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A Seine river police boat makes its way on the Seine river in front of the Eiffel Tower, on the route of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 in Paris. France's government, the organizing committee chief for Paris 2024 and the French capital's mayor signed an 11-page security protocol that for the first time publicly laid out some of the gritty details of their planning to shield the unprecedented July 26, 2024 opening ceremony from the threats of terrorism, drone attacks and other risks for the massive crowds and 10,500 athletes. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Fans will need to pre-register for free tickets to Paris' gargantuan 2024 Olympic opening ceremony

By John Leicester May. 23, 2023 09:44 AM EDT

Rudy Rinaldi, of Monaco, looks down after the 2-man heat 4 at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Monaco gets its best Olympic sport finish, 6th in bobsled

By Tim Reynolds Feb. 15, 2022 10:14 AM EST

An elderly man crosses from the Geek Cypriot south, to the Turkish occupied north, at Ledra checkpoint in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, June 4, 2021. Ethnically split Cyprus took a key step toward a return to its normal rhythms of life amid the pandemic on Friday when nine crossing points along a United Nations-controlled buffer zone were reopened, enabling ordinary Cypriots to cross the divide. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
Crossing points reopen in split Cyprus as virus numbers fall

By Menelaos Hadjicostis Jun. 04, 2021 04:59 AM EDT

This 2014 photo released by DKCO&M shows the cast during a performance of "You Can't Take it With You," in New York. The set was designed by David Rockwell, who has a new book "Drama" on sale this week. (Paul Warchol/DKCO&M via AP)
Designer David Rockwell offers a guide to his creativity

By Mark Kennedy May. 24, 2021 12:37 PM EDT

One of several holes appears at the Cabo Del Sol’s Ocean Course along the Sea of Cortez in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on Feb. 22, 2020. Cabo Del Sol and the other 17 courses at the tip of Baja California are coming back to life as the coronavirus pandemic begins to lessen. (AP Photo/John Marshall)
Cabo's world-class golf scene revving back up after pandemic

By John Marshall May. 19, 2021 08:14 AM EDT

This image provided by Nicholas McGinn, Jr.shows an open planned kitchen. Amhad Freeman, founder of the Nashville, Tennessee-based Amhad Freeman Interiors, says clients now have time to really think about what they need from a room. People are also cooking more than ever before and many of his clients are using money they're not spending on travel and restaurant meals to invest in serious kitchen renovations. (Nicholas McGinn, Jr. via AP)
A homebound year has meant rethinking our rooms, belongings

By Melissa Rayworth Mar. 10, 2021 10:33 AM EST

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2014, file photo, visitors walk toward an entrance to The Breakers mansion in Newport, R.I. The Preservation Society of Newport County says it's closing the famed Gilded Age mansion for three months starting Monday, March 1, 2021 But there's good news for mansion aficionados Marble House, a popular Newport destination and National Historic Landmark that's been closed since last March because of the coronavirus pandemic, is reopening to visitors. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Gilded Age mansion The Breakers closing for 3 months

Feb. 27, 2021 09:25 AM EST

FILE — In this June 1, 202 file photo, Chief of Department of the New York City Police, Terence Monahan, kneels with activists as protesters paused while walking in New York. Monahan, who made headlines last year for kneeling with protesters while also being criticized for officers' forceful response, said Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, that he is retiring after nearly four decades with the department. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
Chief who knelt with protesters retires in new NYPD shake-up

By Michael R. Sisak Feb. 25, 2021 02:38 PM EST

Designers stand inside a Portable Epidemiological Insulation Unit during a media presentation, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Colombia’s La Salle University school of architecture designed the small polyhedral pneumatic geodesic domes which can be used to isolate and treat COVID-19 patients in areas where there are no nearby hospitals or where existing hospitals are overwhelmed with patients. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Colombia builds inflatable domes for coronavirus patients

By Manuel Rueda Feb. 16, 2021 03:28 PM EST

This image provided by Martha Stewart Living shows pigs in blankets with mustard sauces. Greg Lofts, deputy food editor for Martha Stewart Living, says his years of catering experience for kids and adults alike "taught me that the most precious, fancy and labor-intensive hors d'oeuvres will never be as popular as pigs in a blanket with ketchup and mustard for dunking. (David Malosh/Martha Stewart Living via AP)
`Noon Year’s Eve': toasting the new year before midnight

By Kim Cook Dec. 28, 2020 10:17 AM EST

Kashmiri entrepreneur Basharat Ashraf, left, and artisan Imtayaz Ahmad work inside their workshop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. An Indian designer and architect couple have launched a campaign called ‘Empowerment through Craft’ to help traditional artisans restart sales and trade on an online platform called Direct Create. During a time when the pandemic and a subsequent nationwide lockdown that halted the economy, the online marketing and collaboration platform has come as a huge relief for craftsmen who live in remote parts of the country and have traditionally relied on exhibitions and physical markets to showcase and sell their arts and crafts. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Indian couple help traditional artisans get back to business

By Rishabh R. Jain And Rishi Lekhi Dec. 08, 2020 12:28 AM EST

Relatives attend a memorial for their family members who died from COVID-19 at the Penitencia cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Sept.20, 2020. The families were there to attend the inauguration of a three-ton memorial at the cemetery where many of Rio de Janeiro's COVID-19 victims have been buried. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Brazil: Cemetery monument commemorates COVID-19 victims

Sep. 20, 2020 02:37 PM EDT

National memorial to President Eisenhower to be dedicated

Sep. 17, 2020 03:36 PM EDT
WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) — After several delays, a national memorial to President Dwight Eisenhower will open in Washington D.C. The memorial...

FILE - In this March 13, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump departs after speaking during a news conference about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. Melania Trump has announced plans to renovate the White House Rose Garden. It's the outdoor space steps away from the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
White House Rose Garden is getting a face-lift

By Darlene Superville Jul. 27, 2020 06:16 PM EDT

In this photo provided by HighNote Records, jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney poses for a photo. The coronavirus has claimed the lives of artists and artisans, writers and actors, musicians and media figures. Roney died March 31 at a hospital in Paterson, N.J. He was 59. (Kasia Idzkowska/HighNote Records via AP)
Luminaries Lost: A look at some of the artists lost to virus

By Andrew Dalton Jun. 24, 2020 11:25 AM EDT

FILE - This Aug. 22, 2018 file photo shows Joe Diffie at the 12th annual ACM Honors in Nashville, Tenn. For the Oklahoma-born country singer, the 1990s were a heyday for country music and for Diffie, including hit blue-collar ballads and barroom singalong songs. Diffie died March 29 in Nashville. He was 61. (Photo by Al Wagner/Invision/AP, File)
Luminaries Lost: A look at some of the artists lost to virus

By Andrew Dalton Jun. 05, 2020 08:58 AM EDT

This Tuesday, May 5, 2020 photo, shows a partial view of the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon. Residents of Lebanon's poorest city, Tripoli, despair as the country faces a terrifying confluence of events. An unprecedented economic crisis, nationwide protests and coronavirus restrictions are posing the biggest threat to stability since the end of the civil war in 1990. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Lebanon faces grave threat to stability as poverty mounts

By Sarah El Deeb May. 11, 2020 02:09 AM EDT