counter ...
Philippine senator says China should do more to help fight cybercrime gangs
China should do more to battle the illegal online gambling and scam call centers run by Chinese criminal syndicates in Southeast Asian countries often using forced ...
Hezbollah hits northern Israel with 140 rockets
Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets Friday, a day after the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to retaliate against Israel for a mass bombing attack, ...
Israel-Hamas war latest: 15 killed overnight in Gaza in multiple attacks
Palestinian authorities say 15 people were killed overnight in the Gaza Strip in multiple Israeli attacks. An airstrike early Friday morning in Gaza City hit a family home, killing six people ...