2025

Vietnam Tiger Economy
A man walks past a Vietnamese flag painted on a wall in Hanoi, Vietnam on August 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

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Vietnam wants to be the next Asian tiger and it’s overhauling its economy to make it happen

AUG. 13, 2025

Miami Cuban Freedom Museum
FILE - Cuban exiles wait for processing at the Cuban refugee center in Miami on April 12, 1963. (AP Photo, File)

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Cuban exiles honored at Miami’s ‘Ellis Island of the South’ as Trump ramps up immigrant arrests

AUG. 13, 2025

Poll Alcohol Consumption
FILE - Cases of beer are stacked in a Milwaukee liquor store on Nov. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Ivan Moreno, File)

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Why many Americans are rethinking alcohol, according to a new Gallup poll

AUG. 13, 2025

Nigeria Plastics Pollution
Omoh Alokwe, co-founder of Street Waste Company, told The Associated Press, the increasing plastic waste is partly due to population pressure in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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One of the world’s most polluted cities has banned single-use plastics. It’s not so easy

AUG. 13, 2025

APTOPIX Climate Spain Overfishing Octopus
A worker removes an octopus' beak at Frigorificos Arcos SL on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in O Carballino, Spain. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

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As octopuses dwindle in Spanish waters, suppliers look to imports and farming despite concerns

AUG. 13, 2025

Nigeria Plastics Pollution
A scavenger sorts out plastic waste at a dumpsite on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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New draft of global plastic pollution treaty wouldn’t limit plastic production

AUG. 13, 2025

Climate Choices Wrong Choices
FILE - A woman walks her dog along the beach as the sun rises in Port Aransas, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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People often miscalculate climate choices, a study says. One surprise is owning a dog

AUG. 13, 2025

Monica Seles-Health Tennis
FILE - Monica Seles returns the ball to Conchita Martinez of Spain during the semifinals at the U.S. Open, Sept. 8, 1995 in New York. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file)

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Tennis star Monica Seles reveals her diagnosis with myasthenia gravis

AUG. 12, 2025

College Football Poll
FILE - Penn State head coach James Franklin leads his team onto the field before an NCAA college football game against Rutgers, Saturday, Nov.18, 2023, in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/Barry Reeger, File)

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AP Top 25: With a logjam at top of poll, a bunch of early marquee matchups may help sort things out

AUG. 12, 2025

Music Taylor Swift
FILE - Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour June 21, 2024, in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)

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Taylor Swift announces 12th studio album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

AUG. 12, 2025

France Seine Swimming
People swim in the Seine river, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

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The Seine in Paris is open for swimming. Tourists and residents embrace it as temperatures soar

AUG. 12, 2025

Heritage Heist New Mexico Pueblo
Santa Ana Pueblo Conservation Officer William Woody points to images of a war shield that was stolen from the tribe's ceremonial village decades ago, during an interview in Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M., on June 26, 2025 (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

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Investigators search for Native American items stolen decades ago in New Mexico

AUG. 12, 2025

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