PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine could impose the nation’s first statewide moratorium on energy-hungry data centers in a sign of growing political opposition to tech giants’ massive structures that have stoked fears about blackouts, rising electricity bills and voracious water needs. The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in Congress are trying to overturn the Trump administration’s changes to a popular student loan forgiveness program, with lawmakers saying the changes are political and could leave some borrowers without the relief they were pledged. The Public Service Loan ...

MILAN — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni was supposed to be Europe’s bridge to U.S. President Donald Trump. It may be burning. After chastising Pope Leo XIV, Trump turned his ire on Meloni, long one of his closest European allies, for calling his papal broadside “unacceptable” and ...

More American workers are experimenting with artificial intelligence in their jobs, but skepticism is still widespread. New Gallup polling finds that while more employees are using AI frequently in their work, there’s been an uptick in alarm that new technologies will replace their jobs. ...

AP Photo/Carl Nesensohn Interior view of one of the caves containing 12,000 quarts of champagne, owned by brothers Pio M. and Peter S. Goggi of Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, shown April 15, 1945. The building is built over vast caves 50 feet beneath the hillside, which keeps the wine at ...

PARIS (AP) — One lucky winner will find themselves the owner of a Pablo Picasso painting for less than $120. A raffle in France is offering the chance to win a $1 million portrait by the Spanish artist for the price of a 100-euro ticket ($117), with proceeds going to Alzheimer’s research. ...