WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans are inundated with scam attempts on a daily basis — and about 3 in 10 have personally lost money or personal information to scams, according to a new AP-NORC survey. The poll, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in February, highlights the obstacle course that U. S. adults navigate daily as they screen calls, ignore messages or try to puzzle out if that urgent request from their cellphone provider is legitimate. A by to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the U. S. House of Representatives on Wednesday pledged firm support for the self-governed island of Taiwan as they welcomed Han Kuo-yu, president of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan, to Washington, at a time the Trump administration is reviewing a $14 billion arms sales package to Taiwan, months after it got preliminary congressional approval. More than 30 House representatives, both Democratic and Republican, streamed into the reception at the Longworth House Office D...

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter. The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the biggest exoplanets found to have less density than cotton candy. That makes them the lightest known planets of their size, said the University of Oxford's George Dransfield. “These two planets have densities comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam, fresh from the can,” Dransfield said in an...