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Climate Mexico Ancient Farms Women
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)
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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

Gardening – Bird Care
FILE - A blue jay appears on a feeder in Lutherville-Timonium, Md., on May 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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As the garden winds down, it’s time to care for winter-prepping birds

I just cleaned out and filled a couple of birdfeeders to help my migrating backyard buddies fuel up for their long journeys south. And I’ll keep it well-stocked with high-energy seed mix throughout winter to feed the non-migratory birds that tough it out until spring in my suburban New York garden. After all, it’s now, […]

OCT. 8, 2025

Thailand Buffalo
Thawatchai Daeng-Ngam and his "Tod," a 5-year-old buffalo, participate in a beauty buffalo pageant during an annual buffalo racing festival in Chonburi, Thailand, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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A beauty pageant for buffaloes in Thailand raises status of the humble animal

It was 5-year-old Tod’s first time competing in a beauty pageant and the bright red interior of his ears turned out and popped against his black fur. The main stud for his owner, food vendor and farmer Thawatchai Daeng-Ngam, Tod was one of the competitors Monday at the annual water buffalo racing festival in Chonburi, […]

OCT. 7, 2025

Aquarium Move
A shark swims in a 400,000 gallon tank at the Mote Science Education Aquarium, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Sarasota, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Florida’s Mote Marine Laboratory relocates hundreds of marine animals to new $130M facility

Crews used large nets, water-filled containers and box trucks to relocate hundreds of river otters, sea turtles, manatees, penguins and sharks to their new home: Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium. Over the past couple of months, the marine animals were removed from the hard-to-reach island and relocated to a brand new center, where Mote believes they […]

OCT. 7, 2025

Button King
Dalton Stevens' button hearse is displayed in his museum in Bishopville, S.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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The Button King’s legacy lives on in quirky South Carolina museum

When J.D. Stevens flips on the lights in the shed by his South Carolina home, he feels the presence of his dad, who died nearly a decade ago. He also sees hundreds of thousands of buttons. They are sewn onto the original button suit on the mannequin that started it all. Nearby is the Chevrolet Chevette […]

OCT. 7, 2025

US By Women-For Women
Laura Youngson, CEO of IDA Sports, poses for photographs at a store in Regent Street, in London, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
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Interest in women’s sports is growing. Here’s how some women-owned companies are responding

Laura Youngson didn’t expect to focus so much on soccer cleats when she organized a group of women to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and play a high-altitude match. The point of the 2017 game was to highlight inequality in sports for women and girls. On that front, Youngson achieved her goal with the match becoming the […]

OCT. 7, 2025

Be Well-Cold Water Immersion
FILE - Revelers enter the cold water during the annual Polar Bear Plunge on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, file)
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Cold-water immersion may offer health benefits — and also presents risks

Dr. Mark Harper recalls his first cold-water swim in the south of England 20 years ago. It was August, but the initial jolt from the plunge took his breath away. The shock to his system lasted a minute or two until he was “recombobulated and able to think about something other than the cold,” Harper says. A […]

OCT. 6, 2025

Soccer-Milan-San Siro Sale
FILE -An external view of the San Siro Stadium site of the Opening ceremony at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno), File)
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Host Italy to have unprecedented 4 flag bearers at Milan-Cortina Olympics opening ceremonies

Host nation Italy is going to really spread around the honors at the upcoming Milan-Cortina Olympics with an unprecedented four flag bearers for the opening ceremonies. While the main opening is slated for the San Siro soccer stadium in Milan on Feb. 6, there will also be a smaller event that Friday evening in Cortina d’Ampezzo. “There will be […]

OCT. 6, 2025

Food-Dubai Chocolate
Leonessa Dubai chocolate bars are displayed in New York. (Katie Workman via AP)
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The Dubai chocolate craze is now about much more than bars

Some flavor crazes flirt with us and fade. Others stay and make themselves at home. It’s too soon to tell for sure, but the Dubai chocolate movement seems to have put down roots and is spreading at a brisk clip. The sweet flavors and thick texture that have made Dubai chocolate bars a hit are […]

OCT. 6, 2025

Immigration Enforcement Chicago
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents make an arrest during an early morning operation in Park Ridge, Ill., Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
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ICE airs ads stirring up local frustration to recruit police for mass deportation efforts

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on television advertising in select metro areas around the country, an Associated Press tally found, aimed at recruiting local officers frustrated with their cities’ restrictions on immigration enforcement into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. “You took an oath to protect and serve, to keep your family, your […]

OCT. 6, 2025

Florida Immigration Detention Center
FILE - President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and others, tour "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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DOJ contradicts DeSantis: Some detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ likely never in removal proceedings

 U.S. government lawyers say that detainees at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings, which is a direct contradiction to what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been saying since it opened in July. Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice made that […]

OCT. 6, 2025

APTOPIX FBI Firings
FILE - Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers take a knee with demonstrators, as they march on Pennsylvania Ave, June 4, 2020, in Washington, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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Top-tier sourcing leads to AP scoop on FBI firing agents who kneeled during racial justice protests

Top-tier sourcing by Justice Department reporter Eric Tucker led to exclusive reporting that the FBI had fired more than a dozen agents who kneeled during a racial justice protest in Washington, D.C. Tucker, who has spent months covering the turmoil at the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency, got a tip from a trusted source […]

OCT. 3, 2025

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