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Dr. Kailey Anderson examines a white-cheeked gibbon during a wellness checkup at the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, N.J., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Visitors to a New Jersey zoo get to watch veterinarians treat the animals
Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown tortoise getting a veterinary checkup. Over the next half-hour, spectators watched through a plate-glass window as the young sulcata tortoise — an endangered species […]
NOV. 17, 2025
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Best-selling Christian writer and influencer Jen Hatmaker waits to be introduced to talk about her new book, "Awake," in Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Bestselling author Jen Hatmaker says she’s no longer worried about saving Christianity
When bestselling Christian author, podcaster and influencer Jen Hatmaker’s life fell apart following the discovery of her husband’s affair, she just wanted to “bubble wrap my little family and tuck us away from prying eyes forever,” she writes in her new memoir “Awake.” But that wasn’t an option for the woman whose brand was built on writing […]
OCT. 2, 2025
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People hold an outdoor prayer for the move of the Kiruna Church, a Sami style wooden Swedish Lutheran church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, in Kiruna, Sweden, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, two days before its move along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as part of the town's relocation. (AP Photo/Malin Haarala)
A historic Swedish church embraces inclusion with minority languages
The members of Kiruna Church primarily worship in Swedish, their country’s main language. But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to incorporate the region’s minority languages — Northern Sami, Finnish and Meänkieli – into worship services, carrying on an inclusive ethos that has been a cornerstone of the historic wooden church since its founding […]
AUG. 20, 2025
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Leon Marchand of France celebrates after receiving an award for creating a new world record following the men's 200-meter individual medley semifinals at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Wednesday, July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Léon Marchand breaks world record in 200 individual medley in 1 minute, 52.69 seconds
Léon Marchand broke the world record in the 200-meter individual medley on Wednesday at the world championships in Singapore, clocking 1 minute, 52.69 seconds to surpass the 1:54.00 set in 2011 by American Ryan Lochte. The Frenchman set the mark swimming in the semifinals and, in theory, could break it again in Thursday’s finals. Marchand […]
JULY 30, 2025
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A man uses a cellphone to record musicians performing during Haight Street Daydream, a community event celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, in San Francisco, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vasquez)
Fans toast Grateful Dead’s 60th with concerts at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
Fans of the Grateful Dead are pouring into San Francisco for three days of concerts and festivities marking the 60th anniversary of the scruffy jam band that came to embody a city where people wore flowers in their hair and made love, not war. Dead & Company, featuring original Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, […]
JULY 30, 2025
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Young dancers, in traditional Indigenous clothes, wait for a graduation ceremony to begin at a school on July 18, 2025, in Manuelico village, Caldono, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)
Violent guerrillas are taking Colombia’s children. Unarmed Indigenous groups are confronting them
When Patricia Elago Zetty’s 13-year-old son went missing in Colombia’s conflict-ridden southwest, she didn’t hesitate. Elago and five fellow members of the Indigenous Guard trekked across mountainous terrain to confront the guerrillas they suspected of taking her son and another teenager to bolster their ranks. When the unarmed Guard members reached the guerrillas’ camp, about […]
AUG. 12, 2025
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For AP, it’s back to the future
The Associated Press has announced that it will move its corporate headquarters from midtown Manhattan to the Brookfield Place retail and office complex, across West Street from the World Trade Center. The move, planned for early 2017, will take AP back to the future.
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AP Fund for Journalism announces board of directors, 1st program with nearly 50 local newsrooms
The AP Fund for Journalism (APFJ) today announced its board of directors and a local newsroom pilot program in which it will work with nearly 50 nonprofit news organizations to support state and local news reporting. The program marks the first such project for APFJ, the charitable organization created by The Associated Press in 2024 […]
APRIL 8, 2025
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Gannett, McClatchy news chains say they will stop using Associated Press content
BY DAVID BAUDER, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Gannett and McClatchy news chains, publishers of more than 230 outlets including USA Today and the Miami Herald, have said they will stop using journalism from The Associated Press amid continued financial pressures for the news industry. The decision by Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain, severs a century-old partnership. […]
MARCH 19, 2024
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FILE - New York Mets owner Steve Cohen talks to the media during spring training baseball practice, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, in Port St. Lucie, Fla. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
The Mets have spent more in Steve Cohen’s 4 years than Marlins, Pirates and Rays over the past 21
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets led the major leagues in spending for the third straight season in 2024 and have totaled $1.36 billion in payroll and luxury tax over four years under owner Steve Cohen, exceeding what the Marlins, Pirates and Rays each have spent on players in the past 21 seasons. […]
MARCH 7, 2025
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This combination of book cover images images shows, top row from left, "Sunrise on the Reaping" by Suzanne Collins, "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism" by Sarah Wynn-Williams, "Flesh" by David Szalay," "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice" by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines" by Karine Jean-Pierre, bottom row from left, "The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780" by Rick Atkinson, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, "107 Days" by Kamala Harris, "Shadow Ticket" by Thomas Pynchon, and s "The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can’t Stop Talking About" by Mel Robbins and Sawyer Robbins. (Scholastic/Flatiron/Scribner/Knopf/Legacy Lit/Crown/Penguin Press/Simon & Schuster/Penguin Press/Hay house via AP)
10 notable books of 2025: A posthumous memoir about Epstein, ‘Hunger Games’ and reliving 2024
The year in publishing saw such notable releases as the latest “Hunger Games” novel and the first book in years from Thomas Pynchon. Readers also sought life advice from Mel Robbins, campaign books by former Vice President Kamala Harris, among others, and the posthumous memoir from one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Giuffre. Here are 10 notable books of 2025, in no particular […]
DEC. 2, 2025
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