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Austin Neddo drives a 1940 Farmall A tractor with his father Shay during Tractor Day for graduating seniors at Airport High School Friday, May 22, 2026, in Carleton, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Tractors, ATVs and golf carts, oh my: Michigan seniors arrive at school in style on Tractor Day

11:13 AM on Friday, May 22

Dozens of soon-to-be graduates of a Michigan high school eschewed their cars and trucks and arrived in tractors, ATVs, golf carts and more

FILE - A Waymo vehicle drives in San Francisco, July 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Waymo pauses driverless car service in Atlanta and Texas ahead of potentially dangerous storms

10:51 AM on Friday, May 22

Waymo has suspended driverless car services in Atlanta and Texas after one of its vehicles was stranded by flooding during heavy rains that will likely also hinder travel in a large swath of the U

FILE - Clothes by Chinese company Shein are seen in the BHV (Bazar de l'Hotel de Ville) department store, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)

Chinese fast-fashion juggernaut Shein to buy eco-friendly Everlane in an unlikely fit

9:50 AM on Friday, May 22

Everlane, which bucked the fast-fashion industry by promising affordable ethically sourced and sustainable clothing, is being acquired by the king of fast-fashion Shein, founded in China

Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City era, in photos

8:17 AM on Friday, May 22

FILE - Ronnie Jefferies paints the parking lot at Science, Arts and Entrepreneurship School to help cool it by making it more reflective, Sept. 4, 2024, in Mableton, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Parking lots get hot and are bad for storm runoff. These groups are testing other options

8:03 AM on Friday, May 22

Cities and other groups around the U.S. are using alternatives to traditional asphalt lots in order beat the heat and curb water runoff — especially as climate change worsens

FILE - Anti-abortion activists rally outside of the U.S. Supreme Court during the March for Life in Washington, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Advocacy group sues Trump administration over access to abortion for veterans

6:56 AM on Friday, May 22

An advocacy group is suing President Donald Trump's administration over its decision to reinstate a near-ban on abortions for veterans and their family members who depend on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for healthcare

FILE- Convicted leader of the armed group November 17, Alexandros Giotopoulos speaks to reporters, at a special court in a top-security Athens jail, on Dec. 2, 2005. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Greek far-left terror group leader is released at age 82. But the decision could be reversed

6:43 AM on Friday, May 22

The head of a far-left Greek militant group that killed four American officials and 19 others has been released from a maximum-security prison

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche arrives for a closed-door meeting with Republican senators who are expected to abandon a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Donald Trump's ballroom after it has failed to win enough party support, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pushed to the limit, Republicans show rare defiance to Trump's demands

6:39 AM on Friday, May 22

President Donald Trump’s political revenge tour met its potential match this week as angry Republican senators finally said no, even if temporarily

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, speaks to supporters at a campaign event in McKinney, Texas, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Paxton makes his final pitch in the Texas Senate race against Cornyn, buoyed by Trump's endorsement

6:37 AM on Friday, May 22

Ken Paxton is playing up President Donald Trump's endorsement as the Texas attorney general heads into the final days of U.S. Senate primary runoff against incumbent John Cornyn

FILE - Suzanne Morrison, mother of Matthew Perry, leaves the court in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, after a federal judge handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to Jasveen Sangha, who pleaded guilty to selling "Friends" star Perry the ketamine that killed him in a 2023 overdose. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Matthew Perry's family trusted his assistant to help keep him sober. He instead helped him overdose

6:01 AM on Friday, May 22

Matthew Perry's assistant is set to become the last defendant sentenced in the investigation of the drug death of the “Friends” star

U.S. Marines appear to show the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) mounted on trucks during a media tour after they conducted its live-fire training at Camp Fuji, in Gotemba, southwest of Tokyo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Shoot-and-scoot: Mobile missile launchers play key role in US Pacific deterrence strategy

5:12 AM on Friday, May 22

The U.S. Marines have demonstrated their capabilities with a live-fire exercise in Japan, showcasing the HIMARS mobile rocket system

Daily life around the world, in photos

5:09 AM on Friday, May 22

FILE - President Donald Trump arrives at Leesburg Executive Airport on Marine One in Leesburg, Va., Thursday, April 24, 2025, en route to Trump National Golf Club Washington DC in Sterling, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump immunity from IRS audit shocks experts, who warn it could undermine trust in tax system

5:06 AM on Friday, May 22

Donald Trump has a reputation for slashing his taxes using techniques that some experts find aggressive

FILE -Slow Food movement founder Carlo Petrini speaks at the funeral of Italian playwright and 1997 Nobel for literature winner Dario Fo, outside Milan's Duomo gothic cathedral, Italy, Oct. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Slow Food founder and advocate of clean eating Carlo Petrini dies in Italy at 76

4:57 AM on Friday, May 22

Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement, has died at 76 in Italy's Piedmont region

Explosion at Hungary petrochemical plant kills 1, injures 7

4:41 AM on Friday, May 22

An explosion at a petrochemical plant in Hungary has killed one person and injured several others

FILE - Kyle Busch waits for the start of a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Lebanon, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Kyle Busch was more than a villain and the greatest NASCAR driver of his generation

12:20 AM on Friday, May 22

Kyle Busch grew to expect — even appreciate — the boos

Salvatore Lo Duca makes pizza at Lo Duca Pizza Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/David R. Martin)

A proposed additive ban could change New York’s pizza and bagels, some say for the better

11:03 PM on Thursday, May 21

New York City's iconic pizzerias and bagel shops may soon be forced to update their long-standing baking practices after state lawmakers moved to ban a common additive

The top photos of the day by AP's photojournalists

10:50 AM on Thursday, May 21

In this photo provided by NOAA, a Parapagurus sp. crab with a coral on its back walks across a field of ferromanganese nodules on the seafloor of Gosnold Seamount, explored during Dive 16 of the 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones expedition. (NOAA via AP)

Companies join a deep-sea mining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits

6:01 AM on Thursday, May 21

Since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a deep-sea mining industry, businesses have raised millions from investors, and stock prices have soared

This image released by CBS shows Paul McCartney, left, with host Stephen Colbert during the final episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" in New York on Thursday, May 21, 2026. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via AP)

Paul McCartney helps Stephen Colbert say goodbye to 'The Late Show' in ambitious final show

11:12 PM on Wednesday, May 20

Stephen Colbert has wrapped up his final broadcast of CBS' “The Late Show” with a memorable night

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