Weekend Reads

Houses are seen underwater in the flooded village near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, June 10, 2023. The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine is swiftly evolving into long-term environmental catastrophe. It affects drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching into the Black Sea. (AP Photo)

Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe

Experts say the long-term consequences will be generational. For every flooded home and farm, there are fields upon fields of newly planted grains, fruits and vegetables whose irrigation canals are drying up.
June 12, 2023
Airman 1st Class D'elbrah Assamoi, from Cote D'Ivoire, signs her U.S. certificate of citizenship after the Basic Military Training Coin Ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, in San Antonio, April 26, 2023. The U.S. military has struggled to overcome recruiting shortfalls and as a way to address that problem, it's stepping up efforts to sign up immigrants, offering a fast track to American citizenship to those who join the armed services. The Army and the Air Force have bolstered their marketing to entice legal residents to enlist. (Vanessa R. Adame/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Join the military, become a US citizen: Uncle Sam wants you and vous and tu

June 11, 2023
A syringe is seen on the ground as Lisa McFadden waits to be treated near a Baltimore City Health Department RV, Monday, March 20, 2023, in Baltimore. The Baltimore City Health Department's harm reduction program uses the RV to address the opioid crisis, which includes expanding access to medication assisted treatment by deploying a team of medical staff to neighborhoods with high rates of substance abuse and offering buprenorphine prescriptions. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Abstinence not required: How a Baltimore drug treatment program prioritizes saving lives

June 11, 2023
A student raises her hand to ask a question in her third grade classroom at Highland Elementary School in Columbus, Kan., on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. Across the country, federal data show, the disruptions wrought by the pandemic were accompanied by widespread learning setbacks, even in states that saw students return quickly to in-person learning. Among those showing the largest learning losses are this year’s crop of third graders, who were in kindergarten when the pandemic hit, a foundational year for learning to read. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

This school reopened quickly after COVID. Kids’ reading was still behind

June 10, 2023
People attend a church service in Nuremberg, Germany, Friday, June 9, 2023. Hundreds of German Protestants have attended a church service in Bavaria that was generated almost entirely by artificial intelligence. The service was created by ChatGPT and Jonas Simmerlein, a theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna. The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by different avatars on a huge screen above the altar, led the more than 300 people through 40 minutes of prayer, music, sermons and blessings. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Can a chatbot preach a good sermon? Hundreds attend church service generated by ChatGPT to find out

June 10, 2023

More News

Seen is the damage from a collapsed apartment building, Monday, June 5, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa. The six-story, 80-unit building partially collapsed May 28. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Cracked floors, bowed walls: Many warnings but no action at Iowa building before deadly collapse

June 10, 2023
A charging station with Combined Charging System (CCS) plugs is seen in Anaheim, Calif., Friday, June 9, 2023. Owners of General Motors and Ford electric vehicles will be able charge at many of Tesla's large network of stations across the U.S. starting next year. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

With GM and Ford embracing Tesla’s EV charging technology, here’s what it means for consumers

June 9, 2023
Guerlain's Director of Art, Culture and Heritage Ann-Caroline Prazan displays an Eau de Cologne Imperial Bee bottle imagine by Pierre-Francois Guerlain at the archive in Paris, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Guerlain, the house which invented modern perfumery, has created its first ever archive — and with it has unveiled the unimaginable inventions and fabulous stories that have marked the French company’s sensational past. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

AP Exclusive: Guerlain preserves cosmetics history in new ‘warehouse of wonders’

June 9, 2023
FILE - PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan speaks during a news conference before the start of the Travelers Championship golf tournament at TPC River Highlands, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in Cromwell, Conn. The most disruptive year in golf ended Tuesday, June 6, 2023, when the PGA Tour and European tour agreed to a merger with Saudi Arabia's golf interests, creating a commercial operation designed to unify professional golf around the world.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Hypocrisy isn’t new in sports, it’s just more obvious in PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger

June 9, 2023
Deptford Little League President Don Bozzuffi poses at the Deptford, N.J. Little League complex, May 10, 2023. Baseball is steeped in the tradition of fans wanting to jeer the umpire. One Little League in New Jersey is taking a more hands-on approach. The fans could become the umpires if they won't follow league rules on sportsmanship. (AP Photo/Dan Gelston)

In this youth baseball league, fans who mistreat umpires are sentenced to do the job themselves

June 9, 2023
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Ezra Miller in a scene from "The Flash." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

How ‘The Flash,’ many years in the works and beset by turmoil, finally reached the finish line

June 9, 2023
This image from video, released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on June 6, 2023, shows what Russia claimed was the destruction of a German-made Leopard tank. But a visual analysis by The Associated Press shows the grainy black-and-white video Russia released to prove it had blown up the tanks actually documented the destruction of a tractor. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia claims it blew up advanced Ukrainian tank, but video shows its helicopter attacked a tractor

