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Pope Leo XIV waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Dec.17, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope blasts 'irrationality' of military deterrence in first annual peace message

12:39 PM on Thursday, December 18

Pope Leo XIV says peace is not only possible but necessary

Israeli police officers scuffle with young Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters during a violent disturbance in Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

A parking ticket in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem sets off clashes with police

11:09 AM on Thursday, December 18

Israeli religious protesters have turned on municipal officers who attempted to write a parking ticket in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood, attacking and injuring 13 police officers

Josh Pyles, who is part of a cooperative program that helps local farmers stay on the farm and, in turn, strengthen rural communities, opens a gate to check on a herd of cattle in Henry County, Ky., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Swensen)

PHOTO ESSAY: Grassroots groups tackle social isolation

7:11 AM on Thursday, December 18

Family, friends, and supporters gather for the Beef Bash 2025 tasting event at the Berry Center, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, in New Castle, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Efforts to reconnect Americans face challenges in a lonely time

7:06 AM on Thursday, December 18

It’s been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation

Visitors learn about fall crops like lettuce and kale while on a walking tour of Collins Avenue during the Baltimore Gift Economy's third annual "Finding Home" gathering, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Bit by bit, small US groups chip away at historic levels of social isolation

7:02 AM on Thursday, December 18

Americans are disconnected from each other at historic levels, buffeted by what a former surgeon general calls an “epidemic of loneliness.”

Bishop Ronald Hicks speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Dec.18, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Pope names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as new archbishop of New York

6:08 AM on Thursday, December 18

Pope Leo XIV has made a significant U.S. appointment by naming Bishop Ronald Hicks as the next archbishop of New York

Pope names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as archbishop of New York in most important US appointment to date

6:05 AM on Thursday, December 18

Pope names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as archbishop of New York in most important US appointment to date

A convoy of Lebanese army vehicles drives near the border with Israel in the village of Alma al-Shaab during a Lebanese army media tour in south Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israel launches intense airstrikes in Lebanon as deadline looms to disarm Hezbollah

5:29 AM on Thursday, December 18

Israel has carried out airstrikes on southern and northeastern Lebanon

Whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order perform during a Sheb-i Arus ceremony at Kasimpasa Mevlevihane in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, to commemorate the death of 13th century Islamic scholar, poet and Sufi mystic Jalaladdin Rumi. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Photos show performances by Turkey's whirling dervishes

9:20 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Palestinian women struggle to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel fires mortar into Gaza residential area, wounding at least 10

1:18 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Israel’s military says troops fired a mortar shell into a Palestinian residential area in the Gaza Strip, in the latest incident to rock the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas

FILE - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, June 12, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

New York is set to legalize medically assisted suicide with 'guardrails,' governor says

10:44 AM on Wednesday, December 17

New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill

This image shows a still from the series "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints." (Fox Nation via AP)

Faith-based entertainment sees a revival in Hollywood. Defining what it is can be a challenge

9:04 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Faith-based films are gaining traction in Hollywood, with recent successes sparking renewed interest

FILE - John Prevost, brother of new Pope Leo XIV, holds a portrait of the three Prevost brothers from 1958, Pope Leo, 3, left, John, 4, and Louis, 7, at his home, May 8, 2025, in New Lenox, Ill. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy, File)

Good news: Behind the scenes of some of the most uplifting stories of 2025

8:19 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Journalists with The Associated Press have captured some of 2025's most uplifting stories amid global challenges

Burkhard Scheffler, second from right, a homeless man who died from the cold in 2022 on the edge of St. Peter's Square, is portrayed as St. Peter in a painting by German artist Michael Triegel and exposed in the chapel of the Teutonic College at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Church altar featuring homeless man goes on display a stone's throw from his grave at the Vatican

1:12 AM on Wednesday, December 17

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope

Rohingya refugee 13-year-old Rahamot Ullah, his eye bloodied from a bamboo stick that pierced it 10 days earlier while slogging through sewage, speaks to The Associated Press inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Takeaways from the AP's report on the impact of aid cuts on Rohingya children in Bangladesh

12:31 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs

Hasina, a Rohingya refugee girl, sits inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts

12:25 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs

Family react at the coffin of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a victim in the Bondi Beach mass shooting, during his funeral at a synagogue in Bondi on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, Pool)

Accused gunman in Bondi Beach shooting charged with 15 counts of murder

9:41 PM on Tuesday, December 16

An accused gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre has been charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims

Swimmers gather for a morning vigil in Sydney, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, following Sunday's shooting at Bondi Beach. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)/AAP Image via AP)

Millions are pledged to a Syrian Australian man who stopped a gunman and became a national hero

4:49 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian tobacco shop owner, has become a national hero in Australia, with an online fundraiser for him raising millions of dollars

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