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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns 11/20/2025 04:27pm • The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found. The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some Advocacy groups urge parents to avoid AI toys this holiday season 11/20/2025 01:21pm • They���re cute, even cuddly, and promise learning and companionship ��� but artificial intelligence toys are not safe for kids, according to children���s and consumer advocacy groups urging parents not to buy them during the holiday season. These toys, marketed to kids as young as 2 years old, are Preparing to study abroad requires knowing what might go wrong during and after the trip 11/20/2025 11:21am • After spending two college semesters in northern Thailand, Sarah Jongsma found herself back home in the rural Nevada town where she grew up, surrounded by everything familiar yet feeling strangely out of place. ���It caught me off guard,��� she said. ���I didn't know what was going on.��� Only later US filings for jobless benefits remained in historically healthy range during government shutdown 11/20/2025 09:40am • New U.S. jobless claim applications fell last week, remaining within the healthy range of recent years, according to the government's first weekly layoffs data since before the government shut down on Oct. 1. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the week ending Nov. 15 fell b Spanish court orders Meta to pay nearly half a billion euros in damages to media outlets 11/20/2025 08:40am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Spanish legacy media companies in Spain scored a victory against social media giant Meta after a Madrid-based court ordered Thursday that it must pay news outlets nearly half a billion euros in damages. According to a court statement, the mercantile court No. 15 of Madrid r As infant botulism cases climb to 31, recalled ByHeart baby formula is still on some store shelves 11/20/2025 06:12am • As cases of potentially deadly botulism in babies who drank ByHeart infant formula continue to grow, state officials say they are still finding the recalled product on some store shelves. Meanwhile the company reported late Wednesday that laboratory tests confirmed that some samples of formula were Meta alerts young Australians to download their data before a social media ban 11/20/2025 01:02am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Technology giant Meta on Thursday began sending thousands of young Australians a two-week warning to downland their digital histories and delete their accounts from Facebook, Instagram and Threads before a world-first social media ban on accounts of children younger tha Care packages and cardstock turkeys: first and second ladies visit Marines and their relatives 11/19/2025 07:58pm • MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. (AP) ��� Melania Trump and Usha Vance on Wednesday marked the Thanksgiving season by visiting with Marine Corps members in North Carolina and saluting the sacrifices of military families, who make up ���the quiet strength of our nation,��� the first lady said 7 of the Best Long-Term Stocks to Buy 11/19/2025 07:00pm • Investing is a marathon, not a sprint. For those who can identify strong long-term opportunities and maintain the discipline to follow a buy-and-hold strategy, the potential rewards can be substantial. Although short-term market trends and fads come and go, the U.S. economy and stock market have his Nvidia earnings clear lofty hurdle set by analysts amid fears about an AI bubble 11/19/2025 06:25pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Nvidia���s sales of the computing chips powering the artificial intelligence craze surged beyond the lofty bar set by stock market analysts in a performance that may ease recent jitters about a Big Tech boom turning into a bust that topples the world���s most valuable company. Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun to leave Meta and start new AI research company 11/19/2025 05:20pm • Artificial intelligence pioneer Yann LeCun said Wednesday he will be leaving his job as Meta's chief AI scientist at the end of the year. LeCun said he will be forming a startup company to pursue research on advanced forms of AI that can ���understand the physical world, have persistent memory, can Judge acquits Nokesville, Virginia, native Timothy Hickerson in 2010 murder of Shane Donahue 11/19/2025 01:30pm • A Prince William County judge on Tuesday acquitted Timothy Hickerson of murder in connection with the disappearance of Shane Donahue in Nokesville more than 15 years ago. Hickerson, 44, stood trial this week in Prince William County Circuit Court, but at the end of the testimony, Hickerson's defe Movie Review: Joel Edgerton delivers a profound, understated performance in ���Train Dreams��� 11/19/2025 01:19pm • There is nothing particularly grand about Robert Grainier���s existence in the world. The main character of ���Train Dreams��� is not a great thinker, artist or athlete. He doesn���t know who his parents are, or even exactly how old he is. He���s not particularly chatty, or passionate. Robert Graini Ukraine asks Vatican to formalize mediation role for return of citizens taken by Russia 11/19/2025 01:10pm • ROME (AP) ��� Ukraine has asked the Vatican to formalize its role facilitating negotiations over the return of Ukrainian children and civilians taken by Russia during the nearly four-year war, a Kyiv government official said Wednesday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made the request in a letter to Po TJX: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot 11/19/2025 07:38am • FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� The TJX Cos. (TJX) on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $1.44 billion. On a per-share basis, the Framingham, Massachusetts-based company said it had profit of $1.28. The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average est