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Medical workers collects swab samples from residents in a lockdown area in the Jingan district of western Shanghai, April 4, 2022. AP’s reporting revealed that Shanghai’s unconventional methodology for recording COVID cases and deaths almost certainly results in a marked undercount. official numbers calculates virus cases and deaths, almost certainly resulting in a marked undercount.China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 military medical staff, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest city. (AP Photo / Chen Si)

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AP uncovers the real reasons behind Shanghai’s improbably low official COVID death toll

APRIL 29, 2022

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in a hallwayEDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Nina Shevchenko mourns in a hallway beside the body of her 15-year-old son Artem, who was killed in a Russian attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 15, 2022. “I lived for you,” she told her son. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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Powerful AP reporting from Kharkiv documents the horror of civilians under Russian attack

APRIL 22, 2022

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Karla Finocchio, 55, holds up a picture of her dog Scrappy in her room at Ozanam Manor temporary housing for people 50 and up, in Phoenix, Feb. 4, 2022. Finocchio is one face of America’s graying homeless population, a rapidly expanding group of destitute and desperate people 50 and older suddenly without a permanent home after a job loss, divorce, family death or health crisis during the pandemic. (AP Photo / Ross D. Franklin)

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AP chronicles a graying homeless population as more Americans retire to the streets

APRIL 15, 2022

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AP exposes China’s state-media reporters posing as social media influencers to push Beijing’s propaganda

APRIL 8, 2022

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A tear rolls down Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's cheek as Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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AP photos, reporting capture cathartic moment in Jackson confirmation hearings

APRIL 1, 2022

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Danielle Mitchell, right, watches as her daughter, Brooklynn Chiles, 8, is examined during a follow-up visit at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, Feb. 11, 2022. Brooklynn’s father, Rodney Chiles, died of COVID-19 last year and Brooklynn tested positive three times. She is part of a National Institutes of Health-funded multiyear study at the hospital, looking at the impact of COVID-19 on children’s health and quality of life. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)

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Rare access to children in long-term COVID study reveals daily challenges facing families

MARCH 25, 2022

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FILE - Pam Gaskin talks about her mail-in primary election ballot at her home in Missouri City, Texas, Jan. 31, 2022. “It took me three tries and 28 days but I got my ballot and I voted,” said Gaskin, 75. An AP analysis found 13% of mail-in ballots for the March 1 Texas primary were rejected and uncounted, many because voters were unfamiliar with new specific requirements enacted by Republican lawmakers., of Houston. Like many rejected mail voters, she did not list a matching identification number that Texas' new law requires. (Melissa Phillip / Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

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AP analysis finds rejections of mail-in ballots soaring under new Texas restrictions

MARCH 18, 2022

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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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