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Dog Cliff Rescue
This photo provided by the San Francisco Fire Department shows firefighters after they rescued a dog who fell over a sea cliff in San Francisco on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Rescue Captain Samuel Menchaca/San Francisco Fire Department via AP)
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A San Francisco dog wags its tail and kisses rescuers after it’s plucked from the side of a cliff

A pet dog fell off an oceanside bluff in San Francisco and spent more than 20 minutes clinging to a narrow ledge until firefighters came to its rescue, officials said. The brown and white dog was playing with another pooch on Tuesday at Fort Funston, a coastal park with steep bluffs that can drop up […]

OCT. 29, 2025

China-US-Digital Cage-Legal Loophole
FILE - A Chinese national flag flutters near surveillance cameras mounted on a lamp post in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Friday, March 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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US government allowed and even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China, AP finds

U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead. But the proposals prompted a flurry of activity from more than 100 lobbyists from tech […]

OCT. 29, 2025

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

Gardening-Horrors
This 2010 image provided by Bugwood.org shows a squash beetle on a leaf. (Gerald Holmes/Strawberry Center/Cal Poly San Luis Obispo/Bugwood.org via AP)
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From errant birdseed to mint mishaps, gardening can be as scary as any Halloween night

There may be a 20-foot-tall skeleton on your next-door neighbor’s lawn and zombies in the yard across the street, but the real horrors often lie in unmarked graves in the gardens of those you least suspect — maybe even your own. I’ll be the first to admit there have been a few frights in my […]

OCT. 28, 2025

US Maduro Pilot
In this image made from a video posted on the Facebook account of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Dec. 15, 2023, Maduro stands behind pilot Gen. Bitner Villegas in the cockpit of an airplane. (AP Photo)
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US sought to lure Nicolás Maduro’s pilot into betraying the Venezuelan leader

 The federal agent had a daring pitch for Nicolás Maduro’s chief pilot: All he had to do was surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman. In exchange, the agent told the pilot in a clandestine meeting, the aviator would be made a very rich man. The […]

OCT. 28, 2025

AP Poll Halloween
FILE - Halloween candy is displayed in a grocery store in Carmel, Ind., Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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How Americans will be celebrating Halloween, according to a new AP-NORC poll

Sherry Jenkins is a Halloween person by default. She lives in Blairstown, New Jersey, a rural town where much of the original “Friday the 13th” horror movie was filmed. That date is, of course, a huge draw for tourists, but the town and its residents are all in on promoting Halloween as well with a parade and […]

OCT. 28, 2025

Pictures of the Week Global Photo Gallery
FILE - A worker pounds a wall of rock to make gravel and sand in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)
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OCT. 24, 2025

Anti-Science Movement
FILE - Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listens to deputy chief of staff Stefanie Spear speaks to him during a hearing the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law. An Associated Press investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties […]

OCT. 22, 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

India Hindu Festival
A girl performs on a mallakhamb pole as fireworks light up the sky during the festival of lights Diwali in Mumbai, India, on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Millions of Indians celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights

Millions of Indians celebrated Diwali on Monday as lamps illuminated homes and streets across the country to mark the Hindu festival symbolizing the victory of light over darkness. Diwali, derived from the word “Deepavali,” meaning “a row of lights,” is typically celebrated by socializing and exchanging gifts. The dates of the festival are based on the Hindu […]

OCT. 21, 2025

Government Shutdown Health Care Costs
FILE - Pages from the U.S. Affordable Care Act health insurance website healthcare.gov are seen on a computer screen in New York, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
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What Americans think about rising health care costs, according to a new AP-NORC poll

Most U.S. adults are worried about health care becoming more expensive, according to a new AP-NORC poll, as they make decisions about next year’s health coverage and a government shutdown keeps future health costs in limbo for millions. About 6 in 10 Americans are “extremely” or “very” concerned about their health costs going up in the next year, the survey from The […]

OCT. 21, 2025

APTOPIX California Wildfires
Beach front properties are burned to the ground by the Palisades Fire Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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