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Headlights illuminate cobblestone streets in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, during an island-wide blackout, Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Power blackout hits all of Puerto Rico as residents prepare for Easter weekend

A power blackout hit all of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the heavily Catholic U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend.

April 17, 2025
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The entrance of the Supreme Court in London.

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  • Europe

U.K. high court says trans women don't meet definition of women under equalities law

Justice Patrick Hodge said five judges at the court had ruled unanimously that "the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex."

April 16, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer
China's economic growth in the first three months was driven in part by strong industrial activity and exports.

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  • World

China reports 5.4% GDP growth in 1st quarter, but analysts say tariffs will bite soon

Growth was driven partly by strong industrial activity and exports, before President Trump's punishing tariffs. Experts say these levies will hurt China's growth this year.

April 16, 2025
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By:
  • John Ruwitch and
  • Emily Feng
Raluca collects butterflies for the Worldwide Painted Lady Migration Project. As drought scorches Europe, Painted Lady butterflies find blooming flowers in the moist air near melting glaciers in Switzerland.

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  • World

Photos: Scientists trace a butterfly migration route that is millions of years old

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom, photographer Lucas Foglia documents the journey.

April 16, 2025
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  • Natalie Escobar
Medicare negotiations on drug prices can happen sooner for pills than many drugs that are injected.

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  • News

Trump aims to lower drug prices. And, Harvard's tax-exempt status threatened

Trump has signed an executive action aimed at lowering prescription drug prices. And, the president threatened to revoke Harvard University's tax-exempt status after it rejected government demands.

April 16, 2025
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  • Brittney Melton
Containers pile up at Kwai Chung Container terminal in Hong Kong.

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  • Asia

Hong Kong post office will stop shipping parcels to the U.S. over tariffs

Hong Kong is caught in the middle of the trade disputes between the U.S. and China despite being a free port. The former British colony has trade and customs policies different from mainland China's.

April 16, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
People walk by a tent shelter near the rubble of a collapsed building in western Gaza City on April 15.

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  • World

New Israeli ceasefire offer demands Hamas discuss disarming, but group rejects it

Hamas is rejecting a new Israeli proposal to pause the war in Gaza, a Hamas official told NPR. Earlier, officials mediating talks had expressed optimism that a deal could be reached within weeks.

April 15, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Aya Batrawy

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  • Africa

Photos: Two years of war in Sudan

Images of Sudan, after two years of civil war have led to the world biggest humanitarian crisis.

April 15, 2025
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  • Faiz Abubakr,
  • Tara Neill,
  • and 1 more
"The regime has fallen, and I need to transition to civilian life," says former opposition fighter Omar Halaby, 29, who lost his right leg during a 2017 attack by Syrian forces loyal to then-President Bashar al-Assad. "Part of that process is seeing my late friends one last time, to give them a dignified reburial."

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  • World

How Trump's cuts to U.S. foreign aid are imperiling Syria's war crimes investigations

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some work. For families of the disappeared, it means justice delayed or denied.

April 15, 2025
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  • Lauren Frayer
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on April 13 that it had taken control of the famine-hit Zamzam camp for the internally displaced. Here, people who fled the Zamzam camp after it fell under RSF control rest in a makeshift encampment in an open field in Sudan's western Darfur region on Sunday.

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  • World

Sudan's war is 2 years in and shows no signs of slowing, as talks take place

As "pathway to peace talks" are held in London - minus the main protagonists - Sudan tips into a third year of catastrophic civil war, as violence surges in the Darfur region of the west of the country and activists warn of an unfolding genocide.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
Climate change activists carry signs as they march during a protest in Philadelphia in 2016. Earlier that year, U.S. prosecutors allege hackers began targeting prominent American climate activists in an effort to gather information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from global warming.<br><br>

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  • Climate

Exclusive: Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between victims and an alleged attacker

Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.

April 15, 2025
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  • Michael Copley
The DOGE team may have taken data related to union organizing and labor complaints and hid its tracks, according to a whistleblower.

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  • News

Whistleblower says DOGE took sensitive data. And, Harvard rejects Trump's demands

A whistleblower who works at NLRB says that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data. And, the Trump administration froze over $2 billion for Harvard after it rejected demands.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu speaks at the opening ceremony of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in September, 2024.

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  • Africa

Attack leaves at least 40 people dead in Nigeria, the country's president says

Such attacks have become common in north-central Nigeria, where gunmen exploit security lapses to launch deadly raids on farmers in a fight over land resources.

April 15, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Hungary's parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities, in Budapest, Hungary on Monday.

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  • Europe

Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events

The amendment bans public events held by LGBTQ+ communities and allows authorities to use facial recognition tools to identify people who attend prohibited events.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025.

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  • Politics

El Salvador's Bukele says 'preposterous' to suggest he return Abrego Garcia to U.S.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and several top Trump administration officials dismissed questions about the fate of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

April 14, 2025
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  • Danielle Kurtzleben
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