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A dog named Luna wears a Dracula costume during a Halloween pet party at a mall in Valenzuela city, Philippines on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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El candidato presidencial republicano, el expresidente Donald Trump, llega para hablar durante un mitin de campaña en el Suburban Collection Showplace, el sábado 26 de octubre de 2024, en Novi, Michigan (Foto AP/Alex Brandon)

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OCT. 26, 2024

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Musical artist Beyonce, right, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, embrace on stage during a campaign rally Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Annie Mulligan)

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Harris and Beyoncé ignite a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Trump

OCT. 26, 2024

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Penn State students Baybars Charkas, left, of Lancaster, Pa., and James Wachtman, center, of Swarthmore, Pa., man a voter registration table on the Penn State campus in University Park, Pa., Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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In Pennsylvania, an influx of college graduates could push a key county toward Harris

OCT. 25, 2024

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Rebecca Kimmel is seen reflected in her artwork depicting twins at her home Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, in Seattle. Kimmel believes her adoption agency switched her identity with another girl, and that she may have a twin. Thousands of South Korean adoptees are looking to satisfy a raw, compelling urge that much of the world takes for granted: the search for identity. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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A South Korean adoptee needed answers about the past. She got them — just not the ones she wanted

OCT. 25, 2024

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The Toronto skyline is seen from Wards Island in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)

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AP lands exclusive on Canadian doctors struggling with euthanizing vulnerable patients

OCT. 25, 2024

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A South Korean adoptee needed answers about the past. She got them — just not the ones she wanted

Thousands of South Korean adoptees are looking to satisfy a raw, compelling urge that much of the world takes for granted: the search for identity. Like many of them, Rebecca Kimmel stumbled into a web of switched photos, made-up stories and false documents — all designed to erase the identity she desperately wants to find. […]

OCT. 25, 2024

The Toronto skyline is seen from Wards Island in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)

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AP lands exclusive on Canadian doctors struggling with euthanizing vulnerable patients

Through careful and determined source work, AP reporters give an astonishing look inside private forums of doctors tasked with approving and carrying out euthanasia. When New York-based video news editor Angie Wang and London-based medical writer Maria Cheng began investigating how Canada’s euthanasia laws were affecting vulnerable people, they were stymied by a lack of […]

OCT. 25, 2024

A picture of former One Direction singer Liam Payne sits surrounded by flowers and candles as fans gather outside the hotel where he was found dead after falling from a balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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Cooperation across three continents delivers robust report on story of Liam Payne’s death

The Argentina team immediately swung into action when reports hit that former One Direction star Liam Payne died after falling from a third-floor Buenos Aires balcony. Colleagues across three continents jumped in as the story grew, cooperation that shows the best of AP’s global footprint and enabled a robust, creative report that dominated all metrics […]

OCT. 25, 2024