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With the future of AM unclear, a look back at the powerful role radio plays in baseball history

Sep. 25, 2023 08:38 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Suzyn Waldman fell madly in love with two things: baseball and Broadway shows. During the 1950s and '60s, the long arm of AM radio brought both into her home. “I can still hear Ned Martin of the Red Sox reciting...

Kimberly Palmer: 7 saving strategies you may not have tried yet

Sep. 25, 2023 07:02 AM EDT

With the holiday shopping season just starting and prices of many consumer goods continuing to rise, saving money can seem impossible. But those financial pressures also make doing so even more important. “Saving is your margin,” says Eric Maldonado, a certified financial planner...

More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5

Sep. 25, 2023 02:16 AM EDT

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano. Like a...

Giorgio Armani closes Milan Fashion Week with good vibes and familiar guests in the front row

Sep. 25, 2023 01:19 AM EDT

MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani closed Milan Fashion Week on Sunday with good vibes and a front row that included frequent guests such as Cate Blanchett and Juliette Binoche. Armani's Spring-Summer 2024 collection mirrored a sky's shifting colors and light at dusk, an idea conveyed...

What to stream this week: Ed Sheeran, 'The Voice,' 'The Golden Bachelor' and Wes Anderson returns

Sep. 25, 2023 00:07 AM EDT

An Ed Sheeran album and a spinoff of “The Bachelor” starring a 72-year-old widower are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you Among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are Wes...

MILAN FASHION PHOTOS: Naomi Campbell stuns at Dolce&Gabbana in collection highlighting lingerie

Sep. 23, 2023 19:13 PM EDT

MILAN (AP) — The Milan fashion world has become a designer carousel. Powerhouse Gucci and Swiss luxury brand Bally both introduced designers this season, while Tod's bade their creative director farewell and Moschino is in an interim phase. The question on everyone's minds: Where...

Birthplace of the atomic bomb braces for its biggest mission since the top-secret Manhattan Project

Sep. 23, 2023 15:34 PM EDT

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project. Almost overnight, the ranching enclave on a remote plateau in northern New Mexico was transformed into a makeshift home for scientists, engineers and young soldiers...

As the world's diplomacy roils a few feet away, a little UN oasis offers a riverside pocket of peace

Sep. 23, 2023 13:03 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Inside, with speeches and machinations and carefully deployed elbows, those who administer the world persist in their search for the elusive path to peace. Outside, on the wooded grounds of a place founded on the premise of ending conflict, sometimes they can find it. ...

AP PHOTOS: King Charles and Camilla share moments both regal and ordinary on landmark trip to France

Sep. 23, 2023 00:18 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Playing ping-pong, strolling through a Bordeaux vineyard, dodging raindrops at a Paris flower market — Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla paid a special state visit to France that at times looked richly royal, and at times strikingly ordinary. There was...

At the edge of the UN security perimeter, those with causes (and signs) try to be heard

Sep. 22, 2023 19:16 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Pedro came to the U.S. from Angola five months ago. He works construction in the New York City borough of Queens. Kadija Tyler made the journey from Senegal to Harlem. She works in sales in a department store. Neither is a full-time activist. But they and...