Crowds gathered at Mount Holyoke College’s Talcott Greenhouse to witness the rare bloom of “Pangy,” a corpse flower known for its powerful odor resembling decaying flesh. The tropical plant, …
Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues.
Two decades after Steve Jobs premiered the iPhone, a small but intensely passionate movement is rebelling against the omnipresent screen. They say we're spending far too much time staring at our …
The Swedish government says a pro-Russian actor was behind a cyberattack on a heating plant in western Sweden last year. Wednesday's announcement follows similar incidents in Poland in December that …
Vermont wine is gaining recognition as the Champlain Valley is poised to become a federally recognized wine region. A proposed federal rule would designate the "Champlain Valley of Vermont" as an …
Palestinian schoolchildren trying to return to class this week for the first time since the Iran war started were blocked by an impromptu barbed wire fence erected overnight by Israeli settlers. As …
Pope Leo XIV is again emphasizing the need for peace and dialogue despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump. Leo spoke to journalists on a flight to Cameroon on Wednesday. The pontiff …
Maine’s legislature has passed the nation’s first statewide moratorium on energy-hungry data centers. It's an expansion of political opposition to tech giants’ massive artificial intelligence …
A lawyer says guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed detainees at a state-run immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades. A lawyer for two of the …
INDIO, Calif. (AP) — The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, in its 25th edition, returns to the Empire Polo Club. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the same strict air pollution standards as incinerators. The possible change …
Vice President JD Vance used a Turning Point USA event to defend President Donald Trump’s aggression in Iran and downplay the resulting tensions between Washington and the Vatican. But some of the …
It’s officially Tax Day in the U.S. And if you’ve waited till the last minute to file your taxes, don’t panic. You still have time to get it done. And if you’re worried that you still might …
Many Americans are turning to artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT for health advice. A Gallup poll out Wednesday found that about 1 in 4 U.S. adults had used AI for health information in …
They're called meat raffles, and they're a tradition in a few pockets of the U.S. They're featured mainly at neighborhood bars or at American Legion or VFW posts in Minnesota, Wisconsin and New York …
Dearborn, Michigan, home to the nation's largest Arab American community, is grappling with ongoing crises. Families are anxious about relatives in Lebanon, which has been engulfed by the widening …
Officials say crashes involving about 70 vehicles have bottlenecked a section of a snowy Colorado highway and sent eight people to the hospital. The Colorado State Patrol says the massive pileup …
Walmart is redesigning the packaging of its biggest store label brand Great Value to help its shoppers and its gig workers instantly spot whether that bag of spicy chips is gluten free or how much …
Today is Wednesday, April 15, the 105th day of 2026. There are 260 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic …
April 8 -14, 2026 AP mobile scroll: a selection of standout vertical images published by The Associated Press in the past week. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.