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FILE - Pipes carrying brackish feed water run through the Carlsbad desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif., Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag, File)

What you need to know about desalination, a growing source of drinking water

8:00 AM on Wednesday, April 1

As droughts worsen and freshwater grows scarce, desalination is expanding rapidly

Ricky Brinkley, a 65-year-old Democrat, is a retired truck driver working in his daughter's beauty supply store in Nashville, N.C., March 11, 2026. Brinkley says he votes in every presidential election but not all midterms — and never hears directly from candidates for high office. Voters like Brinkley will be critical to Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper's campaign this fall. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)

North Carolina's electoral future may hinge on rural Black voters who feel ignored by Democrats

6:09 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Democrats in North Carolina are scrambling to turn out rural Black voters and say the party cannot win the state without them

Joy and heartbreak as final World Cup spots are decided, in photos

4:22 AM on Wednesday, April 1

FILE - Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast and his wife Maria Pia Adriasola greet supporters at the Santiago Cathedral after attending Mass in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

Chile’s new President José Antonio Kast brings openly religious views to a changing country

3:17 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Chile’s new president is a devout Catholic in a country that has grown increasingly secular but retains conservative traits in various areas

See the world in vertical: Top photos by AP photojournalists

2:36 AM on Wednesday, April 1

FILE -From left, Peter Wittebrood-Lemke, Frank Wittebrood, Ton Jansen, Louis Rogmans, Helene Faasen and Anne-Marie Thus, the pairs who were among four couples to get married under the world's first law allowing same-sex marriages with equal rights. cut the wedding cake after exchanging vows at Amsterdam's City Hall early April 1, 2001. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Amsterdam celebrates 25 years since the world's first same-sex weddings

12:01 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Amsterdam is marking 25 years since the world's first gay marriages were celebrated in the Netherlands

Major global news moments of March, in AP photos

11:03 PM on Tuesday, March 31

FILE - High-rise buildings at the mouth of the Miami River are seen from Biscayne Bay, May 9, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Captain charged in boat crash that killed 3 girls from Miami sailing camp

10:28 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Federal prosecutors say a tugboat captain has been charged with seaman’s manslaughter in a boat crash that killed three girls from a sailing camp in Miami

FILE - Steve Jobs, left, chairman of Apple Computers, John Sculley, center, president and CEO, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, unveil the new Apple IIc computer in San Francisco, Calif., April 24, 1984. (AP Photo/Sal Veder, File)

Apple's 50-year odyssey has redefined technology, pop culture and comeback stories

3:31 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago and then — no joke — pulled it off

This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo)

A US journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad and a search is underway

12:51 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Iraqi officials say an American journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad and security forces are pursuing her captors

Golfer Tiger Woods stands by his overturned vehicle in Jupiter Island, Fla., on Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jason Oteri)

Tiger Woods says he'll seek treatment after pleading not guilty to DUI

9:21 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Tiger Woods says he’ll step away and seek treatment after his SUV crash in Florida

Photographers set up remote cameras near NASA's Artemis II moon rocket on Launch Pad 39-B just before sunrise at the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

NASA is shooting for the moon. A guide to the Artemis II mission

7:03 AM on Tuesday, March 31

It's humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972

FILE -Britain's King Charles III waves as he arrives for a visit to University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre in London, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

King Charles III to make a state visit to the US despite calls to cancel due to the Iran war

7:03 AM on Tuesday, March 31

King Charles III is going ahead with a state visit to the United States in April, despite calls for the ceremonial event to be called off due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated criticism of the British government for failing to support the war in Iran

A man inspect the wreckage of an Iranian missile that landed near the West Bank village of Marda, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Trump lashes out at allies, says securing the Strait of Hormuz is 'not for us'

12:44 AM on Tuesday, March 31

President Donald Trump lashed out at allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort against Iran

FILE - A YouTube sign is shown near the company's headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)

Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube aren't fully complying with child account ban, Australia says

12:17 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Australia is considering bringing court action against Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube after alleging they are not doing enough to keep Australian children younger than 16 off their platforms

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike hits a building near the airport road in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The Latest: Trump says it’s on other nations to open the Strait of Hormuz

11:33 PM on Monday, March 30

U_S_ President Donald Trump says the responsibility for keeping the Strait of Hormuz open should belong with countries that rely on it, rather than the U_S_ Trump expressed frustration earlier Tuesday with allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U_S_ war effort, telling them to “go get your own oil.”

Anthony Almonte of the E Street Band, right, and Bruce Springsteen perform on opening night of the "Land of Hope And Dreams" tour at Target Center in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Bruce Springsteen brings 'Streets of Minneapolis' home as he launches US tour with 'War'

11:05 PM on Monday, March 30

Bruce Springsteen was in a defiant but upbeat mood in Minneapolis as he launched his latest U.S. tour

Today in History: April 1, US forces invade Okinawa during World War II

11:07 AM on Monday, March 16

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