An Atlanta church with a viral pastor has grown from less than 200 weekly churchgoers in 2023 to about 6,000 today. Before service, Christian rap blasts and volunteers chant into megaphones as lines snake outside. Many of those who line up as early as 5:30 a.m. are young people hungry for 2819 Church's riveting worship and Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell's intensity. He doesn't sugarcoat the Bible, and urges people to revere God and lean on Jesus to escape sin's consequences. 2819's growth has attracted people of many races and ages, but it’s predominantly young Black adults.

Students applying to college know they're not supposed to use AI chatbots to write their essays. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using artificial intelligence to read those essays. That's just one way that AI is entering the college admissions space for many schools starting this fall. Administrators around the country say that 2025 marks a new era in college admissions as AI tools are being incorporated into the way applications are screened, analyzed and scored. Schools like Virginia Tech, the California Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are introducing AI tools in a variety of ways. Some colleges are speaking publicly about it, and others are not.

Shoppers scoured for deals everything from electronics to clothing on Cyber Monday, delivering strong sales for online retailers and capping a five-day spending spree that kicked off on Thanksgiving. Adobe Analytics reported that as of 6:30 p.m. EST on Monday, U.S. consumers had already spent $9.1 billion online for Cyber Monday, up 4.5% from the same day a year ago. Adobe expects that when the final tally is in, consumers will spend between $13.9 billion and $14.2 billion for the day, making Cyber Monday the biggest online shopping day of the year - and of all time.

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Swapping turkeys for other animals was once a key part of North America's wildlife conservation efforts. The wild turkey population dwindled to a few thousand in the late 1800s but has since grown to about 7 million across 49 states, plus more in Canada and Mexico. Restoration often relied on trades. For example, Oklahoma swapped walleye and prairie chickens for turkeys from Arkansas and Missouri. New Hampshire sent fishers to West Virginia in exchange for turkeys. Early efforts to raise turkeys on farms failed, leading to capturing and relocating wild turkeys, which proved successful.