Latest Adoption News

This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

Feb. 23, 2024 11:59 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — When her cellphone's service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn't panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way — on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even...

Illegally adopted during Chile's dictatorship, they're now reuniting with biological families

Feb. 18, 2024 19:07 PM EST

SANTIAGO (AP) — Romina Cortés couldn't pronounce her sister’s last name. She didn’t know what she smells like, what her favorite food is, or what she likes to do in her free time. Cortés, 43, waited impatiently Sunday at the airport in Santiago, Chile, where she would soon...

U.S. Soccer Federation gives its president a salary

Feb. 10, 2024 18:17 PM EST

DALLAS (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation is making its president a paid position, adopting the change Saturday on the third try. The federation's national council approved a bylaw change at the USSF's annual general meeting that gives the governing body's president a $150,000...

Dog rescued after more than a week trapped inside shipping container in Texas port

Feb. 02, 2024 20:13 PM EST

HOUSTON (AP) — It was just another routine day of inspecting shipping containers at the Port of Houston for U.S. Coast Guard officer Ryan McMahon when he and his team thought they heard barking coming from inside one of the thousands of containers that surrounded them. “Oh,...

Danish report underscores 'systematic illegal behavior' in adoptions of children from South Korea

Jan. 25, 2024 20:20 PM EST

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish report on Thursday said adoptions of children from South Korea to Denmark in the 1970s and 1980s was “characterized by systematic illegal behavior” in the Asian country. These violations, the report said, made it “possible to change...

South Korea grants extension to truth commission as investigators examine foreign adoption cases

Jan. 22, 2024 07:48 AM EST

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s presidential office said Monday it approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission for a one-year extension after investigators sought more time to examine human rights violations linked to past military governments, including...

Many animals seized from troubled Virginia zoo will not be returned, judge rules

Jan. 19, 2024 19:16 PM EST

NATURAL BRIDGE, Va. (AP) — Many of the 96 animals seized from a roadside zoo in Virginia last month after an investigation by the state attorney general will not be returned, a judge ruled Friday. In his ruling, Rockbridge General District Court Judge Gregory Mooney found that...

Norway considers halting overseas adoptions as Denmark's only international agency winds down work

Jan. 16, 2024 11:19 AM EST

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s only overseas adoption agency said Tuesday that it is “winding down” its facilitation of international adoptions after a government agency raised concerns over fabricated documents and procedures that obscured children's biological origins abroad. ...