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Kids reflect on war at bombed school in Ukraine

Like children everywhere, returning to school in Ukraine comes with the excitement of reconnecting with friends mixed with an apprehension of teachers’ demands. The kids of school No. 21 now share a...

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50 years ago today, American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, as Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union resigned before the resumption of Game 21.

50 years since Bobby Fischer won international chess crown

The 29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, N.Y. brought the U.S. its first world chess title in the competition that took place from July 11 - Sept. 1, 1972.

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Twenty-five years later, The Associated Press is making available this account of Diana’s final hours in the French capital, published on Sept. 5, 1997, a few days after the Aug. 31 crash.

AP Was There: Diana's final hours, on a tragic Paris night

PARIS (AP) — An elegant dinner at the Ritz in Paris. A post-midnight drive past the city's floodlit treasures. And then, tragedy. The story of Princess Diana's death at age 36 in that catastrophic...

Aug 31

25 years ago today, Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris.

The life and legacy of Princess Diana

We take a look back through our photo archives of the Princess; from the announcement of her engagement to Prince Charles, her family and charity work, to appearances at events in her final year.

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Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev died yesterday at 91. He was photographed by some of the greats throughout his lifetime. Yousuf Karsh made this portrait on May 30, 1990, a few months before Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 🧵

Serena Williams' daughter, Olympia, wore white beads in her hair on Monday, a nod to her mom's hairstyle when she won her first U.S. Open in 1999 at age 17. Williams won her first match Monday at what is expected to be her last U.S. Open. Read more: apnews.com/article/us-ope

Serena Williams photo from her first U.S. Open in 1999.

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A fuel leak has interrupted NASA's launch countdown for its new moon rocket. Thunderstorms delayed the operation an hour before a hydrogen fuel leak cropped up in the same area that saw seepage during a dress rehearsal in April.

NASA presses toward moon rocket launch after fuel leak

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA pressed toward the launch of a new moon rocket Monday to put a crew capsule into lunar orbit for the first time in 50 years, after a leak reappeared in the same place...

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Elton John and Britney Spears have collaborated for the first time, creating the slinky, club-ready single “Hold Me Closer” that sees the pop icons take old sounds and fashion something new. The song is Spears' first new music since her 2016 album “Glory." apnews.com/article/britne

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President Joe Biden has unveiled a plan to cancel $10,000 in federal student loans. Borrowers who earn less than $125,000 a year would be eligible. Biden will also extend a pause on federal student loan payments for what he called the “final time.”

Student loan forgiveness could help more than 40 million

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt reduced — and in many cases eliminated — under the long-awaited forgiveness plan President Joe Biden announced...

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Aug 24

30 years ago today, Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing $30 billion in damage; 43 U.S. deaths were blamed on the storm.

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River bottoms reduced to cracked earth attract the curious, some taking selfies on the sun-baked expanse exposed by the receding waters.

Drought changes landscape in southwest China

Chinese meteorologists are calling it the nation's strongest heat wave since record-keeping began in 1961, based on its intensity, geographic area and duration.

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park is celebrating the birth of a southern white rhino calf. The male was born on Aug. 6 and made his debut with his mother, Livia, this week.

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looking back at 6 months of war in Ukraine. apnews.com/article/russia

NASA has released new images from the James Webb Space Telescope showing Jupiter and its northern and southern lights. apne.ws/5pTQG1F

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BREAKING: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert at the center of America’s COVID-19 response, says he will leave the federal government in December after more than five decades of service.

Fauci to step down after decades as top US infection expert

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he...

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Echoing down the corridors of eastern Ukraine's Pokrovsk Perinatal Hospital are the loud cries of tiny Veronika.

On Ukraine’s front line, a fight to save premature babies

Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February, three hospitals in government-controlled areas of the country’s war-torn Donetsk region had facilities to care for premature babies. Now, there's...

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#OTD in 1936, actor-director Robert Redford was born in Santa Monica, Calif.

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With cities largely emptied after hundreds of thousands have evacuated to safety, the young people who remain face loneliness and boredom as painful counterpoints to the fear and violence Moscow has unleashed on Ukraine.

Boredom, loneliness plague Ukrainian youth near front line

The children and teens who remain in eastern Ukraine are retreating into social media, video games and other digital technology to cope with the isolation and stress of Russia's war that rages on the...

