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FILE - Pope Leo XIV delivers his blessing as he visits Pavia's Cathedral, northern Italy, on June 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Pope urges US to recommit to founding ideas of protecting life, human dignity on 250th anniversary

9:46 AM on Friday, July 3

Pope Leo XIV is praying for the United States to recommit itself to its founding ideals on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

FILE - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, then Iran's supreme leader, speaks during Friday prayers at Tehran University, July 30, 1999. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led Iran with iron fist while confronting the US, will be buried

2:07 AM on Friday, July 3

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dramatically remolded Iran during more than three decades as supreme leader, turning it into a regional powerhouse and bringing it increasingly into confrontation with Israel and the United States

Prasanth Prakashan, a mechanical engineer, poses in front of a robotic elephant at his backyard workshop in Chalakudy, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Friday, May 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Robotic elephants draw crowds and controversy in some of India's Hindu temples

10:07 PM on Thursday, July 2

In India's southern state of Kerala, robotic elephants are replacing live ones in temple festivals

The Rev. John Ubel, pastor of the Church of Saint Agnes, processes into the sanctuary with altar servers at the start of one of the Catholic parish’s Latin Masses in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday, June 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell’Orto)

As Pope Leo faces traditionalists' schism, a Minnesota church merges old customs with fidelity

9:50 PM on Thursday, July 2

Priests at the Church of Saint Agnes in St. Paul, Minnesota, celebrate a traditional Latin Rite Mass every Sunday, even though the practice has become a symbol of cultural and political battles among some Catholics

Real Madrid basketball team parts ways with former Spain coach Sergio Scariolo

6:11 AM on Thursday, July 2

Real Madrid and Sergio Scariolo have mutually agreed to end the coach’s tenure with the Spanish basketball club

Map showing where monks on pilgrimage were killed in a pickup truck crash in Mukdahan province. (AP Digital Embed)

11-year-old driver crashes truck into Buddhist monks in Thailand, killing 10

12:41 AM on Thursday, July 2

Officials in Thailand say an 11-year-old boy has crashed a pickup truck into Buddhist monks on a pilgrimage, killing 10 of them and injuring others

Newly consecrated bishops, from left, Pascal Schreiber, Michael Goldade, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry and Marc Hanappier, wearing their miters and holding their pastoral staffs, pray at the end of their consecration ceremony in a tent set up outside the Society of St. Pius X seminary in Econe, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Vatican excommunicates schismatic bishops and priests, and warns their followers

12:32 AM on Thursday, July 2

The Vatican has responded aggressively to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent

A woman holds up her hands, painted red to symbolize blood with the words in Hebrew "we will not forget" during a protest marking 1,000 days since the Oct. 7 2003 Hamas-led attack on Israel, outside the prime minister residence in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Gaza faces uncertain future as Palestinians and Israelis mark 1,000 days of war

10:03 PM on Wednesday, July 1

The conflict in Gaza has reached its 1,000th day since a Hamas-led attack on Israel

FILE - An Iranian mourner goes into a frenzy just after the body of the Ayatollah Khomeini was removed from Beheshte Zahra Cemetery in Tehran, June 6, 1989. The burial was delayed when thousands of mourners crowded the imam's body in an effort to touch their leader. (AP Photo/Greg English, File)

AP Was There: Millions of mourners attended funeral of Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

8:30 PM on Wednesday, July 1

On June 6, 1989, millions of Iranians turned out in the streets to bury Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led the 1979 Islamic Revolution

Lee Geon Hui looks at a computer screen as a video clip shows a digital likeness of his late grandfather speaking at Seoul-based tech firm Vaice, South Korea, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Grieving South Koreans seek comfort in AI videos of deceased loved ones

6:26 PM on Wednesday, July 1

In recent years, a growing number of bereaved people in digitally-savvy South Korea have been trying out tech startups that offer short simulated videos of dead relatives

Father Marc Hanappier, center, attends his consecration ceremony as bishop in a tent set up outside the Society of St. Pius X seminary, in Econe, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

What to know about the schism by traditionalist Catholics who defied Pope Leo XIV

9:06 PM on Tuesday, June 30

The Vatican has responded aggressively to the ultratraditionalist Society of St. Pius X after it defied Pope Leo XIV and consecrated four bishops without his consent

Newly consecrated bishops, from left, Pascal Schreiber, Michael Goldade, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry and Marc Hanappier, wearing their miters and holding their pastoral staffs, pray at the end of their consecration ceremony in a tent set up outside the Society of St. Pius X seminary in Econe, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Defying Pope Leo XIV, traditionalists go ahead with bishop consecrations in Switzerland

9:02 PM on Tuesday, June 30

A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics has directly defied Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his consent

Muslims were part of America’s story long before the republic began

5:35 AM on Tuesday, June 30

Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope issues plea to breakaway traditionalist group to back off bishop consecrations

2:07 AM on Tuesday, June 30

Pope Leo XIV has issued a plea to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics to call off its planned consecrations of new bishops without his consent

Palestinian weavers Rula Barakeh, right, and Samira Nasser work on handmade embroidered pieces at the Inaash Association embroidery workshop in Beirut, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

How some in Palestinian diaspora find connection, identity and resilience in traditional embroidery

10:14 PM on Monday, June 29

From refugee camps to stitching circles, many in the Palestinian diaspora around the world are engaging with a traditional form of Palestinian embroidery as far more than a decorative aesthetic

FILE - Parishioners attend a service at St. Mary's Cathedral, the mother church of the archdiocese in San Francisco, on April 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

San Francisco Archdiocese agrees to pay $395 million to settle child sex abuse lawsuits

2:16 PM on Monday, June 29

The San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese has agreed to pay $395 million to settle over 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by church officials

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