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FILE - Country music great Loretta Lynn poses for a portrait in Nashville, Tenn., in September 2000. Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music, died Oct. 4 at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. She was 90. (AP Photo / Christoper Berkey, File)

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AP out front with first word on death of country music queen Loretta Lynn

OCT. 14, 2022

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A Somali woman breastfeeds her child at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Sept. 20, 2022. The region has long known droughts, but Somalis say the current drought is worse than any they can remember. Four straight rainy seasons have failed, starting two years ago. The fifth and six seasons are likely to fail also. (AP Photo / Jerome Delay) This drought has astonished resilient herders and farmers by lasting four failed rainy seasons, starting two years ago. The fifth season is underway and likely will fail too, along with the sixth early next year.

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Distinctive Somalia coverage explores crises of climate migration and disability, drought-driven famine

OCT. 7, 2022

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Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo / Mary Altaffer)

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AP’s global news team covers the UN General Assembly with robust, diverse journalism

SEPT. 30, 2022

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Oleg Kotenko, Ukraine’s commissioner for issues of missing persons under special circumstances, uses his smartphone to record unidentified graves in the recently retaken city of Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 15, 2022. President Volodymr Zelenskyy said hundreds of civilian adults and children, as well as Ukrainian soldiers, had been found at the mass grave site after being tortured, shot or killed by Russian shelling. The bodies of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers killed by Russian forces were discovered one of the war’s largest mass grave sites on the outskirts of the city, one of the first taken by Russian forces after the war started in February.. mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers and unknown buried civilians was found in the forest of recently recaptured city of Izium. (AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka)

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AP Exclusive: First photos, video of mass burial site in recaptured Ukrainian city of Izium

SEPT. 23, 2022

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A third-grade student reads to the rest of her class at Beecher Hills Elementary School in Atlanta, AUg. 19, 2022. Mounting evidence shows that students who spent most of the 2020-2021 school year learning remotely, many of them Black and Latino, lost about half an academic year of learning. That’s twice as much as their peers who studied in person that year. Third-graders are at a particularly delicate moment — students who don’t read fluently by the end of third grade are more likely to struggle in the future, and even drop out, studies show. (AP Photo / Ron Harris)

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Enterprising AP back-to-school coverage explores school security, pandemic issues and more

SEPT. 16, 2022

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Munadiroh sits on the elevated wooden terrace of her home in Mondoliko, Central Java, Indonesia, Aug. 1, 2022. With virtually no dry land left in the village, the white tub at left is used to transport items through the water. Munadiroh’s child makes the long journey to school by wading through the water and riding in a boat several times a week. The white tub at left is used(AP Photo / Dita Alangkara)

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AP journalists capture the despair, dignity of people forced to live in flooded homes

SEPT. 9, 2022

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FILE - Black Panthers stand guard while the hearse carrying the body of George Jackson arrives at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Oakland, Calif., Aug. 28, 1971. Jackson, a Black Panther member, author and prison activist was killed a week earlier during a deadly uprising and escape attempt at San Quentin State Prison. First celebrated in 1979, Black August was originally created to commemorate Jackson's fight for Black liberation. It has since evolved into a monthlong awareness campaign and celebration dedicated to Black American freedom fighters, revolutionaries, radicals and political prisoners, both living and deceased. (AP Photo / Robert Klein, File)

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AP package brings to light Black August, a commemoration of radical Black activism

SEPT. 2, 2022

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In this image taken from video, Rudy Giuliani is pushed in a wheel chair at New York's JFK airport after returning from Atlanta, where he faced hours of questioning before a special grand jury investigating attempts by former President Donald Trump and others to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia, Wednesday Aug. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)

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Hustle, smarts deliver exclusive AP video interview after Giuliani’s grand jury testimony

AUG. 26, 2022

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An artist’s rendering of a rare earth mining operation in Myanmar. AP’s investigation linked the supply chains of global corporate giants to the mining operations that result in environmental destruction, theft of land from villagers and money funneled to brutal militias. The abuses are likely to grow with increased demand for rare earth elements, vital to the green energy industry. (AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)

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AP exclusive links green energy and Myanmar’s rare earths mining to human rights abuse

AUG. 19, 2022

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FILE - In this television image from Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera, Osama bin Laden, right, listens as top al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri speaks at an undisclosed location in this image made from undated video broadcast by Arab news channel Al-Jazeera, April 15, 2002. A U.S. drone strike killed al-Zawahri in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden announced, Aug. 1, 2022. . , according to a person familiar with the matter. President Joe Biden will speak about the operation on Monday night, Aug. 1, 2022, from the White House. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera/APTN, file) Al-Qaida's then-deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri speaks in video broadcast by Arab news channel Al-Jazeera on Jan. 30, 2006.

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Strong sourcing, teamwork put AP first with US drone strike on al-Qaida leader

AUG. 12, 2022

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Seiko Noda, Japan’s minister of gender equality and children’s issues, speaks during a interview with AP in Tokyo, July 26, 2022. During the wide-ranging session, Noda, one of only two women in Japan’s Cabinet, discussed the country’s glaring gender gap, calling women “underestimated” in Japan. . Noda called the country’s record low births and plunging population a national crisis and blamed "indifference and ignorance" in the male-dominated Japanese parliament for the neglect. (AP Photo / Eugene Hoshiko)

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AP Exclusive: Japan’s gender equality minister blasts male colleagues for ‘ignorance’

AUG. 5, 2022

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From gavel to gavel, AP’s deep all-formats recap of the Jan. 6 hearings is a virtual historical record

JULY 29, 2022

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