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NFL Ireland Gaelic Games
FILE - Irish kicker Andy Quinn, second left, lines himself up for a field-goal attempt in warmups before a "kicking king" competition at Donnybrook Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Kenneth Maguire, File)
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What are Gaelic games and how are they producing NFL hopefuls in kicking and punting?

Ireland’s indigenous sports are called Gaelic games, and Gaelic football in particular features kicking skills that can transfer to American football via placekicking and punting. A growing number of Gaelic football players are giving American football a shot, either through college programs or the NFL’s international player pathway program. Before the Pittsburgh Steelers face the Minnesota Vikings at Croke Park in the first regular-season NFL […]

SEPT. 24, 2025

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South Korea Tattoos
Tattoo artist Song Jaemin works to tattoo an image of Jesus Christ on the forearm of Lee Byong-joo at his studio in Goyang, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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South Korea moves closer to legalizing tattoo artistry

 As a popular tattoo artist in South Korea, Song Jaemin is fully booked weeks in advance and highly respected by his clients, some of whom come from abroad to see him. But each time Song inks someone, he commits a crime since it is illegal to give tattoos without a medical license in South Korea. […]

SEPT. 24, 2025

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Be Well-Kick-Starting Fitness
FILE - A man runs on a small road in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, before sunrise on Sept. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
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One path to kick-starting a healthier lifestyle: Start small

Wellness advice seems to be everywhere these days, but change can be hard. How do you start a journey toward better health that you can stick with, and not be overwhelmed? Among the experts’ advice: Start with a little and it can turn into something big. Be consistent. Try to find people who can help you stay […]

SEPT. 24, 2025

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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

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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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Flooded Distillery Recovery
Danny Kahn, Master Distiller and Distillation/Aging Operations Director at Sazerac, Buffalo Trace's parent company, looks at bottles in the lab at Buffalo Trace Distillery on Sept. 16, 2025, in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)
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Kentucky distillery bounces back from massive flood that briefly halted bourbon production

The long history of bourbon production at Buffalo Trace Distillery has been connected to the Kentucky River — summed up as a blessing and curse by a plaque on the grounds. In the 1800s, long before the Buffalo Trace name was attached to the distillery, the river served as a floating highway to bring in […]

SEPT. 23, 2025

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Alaska Fat Bear Week
This image provided by the National Park Service shows bear 901 at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, on Sept. 12, 2025. (E Johnston/National Park Service via AP)
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Alaska’s Fat Bear Week kicks off with online voting to crown the most oversized ursine

After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular online voting contest called Fat Bear Week. Those casting votes online starting Tuesday will choose between 11 mammoth brown bears and […]

SEPT. 23, 2025

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Trump
A poster showing the Trump Gold Card is seen as President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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What Americans think about legal immigration, according to a new poll

As President Donald Trump’s administration imposes new restrictions on the legal immigration system, U.S. adults are more likely than they were a year ago to think these immigrants benefit the country, according to a new poll. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Americans are more likely than they were in […]

SEPT. 23, 2025

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Britain Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan, British novelist and screenwriter, gestures as he speaks to press during an interview in London, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan)
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Literary mystery meets dystopian future in Ian McEwan’s ‘What We Can Know’

When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. There are a lot more fictional dystopias than utopias. Ian McEwan has good news and bad news about what lies ahead in “ What We Can Know,” a book he calls “science fiction without the science.” The British author’s 19th novel, published Tuesday in the U.S. […]

SEPT. 22, 2025

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Greece Tax Technology
Inspectors of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue monitor transactions in real time at the headquarters of AADE in Athens, Greece, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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High-tech tax authority helps Greece return to Europe’s financial mainstream

With a pristine white exterior, the Greece tax authority’s new headquarters looks out of place on a clogged industrial artery outside Athens. A former shopping mall and ice rink, the building has been overhauled into an ultramodern digital center that has led the rescue of the nation’s ailing finance and tax sector. It is teeming with inspectors who […]

SEPT. 22, 2025

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Election 2026 Senate North Carolina
FILE - This photo combination shows North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, in Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 23, 2024, left, and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley, in Gastonia, N.C., July 31, 2025, right. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson, Erik Verduzco, file)
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Ukrainian refugee’s train stabbing death becomes early flashpoint in 2026 North Carolina Senate race

 Republicans in North Carolina and beyond are making a concerted effort to turn the stabbing death of a Ukrainian woman on a Charlotte commuter train into a political liability for Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper in his bid to win a key U.S. Senate race that is still more than a year away. GOP candidate Michael Whatley has said Cooper […]

SEPT. 22, 2025

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ENT – No Makeup
FILE - Pamela Anderson appears at the premiere of the film "The Naked Gun" in London on July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
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Pamela Anderson leads the way for women who choose to go makeup free

Pamela Anderson has nothing against makeup. It’s just that she’s been there, done that in her younger years. That’s why now, at 58, she’s attending fashion shows and film premieres with a blissfully bare face. It’s a look, especially for older women, that serves to plague and perplex. Do we chase youth (and relevancy) with a full face, […]

SEPT. 22, 2025

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