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Lone loss sparked Dante Moore and Oregon toward College Football Playoff run 12/29/2025 03:01pm • A loss changed Dante Moore's mindset and fueled Oregon's run to the College Football Playoff. Frustrated by an uneven performance against top-ranked Indiana in October, Moore vowed not to put enormous pressure on himself again and he's been stellar ever since. "I made that game bigger than what it w Protests erupt in Iran over currency's plunge to record low 12/29/2025 01:38pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Iran's largest protests in three years erupted Monday after the country���s currency plummeted to a record low against the U.S. dollar, and the head of the Central Bank resigned. State TV reported the resignation of Mohammad Reza Farzin, while traders and shopkeepers rallied in Tennessee and Illinois set for Music City Bowl with each team missing starters 12/29/2025 11:05am • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Playing the Music City Bowl isn't exactly what the Tennessee Volunteers once targeted in a season that featured four losses to teams inside the top 15 of the final College Football Playoff rankings. ���There has been some disappointment, obviously, but it���s a group that c Sports on TV for Tuesday, Dec. 30 12/29/2025 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Tuesday, Dec. 30 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN���S) 5 p.m. BTN ��� Howard at Northwestern 6 p.m. SECN ��� Albany at South Carolina 7 p.m. ACCN ��� Pittsburgh at Miami BTN ��� Milwaukee at Wisconsin ESPN2 ��� Florida St. at North Carolina FS1 Trying to improve your health and wellness in 2026? Keep it simple 12/29/2025 08:42am • The new year is a time when many try to start new good habits and commit to improving health and wellness. But resolutions, lofty as they may be, can turn daunting quickly with all the advice and sometimes contradicting information coming at you from news reports, advertisers, influencers, friend 'The past gives comfort': Finding refuge on analog islands amid deepening digital seas 12/29/2025 07:27am • As technology distracts, polarizes and automates, people are still finding refuge on analog islands in the digital sea. The holdouts span the generation gaps, uniting elderly and middle-aged enclaves born in the pre-internet times with the digital natives raised in the era of online ubiquity. They Ancient meditation practices find new life in modern religious communities across America 12/29/2025 07:20am • On most Monday nights, the sanctuary of All Saints Episcopal Church ��� with its vaulted ceilings, stone arches and stained-glass windows ��� seamlessly transforms into a space of quiet contemplation. It���s in this Gothic Revival church in Pasadena, California, that Betty Cole, a longtime Zen prac AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Iowa���s state Senate special election 12/29/2025 07:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Voters in a Democratic-leaning West Des Moines-area district will pick a new state senator Tuesday in a special election that could allow Iowa Republicans to regain a supermajority in the chamber and secure the party���s grip on state government. Democrat Renee Hardman of West De Zabien Brown has a 'clutch gene' that has become part of Alabama's DNA heading into the Rose Bowl 12/29/2025 06:00am • TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) ��� Alabama cornerback Zabien Brown has a knack for making big plays. He's delivered so many during two seasons with the Crimson Tide that there's only one explanation: It's part of his DNA. ���It���s just that clutch gene,��� Brown said. ���I don���t know what it is. It���s ju Best women's programs during poll era? UConn, Tennessee head all-time Top 25 with some surprises 12/29/2025 06:00am • UConn has won 12 women���s basketball national championships. Tennessee has won eight. Nobody else comes close. And that���s why it should be no surprise to see those two powerhouse programs ranked atop The Associated Press Top 25 all-time rankings, part of the season-long coverage of 50 years of th Young Africans find hope in farming as urban life becomes too expensive 12/29/2025 03:22am • TAMBACOUNDA, Senegal (AP) ��� On a blazing afternoon in Senegal, 33-year-old farmer Filly Mangassa heaved peanut plants onto a horse-drawn cart, sending clouds of dust swirling. Ten years ago, he left his village for the capital, Dakar, dreaming of becoming a professor. But the high cost of living a Families of Bondi Beach victims demand more federal action on antisemitism and security failures 12/29/2025 01:29am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Families of victims of the recent Sydney massacre that targeted a Jewish festival released an open letter on Monday calling for more federal action to investigate a rise in antisemitism and the security failures behind Australia's worst mass shooting in three decades. T Out with the old: With 2026 nigh, here's some wide-ranging intel on managing transitions 12/29/2025 12:16am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It's that time ��� December's waning days, when we prepare to turn the calendar page. Many Americans take stock, review goals accomplished and unmet, ponder hopes and plans. How's our health? What's up with our money? What about the country? Will the coming year look like the depar South Korea���s climate pledge to cut coal, lower emissions clash with US push for LNG purchases 12/29/2025 12:09am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� South Korea is promising to shrink its reliance on coal power as part of its pledge to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to climate change, but that ambition is at odds with the Trump administration���s push for more U.S. natural gas exports. At recent United Nation Hungary's 'water guardian' farmers fight back against desertification 12/28/2025 10:07pm • KISKUNMAJSA, Hungary (AP) ��� Oszk��r Nagyap��ti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his hand, looking for a sign of groundwater that in recent years has been in accelerating retreat. ���It���s much worse, and it���s getting worse