Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.”.

An Indigenous community in Peru has won the latest stage of a legal battle to reclaim lost rainforests.

A court in Sicily Friday found Vice Premier Matteo Salvini not guilty of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard a humanitarian rescue ship when he was interior minister.

The U.S. flu season is underway.

Fewer than 1% of nuns in the U.S. today are under 30.

MrBeast’s ambitious reality show, which the YouTube megastar hopes will expand his massive online reach and turn the corner on recent controversies, is already raising questions from consumer advocates over a partnership with a fintech company.

The Federal Reserve’s third interest rate cut of the year will likely have consequences for debt, savings, auto loans, mortgages and other forms of borrowing by consumers and businesses.

The holidays are meant to be a time of celebration with family and friends.

As the war in Gaza rages, Syria's government transforms, and the Israeli-occupied West Bank seethes, Armenian residents of the Old City of Jerusalem fight a different battle.

Max Cobb, the secretary general of the International Biathlon Union, apologized to any athlete who was mistreated during his tenure at U.S. Biathlon during a 90-minute meeting focused on concerns about athlete safety brought to light by multiple Associated Press reports.

Executions have historically been carried out with at least some public scrutiny, from public hangings in the town square to lethal injections in prisons witnessed by journalists.

United Methodist News Service reports that a religious schism has turned deadly in Nigeria, with a church member fatally shot and two young children killed as homes were set ablaze.

Prosecutors in Bolivia are seeking the arrest of former President Evo Morales in connection to a sexual abuse investigation involving his alleged fathering of a child with a 15-year-old girl.

Santa Clauses are coming to town.

A giant salamander that evolved on the supercontinent Pangaea and outlived the dinosaurs has been proposed for federal protection by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Dozens of environmental nonprofits issued a manifesto Thursday condemning new laws in Brazilian states that threaten to dismantle the Amazon soy moratorium.

Ukraine’s top military commander says fighting around a key eastern Ukraine city is “extremely intense” after a monthslong Russian push.

Nigeria is the latest African country to give a new malaria vaccine to young childen.

Oscar-winning documentarian and Associated Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov has a new film that delves further into the Russia-Ukraine war.

Rescue crews have pulled two women from rubble several hours after a Russian missile struck a medical clinic in the southern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia.

OpenAI has publicly released its new artificial intelligence video generator Sora but won’t let most users depict people as it monitors for patterns of misuse.

George Soros' philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, will continue to fund human rights movements around the world.

Police believe the brazen killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO was carried out with a ghost gun.

AC Milan has announced that United States midfielder Christian Pulisic has a torn muscle in his right calf.

A new report says Earth just experienced its second-warmest November on record — second only to 2023 — making it all but certain that 2024 will end as the hottest year ever measured.

A surprising study of temperature-related deaths in Mexico upends conventional thinking about what age group is hit hardest by heat.

Eli Lilly is spending another $3 billion to bulk up manufacturing as the drugmaker seeks to stoke production of some blockbuster drugs and future products.

Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman has chosen 10 of the best songs of 2024.

Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine.

Freshman sensation Cooper Flagg had 22 points and 11 rebounds to help No. 9 Duke push past No. 2 Auburn 84-78 in the SEC/ACC Challenge.

Pop Isaacs helped unranked Creighton upset No. 1 Kansas 76-63 on Wednesday night, scoring a season-high 27 points and matching his career high with six 3-pointers.

Liam McNeeley scored 17 points and No. 25 UConn came back from an early deficit to beat No. 15 Baylor 76-72 in the Big 12-Big East Battle.

U.S. donors gave $3.6 billion on Tuesday, an increase from the past two years, according to estimates from the nonprofit GivingTuesday.

Antwaun Powell-Ryland, Aeneas Peebles and Jonas Sanker all garner first-team honors.

U.S. biathletes face “misogynistic” behavior while racing and fear retaliation if they report their concerns.

Melinda French Gates is offering to match up to $1 million in gifts to two nonprofit organizations to help spur donations on GivingTuesday.

It’s a photograph that defined the 2024 campaign.

Established nonprofits, everyday individuals and mutual aid groups all want your dollars to make a difference.

Negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution have concluded in Busan, South Korea without reaching an agreement.

An emboldened fringe of right-wing “manosphere” influencers has seized on Donald Trump’s presidential win to justify and amplify misogynistic derision and threats online.

Pop superstar Taylor Swift is spending Black Friday amid a sea of red to watch her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs as they play the Las Vegas Raiders in a chilly matinee at Arrowhead Stadium.

A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system.

The NBA has fined Denver guard Russell Westbrook $35,000 for making an obscene gesture on the court in the fourth quarter of a 145-118 loss to the Knicks.

Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution have inched closer to an agreement, with more countries saying they want to address the total plastic on Earth.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a new plan to protect the state’s iconic Joshua trees, which are imperiled by wildfires, human development and climate change.

At least 15 people have died and 113 others are missing after landslides buried homes in six villages in eastern Uganda.

Boise State advanced to the semifinals of the Mountain West women's volleyball tournament by beating Utah State on Wednesday night.

Black Friday has become something of an anachronism in the e-commerce era.

Residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast endured two major hurricanes and a tropical storm in the span of nine weeks, and they are still feeling the economic shockwaves.

Johni Broome had 23 points and a career-best 19 rebounds to lead No. 4 Auburn to an 85-72 victory over No. 12 North Carolina in a Maui Invitational semifinal.

