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IMF’s view: The global fight against high inflation is ‘almost won’

OCT. 24, 2024

Central Florida cheerleaders perform on the field during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Cincinnati, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

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OCT. 24, 2024

A copy of Project 2025 is held during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. For a year, Project 2025 has endured as a persistent force in the presidential election. It’s rare for a complex 900-page policy book to figure so dominantly in a political campaign. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

How Project 2025’s rightward vision became a flashpoint in this year’s election

OCT. 24, 2024

In this photo provided by the New Zealand Defence Force, divers survey the area around HMNZS Manawanui on the southern coast of Upulo, Samoa, after the Manawanui ran aground and sank on Oct. 6. (AC Jese Somerville/New Zealand Defence Force via AP)

Samoan coast where King Charles will visit worries about the future after ship damaged reef

OCT. 24, 2024

Copies of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s memoir entitled ‘Patriot’ are put display on the first day of sale in a bookshop in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Navalny’s memoir details isolation and suffering in a Russian prison — and how he never lost hope

OCT. 24, 2024

FILE – This combination of photos shows Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during an ABC News presidential debate at the National Constitution Center, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Most voters think the economy is poor, but split on whether Trump or Harris can fix it: AP-NORC poll

OCT. 23, 2024

Parts of downed Shahed drones launched by Russia are piled in a storage room of a research laboratory in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 28, 2024. AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka

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The front cover of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. AP Photo/Ben Curtis

Africans recruited to work in Russia say they were duped into building drones for use in Ukraine

Other outlets have written about a plant in Tatarstan where Russia is making the drones swarming Ukraine’s skies. But Emma Burrows was the first to speak to the African women recruited to work there. She tracked them down online, finding a chat group for employees buried deep inside social media that included their contact information. […]

OCT. 18, 2024

Best of AP — Second Winner

Trousdale Turner Correctional Center operated by CoreCivic is seen Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, in Hartsville, Tenn. AP Photo/George Walker IV

AP traces the printing of Trump’s ‘God Bless America’ Bibles to the country he accuses of stealing American jobs: China

As Richard Lardner in Washington started reporting on former President Donald Trump’s for-profit ventures, he got a tip that Trump’s Bibles were printed in China, leading him to a labyrinth of ironies, conflicts of interest and even accusations of blasphemy. Teaming up with Beijing’s Dake Kang, the pair verified the tip through interviews with a […]

OCT. 18, 2024

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