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NEW YORK (AP) — Author Ted Chiang has won a lifetime achievement prize for short stories, the PEN/Malamud Award, just the second time a science fiction writer has been honored since the award was established in 1988. Chiang, who has received numerous Nebula, Hugo and other science fiction prizes, is known for such collections as

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that it’s also a signal that more must be done to protect the earth and

PERTH, Australia (AP) — In a story published June 10, 2024, about the Palestinian soccer team, The Associated Press erroneously reported that most United Nations members do not recognize Palestine as a country. More than 140 of the UN’s 193 members have recognized Palestinian statehood.

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press The Biden administration is taking credit for a sharp drop in violent crime though one expert says the declines are likely overstated. FBI data show steep drops in every category of violent crime in every region in the first three months of 2024 compared to a year earlier. Murder and

By KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amazon Prime Video’s epic superhero satire series “The Boys” will end with its fifth season. The show’s creator and showrunner Eric Kripke announced the show’s ending while promoting the series’ fourth season. In a post on X, he said a five-season arc was “always” his plan,

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the Greek tourist island. Greece’s Culture Ministry said that the structure is a “unique and extremely interesting find” from Crete’s Minoan civilization, famous

By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer DALLAS (AP) — New research shows space tourists experience some of the same body changes as astronauts who spend months in orbit. NASA and other organizations have long studied the toll of space travel on astronauts, but there’s been less attention on space tourists. A chartered flight in 2021

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana law that requires porn websites to verify users’ ages is being challenged by an association of the adult entertainment industry in federal court. The Free Speech Coalition also sued Texas over a similar law in August but the U.S. Supreme Court declined to block the

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press A federal jury in Florida has found that Banana giant Chiquita Brands must pay $38.3 million to 16 family members of people killed during Colombia’s long civil war by a violent right-wing paramilitary group funded by the company. The verdict Monday by a jury in West Palm Beach marks the

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Jake Gyllenhaal stars in his first TV series in “Presumed Innocent” for Apple TV+. It’s based on the novel by Scott Turow, which was originally adapted into the 1990 film starring Harrison Ford. This version was written by David E. Kelley, known for other legal shows including “The Lincoln Lawyer”,

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of House Democrats is warning about the far-right Project 2025 agenda for a second Trump White House. The Stop Project 2025 Task Force is being announced Tuesday by Rep. Jared Huffman of California. It’s the latest sign Democrats and outside groups are taking Republican

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The king and queen of the Netherlands are taking a day of their U.S. trip to visit Savannah, Georgia — a city that is both a historic gem and a growing powerhouse in global trade. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima arrived Tuesday morning at Savannah City

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to testify before Congress on July 12, a day after former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money trial. A spokesperson for Bragg’s office confirmed that he will appear before the House Select Committee on

Apple announced a slew of new features for iOS 18 at Monday’s developers conference event, many of which are designed to enhance the Siri assistant and bring artificial intelligence tools to iPhone users. The AI-packed updates coming in the fall are meant to enable the billions of people who use the company’s devices to get

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who drugged his daughter and her friends with fruit smoothies laced with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison. Michael Meyden, a 57-year-old from the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego, apologized during his sentencing Monday after

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A school district in eastern Tennessee has agreed to implement changes after a federal investigation found several incidents of race-based harassment. The Department of Justice announced the settlement Monday after initially alerting the school district in 2023 that it would launch an investigation because school officials

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Lake Champlain. The corporate jet disappeared shortly after departing the Burlington airport for Providence, Rhode Island, on Jan. 27, 1971. Those aboard

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain is under investigation by a court-appointed watchdog who has been working to stamp out corruption at the union in wake of its stunning bribery and embezzlement scandal several years ago. The monitor, Neil Barofsky, disclosed that he was investigating