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Better than gold? $100,000 for US athletes who make the Winter Olympics and Paralympics 10/29/2025 02:51pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The stakes for all these U.S. skiers, skaters, snowboarders and sliders over the next 100 days could not be more clear. A chance for Olympic glory. A chance to compete for a gold medal. And this year, for the first time, a chance to make $100,000. Thanks to a recent record $100 mil Grupo Simec: Q3 Earnings Snapshot 10/29/2025 02:10pm • GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — Grupo Simec SAB de CV (SIM) on Tuesday reported net income of $24.6 million in its third quarter. The Guadalajara, Mexico-based company said it had profit of 15 cents per share. The steel producer posted revenue of $401.9 million in the perio Character.AI is banning minors from interacting with its chatbots 10/29/2025 02:09pm • Character.AI is banning minors from using its chatbots amid growing concerns about the effects of artificial intelligence conversations on children. The company is facing several lawsuits over child safety, including by the mother of a teenager who says the company’s chatbots pushed her teenage so Dictionary.com picks a 'nonsensical and playfully absurd' word of the year 10/29/2025 01:39pm • ▶ Watch Video: Word of the year for 2025 is "67," Dictionary.com announces Sorry, parents and teachers of middle schoolers: your days of hearing "67" shouted randomly are far from over.Dictionary.com on Wednesday announced it has chosen "67" — pronou Layoffs are piling up, raising worker anxiety. Here are some companies that have cut jobs recently 10/29/2025 01:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a tough time for the job market. Amid wider economic uncertainty, some analysts have said that businesses are at a “no-hire, no fire” standstill. That's caused many to limit new work to only a few specific roles, if not pause openings entirely. At the same time, some siz GM lays off 1,700 workers at plants in Michigan and Ohio amid slower EV demand 10/29/2025 01:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors is laying off about 1,700 workers across manufacturing sites in Michigan and Ohio, as the auto giant adjusts to slowing demand for electric vehicles. The Detroit News first reported the cuts on Wednesday — covering about 1,200 jobs at an all-electric plant in the D Broadway stars emphasize 'now is the time' for all to act philanthropically at Town & Country summit 10/29/2025 12:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Philanthropy isn't so different from theater for Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell. “Life is a collaborative art,” explained Mitchell, one of Broadway’s preeminent leading men for more than two decades and a leader who steered the industry's support of performing arts p From India to Pakistan and the global diaspora, South Asian sounds make an impact worldwide 10/29/2025 11:58am • Arooj Aftab became the first Pakistani Grammy winner when she took home the global music performance award for her song “Mohabbat” in 2022. A year later, actor and singer Diljit Dosanjh stepped onto the smoke-filled stage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Southern California, b Tanzania deploys the military and imposes a curfew on election day after protests erupt 10/29/2025 11:28am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania 's presidential election teetered toward chaos on Wednesday as protests erupted, the military was deployed, internet service was cut and a curfew was announced in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. Critics of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who seeks a second term Editorial Roundup: United States 10/29/2025 11:28am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 26 The Washington Post on the slippery slope that is gerrymandering The gerrymandering doom spiral is gaining downward momentum, exactly as expected. Virginia is poised to become the second state, after California, where Democ Cuomo hasn't condemned bigoted attacks on Mamdani. In 1977 race, his father took another approach 10/29/2025 11:16am • NEW YORK (AP) — In 1977, at the tail end of another bruising battle for New York City mayor, Mario Cuomo publicly spoke up against bigoted remarks leveled at his opponent. Almost 50 years later, his son is taking a different approach. Back then, Andrew Cuomo was a 19-year-old adviser to his father Deutsche Bank: Q3 Earnings Snapshot 10/29/2025 10:52am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Deutsche Bank AG (DB) on Wednesday reported net income of $1.93 billion in its third quarter. The bank, based in Frankfurt, Germany, said it had earnings of 97 cents per share. The bank posted revenue of $17.25 billion in the period. Its revenu Utah Mammoth sign Logan Cooley to an 8-year, $80 million extension 10/29/2025 10:30am • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Mammoth signed Logan Cooley to an eight-year, $80 million extension, a deal that keeps the budding star center under contract through 2033-34. Cooley will count $10 million against the salary cap beginning when the contract that was announced Wednesday kicks in next AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New York on Election Day 10/29/2025 10:23am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's biggest city will pick its next mayor on Tuesday in an election that has sparked debate over the future of the Democratic Party. Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state assembly member and democratic socialist who jolted the party with his victory in t Younger Americans less concerned about political violence and free speech threats: AP-NORC poll 10/29/2025 09:58am • WASHINGTON (AP) — In the tumultuous political climate marked by this year's assassinations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah and a Democratic legislator in Minnesota, younger adults are less worried about political violence than older adults, according to a new AP-NORC poll. About 4 in