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This image, provided on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021 by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a map of the ozone hole over the South Pole on 16 September 2021. Scientists say the Southern Hemisphere ozone hole is larger than usual and already surpasses the size of Antarctica. (AP Photo/European Space Agency, ESA)

Ozone hole over Antarctica larger than usual, scientists say

Scientists say the Southern Hemisphere ozone hole is larger than usual and already surpasses the size of Antarctica
Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit looks out from aboard the Israeli Navy Ship Atzmaut in the Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Speaking to The Associated Press days after completing his five-year term, Sharvit described Iranian activities on the high seas as a top Israeli concern and said the navy is able to strike wherever necessary to protect the country's economic and security interests. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

With eye on Iran, Israeli navy steps up Red Sea presence

Israel's just-retired navy chief says the military has stepped up its activities in the Red Sea 'exponentially' in the face of growing Iranian threats to Israeli shipping
This undated image provided by Rewards For Justice shows a wanted posted of Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, the leader of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara. French President Emmanuel Macron announced the death of al-Sahrawi Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, calling the killing 'a major success' for the French military after more than eight years fighting extremists in the Sahel. Macron tweeted that al-Sahrawi 'was neutralized by French forces' but gave no further details. (Rewards For Justice via AP)

France calls killing of Islamic State leader big victory

French officials say the leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara died of wounds from a drone strike that hit him on a motorcycle last month in southern Mali
FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2020 file photo, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the media during a joint press conference in Berlin, Germany. The head of the United Nations is calling for 'immediate, rapid and large-scale' cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming. Antonio Guterres warned governments ahead of next week's annual U.N. General Assembly that climate change is proceeding faster than predicted and fossil fuel emissions have already bounced back from a pandemic dip. Speaking at the launch of a U.N.-backed report summarizing current efforts to tackle climate change, Guterres said recent extreme weather showed no country is safe from climate-related disasters. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool, File)

UN chief urges 'rapid' emission cuts to curb climate change

The head of the United Nations is calling for 'immediate, rapid and large-scale' cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming
Queensland state Deputy Premier Steven Miles, center, waves to the public gallery after the vote for the Voluntary Assisted Dying bill at Queensland Parliament in Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Voluntary euthanasia became legal in a fifth Australian state more than 20 years after the country repealed the world's first mercy-killing law for the terminally ill. (Darren England/AAP Image via AP)
Another Australian state legalizes voluntary euthanasia
Voluntary euthanasia has become legal in a fifth Australian state, more than 20 years after the country repealed the world's first mercy killing law for the terminally ill
Can kids be harmed wearing masks to protect against COVID? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Can kids be harmed wearing masks to protect against COVID?
Experts say there's no scientific evidence showing that masks cause harm to kids' health despite claims to the contrary on social media and elsewhere
FILE - In this file photo released by the Michigan State Police, Rep. Jewell Jones, D-Inkster, is shown. Jones is accused of taping a handcuff key to his foot that discovered when he was placed in jail Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021 for violating bond conditions, authorities said. The Detroit-area state lawmaker was charged with drunken driving, resisting police officers and other crimes stemming from an April 6, 2021 crash along Interstate 96 in Livingston County, (Michigan State Police via AP, file)
Sheriff: Michigan lawmaker in jail had hidden handcuff key
Officers who escorted a Michigan lawmaker to jail say they were surprised when they found a handcuff key taped to his foot
State police: Motorist shot, wounded on I-57 in Markham
A motorist has been shot and wounded on a Chicago-area freeway
AP journalist Hau Dinh exercises with a skipping robe during a virus lockdown in Vung Tau, Vietnam on Sept. 13, 2021. Dinh set off from Hanoi for the seaside resort for a long weekend in mid-July. The trip came just as the delta variant began sweeping through Vietnam, sparking harsh lockdown measures that left him trapped away from home. Nine weeks later, he's still there. (AP Photo/Mathieu Le Besq)
Long weekend becomes 9 week lockdown for AP Vietnam reporter
The AP's Hau Dinh set off from Hanoi for the seaside resort of Vung Tau in southern Vietnam for a long weekend in mid-July
FILE- In this April 8, 2019 file photo, actor Allison Mack leaves Brooklyn federal court in New York after pleading guilty to racketeering charges in a case involving a cult-like group based in upstate New York called NXIVM. Mack, who played a key role in the cultlike group NXIVM, has surrendered to a California prison to serve her sentence in a New York case against the group's spiritual leader. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
TV actor Allison Mack enters prison in NXIVM sex slave case
TV actor Allison Mack has surrendered to a California prison to serve three years for her role in the cultlike group NXIVM
Protesters hold a banner in support of a British woman who is appealing her conviction for making false claims that she was gang raped by as many as a dozen Israelis, as police officers stand guard in front of Cyprus' Supreme Court in the capital Nicosia on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Lawyers for the British woman sentenced to a four-month suspended sentence for making up the gang rape claims during a 2019 Cyprus holiday are appealing to the country's Supreme Court to overturn the conviction. (AP Photo/Philippos Christou)
Cyprus top court weighs Briton's false rape claim conviction
Lawyers for a British woman sentenced to a four-month suspended sentence for making up claims that she was gang raped by as many as a dozen Israelis during a vacation in Cyprus in 2019 are appealing to the country's Supreme Court to overturn the conviction
Virginia Oliver, age 101, works as a sternman, measuring and banding lobsters on her son Max Oliver's boat, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, off Rockland, Maine. The state's oldest lobster harvester has been doing it since before the onset of the Great Depression. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
At 101, she's still hauling lobsters with no plans to stop
More than 90 years after starting, Maine's oldest lobster harvester is still doing it at age 101
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Glenbrook North’s Maddie Konopka celebrates the Spartans’ victory over Glenbrook South during Tuesday’s volleyball match in Glenview.
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Katie Stack spends time in front of the portrait of her late husband Marine Lance Cpl. James B. Stack at the Portrait of a Soldier exhibit at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library Thursday September 9, 2021 in Arlington Heights. The exhibit features more than 300 hand-drawn graphite portraits of Illinois service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries since 9/11. James grew up in Arlington Heights and was killed on November 10, 2010 during combat operations while on foot patrol.
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Naperville native the late Cmdr. Dan Shanower’s nieces, Rachel Rowe, left, of Downers Grove, and Stephanie Shanower, of Chicago, present a wreath during the Exchange Club of Naperville’s Sept. 11 remembrance at the Cmdr. Dan Shanower Memorial outside the Naperville Municipal Center.
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Glenbrook South’s Will Collins lunges toward the end zone as he scores a touchdown during Friday’s football game against Carl Sandburg.
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