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Pope Leo XIV calls for peace in Ukraine and Gaza in symbolically rich blessing on Mother's Day

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic g...

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Passenger bus skids off a cliff in Sri Lanka, killing 21 people and injuring 35

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said. The accide...

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Late abortions are rare. The US just lost a clinic that offered the procedure for over 50 years

To fellow travelers, Hannah Brehm likely looked like she was taking a belated babymoon well into her third trimester. But she and her husband had received a crushing diagnosis: Their baby's...

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Dutch-led Suriname team digitizes 100,000 documents to preserve Jewish history in the Caribbean

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The fire that caused significant damage in April to historic buildings in Suriname's capital city was not the only threat facing the nearby Neveh Shalom Synagogue. As firefi...

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

From the left and right, US Catholics hope new pope fulfills their hopes

NEW YORK (AP) — News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological spectrum in Pope Leo XIV ’s homeland, raising th...

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Poland once threw its doors open to millions of Ukrainian refugees, but the mood has shifted

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — In the early months of 2022, as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, millions of Ukrainians — mostly women and children — fled to Poland, where they were met ...

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

'Beacon of freedom' dims as US initiatives that promote democracy abroad wither under Trump

CHICAGO (AP) — Growing up in the former Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America with their ears pressed to the radio, trying to ca...

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

How AI helps push Candy Crush players through its most difficult puzzles

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Players swiping their way through more than 18,700 levels of Candy Crush Saga might be surprised to learn they’re solving puzzles designed with an assist from artificial i...

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

What is the traditional Sunday blessing that popes deliver in St. Peter’s Square?

VATICAN CITY (AP) — For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it’s the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope delivers from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Sq...

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Padres take on the Rockies after Merrill's 4-hit game

San Diego Padres (25-13, first in the NL West) vs. Colorado Rockies (6-33, fifth in the NL West) Denver; Sunday, 3:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: Nicholas Pivetta (5-1, 2.01 ERA, 0....

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Rockies' miserable season hits a new low with 21-0 loss to Padres

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Rockies are reluctant to label themselves a rebuilding team, but after Saturday night it might be more accurate to say they’re imploding. Colorado hit rock bottom ...

DATE: May 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

An Alaska Mother's Day tradition: Mingling with ice age survivors on a farm

PALMER, Alaska (AP) — It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice age. All moms get a daisy and free admissi...

DATE: May 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

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