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Want to grow an avocado tree from seed? Here's how 11/25/2025 08:15am • So, you want to grow an avocado tree from seed? It���s not only a fun off-season activity, especially for kids, but it���s also very easy. Just know that since avocados are tropical plants, they won���t survive winters outdoors in colder climates. Still, it���s possible to grow avocado plants indoor Gramma the Galapagos tortoise, oldest resident of San Diego Zoo, dies at about 141 11/25/2025 06:13am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galapagos tortoise Gramma, the oldest resident of the San Diego Zoo, has died. Gramma was born in her native habitat and was estimated to be about 141 years old, zoo official Lawsuit blames Tesla design flaws for crash that killed Washington state woman, injured her husband 11/24/2025 09:02pm • Design flaws caused a Tesla Model 3 to suddenly accelerate out of control before it crashed into a utility pole and burst into flames, killing a woman and severely injuring her husband, a lawsuit filed in federal court alleges. Another defect with the door handle design thwarted bystanders who were Trump Administration Says Nursing Isn't a 'Professional Degree.' That May Impact Your Student Loans. 11/24/2025 07:00pm • Does President Donald Trump's administration consider your graduate degree "professional"? If you're planning to finance it with federal loans, that definition will soon make a big difference in the amount of money you can borrow. Law, medicine and dentistry are among the degrees classified as "prof 'No-Loan' Colleges: What to Know 11/24/2025 07:00pm • To ease the financial burden on students and their families, a small percentage of U.S. colleges have "no-loan" policies, eliminating federal loans from financial aid packages in lieu of scholarships, grants and work-study. The idea is that students will graduate without owing money. But the details What Future Dentists Should Know About Private Student Loans 11/24/2025 07:00pm • President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law in 2025, and it means big changes to lending options for new dental students next year. The grad PLUS loans that professional students have long used to pay for medical and dental school are being closed to new borrowers on July 1 Who is Mark Kelly, the senator the Pentagon is targeting for urging troops to defy illegal orders? 11/24/2025 06:47pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� The Pentagon is suggesting it could recall U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly to active military duty to punish him for appearing in a video that called for troops to defy ���illegal orders.��� Before he was a Democratic senator from Arizona, Kelly was a senior Navy officer and pilot who flew com QB Bryce Underwood can make solid freshman season special if No. 15 Michigan upsets No. 1 Ohio State 11/24/2025 06:21pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) ��� Bryce Underwood stepped onto Michigan's campus nearly a year ago as the nation's top-rated recruit, after flipping his commitment to play for LSU, and all eyes have been on No. 19 on the field and on an 18-year-old quarterback off it. He even has a documentary film crew fol Lawmakers question legality of Border Patrol license plate reader program 11/24/2025 03:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A number of Democratic lawmakers are questioning the legality of a U.S. Border Patrol predictive intelligence program that singles out and detains drivers for suspicious travel inside the country. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts sent a letter Monday to Border Patrol���s parent ag Body of Guatemalan woman killed when she went to clean the wrong Indiana house is returned home 11/24/2025 01:39pm • CABRICAN, Guatemala (AP) ��� The body of a Guatemalan woman who was killed earlier this month when she went to clean the wrong home in Indiana in the United States was returned to her native country on Sunday. Mar��a Florinda R��os P��rez, 32, a mother of four, was killed on the front porch of a hom Colombia raids hotel hosting Lev Tahor sect members and takes 17 children into protective custody 11/24/2025 01:27pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Immigration authorities in Colombia have taken 17 children into protective custody after they were rescued from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect whose members have been accused of sexually abusing and kidnapping minors in several countries. Gloria Esperanza Arriero, the direct MrBeast and the Rockefeller Foundation are teaming up to spark youth philanthropy 11/24/2025 01:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� One of the most storied American philanthropies is teaming up with the internet's biggest creator to instill young people with a concern for what they call the world's ���most vulnerable��� populations. Beast Philanthropy, the charitable organization started by MrBeast founder Jimm High schools in Ohio approve bylaw to allow name, image and likeness agreements for athletes 11/24/2025 11:32am • Ohio has become the 45th state to allow high school athletes to enter into name, image and likeness agreements. Member schools of the Ohio High School Athletic Association voted 447-121 to approve the referendum, which was moved up six months after a lawsuit by a standout wide receiver forced the is A large 'charismatic' animal is about to be born at DC's National Zoo ��� an Asian elephant 11/24/2025 07:58am • The Smithsonian National Zoo in D.C. is preparing for the birth of a large "charismatic and charming" animal: an Asian elephant calf. Zoo officials announced Monday morning that an Asian elephant is expected to give birth between mid-January and early March 2026. Elephant pregnancies typically la Malaysia to ban social media for children under 16 next year 11/24/2025 07:16am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� Malaysia plans to ban social media accounts for people under 16 starting in 2026, joining Australia and a growing number of countries pushing tighter digital age limits for children. Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said Sunday the Cabinet approved the move as par