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Education Juvenile Detention
Cayden Gillespie sits on a bench at a local park Saturday, April 26, 2025, in Gainesville, Fla. Gillespie spent months in juvenile detention after pleading guilty to two felony charges. While in custody the state of Florida provided online learning instead of in person classes which students, parents and staff say has been disastrous. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
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For these incarcerated students, online school has been a disaster

To earn his freedom, 15-year-old Cayden Gillespie had to complete three school assignments a day. But school had gone virtual for Cayden and other incarcerated young people in Florida. And sometimes, he didn’t understand it. One day last summer, he kept failing an online pre-algebra test. There were too many words to read. He didn’t know how […]

AUG. 14, 2025

LA 2028 Beach Sprint Rowing
An athlete trains at a beach sprints camp organized by USRowing in Long Beach, Calif., Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Rowers revel in beach sprints in the run-up to LA’s 2028 Olympics

 It’s a beach run, a coastal row and a music party rolled into one, and it’s about to become an Olympic event. On a sunny Southern California morning, nearly two dozen athletes gathered to try their hand at beach sprints at a camp run by USRowing in Long Beach, not far from where the inaugural […]

AUG. 14, 2025

Pictures of the Week Global Photo Gallery
A humanoid robot prepares for its 100m race before the start of The World Humanoid Robot Games' opening ceremony in Beijing, China, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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AUG. 14, 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

Beneath red banners and a gold bust of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi’s central party school, Communist Party chief To Lam declared the arrival of “a new era of development” late last year. The speech was more than symbolic— it signaled the launch of what could be Vietnam’s most ambitious economic overhaul in decades. Vietnam […]

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

For decades, its powerful lighthouse illuminated Miami’s Biscayne Bay, and during the height of the Cold War, what was known as the Freedom Tower stood as a beacon of hope for hundreds of thousands of Cubans fleeing communist rule. The 14-story Spanish Revival skyscraper was where, from 1962 to 1974, the U.S. State Department welcomed […]

AUG. 13, 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

The Associated Press Top 25 poll is out. Let the sorting out process begin. Only two first-place votes and five points separate No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Penn State. Each of the top five teams, and six of the top seven, received at least one No. 1 vote. Given the logjam, what an ideal year for there to be so […]

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’

Look what you made her do — Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” Swift announced the album on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12 a.m. Tuesday. No release date was announced, but her site said vinyl editions of the album would ship before Oct. 13. Fans […]

AUG. 12, 2025

Colombia Indigenous Youth Recruitment
Young dancers, in traditional Indigenous clothes, wait for a graduation ceremony to begin at a school on July 18, 2025, in Manuelico village, Caldono, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)
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Violent guerrillas are taking Colombia’s children. Unarmed Indigenous groups are confronting them

When Patricia Elago Zetty’s 13-year-old son went missing in Colombia’s conflict-ridden southwest, she didn’t hesitate. Elago and five fellow members of the Indigenous Guard trekked across mountainous terrain to confront the guerrillas they suspected of taking her son and another teenager to bolster their ranks. When the unarmed Guard members reached the guerrillas’ camp, about […]

AUG. 12, 2025

College Football Poll
FILE - Texas tight end Jordan Washington (84), coach Steve Sarkisian, defensive back Barryn Sorrell (88) and quarterback Quinn Ewers (3) celebrate with their team after defeating Arkansas in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo/Michael Woods, File)
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Texas is No. 1 in preseason AP Top 25 for first time, edging Penn St, Ohio St; 10 SEC teams ranked

For the first time, Texas will open a college football season ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25. The Longhorns hardly have a mandate in the poll released Monday: They edged out Penn State by just five points in the closest preseason vote since 1998. Texas received 25 first-place votes and 1,552 points to give the […]

AUG. 12, 2025

Senate Moreno Latin America
Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno raises his right fist during a rally for Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, in Middletown, Ohio, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)
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A US senator from Colombia emerges as a Trump link for Latin America’s conservatives

When Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno visits Colombia this week as part of a three-nation tour of Latin America, it will be something of a homecoming. Ohio’s first Latino senator, who defeated an incumbent last year with the help of Donald Trump’s endorsement, was born in the Colombian capital of Bogota, and even as he was chasing the American […]

AUG. 12, 2025

Bolivia Elections Battle Bread
A vendor gives "pan de batalla," or battle bread, which is made with government subsidized flour, to a client at a restaurant in La Paz, Bolivia, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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How a shrunken piece of bread explains Bolivia’s economic catastrophe ahead of elections

Juan de Dios Castillo, covered in flour and sweat, pulled a crisp roll from the cooling rack and weighed it on an old metal scale: 60 grams (2 ounces). That’s barely half what it would have been two years ago. Unlike American or European shoppers scrutinizing suspiciously capacious chip bags, Bolivians have no doubt that they’re paying […]

AUG. 11, 2025

APTOPIX South Sudan Mental Health
Vobia Kawaja, a 34-year-old mother of five, sits outside her home with her children and neighbors' children in Kotobi, Mundri West County, South Sudan, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Florence Miettaux)
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Mental health clinics in violence-prone South Sudan are rare and endangered

Joy Falatiya said her husband kicked her and five children out of their home in March 2024 and that she fell apart after that. Homeless and penniless, the 35-year-old South Sudanese mother said she thought of ending her life. “I wanted to take my children and jump in the river,” she said while cradling a […]

AUG. 11, 2025

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