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By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In an age of deepfakes and post-truth, as artificial intelligence rose and Elon Musk turned Twitter into X, the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.” Authentic cuisine. Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice. Lookups for the word are routinely heavy on

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer Consumers are scouring the internet for online deals as they begin to cap off the five-day post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza with Cyber Monday. Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of our everyday lives and much of the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday –- a term coined back in

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government has committed an additional $168 million in funding for police and other law enforcement officials to monitor 141 people freed after a court ruled indefinite detention of unwanted migrants was unconstitutional. The funding reflects an increase in the workload of law enforcement officials

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in a third exchange under a four-day truce that the United States said it hoped

BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court is holding compensation hearings for Chinese relatives of people who died on a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in 2014 on a flight to Beijing. Security was tight around the Chinese capital’s main Chaoyang District Intermediary Court on Monday morning and no detailed information was immediately available. Various theories

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Armed assailants seized and later let go of a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday before being apprehended by the United States Navy, officials said. Two ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen then landed near a U.S. warship aiding

By DANIEL SHAILER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Greenpeace activists are engaged in a sit-in protest on a deep-sea mining ship in the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii. They say the boat is conducting exploration which will be used to justify destroying marine. Canada-based The Metals Company, whose subsidiary runs the ship, accused

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares retreated Monday as investors awaited updates on consumer spending and inflation in the U.S. and other nations. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dipped 0.5% to finish at 33,447.67 after the producer price index in October came in a little higher than expected, at 2.3%. In

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Three young men of Palestinian descent who were in Burlington for a Thanksgiving holiday gathering were shot and injured, one seriously, near the University of Vermont, police said Sunday. The attack may have been a hate crime, authorities said. Police were searching for the suspect after the attack around 6:25

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint described in reports from The Wall