In 2025, ordinary lives intertwined with extraordinary shifts across Africa's bustling cities and vast rural heartlands. The world’s youngest population found moments of joy, triumph and positive change even as it was dogged by challenges from election disputes to U.S. aid cuts.

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The U.S. Capitol will soon display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school

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The U.S. military says it has attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people

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Anthony Geary, who played Luke Spencer on the longrunning soap opera "General Hospital," has died

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Rob Reiner, who was the son of a comedy giant and went on to become one himself, as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation with movies such as “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally …” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” has died. He was 78.

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Marlon Wayans starring in the Jordan Peele-produced football thriller “Him” and the iHeartRadio Z100’s Jingle Ball 2025 featuring Conan Gray, Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll and Olivia Dean are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

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A weekend storm has dumped heavy snow on parts of the Northeast, causing flight delays and creating slick roads

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Police in Rhode Island say they have a person of interest in custody after a shooting at Brown University killed two students and wounded nine others

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HONG KONG (AP) -- Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking the end of an era of the Chinese semiautonomous city 's once-diverse political landscape. Read More

A climate of fear has gripped Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Congo, after it fell to the Rwanda-backed M23 group

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The healthcare giant immediately announced its intention to appeal the liability verdict and compensatory damages

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A drone attack in Russia's Saratov region has killed at least two people, reports suggest

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Russia’s Central Bank says it has filed a lawsuit against Belgian financial institution Euroclear

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Senators for the first time are questioning military leaders over President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in American cities, an extraordinary move that has prompted legal challenges as well as questions about states’ rights and the use of the military on U.S. soil

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to hold urgent talks with leaders from about 30 countries

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The joy of being there, of prayer and play, a dance in a bomb shelter, a kiss in a flood and a hug in the mud, kids rolling tires and scooting among the ruins of Gaza are among the defining images of 2025 as people found happiness despite adversity and enjoyed the simple things of life.

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Jennifer Shah, a former star on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” has been moved from a federal prison into a community confinement program after serving less than half of her sentence for defrauding thousands of people

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The youngest is 16

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