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People fleeing the capital area crowd under a destroyed bridge over the Irpin River on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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AP photographers capture defining images of grinding war in Ukraine

MARCH 11, 2022

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U.S. Highway 101 crosses the Klamath River as the town of Klamath, Calif., is shrouded in fog at sunrise, Jan. 21, 2022. Klamath is home to the tribal headquarters for the Yurok Tribe, which has issued an emergency declaration on human trafficking and missing women. Fiver Indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered between San Francisco and the Oregon border in the past 18 months, including the case of 33-year-old Emmilee Risling. (AP Photo / Nathan Howard)

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Exclusive package tells one family’s story, highlighting the crisis of missing, slain Native women

MARCH 4, 2022

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Drivers block lanes of traffic in Ottawa, Ontario, Feb. 14, 2022, as trucks and other vehicles joined the “freedom convoy” protests against Canadian COVID restrictions. The protests in Ottawa and elsewhere, including the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, snarled traffic and disrupted international commerce. (AP Photo / Ted Shaffrey)

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All-formats team delivers sweeping coverage of Canada blockades against COVID restrictions

FEB. 25, 2022

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A statue, seen from behind, depicting Chief Tomochichi, a Muscogee native who signed the 1733 treaty that launched the Georgia colony, stands at a temporary location in Atlanta, Dec. 20, 2021. The statue was intended for a park honoring civil rights figures, but Muscogee Nation historians call their ancestor a traitor who was complicit in genocide. They also say the statue is inaccurate — he would have been fully clothed, not clutching a bear pelt. (AP Photo / Michael Warren)

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AP reveals dark legacy of Native American depicted on Atlanta civil rights statue

FEB. 18, 2022

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FILE - In this July 6, 2020, photo, a sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The federal prison system has been placed on a nationwide lockdown after two inmates were killed and two others were injured on Jan. 31, 2022, during a gang altercation at a federal penitentiary in Texas. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

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AP’s ongoing investigation of Federal Bureau of Prisons reveals inmate deaths, sexual assault

FEB. 11, 2022

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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks about the investigation into the death of Ronald Greene in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. AP revealed that Edwards was informed within hours of the May 2019 death of Black motorist Ronald Greene in violent struggle police. Yet Edwards said virtually nothing for two years as police peddled a false account. (AP Photo / Matthew Hinton)

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AP’s latest on deadly arrest of Ronald Greene: Louisiana governor knew of apparent cover-up

FEB. 4, 2022

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President Joe Biden leaves the East Room of the White House after speaking about the coronavirus pandemic, Aug. 3, 2021. Biden’s first year in office has seen lofty ambitions grounded by the unrelenting pandemic, a tough hand in Congress, a harrowing end to an overseas war and rising fears for the future of democracy itself. (AP Photo / Susan Walsh)

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AP team captures first year of Joe Biden’s presidency with depth, humor and sharp analysis

JAN. 28, 2022

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FILE -In this March 15, 2018 photo, two undercover Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies dump marijuana into an evidence bag during a raid at an illegal marijuana dispensary during a raid in Compton, Calif. An unwelcome trend is emerging in California, as the nation's most populous state enters its fifth year of broad legal marijuana sales. Industry experts say a growing number of license holders are secretly operating in the illegal market — working both sides of the economy to make ends meet. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File)

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Only on AP: With legal weed market ‘near collapse,’ California’s licensed growers turn to black market

JAN. 21, 2022

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Michael Carvajal, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining issues facing prisons and jails during the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 2, 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Pool via AP)

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Years of beat work on troubled US federal prisons leads to AP scoop on director’s resignation

JAN. 14, 2022

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Qandi Gul, 10, holds her brother outside housing for those displaced by war and drought near Herat, Afghanistan, Dec. 16, 2021. Gul’s father sold her into marriage without telling his wife Aziz, taking a down payment so he could feed his family of five children. Without that money, he told Aziz, they would all starve. He had to sacrifice one to save the rest. But Aziz is fighting to save her daughter from being forced into the arranged marriage. (AP Photo / Mstyslav Chernov)

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Stunning AP package reveals desperate Afghan parents selling children; readers respond

JAN. 7, 2022

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Afghan migrant Ali Rezaie looks at a map on his phone as he and Sayed Hamza trek through the French-Italian Alps to reach a migrant refuge in Briancon, France, Dec. 12, 2021. When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August, some Afghans resolved to escape and embarked on forbidding journeys of thousands of kilometers to Europe. Like others, Rezaie’s odyssey through five countries carried him high into the French-Italian Alps, where he was pushing through knee-deep snow to evade border guards. (AP Photo / Daniel Cole)

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Only on AP: Exclusive coverage as Afghan migrants trek across Alps in winter

DEC. 31, 2021

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FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a rally outside the Albany County Courthouse in Albany, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2019, following a hearing about vaccine religious exemptions. An AP investigation finds that Kennedy’s organization, Children’s Health Defense, has raked in money and followers as Kennedy used his star power as a member of one of America’s most famous families to open doors, raise money and lend his group credibility while spreading misinformation about COVID vaccines. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

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Tenacious reporting examines soaring influence, funding of RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group

DEC. 24, 2021

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