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People react outside the Civic Center

AP: Gunman kills 19 children, 2 teachers in Texas school rampage

ACACIA CORONADO and JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press May 25, 2022

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The 18-year-old gunman who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded...

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Boxes of the drug mifepristone line a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. The drug is one of two used together in "medication abortions." According to Planned Parenthood, mifepristone blocks progesterone, stopping a pregnancy from progressing. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

AP: Next battle over access to abortion will focus on pills

STEPHEN GROVES, Associated Press May 5, 2022

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — It took two trips over state lines, navigating icy roads and a patchwork of state laws, for a 32-year-old...

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A crowd of people gather outside the Supreme Court, Monday night

AP: Report: Supreme Court draft suggests Roe could be overturned

MARK SHERMAN and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press May 3, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade...

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A woman holds a placard during a protest against the killing of a Muslim man last Sept.

AP: In India, hate-filled songs are a weapon to target Muslims

SHEIKH SAALIQ, Associated Press Apr 22, 2022

NEW DELHI (AP) — The frenzied fury against Muslims began with provocative songs played by Hindu mobs that called for violence....

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis holds up the signed Parental Rights in Education bill, surrounded by elementary school children

AP: ‘Grooming’: The ubiquitous buzzword in LGBTQ school debate

KIMBERLEE KRUESI and KARENA PHAN, Associated Press Mar 30, 2022

Proponents of restrictions on how U.S. public schools address sexual orientation and gender identity say their ultimate goal is...

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Ukrainian refugees with children board transport at a square next to a railway station in Przemysl, Poland, on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.

AP: Ukraine retakes key Kyiv suburb; battle for Mariupol rages

NEBI QENA and CARA ANNA, Associated Press Mar 22, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine said it retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed...

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Erin Carver stands outside her attorney's office in Boise, Idaho

AP: Child marriage becomes a legal loophole in custody fights

REBECCA BOONE, Associated Press Mar 3, 2022

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Ryan Small was trying to keep his ex-wife from moving out of state with their son early last winter when...

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Ukrainian emergency service personnel carry a body of a victim following shelling that hit the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine

AP: ‘Undisguised terror’: Russia’s Kharkiv strike chills Ukraine

Mar 1, 2022

KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — In the dust and debris — and the dead — in Kharkiv’s central Freedom Square, Ukrainians on Tuesday...

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Ukrainian soldiers take position on a bridge inside the city of Kyiv, Ukraine

AP: Ukraine’s capital under threat as Russia presses invasion

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops bore down on Ukraine’s capital Friday, with gunfire and explosions resonating ever closer...

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A woman and child peer out of the window of a bus as they leave Sievierodonetsk

AP: Russia attacks Ukraine; peace in Europe ‘shattered’

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes...

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People from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the territory controlled by a pro-Russia separatist governments in eastern Ukraine, watch Russian President Vladimir Putin's address at their temporary place in Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. Putin said he would decide later Monday whether to recognize the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, a move that would ratchet up tensions with the West amid fears that Moscow could launch an invasion of Ukraine imminently. (AP Photo/Denis Kaminev)

AP: Putin asks for permission to use force outside Russia

Vladimir Isachenkov, Yuras Karmanau, and Aamer Madhani, Associated Press Feb 22, 2022

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the country’s parliament on Tuesday for a permission to use military...

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