June 9, 2023
FILE - In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, a Saudi custom officer opens imported pomegranates, as customs foiled an attempt to smuggle over 5 million pills of an amphetamine drug known as Captagon, which they said came from Lebanon, at Jiddah Islamic Port, Saudi Arabia, Friday, April 23, 2021. A little white pill has given Syrian President Bashar Assad powerful leverage with his Arab neighbors, who have been willing to bring him out of pariah status in hopes he will stop the flow of highly addictive Captagon amphetamines out of Syria. (Saudi Press Agency via AP, File)

A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria’s Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states

June 9, 2023
Anna Delvey, also known as Anna Sorokin, poses at her apartment in New York on May 26, 2023, to promote her podcast, “The Anna Delvey Show.” (AP Photo/John Carucci)

Under house arrest, fake heiress Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin launches podcast to rehab public image

June 9, 2023
FILE - People wait in line to early vote for the U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia between Sen. Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker, on Nov. 28, 2022, in Kennesaw, Ga., near Atlanta. After years of criticizing mail voting and trying to ban so-called "ballot harvesting," Republicans are reversing course. They are poised to launch aggressive get-out-the-vote campaigns for 2024 that employ just those strategies.(AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Republicans set to push mail ballots, voting methods they previously blasted as recipes for fraud

June 8, 2023
CAPTION CORRECTS LOCATION - Water flows over the collapsed Kakhovka Dam in Nova Kakhovka, in Russian-occupied Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo)

AP Exclusive: Drone footage of collapsed dam shows devastation, no evidence to back Russian claims

June 8, 2023
Fentanyl test strips sit atop magazines in the waiting area of Urban Kutz Barbershop in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 11, 2023. Owner Waverly Willis sets them out in his businesses, hoping to protect people in his community from overdosing on drugs they're unaware contain the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl. A growing number of states are legalizing the test strips, which are often labeled as illegal drug paraphernalia, in an effort to prevent overdose deaths. (Waverly Willis via AP)

Lifesaving fentanyl test strips still illegal in some states under ‘70s-era war on drugs law

June 8, 2023
FILE - Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. As the country awaits a Supreme Court decision on whether one of those laws, the Voting Rights Act, will be reinforced or further eroded, a small, vanishing group who lived at the epicenter of the struggle for voting rights six decades ago is reflecting on the times and their struggles, and why it was worth it. (AP Photo/File)

Voices from the violent civil rights era see attacks on voting rights as part of ongoing struggle

June 8, 2023
FILE - People walk along the oceanfront at Jensen Beach Park, where waves were reaching the dune's edge as conditions deteriorated with the approach of Hurricane Nicole, Nov. 9, 2022, in Jensen Beach, Fla. After months of gradually warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, NOAA officially issued an El Nino advisory Thursday, June 8, 2023, and stated that this one might be different than the others. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Here comes El Nino: It’s early, likely to be big, sloppy and add even more heat to a warming world

June 8, 2023
People gather outside the National Penitentiary for their turn to deliver food to their jailed relatives in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, June 1, 2023. In December 2022, the University of Florida published a study that found that men in Haiti’s prisons were on a starvation-level diet, consuming fewer than 500 calories a day. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haitians are dying of thirst and starvation in severely overcrowded jails

June 8, 2023
FILE - Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, hits from the fourth tee of the Spyglass Hill Golf Course during the first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament Feb. 8, 2018, in Pebble Beach, Calif. Looking on from left are caddie Tim Mickelson, Phil Mickelson and Jimmy Dunne III. Dunne was instrumental in getting the PGA Tour to meet with the head of Saudi Arabia's wealth fund. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Power broker Jimmy Dunne with 9/11 history helped get PGA and Saudis to the table

June 8, 2023
Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk past a sign calling on women to dress modestly in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. With ultra-Orthodox parties now wielding unprecedented power and playing a key role in a contentious plan to overhaul the legal system, they are aggravating concerns among secular Israelis that the character and future of their country is under threat. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Flashpoint in Israel: Divide between religious and secular Jews heats up under Netanyahu’s rule

June 8, 2023
Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. During the period between the end of one pontificate and the election of a new pope the camerlengo, or chamberlain, runs the administration and finances of the Holy See, but under canon law Pope Francis was still pope, fully in charge of running the Vatican and the 1.3-billion-strong Catholic Church, even while unconscious and undergoing surgery Wednesday, June 7, 2023, to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

