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China and Japan, uneasy neighbors in East Asia, are at odds again
BEIJING (AP) — They're at it again.
China and Japan — frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured, bloody history they still struggle to navigate — are freshly at each other's rhetorical throats as 2026 begins. And it's over the same sticking points that have kept them resentful and suspici ... (full story)
US Christian leaders minister to an anxious diaspora with Venezuela's future in flux
Faith leaders who minister to Christians in Venezuela and the Venezuelan diaspora in the United States are urging prayers for peace as they attend to congregations roiled by uncertainty and high emotions following the U.S. capture of deposed leader Nicolás Maduro.
In Venezuela, initial statements from the Catholic bishops ... (full story)
How Americans feel about crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe, according to an AP-NORC poll
NEW YORK (AP) — Quintin Sharpe considers it a duty to support those without means. Whether collecting food pantry goods through local service groups or helping out his parents' nonprofit music school, he regularly gives back to his small-town waterside community in southeast Wisconsin.
But the 27-year-old wealth manager en ... (full story)
Minneapolis shooting by ICE agent brings debate over police force and moving vehicles back in focus
The fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis recently has thrust a long-running and deeply contested question back into the national spotlight: When is a law enforcement officer justified in using lethal force against someone in a moving vehicle?
The killing, captured on cellphone video, has expo ... (full story)
Hawaii reviving task force that places warning signs at dangerous beaches to prevent drowning
About 800 people have drowned in the waters off Hawaii's roughly 1,000-mile coastline in the last decade, with an increasing number of people frequenting remote stretches of coastline with little to warn them of risks. Yet the state has not called for a single new warning sign to be put up on a beach in more than 13 years.
Water ... (full story)