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Assisted living isn't just for people. A zoo in Spain helps elderly elephants age gracefully

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — At the Barcelona Zoo, a 40-year-old African elephant places her foot through the metal barrier where a zookeeper gently scrubs its sole — the beloved pachyderm gets h...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Trump is 'fully fit' to serve as commander in chief, his doctor says after recent physical

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump’s doctor says the oldest man elected president is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief as the White House released results Sunday of Trump's r...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Trump's commerce secretary says new electronics tariff exemptions are temporary, chip tariffs coming

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tariff exemptions announced Friday on electronics like smartphones and laptops are only a temporary reprieve until the Trump administration develops a new tariff appr...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Some top tech leaders have embraced Trump. That's created a political divide in Silicon Valley

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Like many in the tech industry, Jeremy Lyons used to think of himself as a relatively apolitical guy. The only time he had participated in a demonstration before now ...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Gabon’s coup leader Oligui Nguema elected president with 90% of votes cast, provisional results show

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim president who staged a 2023 coup that ended a decadeslong political dynasty, has been elected president, according...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

'A Minecraft Movie' stomps to $80.6 million in second weekend

NEW YORK (AP) — After just two weeks in theaters, “A Minecraft Movie” is already the highest grossing Hollywood release of 2025. The Warner Bros. videogame adaptation followed up its blockb...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more tha...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Wisconsin teen charged in parents' deaths is accused of plotting to kill Trump

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin teenager charged in the deaths of his parents faces wider allegations that he killed them to “obtain the financial means” to assassinate President Donald Trump a...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

50 years after Lebanon's civil war began, a bullet-riddled bus stands as a reminder

BEIRUT (AP) — It was an ordinary day in Beirut. In one part of Lebanon's capital, a church was inaugurated, with the leader of the Christian Phalange party there. In another, Palestinian fac...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Historic domes of Hagia Sophia are renovated to protect the landmark from earthquakes

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument's historic domes from the thr...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

No booze, no cover, no judging: Inside Mexico City's free dance parties

MEXICO CITY (AP) — It's 4 p.m. on a recent Sunday afternoon, and a pavilion of towering windows in a Mexico City urban park is nearly packed. The public is diverse, but everyone here wants t...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Brazil's former President Bolsonaro undergoes new surgery for bowel obstruction

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is undergoing a new surgery Sunday morning in Brasilia, his doctors said. The conservative leader has been hospitalized since Frid...

DATE: Apr 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

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