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A journalist browses the Messina museum website showing a picture of the Early Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina's artwork, multiple pieces of which were stolen from the Sicilian museum on Aug. 15, 2026.
Gregorio Borgia
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AP
A good – and bad – week for Italy's art police and museum security
Willem Marx
On Friday, Italian police said they'd recovered three paintings stolen from a museum near the city of Parma. By Saturday night, thieves in Sicily had made off with four more masterpieces.
A view of the rising water levels at the Wainaku Street Bridge in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026.
Taylor Cozloff/AP
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Civil Beat
Lala is again a tropical storm, sending drenching rain and winds across Hawaii
The Associated Press
A heavy police and army deployment prepare at the border between Morocco and Spain on August 15, 2026 in Fnideq (Castillejos), Morocco.
Adri Salido
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Getty Images Europe
What really happened in Ceuta? Why we may never find out
Miguel Macias
Transgender young people and their families rallied outside the Supreme Court in May 2023 after an event called the Trans Youth Prom in Washington, DC.
Marvin Joseph
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The Washington Post via Getty Images
'What are we going to do?' The mom of a trans teen grapples with Trump's Medicaid move
Selena Simmons-Duffin
Texas Standard
Texas schools see modest improvement in 2026 A-F ratings. Here’s how they fared
About 85% of Texas public schools earned a passing grade in the state’s latest A-F accountability ratings, while roughly one-quarter of districts and campuses scored higher than they did last...
Texas has started handing out school voucher funding. Over 20,000 students have returned the money.
Mike D’Antoni, who coached the Houston Rockets to new heights, to join Naismith Hall of Fame
Shrouded in the desert, the public can now visit artist James Magee’s masterwork ‘The Hill’
Hundreds of Monkey’s Brain sea beans wash ashore in Texas
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