Drought and sea level rise are causing salty oceanwater to creep into the Delaware River, threatening a source of drinking water for Philadelphia and millions of other people.

Roman Catholic faithful will be able to view St. Peter’s tomb via a webcam as part of the Vatican’s upcoming Holy Year.

A last round of negotiations on a legally binding treaty to address the global scourge of plastic pollution has opened in Busan, South Korea.

Donald Trump's victory has dismayed many politically engaged Black women, and they're reassessing their enthusiasm for politics and organizing.

Gaston Martirena and Adrian Martinez scored first-half goals as Argentina’s Racing won its first Copa Sudamericana championship by beating Brazil’s Cruzeiro 3-1 in the final on Saturday.

Donald Trump’s lock on the white evangelical vote is legendary, but he didn't focus exclusively on large religious voter blocs.

While diplomats negotiated at the United Nations climate talks in Azerbaijan, climate experts played a board game where players are supposed to work together to combat global warming.

The U.S. House passed legislation that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism.

The federal FAFSA form used to apply for college financial aid opened to high school seniors across the nation on Thursday, a year after a disastrous rollout by the Biden administration delayed the application for months.

The Associated Press has gathered up some of the best items out there to keep any movie lover stylish and informed.

Pope Francis will make late teen Carlo Acutis the Catholic Church’s first millennial and digital saint next year.

A new study says human-caused climate change made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 mph stronger in the last six years.

Kam Jones had 17 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists as No. 15 Marquette defeated No. 6 Purdue 76-58 to snap the Boilermakers’ 39-game regular-season nonconference winning streak.

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought.

Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction.

The top-ranked Oregon Ducks have clinched a spot in the Big Ten championship game.

San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama won't play against the Oklahoma City Thunder as he recovers from a bruised right knee.

When the head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development traveled to housing sites around the country, she heard from renters in affordable housing that they felt forgotten and left out of the nation’s transition to clean energy.

From foster grandparents who volunteer at an early child care center to citizen scientists who collect water quality data in remote locations, nonprofit volunteers have come back after the pandemic.

Officials say Ukraine fired several American-supplied longer-range missiles into Russia, marking the first time Kyiv has used such weapons since the start of the war.

The Associated Press says it is looking to cut 8% of its workforce, primarily through buyouts, and employees eligible to leave their jobs would begin getting notifications.

United Nations climate talks resumed Monday with negotiators urged to make progress on a deal that could see developing countries get more money to spend on clean energy and adapting to climate-charged weather extremes.

Victoria Kjær Theilvig of Denmark has been crowned Miss Universe.

Southern California’s JuJu Watkins reached 1,000 career points in the second fewest amount of games in NCAA Division I history during the second half against Santa Clara.

In a story published Nov. 15, 2024, The Associated Press reported on a judge's decision to reject New York state's effort to shut down a cryptocurrency plant because of concerns about its climate impact.

Pope Francis is asking the diocese of Rome to help alleviate a growing housing crisis in the Eternal City.

Last year, Puerto Rican superstar Rauw Alejandro was in outer space with “Playa Saturno.”.

The refugee organization, the International Rescue Committee, is testing some artificial intelligence tools to try to increase the number of displaced people they can reach with critical information.

Victor Wembanyama had a career-high 50 points and the San Antonio Spurs rolled to a 139-130 victory over the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night.

Several U.S. Catholic bishops on Wednesday encouraged the church to boldly share Vatican teachings on a range of hot-button issues, including the condemnation of abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy and gender-affirming surgery.

New government data shows that U.S. drug overdose deaths appear to be showing a sustained decline.

A tribunal in Argentina has upheld a six-year sentence term and lifetime ban from holding public office sentence against former President Cristina Fernández, a dominant political leader in recent years in the South American country.

Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign.

Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year.

The Northeast is keeping a wary eye on dozens of fires that killed at least one person and continue to burn amid very dry weather.

The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog will travel to Iran this week to meet with officials including its new president.

As U.S. Catholic bishops gather for their annual fall meeting this week in Baltimore, the specter of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory hangs over the proceedings.

Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank Group swung back to profitability in the July-September quarter, boosted by its Vision Fund investments.

Kansas remained atop the first Associated Press men’s college basketball poll of the regular season after winning a matchup of basketball bluebloods.

A digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica has been created using artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monument’s.

In Baku, Azerbaijan the two-week United Nations climate negotiations, called COP29, got right to the major focus of striking a new deal on how many hundreds of billions — or even trillions — of dollars a year will flow from rich nations to poor to try to curb and adapt to climate change.

Experts calculate that curbing and coping with global warming is going to cost trillions of dollars and poor nations just don’t have it.

The New Orleans Pelicans say Zion Williamson has been diagnosed with a left hamstring strain that will sideline him indefinitely.

Inflation and immigration emerged as the dominant themes in this year’s presidential race.

Coco Gauff has defeated top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 7-6, 6-3 Friday and set up a showdown with Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen in the final on Saturday of the WTA Finals in Riyadh.

In a story published Nov. 8, 2024, about how different religious groups voted in the presidential election, The Associated Press erroneously used 2020 numbers when reporting the results of the AP VoteCast survey related to Jewish voters.

Global efforts to fight climate change stumbled but survived the last time Donald Trump was elected president.

Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting inquiries by the FBI and other agencies.

The New Orleans Saints may be one of the worst teams in the NFL this season.

Former President Donald Trump once again won the support of about 8 in 10 white evangelical Christian voters in his election to a second term.