By MARCIA DUNN Updated 10:49 AM CDT, September 5, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star. Released Thursday, the pictures taken by the Gemini South telescope in Chile late last…
By LUCAS LIN and ANANYA PINNAMENENI/The Chronicle Updated 1:59 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — As generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT have become increasingly prevalent in academic settings, faculty and students have been forced to adapt. The debut of…
By MARCIA DUNN Updated 10:41 AM CDT, September 5, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Thousands of newborn stars sparkle and dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope. Released this week, the picture provides a breathtaking view of a…
By COLLEEN SLEVIN Updated 4:34 PM CDT, September 4, 2025 DENVER (AP) — Hikers who climbed a Colorado mountain got more than just a sweeping view at the top. A man in an ice cream cone costume unexpectedly was handing out…
CHICAGO (AP) — At a Catholic school in Pope Leo XIV’s hometown, fifth graders read comic books about Carlo Acutis’ life titled “Digital Disciple.” They draw pictures of what the teenage Italian computer whiz might have had as his cellphone…
By CALVIN WOODWARD, CAROLYN KASTER and RODRIQUE NGOWI Updated 8:01 AM CDT, September 5, 2025 ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic (AP) — Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now…
By MICHAEL CASEY Updated 3:19 PM CDT, September 4, 2025 HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire teenager on a deep-sea fishing trip this week hauled in a 177-pound (80 kilogram) Atlantic halibut, a fish so big that it weighed more…
By MARCIA DUNN Updated 10:02 AM CDT, September 3, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists revealed Wednesday that Mars’ innermost core appears to be a solid hunk of metal just like Earth’s. The Chinese-led research team based their findings on seismic readings…
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Updated 2:18 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is ending a program that allows members of its Prime membership subscription program to share their free shipping benefits with people who don’t have the same…
By SAFIYAH RIDDLE and AUDREY McAVOY Updated 4:54 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 After Iowa gas station employee Timothy Schultz won a $29 million lottery jackpot in 1999, he decided to hold a press conference. Lottery officials told him it would help him…
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Updated 4:15 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — There are “rays of hope” for a 12-year-old girl critically injured in last week’s deadly shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis, though her neurosurgeon cautioned Friday it is still…
By MEG KINNARD Updated 3:12 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Federal officials on Friday said they are taking steps that will give state and federal prisons the right to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates, devices they…
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 2:54 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 Now that Florida is taking steps to be the first state to get rid of school vaccine mandates, some states are looking at following its lead while others are promising to protect…
By KELVIN CHAN Updated 1:05 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth…
By JANIE HAR Updated 3:20 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the…
By RUSS BYNUM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Updated 2:18 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Immigration authorities said Friday they detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided the sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia…
By MATT O’BRIEN Updated 2:24 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their…
By PAUL WISEMAN Updated 9:56 AM CDT, September 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added just 22,000 jobs last month as the labor market continued to cool due to uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s economic policies. Hiring decelerated from 79,000 in July,…
By STAN CHOE Updated 9:58 AM CDT, September 5, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are falling Friday as Wall Street questions whether the U.S. job market has slowed by just enough to convince the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates soon to help…
By MATT BROWN and MIKE STOBBE Updated 7:06 PM CDT, September 4, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., facing pointed bipartisan questioning at a rancorous three-hour Senate committee hearing on Thursday, tried to defend his efforts to pull…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 12:38 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 Here is a look at the largest U.S. jackpots won and the places where the winning tickets were sold: 1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022. The winning ticket was…
By COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHAEL CASEY Updated 3:56 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday ordered the reversal of the Trump administration’s cuts to more than $2.6 billion in funding research grants for Harvard University. U.S. District…
By WILL WEISSERT Updated 1:19 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard to fight crime, potentially expanding the number of cities around the nation…
By CURT ANDERSON Updated 12:10 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other…