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Hidalgo, Betts, Booker headline AP All-America preseason women’s college basketball team

Hannah Hidalgo of Notre Dame, Lauren Betts of UCLA and Madison Booker of Texas headline The Associated Press All-America women’s college basketball team released Tuesday. The trio were first-team All-Americans last spring after having stellar seasons. They were joined on the preseason team this year by UConn’s Sarah Strong and South Carolina’s Ta’Niya Latson. Latson […]

OCT. 21, 2025

What Americans think about rising health care costs, according to a new AP-NORC poll

Most U.S. adults are worried about health care becoming more expensive, according to a new AP-NORC poll, as they make decisions about next year’s health coverage and a government shutdown keeps future health costs in limbo for millions. About 6 in 10 Americans are “extremely” or “very” concerned about their health costs going up in the next year, the survey from The […]

OCT. 21, 2025

In Chicago, an immense show of force signals a sharp escalation in White House immigration crackdown

The music begins low and ominous, with the video showing searchlights skimming along a Chicago apartment building and heavily armed immigration agents storming inside. Guns are drawn. Unmarked cars fill the streets. Agents rappel from a Black Hawk helicopter. Authorities said they were targeting the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, but only two of the 37 immigrants arrested […]

OCT. 21, 2025

Champion Thunder enter the season looking to end the NBA’s run of parity

The defending NBA champions aren’t thinking of themselves in that way. The 80th season of the NBA starts Tuesday night in Oklahoma City, where the Thunder — the “defending” champion, even though they don’t seem to like the term — will get their rings and enjoy one final moment of celebrating last season’s seven-game triumph over the […]

OCT. 20, 2025

Israel and Hamas accept part of Trump peace plan, will free hostages and prisoners

It started when Evan Vucci, who was covering President Donald Trump at a roundtable event with conservative Christians, noticed an agitated Marco Rubio slipping Trump a note. Vucci and other news photographers in the room zoomed in on the handwriting on White House stationery that read, “You need to approve a Truth Social post soon […]

OCT. 17, 2025

AP’s race to Nobel winners highlights exclusive access and global collaboration

With the Nobel team in Northern Europe alerting the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, the clock was ticking to find this year’s laureates. That task fell for the second year in a row to science writer Adithi Ramakrishnan, who searched for addresses and contact details for the winners or their institutions. In Seattle, photographer Lindsey […]

OCT. 17, 2025

PHOTO ESSAY: Young California inmates learn skills to fight wildfires

Inmate firefighters in California will receive higher pay and the state will make permanent firefighting camps that train and educate young offenders under two laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. California state agencies and the Los Angeles County fire department run 35 “fire camps” where inmates train to become certified wildland firefighters. More than 1,100 […]

OCT. 16, 2025

Career experts say asking for a raise isn’t off the table in a tough job market

With the U.S. experiencing a significant hiring slowdown, it’s a daunting time to be looking for a job. Many workers are staying put instead of changing jobs to secure better pay. Artificial intelligence tools increasingly screen the resumes of applicants. Now may seem like an inappropriate time to request a raise.

OCT. 16, 2025

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OCT. 16, 2025

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

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

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