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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)
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 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)
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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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FILE - A volcanic eruption is visible near the town of Grindavik, on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco di Marco, File)
In Iceland, a town still shaken by volcanic eruptions tries to recover
Vignir Kristinsson smiles as two women, the only customers all morning, enter his gift shop filled with handmade things of oak. After perusing decorations ranging from animals to kitchen cutting boards, one woman bought a small black-stained tree. After decades of making cabinets for a living, Kristinsson, 64, said his daughter persuaded him to turn […]
OCT. 14, 2025
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This August 17, 2023, image provided by Jessica Damiano shows newly harvested beets on Long Island, N.Y. Sautéing beet greens with oil, salt, pepper, and garlic is a great way to get a second side dish from one plant. (Jessica Damiano via AP)
How to cook, freeze or pickle plant scraps instead of throwing them away
My beets were slow to grow this year, so I bought a bunch at the farmers’ market. I was taken aback when the seller chopped off the vegetable’s foliage and attempted to discard it after handing me a sad sack of leafless roots. “Wait! I’ll take those, please,” I blurted, catching him just before they hit the […]
OCT. 14, 2025
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This photo provided by Safe Restraints Inc., in October 2025, shows a custom version of the WRAP restraining equipment made for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. (Safe Restraints via AP)
ICE’s use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he said, and told them they were being sent to Ghana, even though none of them was from there. When they asked to speak to […]
OCT. 14, 2025
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FILE - Houston's Emanuel Sharp (21), Milos Uzan (7) and Mylik Wilson (8) celebrate during a timeout against Kansas during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Monday, March 3, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Boiler up! Purdue tops preseason AP Top 25 for first time, ahead of Houston, reigning champ Florida
Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers earned 35 of 61 first-place votes to top Monday’s poll to begin the 2025-26 season. That put Matt Painter’s squad ahead of the two teams that played in last year’s NCAA title game, with runner-up Houston at No. […]
OCT. 13, 2025
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