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OCT. 16, 2025
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FILE - People react as they gather to watch a live broadcast of Israeli hostages released from Gaza at a plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. The release took place as part of a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
This image provided by Brennan Gilmore shows the bright green comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, in Cismont, Va. (Brennan Gilmore via AP)
2 green comets shine bright. How to spot them in the night sky
Two bright green comets are streaming through the skies and are visible to skygazers in the Northern Hemisphere. Both hail from the outer edges of our solar system — possibly what’s known as the Oort Cloud, well beyond Pluto. Comet Lemmon will have its closest brush with Earth on or around Tuesday. The other cosmic snowball, Comet SWAN, should have […]
OCT. 16, 2025
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FILE - People walk through University of North Carolina campus March 18, 2020, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
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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Activists lay down body bags during a protest demanding more money for research into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS, Long-COVID and Post Vac illnesses in front of the science ministry in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Pandemics in 2025
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A nurse hands a sign reading "No visitors X ward" to another nurse while two Ebola experts from the Paris Pasteur Institute and the World Health Organization, get ready to enter the area where Jaster Chea, a Liberian man who has been confirmed as having the deadly Ebola virus, is under quarantine at the Gozon hospital, 280 miles west of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Saturday December 9, 1995. After the 25-year-old Liberian man was diagnosed with Ebola, French medical specialists arrived in this secluded village to prevent the deadly virus from spreading. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
Ebola
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A man wearing a face mask to protect against the new coronavirus walks past a large video screen showing Chinese President Xi Jinping speaking in Beijing, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. China approved a contentious national security law that will allow authorities to crack down on subversive and secessionist activity in Hong Kong, a move many see as Beijing's boldest yet to erase the legal firewall between the semi-autonomous territory and the mainland's authoritarian Communist Party system. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
COVID19
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A doctor takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 at the Cocodrilos Sports Park in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Health emergencies and pandemics
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A polar bear is seen at an abandoned research station on Koluchin Island, off Chukotka, Russia, in the country's Far East, on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Makhorov)
Photos show polar bears chilling at home in abandoned Russian research station
Polar bears that have taken over an abandoned polar research station off Russia’s far eastern coast were intimately captured in drone footage by Vadim Makhorov. The photographer was filming the landscape of Kolyuchin Island during a cruise in the Chukchi Sea in September, when he noticed polar bears using one of the abandoned buildings as a shelter.
OCT. 15, 2025
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Stray dogs that were abandoned on the streets rest at a shelter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Abandoned dogs in Ethiopia’s capital get little care. A woman wants to change that
Among the whimpering of rescued dogs, a soft whistle cuts through. It’s Feven Melese, a young woman hoping to support thousands of abandoned dogs on the streets of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The 29-year-old music degree graduate has put up a rare shelter on the outskirts of the city, where she provides food and […]
OCT. 15, 2025
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UConn guard Ashlynn Shade (12) reacts toward UConn guard Azzi Fudd in the first half of an exhibition NCAA college basketball game against Boston College, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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
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Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Darius Slay (23) walks off the field after an injury in the second half of an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns in Pittsburgh, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
NFL uses AI to predict injuries, aiming to keep players healthier
Injuries are an inevitable part of the NFL with all the high-speed collisions, crushing hits and high exertion necessary on every play. Success each season often comes down to which teams can be the healthiest at the end and a string of injuries has already hampered preseason contenders like Baltimore, San Francisco and Cincinnati. With teams investing hundreds of […]
OCT. 14, 2025
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FILE - Eighty years after the liberation of the south of the Netherlands, Scott Taylor, right, Ton Hermes, center, and Maria Kleijnen stand next to the grave of Scott's grandfather Second Lt. Royce Taylor, a bombardier with the 527 Bomb Squadron, at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, southern Netherlands, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
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
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