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ACC's Jim Phillips defends league backing members in CFP bid chase amid Notre Dame AD's criticism 12/08/2025 10:22pm • Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner Jim Phillips said the league has a “responsibility” to advocate for its football-playing members for College Football Playoff bids, coming after criticism from Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua tied to the league's public support of Miami for a bid The new fighting between Thailand and Cambodia is rooted in old enmity 12/08/2025 07:59pm • BANGKOK (AP) — A history of enmity between Thailand and Cambodia over competing territorial claims has broken into open combat again, just a few months after the two sides agreed to a ceasefire promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump to end their border fighting. The two Southeast Asian nations f Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive. People turn to other ways to learn about the bombing 12/07/2025 04:47pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront. But today only 12 are still alive — all centenarians — and this year none were able to make the pilgrimage to Hawaii t Nearly half the tickets for Milan Cortina Olympics still unsold with 2 months to go 12/06/2025 08:03am • ROME (AP) — Construction on the main hockey arena is still not finished. Spectator and media areas at the controversial sliding venue also need to be completed. And with exactly two months to go to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, there is another major area that local organizers are concentr FACT FOCUS: Trump said weaker gas mileage rules will mean cheaper cars. Experts say don't bet on it 12/05/2025 12:41pm • DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump this week announced plans to weaken rules for how far automakers' new vehicles need to travel on a gallon of gasoline, set under former President Joe Biden. The Trump administration said the rules, known formally as Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, sta Detroit's own crime-fighter RoboCop finally stands guard in Motor City 12/04/2025 04:16pm • DETROIT (AP) — RoboCop has finally found a permanent home in Detroit. A statue looming 11 feet tall (3.3 meters) and weighing 3,500 pounds (1,587 kilograms) has been drawing fans since it began standing guard over the Motor City on Wednesday afternoon, after about 15 years in the making. Even in a Thailand allows afternoon alcohol sales in time for year-end holiday festivities 12/03/2025 10:10pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand on Wednesday lifted a 53-year-old ban on the afternoon retail sale of alcoholic drinks, a move expected to help boost year-end holiday tourism, as well as business at venues such as bars and convenience stores. The ban from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. will be lifted on a trial basis f Massive power outage hits Cuba's western region after transmission line fails 12/03/2025 06:36pm • HAVANA (AP) — A blackout hit Havana and the rest of the western half of Cuba on Wednesday, leaving millions of people without power on an island struggling with chronic outages blamed on a crumbling electric grid. Lázaro Guerra, general director of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, said the massi What to know about the administration's plan to withhold states' money to manage SNAP food aid 12/03/2025 04:58pm • U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said this week that the federal government would start withholding money to help run the SNAP food aid program from states that don't provide data on participants, including their immigration status. The department said the government needs the data to spot US stocks fall to their first loss in 6 days as bitcoin tumbles 12/01/2025 04:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks gave back some of last week’s rally, as bitcoin fell again on Monday. The S&P 500 slipped 0.5% and broke a five-day winning streak. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 427 points, or 0.9%, and the Nasdaq composite dipped 0.4%. Last week’s rally was largely In brief glimpses of Tehran, an AP journalist sees a changing and challenged Iran 11/28/2025 04:46pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — As you enter Iran’s capital, it starts with only occasional glimpses — a passenger in a car speeding by or a pedestrian trying to leapfrog through Tehran’s notorious traffic. But as you reach the cooler heights of Tehran’s northern neighborhoods along the city’s sycam ‘A huge undertaking’: Behind the scenes of a Maryland holiday lights show 11/28/2025 06:56am • The holiday light show at Montgomery County’s Brookside Gardens is open for about a month and a half. But preparing for the show, which involves 1.5 million twinkling lights, is pretty much a year-round affair. Practically right after each year’s show finishes in early January, staff members Epic tales and star power: How Tollywood is reshaping Indian cinema 11/28/2025 04:07am • HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A fast-rising parallel film industry in India is competing with Bollywood's musicals and action-packed films and has taken the world by storm: It’s called Tollywood. As Mumbai is to Hindi films — or Bollywood — the southern Indian city of Hyderabad is to movies made i UK government welcomes sharp fall in net migration but says more needs to be done 11/27/2025 01:26pm • LONDON (AP) — The British government welcomed the news Thursday that net migration in the U.K., the difference between those moving to the country long-term and those leaving, fell by more than two-thirds in the year to June, but insisted that the figure must fall further in order to ease tensions Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan, the ex-congressman who lost a Senate bid to JD Vance, won’t run for governor 11/21/2025 03:18pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan said Friday that he has decided not to run for Ohio governor next year, eliminating the most significant hurdle to the nomination for former state health director Dr. Amy Acton. Ryan, 52, had been considering a bid after fellow Democrat S