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What we learned in the first two episodes of Taylor Swift's Disney+ Eras Tour docuseries

NEW YORK (AP) — “The Eras Tour was a lifetime within my life,” Taylor Swift told the room at a screening of the first two episodes of her new Disney+ docuseries, “The End of an Era.” “It fee...

Trump sued by preservationists seeking architecture review over White House ballroom project

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was sued on Friday by preservationists seeking an architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project. ...

This holiday season isn't very merry for consumers, an AP-NORC poll finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck...

New York may lose $73M in federal highway funds over flawed immigrant commercial driver's licenses

New York routinely issues licenses to immigrants that may be valid long after they are legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday and he th...

Belarus leader hosts US envoy as he seeks to improve his country's ties with the West

Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday hosted a U.S. envoy for talks in the Belarus capital of Minsk, the latest step in the isolated leader's effort to improve ties with...

New footage shows six Israeli hostages celebrating Jewish holiday, months before they were killed

TEL AVIV (AP) — New footage of six Israeli hostages shows them celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah while being held captive in a tunnel in Gaza, several months before they were killed...

Rare fresco of Jesus as the 'Good Shepherd' uncovered in Turkish town visited by the pope

IZNIK, Turkey (AP) — Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered one of the most important finds from Anatolia’s early Christian era: a fresco of a Roman-looking Jesus as the “Good Shepherd.” Th...

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake causes small tsunami waves off northeastern Japan

TOKYO (AP) — A 6.9 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after a stronger quake in the same region. Friday's quake ...

The Latest: Indiana GOP rejects redrawn congressional map despite pressure from Trump

Indiana’s Republican-led Senate has decisively rejected a redrawn congressional map that would have favored their party, defying months of pressure from President Donald Trump and delivering...

Iran arrests Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, supporters say

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, her supporters said Friday. There was no immediate comment from Iran over its detention of M...

Skydiver dangles at 15,000 feet after parachute catches on plane's tail in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian accident investigators on Thursday released dramatic images of a skydiver’s parachute becoming entangled on an airplane’s tail, leaving him dangling at...

Converts are finding Eastern Orthodoxy online. The church wants to help them commune face-to-face

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that br...