Melanin Bee curves her spine like a stretching cat as she lets out a maniacal, forced laugh. The quick-fire pattern of manufactured giggles —"oh, hoo hoo hoo, eeh, ha ha ha"— soon ripples into genuine laughter, and she giddily kicks her feet. She's practicing what she calls Laughasté, a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Los Angeles Lakers guard Marcus Smart has been fined $35,000 for making an obscene gesture toward a game official, the NBA announced Saturday. The incident occurred at halftime of the Lakers' 143-135 win over the host Utah Jazz on Thursday. The 31-year-old Smart is averaging ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione's lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi's decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that ...
By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Sometimes kids drop the phone after hearing Santa won't show up if they're not asleep. Others who call the NORAD Tracks Santa hotline wonder if St. Nick will be able to find them. Adults who also remain devoted ...
By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — She had worked 22 days straight in her job as a technician at an engine plant to save up, and now Daijah Bryant could finally do what she was putting off: Christmas shopping. Bryant pushed her cart out of a Walmart in Rocky ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Rep. Elise Stefanik suspended her campaign for New York governor on Friday and said she will not seek reelection to Congress, bowing out of what was expected to be a bruising Republican primary and ending a once-promising tenure ...
By MARK BAKER Associated Press ANTARCTICA (AP) — The Southern Ocean is one of the most remote places on Earth, but that doesn't mean it is tranquil. Tumultuous waves that can swallow vessels ensure that the Antarctic Peninsula has a constant drone of ocean. While it can be loud, the view ...
By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A number of Mexican train crews who had just hauled trains over the border to American rail yards in Texas had trouble understanding important safety information in English during recent focused inspections the Trump administration ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Just before Thanksgiving, Claudio Neves Valente checked into a Boston hotel and traveled to Brown University, where he had studied physics 25 years earlier. The drive to Providence was short, and in the days that followed, the ...
By JAMIE STENGLE and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Court documents detailing the divorce of Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, were released Friday by order of a judge, months after she ...
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California city whose police department came under national scrutiny after it was revealed that some officers shared racist and sexist texts, used excessive force and falsified records has reached a settlement ...
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation said Friday she trusts the Trump-appointed chairman of a federal planning commission to do his job and give serious review to President Donald Trump's proposal to add a ...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — When Idalia Bisbal moved to this Pennsylvania city synonymous with America's working class, she hoped for a cheaper, easier life than the one she was leaving behind in her hometown of New York City. About three years later, she is deeply disappointed. "It's worse than ...
Ukrainian and Russian athletes are scheduled to start a World Cup men's luge race in consecutive order on Saturday, meaning it is almost certain that athletes from those nations will cross paths at least near the start of the track. The start order for the race in Lake Placid, New York, was ...
TREMONTON, Utah (AP) — A large rock bearing petroglyphs created more than 1,000 years ago by the ancestors of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is finally back home in the mountains of northern Utah. The repatriation effort, which began in 2011, culminated earlier this month when ...
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — American rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced by a court in Romania on Thursday to nine months in jail for drug possession, more than a year after he took part in a music festival in the Eastern European country. Khalifa was stopped by Romanian police in July 2024 after ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — To tax tips or not? That is a question that will confront lawmakers in states across the U.S. as they convene for work next year. President Donald Trump's administration is urging states to follow its lead by enacting a slew of new tax breaks for individuals and ...
Across the country, small groups are working to rebuild social connection amid rising loneliness in their own modest ways. It sounds simple — building relationships. But they're up against powerful cultural forces. By many measures, Americans are socially disconnected at historic ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — With the notable exception of Friday night's Alabama-Oklahoma showdown, bettors aren't exactly rushing to place wagers on the opening week of this season's College Football Playoff. The presence of two Group of Five representatives — 11th-seeded Tulane and 12th-seed James ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Fernando Moreno has been on dialysis for about two years, enduring an "unbearable" wait for a new kidney to save his life. His limited world of social contacts has meant that his hopes have hinged on inching up the national waiting list for a transplant. That was until ...