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Heralded by David W. Griffith as the motion picture " find" of the year and a potential cinema star, A. Barton Hepburn, 24-year-old son of a prominent New York banker is given a screen test on May 19, 1927. Griffith, left, discovered Hepburn at the Little Theatre Playhouse in New York. Hepburn, at right, is unmarried and to be the heir of a $20,000,000 fortune. (AP Photo)

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FILE – In this Saturday, April 4, 2015 file photo, recently rescued Burmese fishermen smile on their boat upon arrival in Tual, Indonesia. The Burmese men were among hundreds of migrant workers revealed in an Associated Press investigation to have been lured or tricked into leaving their countries and were brought to Indonesia to be forced to catch seafood. The number of enslaved fisherman found on a remote Indonesian island has now reached nearly 550, after a fact-finding team returned on Thursday, April 9, to make sure no one had been left behind in the dramatic rescue nearly a week ago of 330 migrants from Benjina.(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

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A ghost mannequin at Goosebump market as a part of Halloween festival in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

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AP’s global footprint produces a unique take on ‘spooky season stories’

Editor Donna Edwards in Bangkok had an idea: How could AP’s global footprint bring out some of the lesser-known scary stories and legends around the world that might not have anything to do with Halloween but could be centered for “spooky season”? They proposed canvassing colleagues for those unusual stories and then compiling them into […]

NOV. 8, 2024

FILE – Private jets sit parked at Scottsdale Airport on Jan. 27, 2015, in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

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Carbon pollution from high flying rich in private jets soars

Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in about two hours of flying than the average person does in about a year, a new study finds. About a quarter million of the super wealthy — worth a total of […]

NOV. 7, 2024

FILE – People return items purchased online at an Amazon counter inside a Kohl’s department store in Clifton, New Jersey, on September 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

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Many retailers offer ‘returnless refunds.’ Just don’t expect them to talk much about it

It’s one of the most under-publicized policies of some of the biggest U.S. retailers: sometimes they give customers full refunds and let them keep unwanted items too. Returnless refunds are a tool that more retailers are using to keep online shoppers happy and to reduce shipping fees, processing time and other ballooning costs from returned […]

NOV. 4, 2024

FILE – Crispy Pork Belly is presented at “Love & Thai” restaurant in Fresno, Calif., on Dec. 20, 2023. The Thai restaurant was wrongfully accused of abusing a dog to turn it into meat, a false claim rooted in a racist stereotype. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

From Chinese to Italians and beyond, maligning a culture via its foods is a longtime American habit 

The day after Donald Trump spoke about migrants eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio, Saeed Ahmed suggested a story placing the question of denigrating cultures through their food into historical context.   Trends + Culture writer Hajela jumped on the idea and, within a cycle, completed a source-rich and context-rich story about how insulting cultures — […]

SEPT. 20, 2024

FILE – Second-grade student Jose Byrd (black t-shirt with sun) and classmates try out eclipse viewing glasses that they decorated at Riverside Elementary School in Cleveland, Ohio, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson, File)

Do you understand how to speak Gen Alpha? Thanks to AP, now you can!

Last week, several news outlets did stories on Gen Alpha slang. Most, if not all, of them took a text-based approach, but at the AP, where we are pushing ourselves to try new storytelling forms, the team behind the quiz — Ed Medeles, Emily Olson and Caleb Diehl — took a different approach: Report out […]

SEPT. 13, 2024

From Chinese to Italians and beyond, maligning a culture via its foods is a longtime American habit

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a practice that’s about as American as apple pie — accusing immigrant and minority communities of engaging in bizarre or disgusting behaviors when it comes to what and how they eat and drink, a kind of shorthand for saying they don’t belong. The latest iteration came at Tuesday’s presidential debate, […]

SEPT. 12, 2024

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Share the stories of daily life around the world

Our lifestyle content

From runways to robots

Special features

Trends and innovations

Explore our related content and services

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Looking for something else?

Recent lifestyle stories

AP’s global footprint produces a unique take on ‘spooky season stories’

Carbon pollution from high flying rich in private jets soars

Many retailers offer ‘returnless refunds.’ Just don’t expect them to talk much about it

From Chinese to Italians and beyond, maligning a culture via its foods is a longtime American habit

Do you understand how to speak Gen Alpha? Thanks to AP, now you can!

From Chinese to Italians and beyond, maligning a culture via its foods is a longtime American habit

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From Chinese to Italians and beyond, maligning a culture via its foods is a longtime American habit 