Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America pledges $100M to cut US maternal mortality rate in half

For that reason, Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America plans to fund these care improvements by focusing on states. Walton plans to use the $100 million commitment as a way to encourage state ...

Mortgage rates climb: Average rate on a 30-year home loan hits the highest level in over 14 months

Mortgage rates rose for the third week in a row, pushing the average long-term U.S. home loan rate to its highest level in ...

California officials allow plans for the country’s biggest kelp farm to move forward

California has long been farm country, and its oceans soon could be, too. State coastal officials voted Wednesday to allow a ...

McKenzie Milton among inductees into 2026 UCF HOF class

The former quarterback leads a class that includes Marissa Diggs, Octavious Freeman, Mike Kruczek, Emily Mottola and BJ ...

Associated Press journalists who witnessed Sept. 11 remember what they saw, 25 years later

Karen Matthews was getting her 3-year-old daughter ready for preschool in her Manhattan apartment on Sept. 11, 2001, when she ...

Gold, gems and Renoir: France’s museums grapple with a wave of smash-and-grab thefts

PARIS (AP) — At a museum in eastern France, two men disguised with wigs used a sledgehammer and a hammer to smash a display ...

Hong Kong court convicts Wall Street Journal publisher of deterring reporter from taking union role

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Thursday found the publisher of The Wall Street Journal guilty of trying to prevent one ...