What happens to papal power when a pope is unconscious? Nothing

June 7, 2023
FILE - Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior, left, confronts Valencia fans as Valencia's Jose Luis Gaya reacts during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Valencia and Real Madrid, at the Mestalla stadium in Valencia, Spain, Sunday, May 21, 2023. The vicious, relentless and high-profile racist insults directed at Brazilian soccer player Vinícius Junior underscore an entrenched and decades-old issue that refuses to go away in the world's most popular sport. It is a deeper societal problem that is manifested in soccer matches predominantly in Europe, but also all around the world, and has been amplified by the reach of social media. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz, File)

Racist abuse of Vinícius Júnior highlights entrenched problem in soccer

June 6, 2023
FILE - Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., speaks at an unveiling of a portrait of King by artist George Mandus, Feb. 18, 1974, and dedicated by Gov. Jimmy Carter. It is the first portrait of an African American to be represented in the state's official portrait gallery. (AP Photo/File)

The Carters and the Kings formed an alliance for race relations though Jimmy and Martin never met

June 5, 2023
This image released by Universal Picture shows filmmaker Christopher Nolan working with an IMAX camera on the set with actor Cillian Murphy during the filming of "Oppenheimer." (Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures via AP)

Christopher Nolan breaks down the best ways to watch a movie, ahead of his ‘Oppenheimer’ release

June 4, 2023
File - Harvard University students celebrate their graduate degrees in public health during Harvard commencement ceremonies, Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. A pause on student loan payments that's been in place since the start of the COVID pandemic will end late this summer if Congress approves a debt ceiling and budget deal negotiated by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Here’s how to prepare to start paying back your student loans when the pandemic payment freeze ends

June 3, 2023
FILE In this file photo made from video provided by the Moscow City Court on Feb. 3, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny makes a heart gesture standing in a cage during a hearing to a motion from the Russian prison service to convert the suspended sentence of Navalny from the 2014 criminal conviction into a real prison term in the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, has become Russia's most famous political prisoner. He is serving a nine-year term due to end in 2030 on charges widely seen as trumped up, and is facing another trial on new charges that could keep him locked up for another two decades. (Moscow City Court via AP, File)

Inside Russia’s penal colonies: A look at life for political prisoners caught in Putin’s crackdowns

June 3, 2023
In this photo provided by Vernon Tyau, Jarek Agcaoili, left, with his mother Danielle, sister Jessika and father Maury Agcaoili pose in May 2023, at Jessika's high school graduation in Hawaii. Danielle and Maury Agcaoili were among boaters who died Sunday, May 28, 2023, near Sitka, Alaska, when a fishing vessel ran into trouble in rough seas. (Vernon Tyau via AP)

Family’s Alaska fishing trip becomes nightmare with 3 dead and search over for 2 more

June 3, 2023
This image released by Adult Swim shows Eric Andre in a scene from “The Eric Andre Show," premiering its sixth season on Sunday. (Tyler Golden/ Adult Swim via AP)

How the most ‘incompetent talk show host of all time’ keeps getting guests

June 3, 2023
File - Women work in a restaurant kitchen in Chicago, Thursday, March 23, 2023. On Friday, the U.S. government issues the May jobs report. The labor market has added jobs at a steady clip in the past year, despite efforts by the Federal Reserve to cool the economy and bring down inflation. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

US hiring jumped last month. So did unemployment. Here’s what that says about the economy

June 2, 2023
Maria de Fatima da Costa, mother of Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, who confessed to the killings of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, stands in the doorway of Amarildo's home in the Sao Gabriel community, Amazonas state, Brazil, March 1, 2023. Da Costa is also the mother of Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, also arrested and accused of the killings of Pereira, an expert on Indigenous communities and Phillips, a British journalist. (AP Photo/Fabiano Maisonnave)

In the Amazon region where pair was killed, neglect and allegations of harsh justice

June 2, 2023
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks to the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. as the House moves toward passage of the debt limit bill. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

How Biden and McCarthy struck a debt limit deal and staved off a catastrophe

June 2, 2023
A statue of St. Anthony holding the infant Jesus is reflected in a wall in St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Friday, May 26, 2023, in Detroit. In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America's religious leaders and denominations have responded in strikingly diverse ways. The divisions are epitomized in the country's largest denomination – the Catholic Church. National polls repeatedly show that a majority of U.S. Catholics believe abortion should be legal in all or most case, yet the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports sweeping bans on the procedure. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

America’s religious leaders sharply divided over abortion, a year after Roe v Wade’s reversal

June 2, 2023
Francis, a Rastafari member, waves a Rastafari flag during service in the tabernacle on Sunday, May 14, 2023, on the Ras Freeman Foundation for the Unification of Rastafari property in Liberta, Antigua. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Rastafari gain sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua and Barbuda, celebrate freedom of worship

June 2, 2023
Load More