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Live video streaming and a blog on Diddy Combs’ sentencing put AP ahead and secured new viewers

Hosted by AP Radio’s Julie Walker and shot by VJ Ted Shaffrey, the all-formats team broadcast an 11.5-hour live program on YouTube outside the courthouse, where cameras were banned inside due to it being a federal case. On-air guests for the program, which was produced by Nico Maounis of AP360 and directed by output producer […]

OCT. 10, 2025

New California law aims to stabilize insurance for people who can’t get private coverage

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bipartisan bill Thursday that aims to prevent the state’s home insurer of last resort from running out of money following a natural disaster. The FAIR Plan is an insurance pool that provides policies to people who can’t get private insurance because their properties are deemed too […]

OCT. 9, 2025

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

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

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

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

Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon visits Minnesota to mark 200 years of emigration to the US

Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon visited Minnesota on Tuesday as part of a tour marking the 200th anniversary of organized emigration from his homeland to the United States, highlighting the deep connections between the two countries. The Upper Midwest has some of the largest concentrations of Scandinavian Americans in the U.S., and Minnesota has well over 800,000 […]

OCT. 7, 2025

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

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

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

Video spotlights – September 2025

Join us as we review the key moments that shaped September 2025.

OCT. 6, 2025