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Journalists watch as Russian President Vladimir Putin gives his annual state of the nation address in Manezh in Moscow, Russia, March 1, 2018. (AP Photo / Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Nothing routine about it: Larger-than-life photo of Putin dominates play

MARCH 9, 2018

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President Donald Trump holds notes prepared by his staff during a listening session with high school students and teachers at the White House in Washington, Feb. 21, 2018. Trump heard the stories of students and parents affected by school shootings, following the deadly Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)

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Trump photo from emotional meeting with shooting victims and families goes viral

MARCH 2, 2018

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Parents wait for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14, 2018. (AP Photo / Joel Auerbach)

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AP photo and reporting beats from Florida school shooting

FEB. 23, 2018

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At the Vatican, April 12, 2015, Marie Collins, a member of the Pope Francis' sex-abuse commission, hands a letter from Juan Carlos Cruz to Cardinal Sean O'Malley detailing the alleged abuse of Cruz and a cover-up by Chilean church authorities. This photo by a colleague of Collins established the letter's chain of custody to O'Malley. Cruz says that O'Malley has assured him that he delivered it to the pope. (Catherine Bonnet via AP)

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AP staffers on three continents scramble to fact-check the pope on Chile abuse

FEB. 16, 2018

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Inside his hut in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Jan. 14, 2018, Rohingya Muslim refugee Mohammad Karim shows a video of a September massacre scene at Gu Dar Pyin, Myanmar. On Sept. 9, 2017, a villager from Gu Dar Pyin captured three videos of mass graves. When Karim fled to Bangladesh, he removed the memory card from his phone, wrapped it in plastic and tied it to his thigh to hide the video from Myanmar police. (AP Photo / Manish Swarup)

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AP reporting on Rohingya exodus leads to evidence of mass graves in Myanmar

FEB. 9, 2018

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In this Jan. 15, 2018 photo, Honduras' new national Police Chief Jose David Aguilar Moran, center, leaves after a ceremony that transferred command to him in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Jan. 15, 2018. When Aguilar took over as Honduras' new national police chief, he promised to continue reforming a law enforcement agency stained by corruption and complicity with drug cartels, but a confidential government security report obtained by the AP says Aguilar himself helped a cartel leader pull off the delivery of nearly a ton of cocaine in 2013. (AP Photo)

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AP Investigation: Secret report linked Honduran national police chief to cartel coke delivery

FEB. 2, 2018

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Pope Francis meets reporters during his flight to Santiago, Chile, Jan. 15, 2018. A 2015 letter from the pope obtained by AP showed that Francis knew that Bishop Juan Barros was accused of complicity in covering up sexual abuse, but the pope appointed Barros bishop anyway. The scandal and Francis' subsequent accusations of slander triggered a backlash against the pope. (AP Photo / Alessandra Tarantino)

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Pope responds, in person, after AP scoop on papal letter about Chilean bishop

JAN. 26, 2018

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents serve an employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, in Los Angeles. Agents said they targeted about 100 7-Eleven stores nationwide Wednesday to open employment audits and interview workers. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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AP NewsBreak: AP scoops everyone on ICE’s 7-Eleven hiring sweep, biggest raid under Trump

JAN. 19, 2018

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In this Jan. 1, 2018 photo, A customer purchases marijuana at Harborside marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif., Jan. 1, 2018. Just days after recreational marijuana sales became legal in California, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced he was rescinding a policy that had let legalized marijuana flourish without federal intervention in states across the country. (AP Photo/Mathew Sumner)

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Persistence pays: APNewsbreak on major changes in US marijuana policy

JAN. 12, 2018

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Myeshia Johnson, the wife of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, looks down at her husband's casket after his burial at the Hollywood Memorial Gardens in Hollywood, Fla., Oct. 21, 2017. Sgt. Johnson and three other servicemen were killed in an ambush by extremists in Niger on Oct. 4. An AP exclusive reported the details of a Pentagon report indicating that initial reports on the circumstances of his death were wrong. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

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AP NewsBreak: US soldier fought to the end after ambush in Niger

JAN. 5, 2018

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In this Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017, photo, F, 22, who says she was raped by members of Myanmar's armed forces in June and again in September, is photographed in her tent in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. The use of rape by Myanmar's armed forces has been sweeping and methodical, the AP found in interviews with 29 Rohingya Muslim women and girls now in Bangladesh. They were interviewed separately, come from a variety of villages in Myanmar and now live spread across several refugee camps in Bangladesh. The military has denied its soldiers raped any Rohingya women. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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AP: Rohingya women methodically raped by Myanmar armed forces

DEC. 21, 2017

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For more than three years, he was known only as Mosul Eye, an anonymous blogger documenting Islamic StateÕs atrocities. Now Iraq's Omar Mohammed, shown in Europe, Dec. 5, 2017, wants the world Ð and his family Ð to know his identity. (AP Photo)

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AP reveals identity of secret blogger known as Mosul Eye

DEC. 15, 2017

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