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US Scare School
Shayne Powell, of Wixom, poses for a portrait at the Erebus Haunted House Oct. 2, 2025, in Pontiac, Mich. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
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Michigan haunted house teaches actors to ‘scare the pee out of’ guests

Grotesque makeup, menacing props and intimidating costumes are just one part of a Michigan haunted house’s 25-year-old formula to terrify guests. It starts by educating the actors looking to provide the most horrifying experience to its visitors. At Scare School, they learn all the tricks of the trade. Lessons begin weeks before the four-level walk-through […]

OCT. 8, 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

Be Well-Cold Water Immersion
FILE - Revelers enter the cold water during the annual Polar Bear Plunge on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, file)
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Cold-water immersion may offer health benefits — and also presents risks

Dr. Mark Harper recalls his first cold-water swim in the south of England 20 years ago. It was August, but the initial jolt from the plunge took his breath away. The shock to his system lasted a minute or two until he was “recombobulated and able to think about something other than the cold,” Harper says. A […]

OCT. 6, 2025

Florida Immigration Detention Center
FILE - President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and others, tour "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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DOJ contradicts DeSantis: Some detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ likely never in removal proceedings

 U.S. government lawyers say that detainees at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings, which is a direct contradiction to what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been saying since it opened in July. Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice made that […]

OCT. 6, 2025

Interstellar Comet
This image composed from multiple exposures and provided by NSF's NOIRLab shows a comet streaking across a star field above the International Gemini Observatory on Cerro Pachon, near La Serena, Chile. (NSF's NoirLab via AP)
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Interstellar comet swinging past Mars as a fleet of spacecraft looks on

 A comet from another star system will swing by Mars on Friday as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar visitor. The comet known as 3I/Atlas will hurtle within 18 million miles (29 million kilometers) of the red planet, its closest approach during its trek through the inner solar system. Its breakneck speed: 193,000 mph (310,000 kph). […]

OCT. 2, 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

Mideast Wars-Gaza-Sexual Exploitation
(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)
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Women in Gaza say they were promised food, money or work in exchange for sexual interactions

After weeks of scraping by to feed her six children in Gaza, the 38-year-old woman thought she’d found a lifeline. At a shelter, a friend told her about a man who could help with food, aid, maybe even a job. The woman — separated from her husband, and forced to shutter the business that once kept the family […]

OCT. 1, 2025

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AP, LaPresse renew longstanding collaboration  

The Associated Press and LaPresse have renewed their longstanding collaboration, extending their relationship through 2029. This renewal reaffirms their shared commitment to providing independent and high-quality journalism amid a rapidly evolving global media landscape. Marco Maria Durante, President of LaPresse, stated: “I am honored to continue LaPresse’s collaboration with The Associated Press, a partnership that […]

SEPT. 30, 2025

Uganda Mountain Gorillas
A mountain gorilla eats leaves in the forest of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Onen Patrick)
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Tourism is helping Uganda’s endangered mountain gorillas make a comeback

News of a sick or injured mountain gorilla can worry local residents in this mountainous area that’s home to the endangered species. That’s partly because most of the gorillas have been given names, allowing rangers and others to humanize the animal’s suffering. But widespread interest in protecting mountain gorillas also comes from the economic benefits of tourism […]

SEPT. 24, 2025

Italy Armani Exhibition
Giorgio Armani's creations are displayed during the exhibition "Giorgio Armani - 50 Years" opened to the public at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 24 2025. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
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Giorgio Armani’s sartorial creations interplay with Italian masterpieces at Milan museum exhibition

Giorgio Armani hesitated at first when the Brera Art Gallery proposed an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of his signature label, placing his creations among celebrated Italian masterpieces by such luminaries as Raphael and Caravaggio. But by the time Armani reached the gallery’s final room on a visit aimed at winning him over, the designer, who […]

SEPT. 24, 2025

Japan Sacred Shrine Rebuilt
Priests and officials in the Shinto priesthood march during Yamaguchisai, a kickoff ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual, which concludes in 2033, at Kotaijingu, also known as Naiku, or the inner sanctuary, of the Jingu shrine complex in Ise, central Japan, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years for more than a millennium

Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that they strike from three directions. An hour later, the head woodcutter shouts, “A tree is falling!” as one of the 300-year-old trees crashes down, […]

SEPT. 23, 2025

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