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Visitors to a New Jersey zoo get to watch veterinarians treat the animals 11/17/2025 03:00pm • WEST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown tortoise getting a veterinary checkup. Over the next half-hour, spectators watched throug Nations hit by natural disasters tell ministers at climate talks to act 11/17/2025 02:45pm • BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Battered by last month's ferocious climate-fueled hurricane, Jamaica joined other small island nations and impoverished countries at Monday's United Nations climate talks to implore the rest of the world to stop talking and start acting. Their message: Our lives are on the lin First Guaranty Bancshares: Q3 Earnings Snapshot 11/17/2025 02:18pm • HAMMOND, La. (AP) — HAMMOND, La. (AP) — First Guaranty Banchshares Inc. (FGBI) on Monday reported a loss of $45 million in its third quarter. The bank, based in Hammond, Louisiana, said it had a loss of $3.01 per share. Losses, adjusted for asset impairment costs, were $2.16 per share. The bank UK asylum reforms spark backlash within Labour Party, support from rivals 11/17/2025 01:58pm • LONDON (AP) — The British government's plan to tighten its asylum system met sharp resistance Monday from inside its own party but was getting some support from political rivals in a sign of how divisive the immigration issue has become. Before Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood even released details NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says 11/17/2025 01:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health's funding cuts, according to a new report. Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, State senators may call U.Va. leaders to the carpet over agreement to end Justice Department probes 11/17/2025 12:44pm • State senators are considering asking representatives from the University of Virginia to meet with lawmakers in Richmond after school leaders signed an agreement with the federal government to suspend multiple civil rights investigations, sparking opposition from legislators, alumni and faculty. Postmaster general says US Postal Service needs revenue growth, not just cuts 11/17/2025 12:43pm • The U.S. Postal Service can’t fix its finances through cuts alone, Postmaster General David Steiner said Friday. Steiner said the 250-year-old agency needs to expand its revenue base to restore prominence in the nation’s delivery network. It also should capitalize on its long-standing legal obli 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 Ethiopia confirms first Marburg outbreak as WHO lauds country's fast action 11/17/2025 12:08pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia on Friday confirmed its first Marburg outbreak after nine cases were identified in a southern region of the country that borders South Sudan. The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the Ethiopian government’s fast action, s A new Netflix doc offers an intimate portrait of Selena, straight from her family's vault 11/17/2025 12:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) — For many, the name Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is the stuff of mythology. The Queen of Tejano broke barriers for women in Latin music genres of all kinds; it's easy to see the through line between her contributions to the current success of regional Mexicana music. But it's been 30 y Ethiopia confirms 3 Marburg virus deaths in new outbreak 11/17/2025 12:03pm • ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia on Monday confirmed three deaths from the Marburg hemorrhagic virus that has been detected in an area neighboring South Sudan. Health Minister Mekdes Daba said Ethiopia's government, which declared a Marburg outbreak on Friday, had conducted tests in 17 suspec Tribal college leaders are uneasy about US financial commitments despite a funding increase 11/17/2025 11:08am • NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) — On a recent chilly fall morning, Ruth De La Cruz walked through the Four Sisters Garden, looking for Hidatsa squash. To college students in her food sovereignty program, the crop might be an assignment. But to her, it is the literal fruit of her ancestors' labor. “There’s Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 23-29 includes Colin Hanks and Miley Cyrus 11/17/2025 09:54am • Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 23-29: Nov. 23: Actor Franco Nero (“Django,” “Camelot”) is 84. Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (“Basic Instinct,” "Showgirls”) is 81. Comedy writer Bruce Vilanch (“Hollywood Squares”) is 78. Singer Bruce Hornsby is 71. Actor Maxwell Caulfield (� Most of Gaza's schools are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of children cannot go back to class 11/17/2025 09:42am • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Bissan Younis looked dejected as she stood outside a cluster of tents surrounded by rubble and debris, a wasteland that is a common sight across the Gaza Strip. The tiny encampment was yet another makeshift school that has no room for her teenage son Kareem. “Mos J&J Snack Foods: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot 11/17/2025 08:21am • MT. LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — MT. LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — J&J Snack Foods Corp. (JJSF) on Monday reported earnings of $11.4 million in its fiscal fourth quarter. The Mt. Laurel, New Jersey-based company said it had profit of 58 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.