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Journalists, playwrights, composers and literary talents gathered at Columbia University on Thursday night to celebrate 100 years of the Pulitzer Prize.
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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2009 file photo, Associated Press Hollywood correspondent Bob Thomas receives a special award of merit in Beverly Hills, Calif. Thomas died of age-related illnesses Friday, March 14, 2014 at his Encino, Calif., home, his daughter Janet Thomas said. He was 92. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
Bob Thomas, dean of Hollywood reporters, dies
In this Feb. 18, 2009, file photo, Associated Press Hollywood correspondent Bob Thomas receives a special award of merit in Beverly Hills, Calif. Thomas died of age-related illnesses Friday, March 14, 2014 at his Encino, Calif., home, his daughter Janet Thomas said. He was 92. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) In this 1946 file photo, Associated Press […]
MARCH 14, 2014
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In this Dec. 16, 2008, photo, Jonathan Wolman, Editor and Publisher of The Detroit News, speaks during an announcement at the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News during a news conference in Detroit. Wolman, who served as editor and publisher of The Detroit News and previously worked as a reporter, Washington bureau chief and executive editor at The Associated Press, died Monday, April 15, 2019, in Detroit. He was 68. (AP Photo)
Jonathan Wolman, Detroit News editor, former AP exec, dies
Jonathan Wolman, editor and publisher of The Detroit News, speaks during an announcement at the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News during a news conference in Detroit, Dec. 16, 2008. (AP Photo) Jonathan Wolman, who over more than 45 years in journalism served as editor and publisher of The Detroit News and previously worked […]
APRIL 15, 2019
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Manuela Sales da Silva Ferreira, owner of the family-run Restaurante Litoral, puts egg yolk on a crabmeat shell in a kitchen of her restaurant in Macao, on Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan)
Preserving Macao’s fusion cuisine with recipes passed down generations
MACAO (AP) — A crack of fire under a sprawling wok, a dab of soy sauce and a splash of Chinese rice wine. Bursts of aroma from spices sourced from around the world sizzle as a chef prepares Minchi, a dish of fried minced meat with diced potatoes topped with a sunny-side-up egg. This is […]
DEC. 9, 2024
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This image provided by The Public Interest Network shows artificial intelligence-powered toys tested by consumer advocates at PIRG. (Rory Erlich/The Public Interest Network via AP)
Advocacy groups urge parents to avoid AI toys this holiday season
They’re cute, even cuddly, and promise learning and companionship — but artificial intelligence toys are not safe for kids, according to children’s and consumer advocacy groups urging parents not to buy them during the holiday season. These toys, marketed to kids as young as 2 years old, are generally powered by AI models that have […]
NOV. 20, 2025
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FILE - A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is pictured at International Community Health Services, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, file)
Canada loses measles elimination status after ongoing outbreaks
Canada is no longer measles-free because of ongoing outbreaks, international health experts said Monday, as childhood vaccination rates fall and the highly contagious virus spreads across North and South America. The loss of the country’s measles elimination status comes more than a year after the highly contagious virus started spreading. Canada has logged 5,138 measles cases this year […]
NOV. 10, 2025
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Lifejackets hang at the home of a local in Villa Caleta, Panama, Monday, April 7, 2025. The jackets were once used to ferry migrants after their trek across the Darien Gap on their way north to the U.S. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A jungle route once carried hundreds of thousands of migrants. Now the local economy has crashed
VILLA CALETA, Panama (AP) — The face of U.S. President Donald Trump flashes on the flat-screen TV that Luis Olea bought with the money he earned ferrying migrants through the remote Panamanian jungle during an unprecedented crush of migration. The Darien Gap, a stretch of nearly impenetrable rain forest along the border with Colombia, was […]
APRIL 16, 2025
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Dragi Stojanov, left, cries holding a photograph of his son Tomche Stojanov, one of the victims of a massive nightclub fire, during a vigil joined by hundreds in the town of Kocani, North Macedonia, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Fatal North Macedonia nightclub inferno sparks outrage, disbelief and calls for punishment
KOCANI, North Macedonia (AP) — As families gathered at a hospital for updates, Tomco Stojanov already knew his son’s devastating fate: 25-year-old Andrej died trying to save others in a nightclub fire that left dozens dead in North Macedonia, including many trampled during a desperate bid to escape. “Thank you for your condolences, but my […]
MARCH 17, 2025
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FILE - The Gaboa family, Bedouins living in Al-Furaa village in southern Israel, gather around the makeshift bomb shelter they made from two gravel trucks buried in dirt to protect them from incoming Iranian fire, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
Israel didn’t give permits to these Bedouin villages to build bomb shelters. So they built their own
BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — When the sirens wail in the southern Israeli desert to herald an incoming missile, Ahmad Abu Ganima’s family scrambles outside. Down some dirt-hewn steps, one by one, they squeeze through the window of a minibus buried under 10 feet (three meters) of dirt. Abu Ganima, a mechanic, got the cast-off bus […]
JULY 16, 2025
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A piece by fashion designer Caroline Zimbalist is displayed on Friday, June 6, 2025, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)
A designer dressed Chappell Roan with seaweed. But don’t expect to find the approach in stores — yet
NEW YORK (AP) — At her kitchen stove, fashion designer Caroline Zimbalist looks like an alchemist at work as she stirs a pot full of corn starch and a thickener made from seaweed. The peppermint-scented mixture glitters as she carefully pours it into silicone molds of hearts and leaves. When the material hardens, Zimbalist will […]
JULY 14, 2025
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Lab workers at Johns Hopkins University work in Richard Huganir's lab in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
Jobs lost in every state and lifesaving cures not discovered: Possible impacts of research cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rural cancer patients may miss out on cutting-edge treatments in Utah. Therapies for intellectual disorders could stall in Maryland. Red states and blue states alike are poised to lose jobs in research labs and the local businesses serving them. Ripple effects of the Trump administration’s crackdown on U.S. biomedical research promise to […]
MARCH 7, 2025
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Igor Abramovich surveys heavy damage to a house from the 14-month war between Hezbollah and Israel in Kibbutz Manara, on the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, Jan. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A destroyed Israeli kibbutz on the Lebanese border starts to pick up the pieces. Who will return?
KIBBUTZ MANARA, Israel (AP) — Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel is so close to the Lebanese border that patrons of a local pub joke, with gallows humor, that the militant group Hezbollah could see if they were eating sunflower seeds or potato chips with their beers. The proximity made Manara so vulnerable in the war […]
JAN. 27, 2025
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