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A nurse hands a sign reading "No visitors X ward" to another nurse while two Ebola experts from the Paris Pasteur Institute and the World Health Organization, get ready to enter the area where Jaster Chea, a Liberian man who has been confirmed as having the deadly Ebola virus, is under quarantine at the Gozon hospital, 280 miles west of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Saturday December 9, 1995. After the 25-year-old Liberian man was diagnosed with Ebola, French medical specialists arrived in this secluded village to prevent the deadly virus from spreading. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
A man wearing a face mask to protect against the new coronavirus walks past a large video screen showing Chinese President Xi Jinping speaking in Beijing, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. China approved a contentious national security law that will allow authorities to crack down on subversive and secessionist activity in Hong Kong, a move many see as Beijing's boldest yet to erase the legal firewall between the semi-autonomous territory and the mainland's authoritarian Communist Party system. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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A doctor takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 at the Cocodrilos Sports Park in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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UConn guard Ashlynn Shade (12) reacts toward UConn guard Azzi Fudd in the first half of an exhibition NCAA college basketball game against Boston College, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
UConn tops women’s preseason AP Top 25 ahead of South Carolina, UCLA; SEC has 5 teams in top 10
Defending champion UConn picked up where it left off as the No. 1 team in the country in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason women’s basketball poll released Tuesday. The Huskies received 27 first-place votes from a 31-member national media panel. South Carolina, last season’s runner-up to UConn, was picked second in the poll and garnered the […]
OCT. 14, 2025
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Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Darius Slay (23) walks off the field after an injury in the second half of an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns in Pittsburgh, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
NFL uses AI to predict injuries, aiming to keep players healthier
Injuries are an inevitable part of the NFL with all the high-speed collisions, crushing hits and high exertion necessary on every play. Success each season often comes down to which teams can be the healthiest at the end and a string of injuries has already hampered preseason contenders like Baltimore, San Francisco and Cincinnati. With teams investing hundreds of […]
OCT. 14, 2025
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FILE - A volcanic eruption is visible near the town of Grindavik, on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco di Marco, File)
In Iceland, a town still shaken by volcanic eruptions tries to recover
Vignir Kristinsson smiles as two women, the only customers all morning, enter his gift shop filled with handmade things of oak. After perusing decorations ranging from animals to kitchen cutting boards, one woman bought a small black-stained tree. After decades of making cabinets for a living, Kristinsson, 64, said his daughter persuaded him to turn […]
OCT. 14, 2025
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This August 17, 2023, image provided by Jessica Damiano shows newly harvested beets on Long Island, N.Y. Sautéing beet greens with oil, salt, pepper, and garlic is a great way to get a second side dish from one plant. (Jessica Damiano via AP)
How to cook, freeze or pickle plant scraps instead of throwing them away
My beets were slow to grow this year, so I bought a bunch at the farmers’ market. I was taken aback when the seller chopped off the vegetable’s foliage and attempted to discard it after handing me a sad sack of leafless roots. “Wait! I’ll take those, please,” I blurted, catching him just before they hit the […]
OCT. 14, 2025
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This photo provided by Safe Restraints Inc., in October 2025, shows a custom version of the WRAP restraining equipment made for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. (Safe Restraints via AP)
ICE’s use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he said, and told them they were being sent to Ghana, even though none of them was from there. When they asked to speak to […]
OCT. 14, 2025
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FILE - Houston's Emanuel Sharp (21), Milos Uzan (7) and Mylik Wilson (8) celebrate during a timeout against Kansas during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Monday, March 3, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Boiler up! Purdue tops preseason AP Top 25 for first time, ahead of Houston, reigning champ Florida
Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers earned 35 of 61 first-place votes to top Monday’s poll to begin the 2025-26 season. That put Matt Painter’s squad ahead of the two teams that played in last year’s NCAA title game, with runner-up Houston at No. […]
OCT. 13, 2025
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The Eaton Fire burns a vehicle Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025 in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
LA’s largest wildfire destruction
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A lioness plays with her cub in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Narok, Kenya, on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Laila Kazziha)
He lives alongside lions in Nairobi. The human-wildlife collision is dazzling — and dangerous
This year, less than a kilometer from where I live, a girl named Peace Mwende was killed by a lion. The news hit me hard: She was 14, the same age as my youngest daughter, and the lioness responsible may have been one of the animals we see in our neighborhood almost weekly. Our children […]
OCT. 8, 2025
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Jasmín Ordóñez, left, and Cassandra Garduño harvest Swiss chard grown in Garduño's chinampa, an island farm built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago, in San Gregorio Atlapulco, a borough of Mexico City, Sept. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem
Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago. “Let’s close our eyes and ask our Mother Water for permission to sail in peace,” she said as the boat moves […]
OCT. 8, 2025
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