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A street musician walks past a restaurant in Havana, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

An energy blockade on Cuba pulls the plug on Havana’s legendary nightlife

1:25 AM on Sunday, April 19

President Donald Trump’s oil embargo on Cuba has exacerbated a crisis that has turned Havana’s nightlife dark and quiet

Wild Przewalski horses graze in a forest inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. Chornobyl is the Ukrainian name for the city. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Chernobyl's radioactive landscape is testament to nature’s resilience and survival spirit

1:18 AM on Sunday, April 19

Four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, wildlife is thriving again in what became the exclusion zone created by the forced mass evacuations of the population

A visitor sits among the daffodils in the courtyard of the Beguinage Ten Wijngaerde of Bruges, Belgium, Tuesday March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Belgium’s Beguinages: Tranquil oases in a world of noise and distraction

1:07 AM on Sunday, April 19

The Princely Beguinage Ten Wijngaerde in Bruges offers a tranquil refuge for women amid the city's bustling tourism

Tom Steyer speaks during a gubernatorial candidate forum on Latino and immigrant communities in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Billionaire Steyer's spending binge dwarfs rival campaigns in California governor's race

12:11 AM on Sunday, April 19

In the wide-open race for California governor, billionaire Tom Steyer is on a spending binge

Runners take pictures of a humanoid robot in the second Beijing E-Town Half Marathon and Humanoid Robot Half Marathon in Beijing Sunday, April 19, 2026. (Haruna Furuhashi/Pool Photo via AP)

A humanoid robot sprints to victory in Beijing, beating the human half-marathon world record

Sunday, April 19

A humanoid robot has won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing, running faster than the human record

FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits to observe the test launches of missiles at an undisclosed place in North Korea Sunday, April 12, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

North Korea launches multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward sea

8:00 PM on Saturday, April 18

South Korea says North Korea has launched multiple ballistic missiles toward the North’s eastern waters

Photos show Obama and Mamdani reading to preschoolers in the Bronx

7:49 PM on Saturday, April 18

Los Angeles Lakers forward Jarred Vanderbilt, left, and Houston Rockets forward Tari Eason go after a rebound during the second half in Game 1 of a first-round NBA playoffs basketball series Saturday, April 18, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Kevin Durant misses playoff opener with knee injury, and the Rockets can't make up for his absence

7:33 PM on Saturday, April 18

Kevin Durant was ruled out of Houston’s playoff opener against the Los Angeles Lakers with a bruised right knee about 90 minutes before tipoff

Work continues on the construction of the ballroom at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Construction on Trump's White House ballroom can continue for now, US appeals court says

6:41 PM on Saturday, April 18

A U.S. appeals court is allowing construction to continue on President Donald Trump's $400 million ballroom

A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane crew assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point flies over an overturned vessel offshore Saipan, Saturday, April 18, 2026, while searching for a missing vessel, the Mariana, that experienced an engine failure April 15. (U.S. Coast Guard/Air Station Barbers Point via AP)

US Coast Guard spots overturned vessel near Saipan during search for missing ship with 6 on board

5:33 PM on Saturday, April 18

The U.S. Coast Guard says an airplane search crew has spotted an overturned ship matching the description of a cargo vessel that went missing with six people on board near the western Pacific territory of Saipan

Animal rights activists react to tear gas while attempting to gain entry into Ridglan Farms beagle breeding and research facility in Blue Mounds, Wis., Saturday, April 18, 2026. (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Hundreds trying to storm Wisconsin beagle research facility met with rubber bullets, pepper spray

5:15 PM on Saturday, April 18

About 1,000 animal welfare protesters who tried to gain entry to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin have been turned back by police who fired rubber bullets and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group’s leader

Former President Barack Obama, left, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani read a book to children at Learning Through Play Pre-K in New York, on Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Obama meets Mamdani in New York City before reading to preschoolers

4:17 PM on Saturday, April 18

Former President Barack Obama has met privately with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani before joining together to read to preschoolers at a child care center in the Bronx

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh adjusts his glasses as he talks during an interview with Associated Press at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, in Antalya, southern Turkey, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Riza Ozel)

Iranian official says US 'maximalist' demands stall face-to-face talks

9:20 AM on Saturday, April 18

Iran is not ready for new face-to-face talks with the U.S., according to a senior Iranian official

Pope Leo XIV waves after arriving in Luanda, Angola, Saturday, April 18, 2026 on the sixth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Pope Leo XIV challenges Angola's leaders while delivering a message of encouragement for its people

5:24 AM on Saturday, April 18

Pope Leo XIV has challenged Angola's leaders to “break the cycles of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries

A local resident walks among debris inside a mosque destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Jibchit, southern Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The Latest: Iran fires on ships in Strait of Hormuz as Tehran imposes restrictions again

12:56 AM on Saturday, April 18

Iran has reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and fired on a tanker attempting to pass the waterway

Revolutionary War re-enactor Charles Price, 95, who for decades portrayed enslaved Minuteman Prince Estabrook, poses for a portrait near the Minute Man statue, Monday, April 13, 2026, in Lexington, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Stories of Black and Indigenous patriots come into focus as US remembers the American Revolution

12:05 AM on Saturday, April 18

The stories of Black and Indigenous men who fought during the American Revolution are sometimes overlooked

Debris and fallen tree limbs cover the ground after a severe storm that tore through the Upper Midwest on Friday, April 17, 2026, in Rochester, Minn. (Hollie Bennett Piotrowicz via AP)

Powerful winds and reported tornadoes rip through the Midwest, leaving heavy damage but no deaths

11:32 PM on Friday, April 17

A series of reported tornadoes has torn through the U.S. Midwest, ripping roofs off homes and leaving roads impassable

Faithful wait for Pope Leo XIV at Yaounde Ville Airport, Cameroon, Saturday, April 18, 2026 on the sifth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Photos of Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa

5:15 PM on Wednesday, April 15

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