Search

Iran's rial currency plummets to new low, sparking fears of higher food prices 12/15/2025 09:01am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Iran���s rial slid further Monday to a new record low of more than 1.3 million to the U.S. dollar, deepening the currency���s collapse less than two weeks after it first breached the 1.2-million mark amid sanctions pressure and regional tensions. Currency traders in Tehran quot Ruben Gallego emerges as key Democratic figure in Latino voter outreach 12/15/2025 08:40am • MIAMI (AP) ��� On a warm Sunday morning in Miami, Sen. Ruben Gallego stepped out of a car and approached parishioners exiting a church beneath palm trees, handing out flyers in this Dominican neighborhood. Gallego left some of his staff members behind as he drummed up support for a fellow Democrat r Older adults may struggle to learn a new language but classes are a worthwhile exercise 12/15/2025 08:38am • TOKYO (AP) ��� I speak decent Spanish, picked up working several decades ago as a news and sports reporter in Spain, Mexico and Argentina. Now I report from Tokyo. After seven years, I still can't grasp Japanese. My weekly language classes have taught me humility more than anything else. Ayaka Ono, The Bondi Beach shooting as seen from the beach, the boardwalk and a hotel 12/15/2025 08:37am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� As the sounds of bullets rang out and the bodies fell, the young mother threw herself on top of her 5-year-old son and prayed. ���Please don���t let us die,��� 33-year-old Rebecca begged God from her hiding place under a table in a park overlooking Bondi, Australia���s most iconic be Indulge in lychee-frosted sugar cookies with citrus notes and buttercream 12/15/2025 08:37am • At first glance, these Lychee-Frosted Sugar Cookies from my cookbook ���108 Asian Cookies: Not-Too-Sweet Treats from a Third-Culture Kitchen��� appear humble when unfrosted, like any other ordinary sugar cookie, like those you would find at the supermarket. But don���t be fooled. These charming su How an AM radio station in California weathered the Trump administration's assault on media 12/15/2025 08:29am • Before Jimmy Kimmel, there was KCBS. Just six days into President Donald Trump's new administration, the San Francisco Bay-area radio station KCBS-AM reported that immigration agents were in the area ��� driving ���unmarked vehicles including a black Dodge Durango, a gray Nissan Maxima and white Nis Punk protest group Pussy Riot declared 'extremist organization' by a Russian court 12/15/2025 08:19am • Punk group Pussy Riot was declared an ���extremist organization" by a Russian court on Monday. The ruling, which was made by Moscow���s Tverskoy District Court, effectively outlaws the group from operating in Russia and puts anyone linked with the group at risk of criminal prosecution. The feminist Interstellar comet keeps its distance as it makes its closest approach to Earth 12/15/2025 08:01am • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles (269 million kilometers) of our planet on Friday, the Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy protection; will be taken private under restructuring 12/15/2025 08:01am • Roomba maker iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but says that it doesn't expect any disruptions to devices as the more than 30-year-old company is taken private under a restructuring process. IRobot, which became well known for its robotic vacuums, has struggled of late, dealing Stokes wants to see 'a bit of dog' as England recalls Tongue for third Ashes test 12/15/2025 08:00am • ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) ��� England cricket captain Ben Stokes called for his team to ���show a bit of dog��� against Australia in the third Ashes test with the series on the line. The tourists have made one change to the team beaten by eight wickets at the Gabba in the second test to slip 2-0 behi At least 15 killed in targeted attack on Jewish Australians, police say 12/15/2025 07:53am • ��� Watch Video: At least 15 killed, dozens wounded in attack on Hanukkah celebration in Australia An attack targeting a Jewish gathering at a famous Australian beach on Sunday killed at least 15 people, including a 12-year-old, government officials and police said. Another 40 people were hos Thailand to hold early election on Feb. 8 after parliament dissolution 12/15/2025 07:31am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Thailand will hold an early election on Feb. 8, the country���s election regulator said Monday, days after Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved the country's parliament. Anutin, who has been in office for only three months and is seeking another term, disbanded the legislat Serbia organized crime prosecutors charge minister, others in connection with Kushner-linked project 12/15/2025 07:28am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� Serbia's prosecutor for organized crime on Monday charged a government minister and three others with abuse of office and falsifying of documents to help pave the way for a real estate project linked to Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law. Proposed crimi Police in Japan arrest a suspect in stabbing at an entertainment complex 12/15/2025 07:17am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japanese police said Monday they arrested a man in connection with the alleged stabbing of two people at an entertainment complex housing the female pop music group HKT48 in the southern city of Fukuoka. Both had non-life-threatening injuries. Police said they arrested a 30-year-old s Cambodia says Thai bombing is hitting deeper into its territory near shelters for displaced 12/15/2025 06:56am • MONGKOL BOREY, Cambodia (AP) ��� Heavy combat between Thailand and Cambodia entered a second week on Monday, with Phnom Penh claiming that Thai bombing is hitting deeper into its territory, coming close to shelters for people who had already fled dangerous areas along the border. According to Cambod