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International Paths Football
FILE - Offensive lineman Leander Wiegand, of Germany, participates in a drill at the NFL international scouting combine at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Luciano, File)
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NFL’s International Player Pathway program is shining a spotlight on talent from around the world

Leander Wiegand knew very little about the NFL — or American football, for that matter — when his best friend urged him to check out something he saw on TV. It was the day after the Super Bowl in February 2016 and Wiegand’s buddy Kolja turned on a replay of Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos beating Cam Newton’s […]

OCT. 28, 2025

Peanut Allergy
FILE - An arrangement of peanuts is seen Feb. 20, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
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Advice to feed babies peanuts early and often helped thousands of kids avoid allergies

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world. Peanut allergies began to decline in the U.S. after guidance first issued in 2015 upended medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to […]

OCT. 21, 2025

Foreign Aid-Myanmar’s Misery
A child refugee from Myanmar stands on a water pipe while foraging for food in a forest near the Mae La refugee camp in the Tak province of Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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AP tells exclusive story about devastation caused by U.S. foreign aid cuts

Kristen Gelineau, who has reported on Myanmar and the Rohingya crisis since 2017, investigated claims that U.S. aid cuts were causing deaths, contrary to American officials’ assertions that they were not. With foreign journalists barred from the region and communications cut off, Gelineau relied on trusted local contacts to secure rare interviews inside Rohingya camps […]

OCT. 17, 2025

Boston College UConn Basketball
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)
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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

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

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

Richmond North Carolina Football
North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick talks to North Carolina linebacker Andrew Simpson (2) during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Richmond, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)
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Pete Carroll among coaches working into 70s, opting for team building over retirement

Pete Carroll could be just about anywhere, doing nearly anything that comes to mind, after accomplishing so much as a championship-winning coach in college and the NFL, the multimillion-dollar contracts he received as reward for such efforts. But after a year away from the NFL, the 74-year-old Carroll chose to return to take on the […]

OCT. 2, 2025

Saturn Enceladus
In this image provided by NASA, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Enceladus on Nov. 30, 2010, with the shadow of the body of Enceladus on the lower portions of the jets is clearly visible. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via AP)
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New study adds to the possibility of favorable conditions for life at Saturn’s moon Enceladus

Scientists have uncovered new types of organics in icy geysers spouting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, bolstering the likelihood that the ocean world may harbor conditions suitable for life. Their findings, reported Wednesday, are based on observations made by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2008 during a close and fast flyby of Enceladus. The small moon, one of 274 orbiting […]

OCT. 1, 2025

Goatscaping-Vermont
A goat grazes on a ski slope at Jay Peak Resort, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025 in Jay, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
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Livestock landscaping: Vermont ski areas employ goats and sheep to clear the slopes

Months before the first snow beckons skiers, sheep and goats are hitting the slopes in Vermont. Dozens of animals have been mowing down overgrown vegetation at Jay Peak near the Canadian border. They’re expected to clear 25 acres (10 hectares) over a five-week stint, an experiment officials say is worth a try on part of […]

OCT. 1, 2025

Nepal Living Goddess
Nepal's newly appointed living goddess, Kumari Aryatara Shakya, is carried by her father as they walk towards Kumari Ghar, the temple palace where she will be residing in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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Nepal chooses a 2-year-old girl as new living goddess worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists

A 2-year-old girl chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess was carried by family members from their home in a Kathmandu alley to a temple palace Tuesday during the country’s longest and most significant Hindu festival. Aryatara Shakya, at 2 years and 8 months, was chosen as the new Kumari, or “virgin goddess,” replacing the incumbent, who is considered […]

OCT. 1, 2025

AP Poll Movies
FILE - Pedestrians walk past the boarded up and closed Cinerama Dome movie theater, April 12, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
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Streaming is overtaking theaters for movie watchers, an AP-NORC poll finds

Americans are more likely to watch newly released movies from the comfort of their own homes instead of heading out to a theater, according to a new poll. About three-quarters of U.S. adults said they watched a new movie on streaming instead of in the theater at least once in the past year, according to […]

SEPT. 25, 2025

Britain Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan, British novelist and screenwriter, gestures as he speaks to press during an interview in London, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan)
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Literary mystery meets dystopian future in Ian McEwan’s ‘What We Can Know’

When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. There are a lot more fictional dystopias than utopias. Ian McEwan has good news and bad news about what lies ahead in “ What We Can Know,” a book he calls “science fiction without the science.” The British author’s 19th novel, published Tuesday in the U.S. […]

SEPT. 22, 2025

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