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'My heart was always just with the sheep.' One Navajo's push to keep tradition vibrant 11/06/2023 01:05pm • GANADO, Ariz. (AP) ��� Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona, Nikyle Begay always wanted to visit their grandmother's sheep. Begay's parents had grown up raising livestock, and their dad had always wanted to raise sheep and cattle, but it was a hard way to make a li Police say a shooter fired 22 shots into a Cincinnati crowd, killing a boy and wounding 5 others 11/06/2023 01:04pm • CINCINNATI (AP) ��� Cincinnati officials are expressing outrage and horror at a drive-by shooting that sent more than a score of bullets into a crowd of children, killing an 11-year-old boy and striking four other children and an adult. Police Chief Terri Theetge told reporters Sunday that an occupa How an American meat broker is fueling Amazon deforestation 11/06/2023 12:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� As incomes in China have grown in the last decade, so has China���s appetite for beef. No longer out of reach for China���s middle class, beef now sizzles in home woks and restaurant kitchens. China has become the world���s biggest importer of beef, and Brazil is China���s bigge Navajo sheep herding at risk from climate change. Some young people push to maintain the tradition 11/06/2023 12:52pm • WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) ��� Whenever Amy Begaye's extended family butchered a sheep, she was given what she considered easy tasks ��� holding the legs and catching the blood with a bowl. She was never given the knife. That changed recently. In the pale light of dawn at this year's Miss Navajo Nation Does an AI tool help boost adoptions? Key takeaways from an AP Investigation 11/06/2023 12:22pm • Former social worker Thea Ramirez has developed an artificial intelligence -powered tool that she says helps social service agencies find the best adoptive parents for some of the nation���s most vulnerable kids. But an Associated Press investigation has found that the Family-Match algorithm has pr Inspired by online dating, AI tool for adoption matchmaking falls short for vulnerable foster kids 11/06/2023 12:17pm • Some are orphans, others seized from their parents. Many are older and have overwhelming needs or disabilities. Most bear the scars of trauma from being hauled between foster homes, torn from siblings or sexually and physically abused. Child protective services agencies have wrestled for decades wit Cody Dorman, who watched namesake horse win Breeders' Cup race, dies on trip home 11/06/2023 11:54am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Cody Dorman, the teenager who watched his namesake horse Cody's Wish win at the Breeders' Cup, has died. He was 17. Dorman died Sunday after suffering a ���medical event��� on the family's way home to Kentucky after attending the world championships at Santa Anita last week, acc AT&T offers managers a rare benefit: paid time off to care for loved ones 11/06/2023 09:51am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� AT&T management employees are entitled to caregiver leave, which gives them up to 15 days off a year to care for ailing children or other relatives without eating into their vacation or personal sick days. Paid caregiver time off is a rarity in the U.S., which has no federal la Book Review: Edel Rodriguez shows Cuban history as a warning for the US in new graphic memoir 'Worm' 11/06/2023 09:48am • Decades before Edel Rodriguez made his iconic, mouth-only political illustration of Donald Trump for the cover of Time magazine, he was a boy growing up in Fidel Castro���s Cuba. In his new graphic memoir, ���Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey,��� Rodriguez mixes historical context and personal stories Man in Hamburg airport hostage drama used a rental car and had no weapons permit 11/06/2023 09:13am • BERLIN (AP) ��� A man who drove onto the tarmac at Hamburg Airport with his 4-year-old daughter, starting an 18-hour standoff with police that ended with his arrest, was using a rental car and lacked a weapons permit, authorities said Monday. Operations at the airport returned to normal on Monday af This holiday season, the mean ol' Grinch gets a comedy podcast series hosted by James Austin Johnson 11/06/2023 07:08am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� What would the mean ol' Grinch be doing in 2023? Would that Christmas sad sack be hosting a cooking show on TikTok? Writing long essays for Substack? No, you know what he���d be doing ��� a podcast. ���The Grinch Holiday Talk Show��� arrives this holiday season with James Austin Jo Prince George's Co. library brings ancient mathematics to young learners 11/06/2023 01:00am • The most advanced system of mathematics of any ancient civilization will be taught to students in Prince George's County, Maryland, this week. On this Native American Heritage Month, the Largo-Kettering Branch of the Prince George's County Library System said it will be helping students learn May Ryan Blaney earns 1st career NASCAR championship and gives Roger Penske back-to-back Cup titles 11/05/2023 09:09pm • AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) ��� Ryan Blaney only had to beat Kyle Larson and William Byron to win his first NASCAR championship. He needlessly added Ross Chastain to his list, too, racing him pointlessly hard in an attempt to win the race Sunday at Phoenix Raceway. When he couldn't pass Chastain, Blaney a Can You Use a Personal Loan for a Down Payment? 11/05/2023 07:00pm • If you don't have enough cash on hand for a big down payment on a home, you might think about using a personal loan. But in general, mortgage lenders don't allow the use of personal loan funds for a down payment. Also, having a personal loan on your credit report can affect your ability to qualify f Luis Diaz appeals for the release of his kidnapped father after scoring for Liverpool 11/05/2023 06:59pm • LUTON, England (AP) ��� Luis Diaz returned to Liverpool���s team and scored a late equalizer in its Premier League soccer match against Luton on Sunday, with his father still missing after being kidnapped by a guerrilla group in Colombia. Diaz had missed Liverpool���s last two games but trained sinc