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San Francisco woman gives birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi 12/10/2025 03:16pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Self-driving Waymo taxis have gone viral for negative reasons involving the death of a beloved San Francisco bodega cat and pulling an illegal U-turn in front of police who were unable to issue a ticket to a nonexistent driver. But this week, the self-driving taxis are the be Paramount goes hostile in bid for Warner Bros., challenging a $72 billion offer by Netflix 12/10/2025 02:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount on Monday launched a hostile takeover offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, initiating a potentially bruising battle with rival bidder Netflix to buy the company behind HBO, CNN and a famed movie studio along with the power to reshape much of the nation's entertainment landsc First rain of autumn falls in Iran's capital, but the drought-ravaged nation needs far more 12/10/2025 02:26pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Rain fell for the first time in months in Iran's capital Wednesday, providing a brief respite for the parched Islamic Republic as it suffers through the driest autumn in over a half century. The drought gripping Iran has seen its president warn the country it may need to move Calibri font becomes the latest DEI target as Rubio orders return to Times New Roman 12/10/2025 12:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomatic correspondence to stop using the Calibri font and return to the more traditional Times New Roman effective Wednesday, reversing a Biden administration shift to the less formal typeface that he called wasteful, confusing and un Georgia election board rejects rule change on using hand-marked paper ballots 12/10/2025 12:21pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's State Election Board on Wednesday rejected a proposal defining when hand-marked paper ballots could be used in place of the state's touchscreen voting machines. Opponents said the rule would have overstepped the board’s legal authority and could have created an escape ha WTF? Embracing profanity is one thing both political parties seem to agree on 12/10/2025 11:25am • WASHINGTON (AP) — As he shook President Barack Obama's hand and pulled him in for what he thought was a private aside, Vice President Joe Biden delivered an explicit message: “This is a big f——— deal.” The remark, overheard on live microphones at a 2010 ceremony for the Affordable Care A Maryland Gov. Moore calls lawmakers back for long-anticipated special session next week 12/10/2025 10:44am • Maryland lawmakers will return to Annapolis next week for a special session to elect a new House speaker, but they will also take up veto overrides in a session that could veer into other business. Gov. Wes Moore (D) on Tuesday afternoon issued an executive order for the legislative session tha South Korea to require advertisers to label AI-generated ads 12/10/2025 02:25am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will require advertisers to label their ads made with artificial intelligence technologies from next year as it seeks to curb a surge of deceptive promotions featuring fabricated experts or deep-faked celebrities endorsing food or pharmaceutical products on so Southeast Asia embraces offshore wind power, as Trump bashes renewable energy 12/09/2025 11:32pm • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Southeast Asia is a bright spot for the embattled offshore wind industry as it reels from U.S. President Donald Trump’s push against renewable energy. The White House's policy pivot has thrown billions of dollars' worth of U.S. offshore wind projectsinto turmoil. Industry i Konecny gets 500th NHL point in Flyers' 4-1 win over Sharks 12/09/2025 10:00pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Travis Konecny got his 500th NHL point and Dan Vladar only had to make 17 saves as the Philadelphia Flyers beat the San Jose Sharks 4-1 on Tuesday night. Konecny helped tie the game at 1-1 late in the first period when he backhanded a lofty puck into the neutral zone. Christian Trump's speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants from 'filthy' countries 12/09/2025 09:49pm • MOUNT POCONO, Pa. (AP) — On the road in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Donald Trump tried to emphasize his focus on combating inflation, yet the issue that has damaged his popularity couldn't quite command his full attention. The president told the crowd gathered at a casino and resort in M The Latest: Trump speaks on Americans’ economic worries and blames Democrats at Pennsylvania rally 12/09/2025 09:21pm • President Donald Trump road-tested his claims that he’s tackling Americans’ affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania — a trip that came as polling consistently shows that public trust in Trump’s economic leadership has faltered. Following dismal results for Republi Why Japan issued an advisory for a possible megaquake in the country's north 12/09/2025 09:05pm • TOKYO (AP) — Japan issued a megaquake advisory Tuesday after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan's main island of Honshu, and just south of the northern island of Hokkaido. Damage from this quake was modest — 34 mostly mild inju Senate heads toward dueling partisan votes on health care, with each likely to fail 12/09/2025 09:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire. Both the Republican plan, which would replace the subsidies with n Lithuania declares national emergency over security risks posed by balloons from Belarus 12/09/2025 09:02pm • VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s government on Tuesday declared a national emergency over security risks posed by meteorological balloons sent from Russia-allied Belarus that have violated its airspace in recent weeks, while the Belarusian leader called for negotiations on border tensions a