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Connoisseurs of kumis, an important part of nomadic tribes’ diets for untold centuries, say the Suusamyr valley is home to the best version of the drink.

Fermented horse milk season on in Kyrgyzstan

High up in the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the season for making the fermented drink known as kumis is in full swing.

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The echo of artillery shells thundering in the distance mingles with the din of people gathered around Sloviansk's public water pumps, piercing the uneasy quiet that smothers the nearly deserted streets of this eastern Ukrainian city.

Water crisis looms for eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk

The echo of artillery shells thundering in the distance mingles with the din of people gathered around Sloviansk's public water pumps, piercing the uneasy quiet that smothers the nearly deserted...

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45 years ago today, Elvis Presley died at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 42.

45 years since the death of Elvis Presley — AP Photos

Aug. 16, 2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. The iconic singer’s popularity has not faded through the years. Fans continue to flock to Graceland on the anniversary of...

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In a small mountain village in India’s northeast, blue flags fluttered high in the clear sky.

Nagas mark 75 years since declaring independence

The Nagas — an Indigenous people inhabiting several northeastern Indian states and areas across the border in Myanmar — marked the 75th anniversary of their declaration of independence Sunday.

A law in New Zealand grants personhood status to the Whanganui River, declaring it a living whole. Five years since the law passed,

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followed the river upstream to find out what its status means to those whose lives are entwined with its waters.

New Zealand river's personhood status offers hope to Māori

WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and yellowed from the earth and clay that has collapsed into its sides. Logs and debris...

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BREAKING: Anne Heche, who first came to prominence on the NBC soap opera “Another World” in the late 1980s before becoming one of the hottest stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s, has died nine days after she was injured in a fiery car crash. She was 53.

Anne Heche dies of crash injuries after life support removed

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anne Heche, the Emmy-winning film and television actor whose dramatic Hollywood rise in the 1990s and accomplished career contrasted with personal chapters of turmoil, died of...

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Boredom, loneliness plague Ukrainian youth near front line

SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Anastasiia Aleksandrova doesn’t even look up from her phone when the thunder of nearby artillery booms through the modest home the 12-year-old shares with her grandparents...

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In Kyrgyzstan, it's the season to make and drink the fermented horse milk treat known as kumis.

AP PHOTOS: Fermented horse milk season on in Kyrgyzstan

SUUSAMYR, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — High up in the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the season for making the fermented drink known as kumis is in full swing. Connoisseurs of kumis, an important part of...

“The landscape had changed a lot.” Drought has reduced Italy’s Lake Garda to near its lowest level ever recorded, exposing swaths of previously underwater rocks. apne.ws/y8SWzIC

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Teachers, parents and experts all warn that the country's multiple crises, including the devastating collapse of the economy, are proving especially damaging to girls.

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Afghan girls face uncertain future after 1 year of no school

For most teenage girls in Afghanistan, it’s been a year since they set foot in a classroom. With no sign the ruling Taliban will allow them back to school, some are trying to find ways to keep...

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75 years ago today, India became independent after some 200 years of British rule.

A Tryst with Destiny - The 75th Anniversary of Indian Independence

The struggle for independence also resulted in the partition of the subcontinent into two countries, India and Pakistan.

BREAKING: Author Salman Rushdie has been attacked as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. An

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Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage...

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BREAKING: The virus that causes polio has been found in New York City's wastewater, weeks after a case of polio was found in Rockland County, health officials said. The presence of the poliovirus suggests wider spread of the virus among the unvaccinated.

Polio detected in NYC's sewage, suggesting virus circulating

NEW YORK (AP) — The virus that causes polio has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among...

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Mourners react during the funeral of 11-year-old Layan al-Shaer in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. On Thursday, Layan died of her wounds after she was injured in last week's Israeli air strikes. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

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August 15th marks the 75th anniversary of the end of British rule in India.

A Tryst with Destiny - The 75th Anniversary of Indian Independence

The struggle for independence also resulted in the partition of the subcontinent into two countries, India and Pakistan.

Anne Heche is on life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery crash a week ago and she isn't expected to survive, her representative says. The actor is being kept on life support for possible organ donation.