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FILE - The OpenAI logo appears on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen with random binary data, March 9, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

OpenAI now worth $500 billion, possibly making it the world's most valuable startup

3:55 PM on Thursday, October 2

OpenAI could now be the world’s most valuable startup, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and TikTok parent company ByteDance, after a secondary stock sale designed to retain employees at the ChatGPT maker

The top photos of the week by AP’s photojournalists

3:05 PM on Thursday, October 2

FILE - President Donald Trump silences his mobile phone in the Oval Office of the White House, May 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The government shuts down, and Trump goes online — very online

2:33 PM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has been frenetically posting on social media during the government shutdown

FILE - The Department of Justice seal and podium is viewed at the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Justice Department fires key prosecutor in elite office already beset by turmoil, AP sources say

2:33 PM on Thursday, October 2

The Justice Department fired a top national security prosecutor amid criticism from a right-wing commentator over his work during the Biden administration, further roiling the prominent U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia after the ousting of other senior attorneys in recent weeks

FILE - A caution sign is shown on a road on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on June 2, 2022, in Richland, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

From bombs to glass: Hanford site can now transform nuclear waste

2:29 PM on Thursday, October 2

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end of the Cold War

FILE - Wildfire wreckage is shown in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Study shows the world is far more ablaze now with damaging fires than in the 1980s

2:10 PM on Thursday, October 2

A new study shows that the world's most damaging wildfires are happening four times more often now compared to the 1980s

This frame grab from video released by the Global Sumud Flotilla shows Israeli navy soldiers aboard one of the flotilla's vessels after it was intercepted as it approached the coast of Gaza early Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (Global Sumud Flotilla via AP)

Israel intercepted a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid in international waters. Can it do that?

1:51 PM on Thursday, October 2

The Israeli interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and hundreds of activists raises questions about what any nation can legally do to enforce a blockade in international waters

NTSB is analyzing data recorders recovered by investigators after Delta jets collided at LaGuardia Airport

1:27 PM on Thursday, October 2

NTSB is analyzing data recorders recovered by investigators after Delta jets collided at LaGuardia Airport

Trump declares drug cartels in Caribbean unlawful combatants and says US is now in a 'non-international armed conflict'

1:16 PM on Thursday, October 2

Trump declares drug cartels in Caribbean unlawful combatants and says US is now in a 'non-international armed conflict'

FILE - Law enforcement investigate a car with a person inside during a protest in Compton, Calif., June 7, 2025, after federal immigration authorities conducted operations. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, file)

Man pleads guilty to throwing Molotov cocktail at deputies during LA immigration protest

12:57 PM on Thursday, October 2

A 23-year-old man has pleaded guilty to throwing a Molotov cocktail at Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies during protests against immigration raids across the region last spring

British prime minister denounces 'vile' synagogue assailant who 'attacked Jews because they are Jews'

12:55 PM on Thursday, October 2

British prime minister denounces 'vile' synagogue assailant who 'attacked Jews because they are Jews'

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and GOP leaders, from left, Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., speak during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans are relishing a role reversal in the shutdown fight. Can Trump keep them united?

12:38 PM on Thursday, October 2

Republican leaders have presented a united stance as they try to keep the government open and berate Democrats for demanding health care policy changes in exchange for their votes

FILE - Cui Jianchun, Commissioner of China's Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong, meets with the press, in Hong Kong, on July 30, 2024 (AP Photo/Kanis Leung, File)

Beijing's top diplomat in Hong Kong sets out four red lines for new US Consul General

11:16 AM on Thursday, October 2

Beijing's top diplomat in Hong Kong has set out four red lines for the city's new U.S. Consul General Julie Eadeh

FILE - Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview with Liz Claman on Fox Business Network's "Countdown to the Closing Bell," May 7, 2018, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Berkshire Hathaway to pay $9.7 billion for OxyChem, potentially Warren Buffett's last big deal

7:22 AM on Thursday, October 2

Berkshire Hathaway is buying Occidental Petroleum’s chemical division for $9.7 billion in what may be one of the last big deals of Warren Buffett

FILE - President Russell M. Nelson, right, raises his hand during a sustaining vote with his counselor, Dallin H. Oaks, left, during The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' twice-annual church conference Oct. 5, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

A well-defined leadership hierarchy makes for no surprises in next president of Mormon church

7:06 AM on Thursday, October 2

The next president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn't a surprise

Trees blow in the wind on a pier ahead of Hurricane Imelda's expected arrival in Hamilton, Bermuda, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Anthony Wade)

Imelda weakens after downing trees and power lines in Bermuda as a hurricane

12:26 AM on Thursday, October 2

Crews across Bermuda have started clearing streets after Hurricane Imelda swiped past the tiny British territory as a Category 2 storm, downing trees, power lines and transformers

Pope Leo XIV gestures as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Oct.1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope intervenes in US abortion debate by raising what it really means to be 'pro-life'

6:56 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church

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