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Mini Pluto
This image provided by NAOJ shows artist’s impression of the trans-Neptunian object (612533) 2002 XV93 occulting a background star. Observations of a stellar occultation in January 2024 revealed gradual fading and recovery of the starlight, providing evidence for a very thin atmosphere around the object. (Ko Arimatsu/NAOJ via AP)
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Astronomers believe they’ve detected an atmosphere around a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto

A new study suggests that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere that may have been created by volcanic eruptions or a comet strike. Just 300 miles (500 kilometers) or so across, this mini Pluto is thought to be the solar system’s smallest object yet with a clearly detected global atmosphere bound by […]

MAY 4, 2026

Obit Druga
In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, photo, Carol Druga poses for a photograph in Atlanta. Druga, a veteran Associated Press editor known as a newsroom mentor with an acerbic wit and a deep affection for Pittsburgh sports, died, Monday, Aug. 1, 2016. She was 50. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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Veteran Associated Press editor mentor Carol Druga dies

Editor Carol Druga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) Druga had been treated for cancer over the past several months and died Monday after being sickened by an infection. She began her AP career in the Indianapolis bureau in 2004 before moving to Atlanta to work on the AP’s South Regional Desk in 2008. While there, she worked […]

AUG. 1, 2016

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Mulligans Christmas Stew served for the holidays

Hugh Mulligan was the kind of guy you hope sits next to you on a long train ride – funny, smart, kind and with more stories than a lifetime should include. A collection of 44 holiday columns by the former special correspondent of The Associated Press has just been published under the title "Mulligan’s Christmas Stew."

DEC. 2, 2015

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AP names Charles Pavlounis chief financial officer 

NEW YORK – The Associated Press announced today that executive Charles Pavlounis has been named the global news agency’s senior vice president and chief financial officer.  As CFO, Pavlounis will oversee all corporate finance, including accounting, financial planning and budgeting, treasury and internal audit. Additionally he will be responsible for global real estate, administrative services […]

JULY 18, 2024

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Intel to build $20B Ohio chip facility amid global shortage

Chipmaker Intel said Friday it will invest $20 billion to build a new factory in Ohio, an attempt to help alleviate a global shortage of chips powering everything from phones to cars to home appliances while also signaling the giant company’s commitment to manufacturing crucial technology products in the U.S. The move could also create […]

JAN. 21, 2022

Canada Hockey Stick Factory
Wooden hockey sticks are stacked as they move along the assembly line at the Roustan Hockey factory, which is the last major manufacturer of hockey sticks in Canada on Aug. 27, 2025 in Brantford, Ontario. (AP Photo/Kelvin Chan)
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Canada’s last hockey stick factory survives in face of tariff threats and globalization

Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form the beginnings of a hockey stick. Further down the Roustan […]

OCT. 6, 2025

Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Money to respond to climate change is key to UN talks in Baku. Nations are finding ways to raise it

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Just as a simple lever can move heavy objects, rich nations are hoping another kind of leverage — the financial sort — can help them come up with the money that poorer nations need to cope with climate change. It involves a complex package of grants, loans and private investment, and […]

NOV. 19, 2024

Philanthropy Volunteering
FILE - Points of Light president and CEO Jennifer Sirangelo speaks at the 2025 Points of Light Conference in New Orleans on June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)
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Points of Light to unveil new strategy that it hopes will ignite a volunteerism boom

Americans overwhelmingly want to volunteer. Nonprofits desperately need them. The problem, according to the nonprofit Points of Light, is connecting the two. The organization, founded by former President George H.W. Bush to encourage service, is set to unveil plans to improve that connection at its annual conference in Washington on June 22. Jennifer Sirangelo, president and CEO […]

JUNE 18, 2026

Governors Stitt
FILE - Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt delivers his State of the State address at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City, on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford, File)
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has thoughts about toning down political fights. Here’s what he says

The last time Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma hosted the nation's governors, it didn't go so well.

JULY 31, 2026

Octopus Arms
This photo provided by researchers in September 2024 shows a wild Octopus americanus. (Roger Hanlon via AP)
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How to use 8 arms? Octopuses tend to explore with their front limbs

Humans may be right-handed or left-handed. It turns out octopuses don’t have a dominant arm, but they do tend to perform some tasks more often with their front arms, new research shows. Scientists studied a series of short videos of wild octopuses crawling, swimming, standing, fetching, and groping — among other common activities — to analyze how each of […]

SEPT. 11, 2025

Vaccination Rates
FILE - Vials of the measles mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine are displayed in Lubbock, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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Texas declares measles outbreak over

The Texas measles outbreak that sickened 762 people since late January is over, state health officials said Monday. It’s been more than 42 days since the last new case was confirmed, meeting the threshold public health officials use to declare measles outbreaks over. The last person to have an outbreak-related case got a rash on July 1, […]

AUG. 18, 2025

Ecuador Dying Art
Ligia Ipiales weaves horsehair sieves, a mesh known as a “cedazo,” in Guangopolo, Ecuador, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Ecuadorian artisans working to preserve the traditional craft of weaving horsehair strainers

In her modest home in Guangopolo, east of Ecuador’s capital, Ligia Ipiales carefully separates strands from a horse’s tail, weaving a mesh as fine as gauze for a “cedazo,” a traditional sieve clinging to survival. The craft that once made the village famous is now fading. Only nine “cedacero” artisans remain. The youngest is 51-year-old Guido Paucar, […]

JUNE 9, 2026

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