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Dispute over fossil fuel phaseout upsets UN climate talks, and overtime looks likely 11/21/2025 05:32pm • BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Several nations held firm Friday in blocking proposals in the final stages of this year's U.N. climate talks because they failed to explicitly cite the burning of fuels such as oil, gas and coal as causes of global warming, and the talks appeared certain to sprawl past a midni France will investigate Musk’s Grok chatbot after Holocaust denial claims 11/21/2025 09:40am • PARIS (AP) — France’s government is taking action against billionaire Elon Musk 's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz, officials said. Grok, built by Musk's company xAI and integrated into his social The Latest: Trump administration plans for new oil drilling off California and Florida coasts 11/20/2025 09:02pm • The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, advancing a project that critics say could harm coastal communities and ecosystems, as President Donald Trump seeks to expand U.S. oil production. The oil industry has Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns 11/20/2025 04:27pm • The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some Meta alerts young Australians to download their data before a social media ban 11/20/2025 01:02am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Technology giant Meta on Thursday began sending thousands of young Australians a two-week warning to downland their digital histories and delete their accounts from Facebook, Instagram and Threads before a world-first social media ban on accounts of children younger tha Who is Clay Higgins, the only House member to vote against releasing the Epstein files? 11/18/2025 07:12pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Both Democrats and Republicans alike readied for a unanimous House vote Tuesday to pass a bill to force the release of the c ase files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But in the end, one lawmaker stood alone in opposition: Republican Rep. Clay Higgins. Higgins, who Germany's Merz under fire in Brazil for his comments on Amazon host city of COP30 11/18/2025 05:35pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian authorities on Tuesday railed against comments by Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest where the United Nations' Climate Summit is taking place. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, P Ex-aide to NYC Mayor Eric Adams avoids prison time as federal judge addresses 'elephant in the room' 11/18/2025 03:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide to outgoing New York Mayor Eric Adams was sentenced Tuesday to three years’ probation, including a year of home confinement, for soliciting illegal campaign contributions for Adams. But as a federal judge announced the sentence for Mohamed Bahi, a liaison to the cit Roblox steps up age checks and groups younger users into age-based chats 11/18/2025 03:02pm • Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to chat with other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to communicate with people around their own age. The moves come as the popular gaming platform continues to face criticism and A spat over Taiwan is threatening China-Japan ties 11/17/2025 12:40pm • BEIJING (AP) — Less than a month into her term, Japan's conservative leader has stirred tensions with China by suggesting a Chinese move against Taiwan could prompt a Japanese military response. China objects to the involvement of other countries in Taiwan, notably the United States, which is the Arizona fugitive convicted in US sex crimes case arrested in France after years on the run 11/14/2025 07:21pm • PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man who fled the United States years ago while on probation for sex crime convictions was arrested earlier this month in France, where he was charged with sexually assaulting a child, authorities said. Michael Robert Wiseman, 51, was living in Kilstett in northeastern Fra Overloaded email inboxes and other challenges face federal employees as they return to work 11/14/2025 05:53am • With the longest government shutdown in U.S. history now over, federal employees are returning to work. But, as they do so, a range of emotions are bubbling up. Some workers say they are relieved or anxious to start doing their jobs again, while others are uncertain that another shutdown could be Kryptos' final code remains unsolved. The CIA sculpture's creator is auctioning the solution 11/12/2025 05:16pm • BOSTON (AP) — When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do something that spoke to its world of spies and secret codes. The result was a 10-foot-tall, S-shaped copper screen called Kryptos that resembles a piece of paper coming out of a fax machine. Norway's big week in World Cup qualification marred by player's admission about illegal video 11/12/2025 02:23pm • OSLO, Norway (AP) — One of the biggest weeks in Norwegian soccer for a generation risks being tarnished by the admission from a leading player that he is likely to be convicted of sharing an illegal video. Andreas Schjelderup, the 21-year-old Norway winger who plays for Portuguese club Benfica, sa A tattoo artist lands in an unexpected role in Maine's Senate race 11/11/2025 06:26pm • Graham Platner was looking for a cover-up. Nearly 20 years ago, the Maine Democrat drunkenly selected a skull and crossbones design while out on leave with his fellow Marines in Croatia. It wasn’t until several weeks into his campaign for a key U.S. Senate seat that Platner says he discovered that