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A member of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard, places flags in front of each headstone for "Flags-In" at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Thursday, May 25, 2023, to honor the Nation's fallen military heroes ahead of Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
From the Civil War to today's mattress sales, Memorial Day is full of contradiction
Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of retail discounts. Memorial Day has … more
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Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he attends the world's first meeting of the 'Educational Eco-Cities' promoted by the 'Scholas Occurrentes', at the Vatican, Thursday, May 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope runs fever, skips meetings, Vatican says
The Vatican says Pope Francis canceled his meetings Friday because he was running a fever. There are no details about how sick Francis is; the last time he spiked a serious fever the 86-year-old … more
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FILE - Fresno County Sheriff's Office search and rescue team members return upriver to a boat launch near the Pine Flat Dam near Sanger, Calif., after reports that a boy's body had been recovered on the Kings River, May 22, 2023. California rivers fed by winter's massive Sierra Nevada snowpack have been turned into deadly torrents, drawing warnings from public safety officials ahead of the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional start of outdoor summer recreation. (Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee via AP, File)
California's epic melting snowpack means cold, deadly torrents ahead of Memorial Day weekend
California rivers fed by winter’s massive Sierra Nevada snowpack have been turned into cold and deadly torrents, drawing warnings from officials ahead of the Memorial Day weekend's traditional … more
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People march during a protest against violence in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, May 19, 2023. Tens of thousands of people rallied in Serbia's capital on Friday for a third time in a month in protest at the government's handling of a crisis after two mass shootings in the Balkan country earlier this month, even as officials rejected the criticism and ignored their demands. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
May 19-25, 2023 From the flooding in Faenza Italy, to the Italian Open tennis tournament and Manchester City winning the English Premier League, this photo gallery highlights some of the most … more
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U.S. Sailors and Marines stand on the deck of the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, as it passes the Statue of Liberty during Fleet Week on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
AP Week in Pictures: North America
MAY 19 - 25, 2023 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from North America made or published by The Associated Press in the past week. The selection was curated by … more
FILE - A lone cyclist passes by Colorado's State Capitol building, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in Denver. Colorado passed a law Thursday, May 25, 2023, requiring that patients give informed consent for medical students to perform pelvic exams on them while they are unconscious. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Colorado embraces broad law requiring patient consent for pelvic exams while sedated
Colorado medical providers will need to get patients’ prior consent before medical students can perform pelvic exams on them while they are unconscious for a procedure under a bill signed into law. … more
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FILE - Tina Turner, Pop and R&B vocalist, as holds up a Grammy Award, Feb. 27, 1985, in Los Angeles. Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer, died Tuesday, after a long illness at her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her manager. She was 83 (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
Tina Turner created a career on her terms, not defined by her trauma
Tina Turner escaped a violent marriage to a controlling musical partner and empowered herself to emerge through a musical renaissance. Her story of surviving and thriving was so much more than a … more
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A hiring sign is displayed at a fast food restaurant in Northbrook, Ill., Monday, May 22, 2023. On Thursday, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
More Americans apply for jobless benefits but labor market remains tight
U.S. applications for jobless claims rose slightly last week but remain at healthy levels as companies seem reticent to let go of employees in a tight labor market. The number of Americans filing for … more
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FILE - Dr. Caitlin Bernard, a reproductive healthcare provider, speaks during an abortion rights rally on June 25, 2022, at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. An Indiana board is set to hear allegations Thursday, May 25, 2023, that Bernard, an Indianapolis doctor should face disciplinary action after she spoke publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio. (Jenna Watson/The Indianapolis Star via AP, File)
Indiana doctor faces discipline hearing over 10-year-old Ohio girl's abortion
An Indiana board is set to hear allegations that an Indianapolis doctor should face disciplinary action after she spoke publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from … more
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A pair of young red-lored Amazon parrots investigate their environment at the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation in Loxahatchee, Fla., Friday, May 19, 2023, nearly two months after a smuggler was caught, according to a criminal complaint, with 29 parrot eggs at Miami International Airport in late March when the eggs began hatching in his carry-on bag while in transit. The RSCF is raising the 24 surviving red-lored and yellow-naped parrots while looking for a long-term home for the birds. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Chirping sounds lead airport officials to bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs
The 24 bright green baby parrots chirp and bob their heads the second anyone nears the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March. The Central American natives were seized from a … more
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FILE - Motorists pay toll at Gateway International Bridge, March 6, 2023, in Brownsville, Texas, to cross into Matamoros, Mexico. Federal officials say more than 200 patients could be at risk of fungal meningitis after having surgical procedures at clinics in a Mexico border city. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday, May 24, 2023 it is collaborating with the Mexican Ministry of Health and U.S. state and local health departments to respond to the outbreak among patients who traveled to Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP, File)
CDC: 2 dead of suspected cases of meningitis after surgeries in Mexico, over 200 patients at risk
Federal officials say over 200 patients could be at risk of fungal meningitis after having surgical procedures at clinics in a Mexico border city. The federal Centers for Disease Control and … more
FILE - Cars move along the 6th Street Viaduct in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Police say a 17-year-old boy slipped and fell to his death this weekend while climbing a Los Angeles bridge in an apparent social media stunt. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Teen dies during apparent social media stunt on Los Angeles bridge, police say
Police say a 17-year-old boy slipped and fell to his death this weekend while climbing a Los Angeles bridge in an apparent social media stunt. Police were sent to the 6th Street Viaduct around 2 a.m. … more
This Himawari-9 infrared satellite image taken at 2 p.m. EDT and provided by NOAA shows Typhoon Mawar passing over the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (NOAA via AP)
What makes a storm a typhoon? What's a super typhoon?
