State legislative sessions around the country are coming to a close, and fights over public versus charter school funding and cell phones were among the biggest policy battles this year.

A study found that breakfast cereals contain increasing amounts of sugar, fat and sodium and decreasing amounts of protein and fiber.

You’ve heard of twofers. Kenya Hutton is a “threefer.” His parents are immigrants, he’s a Black man and he’s gay — at a ...

The following episode of The Story Behind the AP Story contains sound and descriptions that some listeners may find graphic or violent. Listener discretion is advised. Haya ...

Voters in Venezuela are choosing lawmakers, governors and other officials Sunday in polling being held against a backdrop of ...

One program distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online after Hurricane Helene washed away computers and phones in western North Carolina.

The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what has been a growing campaign to counter enlistment ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now is also a ...

The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Sunday. The missile triggered air raid sirens in Jerusalem and other areas. There were ...

As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the ...

A massive Russian drone-and-missile attack targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and other regions in the country for a second consecutive night, killing at least seven people ...

A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping a man and keeping him locked up for weeks in an upscale Manhattan apartment, where authorities say he was ...