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The International Space Station is marking 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit. Nearly 300 people have lived aboard the scientific outpost. The visitors are mostly professional astronauts, but also the occasional space tourist and movie director. With only five years left at the complex, NASA is counting on private companies to launch their own orbiting stations with an even bigger and wider clientele. NASA is paying SpaceX nearly $1 billion to boot the space station from orbit in early 2031. The station's first full-time residents — one American and two Russians — opened the hatch in 2000. Read the full story here: https://buff.ly/n8phxAX #APHighlights

From Coney Island to the Bronx, the candidates in New York City’s mayoral race — Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa — spent Monday crisscrossing the five boroughs in a final, frenzied day of campaigning on the eve of Election Day.

U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead.

A robotic food truck is cooking up fresh Korean stir-fries without the need for a human chef. The founder of the Autowok even envisions a time when the self-driving technology will be able to deliver the food directly to your door.

Four suspects in the Louvre heist have been handed preliminary charges and incarcerated, including three believed to be members of the team who forced their way into the museum, leaving with $102 million worth of crown jewels. Here's what to know.

More than 62,000 people are believed to have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher after the last stronghold in the Darfur region was taken by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group. The fall of el-Fasher heralds a new phase of the brutal, two-year war between the RSF and the military in Africa’s third-largest country.

More than 62,000 people are believed to have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher after the last stronghold in the Darfur region was taken by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group. The fall of el-Fasher heralds a new phase of the brutal, two-year war between the RSF and the military in Africa’s third-largest country.

What happens when a Star Wars scoop drops during an internet outage? AP film writer Jake Coyle revealed that Adam Driver and Steven Soderbergh had quietly written a new Star Wars movie — and Disney declined to make it. Despite a massive AWS outage, the story quickly took off, sparking viral fan reactions, global pickup, and even campaigns to revive the project. An exclusive years in the making — powered by strong sourcing and a trusted relationship with the actor. https://buff.ly/RccgvAW #BestofAP

In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a megaproject aiming to give the country’s millennia-old heritage a rich, modern display.

What happens when a family flees violence — and ends up separated across continents? AP’s Megan Janetsky spent months tracing the Hussaini family’s 17,500-mile journey. She reported in Dari, obtained government records, and traveled to Panama to document the emotional and bureaucratic maze that left one sibling deported to Afghanistan, another living in hiding, and a third trying to keep the family connected. The result is an intimate, globe-spanning account of migration, deportation, and the systems that fail people caught between borders. https://buff.ly/HTJZcAH #BestofAP