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Nobel Medicine
Mary E. Brunkow becomes emotional after hearing about winning a Nobel Prize in medicine for part of her work on peripheral immune tolerance, in Seattle, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Behind the lens: Breaking the news to a Nobel Prize winner

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, but these photos may be worth a Nobel Prize.   In the early hours of Monday morning, Seattle-based AP photographer Lindsey Wasson got the call that a pair of Nobel Prize winners lived nearby and raced to the home of Mary E. Brunkow, the recipient of the Nobel […]

Gardening – Bird Care
FILE - A blue jay appears on a feeder in Lutherville-Timonium, Md., on May 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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As the garden winds down, it’s time to care for winter-prepping birds

I just cleaned out and filled a couple of birdfeeders to help my migrating backyard buddies fuel up for their long journeys south. And I’ll keep it well-stocked with high-energy seed mix throughout winter to feed the non-migratory birds that tough it out until spring in my suburban New York garden. After all, it’s now, […]

OCT. 8, 2025

Thailand Buffalo
Thawatchai Daeng-Ngam and his "Tod," a 5-year-old buffalo, participate in a beauty buffalo pageant during an annual buffalo racing festival in Chonburi, Thailand, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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A beauty pageant for buffaloes in Thailand raises status of the humble animal

It was 5-year-old Tod’s first time competing in a beauty pageant and the bright red interior of his ears turned out and popped against his black fur. The main stud for his owner, food vendor and farmer Thawatchai Daeng-Ngam, Tod was one of the competitors Monday at the annual water buffalo racing festival in Chonburi, […]

OCT. 7, 2025

Suns Lakers Basketball
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James, left, talks with assistant coach Scott Brooks during the second half of an NBA preseason basketball game against the Phoenix Suns, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in Palm Desert, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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LeBron James teased ‘the decision of all decisions’ announcement. It was an ad

LeBron James had another “decision” to announce. Turns out, it was an ad. The Los Angeles Lakers star teased that he would have something to say Tuesday. The “decision” reference is a nod to how he announced in July 2010 that he was joining the Miami Heat. It was supposed to come out at noon Eastern, […]

OCT. 7, 2025

Aquarium Move
A shark swims in a 400,000 gallon tank at the Mote Science Education Aquarium, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Sarasota, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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Florida’s Mote Marine Laboratory relocates hundreds of marine animals to new $130M facility

Crews used large nets, water-filled containers and box trucks to relocate hundreds of river otters, sea turtles, manatees, penguins and sharks to their new home: Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium. Over the past couple of months, the marine animals were removed from the hard-to-reach island and relocated to a brand new center, where Mote believes they […]

OCT. 7, 2025

Button King
Dalton Stevens' button hearse is displayed in his museum in Bishopville, S.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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The Button King’s legacy lives on in quirky South Carolina museum

When J.D. Stevens flips on the lights in the shed by his South Carolina home, he feels the presence of his dad, who died nearly a decade ago. He also sees hundreds of thousands of buttons. They are sewn onto the original button suit on the mannequin that started it all. Nearby is the Chevrolet Chevette […]

OCT. 7, 2025

US By Women-For Women
Laura Youngson, CEO of IDA Sports, poses for photographs at a store in Regent Street, in London, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
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Interest in women’s sports is growing. Here’s how some women-owned companies are responding

Laura Youngson didn’t expect to focus so much on soccer cleats when she organized a group of women to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and play a high-altitude match. The point of the 2017 game was to highlight inequality in sports for women and girls. On that front, Youngson achieved her goal with the match becoming the […]

OCT. 7, 2025

US Norway-Crown Prince
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway arrives at the Norway House in Minneapolis on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)
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Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon visits Minnesota to mark 200 years of emigration to the US

Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon visited Minnesota on Tuesday as part of a tour marking the 200th anniversary of organized emigration from his homeland to the United States, highlighting the deep connections between the two countries. The Upper Midwest has some of the largest concentrations of Scandinavian Americans in the U.S., and Minnesota has well over 800,000 […]

OCT. 7, 2025

Canada Hockey Stick Factory
Wooden hockey sticks are stacked as they move along the assembly line at the Roustan Hockey factory, which is the last major manufacturer of hockey sticks in Canada on Aug. 27, 2025 in Brantford, Ontario. (AP Photo/Kelvin Chan)
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Canada’s last hockey stick factory survives in face of tariff threats and globalization

Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form the beginnings of a hockey stick. Further down the Roustan […]

OCT. 6, 2025

Be Well-Cold Water Immersion
FILE - Revelers enter the cold water during the annual Polar Bear Plunge on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, file)
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Cold-water immersion may offer health benefits — and also presents risks

Dr. Mark Harper recalls his first cold-water swim in the south of England 20 years ago. It was August, but the initial jolt from the plunge took his breath away. The shock to his system lasted a minute or two until he was “recombobulated and able to think about something other than the cold,” Harper says. A […]

OCT. 6, 2025

Soccer-Milan-San Siro Sale
FILE -An external view of the San Siro Stadium site of the Opening ceremony at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno), File)
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Host Italy to have unprecedented 4 flag bearers at Milan-Cortina Olympics opening ceremonies

Host nation Italy is going to really spread around the honors at the upcoming Milan-Cortina Olympics with an unprecedented four flag bearers for the opening ceremonies. While the main opening is slated for the San Siro soccer stadium in Milan on Feb. 6, there will also be a smaller event that Friday evening in Cortina d’Ampezzo. “There will be […]

OCT. 6, 2025

Argentina Southern Right Whale
A seagull flies by a Southern Right Whale calf in the El Doradillo protected area, near Puerto Madryn, Argentina, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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Southern right whales awe admirers in Patagonia after coming back from brink of extinction

After coming back from the brink of extinction, Southern right whales are swimming in greater numbers off the coast of Argentina’s Patagonia this year, delighting tourists seeking to catch a glimpse of their acrobatics. Peninsula Valdés, located in the Patagonian province of Chubut, is globally important for the conservation of marine mammals and is home […]

OCT. 6, 2025

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