A powerful typhoon churned over the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam and lashed the island with wind and rain. Typhoon Mawar is the strongest to hit the U.S. territory of roughly 150,000 people since … more
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CAPTION CORRECTION CORRECTS DATE: FILE - Tourists pose for photos at a sign along a popular beach in Tamuning, Guam, May 11, 2019. The powerful Pacific typhoon Mawar that lashed of Guam on Thursday, May 25, 2023, with damaging high winds, heavy rains and a dangerous storm surge arrived as the worst storm in decades, interrupting life for residents and the U.S. military on a tropical island that is the easternmost of the nation's territories. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Typhoon Mawar lashes Guam, US island territory known as 'Where America's Day Begins'
The powerful Typhoon Mawar lashing Guam has interrupted travel and tropical island life for residents and U.S. military members in one of the nation's most remote territories. The island in the … more
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FILE - The Conemaugh Generation Station emits steam in New Florence, Pa., Feb. 6, 2007. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court Wednesday, May 24, 2023, will take its first crack at whether a governor can force power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, or whether approval from a hostile Legislature was required first. (Todd Berkey/The Tribune-Democrat via AP)
Pennsylvania high court appears split over plan to force power plants to pay for carbon emissions
Justices on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court are indicating that they're likely to have split opinions on whether a governor can force power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas … more
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This image provided by the Statens Museum For Kunst shows the 1834 painting "The 84-Gun Danish Warship 'Dronning Marie' in the Sound" by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Danish painters in the 19th century had some special ingredients up their sleeves: They used materials from brewing beer to create their artwork, according to research published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg/Statens Museum for Kunst via AP)
Danish masters prepped canvases with leftovers from brewing beer
Famous Danish painters may have gotten supplies from an unusual source: breweries. A study published Wednesday finds that paintings from 19th-century Denmark included bits of yeast and wheat … more
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A member of The Leatherback Project for the conservation of leatherback turtles inspects the health of hatchlings from a nest on a beach near Armila, Panama, Saturday, May 20, 2023. Sea turtles in Panama now have the legal right to live in an environment free of pollution and other detrimental impacts caused by humans, a change that represents a different way of thinking about how to protect wildlife. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
In Panama, legal rights given to sea turtles, boosting the 'rights of nature' movement
Sea turtles in Panama now have the legal right to live and have free passage in a healthy environment, a change that represents a different way of thinking about how to protect wildlife. Panama’s … more
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Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump speaks at a news conference on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Decatur, Ga., announcing a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Georgia woman who died after she fell out of a moving patrol car in July 2022, following her arrest. Crump was joined in front of the old courthouse in Decatur, by Brianna Grier's sister Lottie Grier, left, and mother Mary Grier, right. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback)
Family of Georgia woman who died after falling from moving patrol car files wrongful death lawsuit
The family of a Georgia woman who died last year after she fell from a moving patrol car has filed a civil rights lawsuit. The lawsuit announced Wednesday says sheriff’s deputies improperly … more
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FILE - Alex Murdaugh speaks with his legal team before he is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the murder of his wife and son by Judge Clifton Newman at the Colleton County Courthouse on Friday, March 3, 2023 in in Walterboro, S.C. Convicted murderer Murdaugh is facing federal charges for the first time after being indicted on 22 financial fraud charges related to schemes the former attorney used to steal settlement money from clients. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool, File)
Convicted murderer and ex-attorney Alex Murdaugh facing federal charges of fraud, theft
Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh is facing federal charges for the first time after being indicted on 22 financial fraud charges over allegations the former attorney schemed to steal settlement money … more
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FILE - Multivitamin tablets are photographed in Philadelphia on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011. A study published Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, shows a daily multivitamin may boost memory function in some people, although the results don't change recommendations about use of the supplements. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
A daily multivitamin to boost memory? Here's what to know
A new study shows a daily multivitamin may boost memory function in some people, although the results don't change recommendations about use of the supplements. Researchers tracked more than 3,500 … more
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