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Package on the 50th anniversary of the women’s basketball poll tips off season-long coverage looking at the impact of the AP Top 25 rankings

The package tipping off the 50th anniversary of the women’s basketball poll resonated with customers and readers, thanks to a team effort led by Doug Feinberg. Doug’s sources and relationships built over 25 years covering the sport were instrumental in shaping coverage that illustrated how much of an impact the AP Top 25 rankings have […]

OCT. 17, 2025

Trump’s politically motivated sanctions against Brazil

Colleges are fighting to prove their return on investment

For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its price? Public confidence in higher education has plummeted in recent years amid high tuition prices, skyrocketing student loans and a dismal […]

OCT. 16, 2025

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UConn tops women’s preseason AP Top 25 ahead of South Carolina, UCLA; SEC has 5 teams in top 10

Defending champion UConn picked up where it left off as the No. 1 team in the country in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason women’s basketball poll released Tuesday. The Huskies received 27 first-place votes from a 31-member national media panel. South Carolina, last season’s runner-up to UConn, was picked second in the poll and garnered the […]

OCT. 14, 2025

Project connects Americans to the Dutch people who honor their relatives at World War II cemetery

 In the decades since June West Brandt’s older brother was killed in World War II, her kind and artistic sibling who loved to play boogie-woogie on the piano has never been far from her mind. So she was delighted to discover he’s also being remembered by a Dutch couple who regularly visit a marker for […]

OCT. 14, 2025

In Iceland, a town still shaken by volcanic eruptions tries to recover

Vignir Kristinsson smiles as two women, the only customers all morning, enter his gift shop filled with handmade things of oak. After perusing decorations ranging from animals to kitchen cutting boards, one woman bought a small black-stained tree. After decades of making cabinets for a living, Kristinsson, 64, said his daughter persuaded him to turn […]

OCT. 14, 2025

How to cook, freeze or pickle plant scraps instead of throwing them away

My beets were slow to grow this year, so I bought a bunch at the farmers’ market. I was taken aback when the seller chopped off the vegetable’s foliage and attempted to discard it after handing me a sad sack of leafless roots. “Wait! I’ll take those, please,” I blurted, catching him just before they hit the […]

OCT. 14, 2025

ICE’s use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he said, and told them they were being sent to Ghana, even though none of them was from there. When they asked to speak to […]

OCT. 14, 2025

Boiler up! Purdue tops preseason AP Top 25 for first time, ahead of Houston, reigning champ Florida

Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers earned 35 of 61 first-place votes to top Monday’s poll to begin the 2025-26 season. That put Matt Painter’s squad ahead of the two teams that played in last year’s NCAA title game, with runner-up Houston at No. […]

OCT. 13, 2025

Vatican names judges for trial of former Jesuit artist Rupnik accused of abuse by over 20 women

The Vatican took the unusual step on Monday of announcing that it had named judges to decide the fate of a famous ex-Jesuit artist, whose mosaics decorate basilicas around the world and who was accused by more than two dozen women of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuse. The case of the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik badly tarnished […]

OCT. 13, 2025

Marc Maron ends his podcast with final guest Barack Obama after 16 years and nearly 1,700 episodes

 Barack Obama helped Marc Maron lock the gates on his podcast Monday, returning to the show for the final episode after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes. The former president gave new status to “WTF With Marc Maron” and to podcasts in general when he visited Maron’s Los Angeles garage studio while still in office a decade ago. Obama […]

OCT. 13, 2025