What Americans think about giving cash as holiday gifts, according to a new AP-NORC poll

About 6 in 10 Americans say cash or gift cards are “very” acceptable as holiday presents, but they’re much less likely to say ...

Last U.S. cents sold at auction for a sum of $16.76 million were worth a pretty penny

The U.S. Mint sold 232 three-cent sets for a whopping sum of $16.76 million at an auction last Thursday hosted by Stack’s Bowers Galleries. The 232nd set — containing the last three pennies ever made ...

After a year of Trump, EU leaders begrudgingly learn to live with the reality of an unreliable ally

BRUSSELS (AP) — Over the course of 2025, a new reality has sunk in for Europe. The United States, long its strongest ally, ...

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

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Like many Australians strolling at Bondi Beach on long, warm summer evenings, Ahmed al Ahmed ...