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Updated 18 hours, 12 minutes ago

Hayden Panettiere died from accidental overdose involving fentanyl, coroner says

Paramedics responded to Panettiere's apartment last month after a 911 call and performed CPR and other advanced re…

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
South dominates US population gains as deaths drop

The United States added 1.6 million people, of which more than two-thirds came from international migration

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Love it or hate it, self-checkout is here to stay. But it's going through a reckoning

Theft is indeed an issue. Andrews said a technology that relies on shoppers to do their own scanning and punch in product quantities tempts even law abiding ci…

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Federal Reserve on cusp of what some thought impossible: Defeating inflation without steep recession

The cost of goods — such as used cars, furniture and appliances — has fallen for six straight months.

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
US homelessness up 12% to highest reported level as rents soar and coronavirus pandemic aid lapses

About 653,000 people were experiencing homelessness, the most since the country began using the yearly point-in-time survey in 2007 to count the homeless popul…

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren't sure what to do about it

The dangers could come fast in 2024, as major national elections in the U.S., India and elsewhere could get flooded with AI-generated deepfakes.

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Centenarian survivors of Pearl Harbor attack are returning to honor those who perished 82 years ago

The aging pool of Pearl Harbor survivors has been rapidly shrinking. There is now just one crew member of the USS Arizona still living

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Police say 3 dead, fourth wounded and shooter also dead in University of Nevada, Las Vegas attack

Police haven’t released the identity of the shooter or the motive for the attack

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
2023 (Taylor's Version): The year in pop culture

It’s not like Swift didn’t have big – huge! – years before this. But 2023? This was ridiculous.

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
AP's top songs of 2023: 'On My Mama,' 'Flowers,' 'Monaco' and more

Ten of the best songs of the year, as determined by Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman, in no particular order. Dive in.

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Alaska Air to buy Hawaiian Airlines in a $1.9 billion deal that may attract regulator scrutiny

The companies also said the combination would triple the destinations that can be reached within one stop in North America for travelers from Hawaii

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
House expels New York Rep. George Santos. It's just the sixth expulsion in the chamber's history

Santos joins a short list of lawmakers expelled from the House, and for reasons uniquely his own.

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, dies at 100

He initiated the Paris negotiations that ultimately provided a face-saving means — a “decent interval,” he called it — to get the United States out of a costly…

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
A six-planet solar system in perfect synchrony has been found in the Milky Way

None of the planets in perfect synchrony are within the star’s so-called habitable zone, which means little if any likelihood of life, at least as we know it

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Cities crack down on homeless encampments

Advocates say that’s not the answer

Updated 2 years, 9 months ago
Why do they give? Donors speak about what moves them and how they plan end-of-year donations

While not all will participate in GivingTuesday, which started in 2012 as a hashtag, the date has become a central part of nonprofit fundraising and a kind of …