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FILE - North Dakota Sen. Ray Holmberg attends a joint House and Senate Appropriations Committee meeting at the Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., Jan. 7, 2009. AP’s review of records found that Holmberg’s taxpayer-funded travel expenses have far exceeded those of his fellow lawmakers over the past decade. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid, File)

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AP documents North Dakota lawmaker’s taxpayer-funded travel

MAY 20, 2022

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A TV display shows video evidence of a Grand Rapids police officer struggling with and shooting Patrick Lyoya at Grand Rapids City Hall on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Lyoya, 26, was shot and killed about 8:10 a.m., on April 4, after what police said was a traffic stop. (Grand Rapids Police Department)

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AP: Video shows Lyoya shot in back of head by officer

APRIL 22, 2022

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer attends an event on the White House campus in Washington, March 9, 2022. Whitmer did not comment directly after a jury failed to convict four men on federal charges in an alleged kidnap plot against her, but her chief of staff critical was critical of the April 8 verdict, saying that Americans are “living through the normalization of political violence.” (AP Photo / Patrick Semansky)

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Standout coverage of trial in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan governor

APRIL 15, 2022

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South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley, right, greets fans as the team returns to the team’s hotel as national champions following the Women’s Final Four NCAA basketball tournament in Minneapolis, April 3, 2022. South Carolina defeated UConn earlier in the night to win the national title. (AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall)

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Only on AP: Behind-the-scenes with women’s NCAA champions

APRIL 8, 2022

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Pigment rises to the surface of the skin as tattoo artist Meagan Begley begins the tattoo removal process with a detainee at the DuPage County Jail, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Wheaton, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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AP first to report on inmates’ gang tattoo removal program

MARCH 11, 2022

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People gather outside a heavily damaged house in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, Syria, Feb. 3, 2022, the morning after a raid by the U.S. military that left 13 people dead, including Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, leader of the Islamic State group. U.S. officials said al-Qurayshi blew himself up along with members of his family during the raid. (AP Photo / Ghaith Alsayed)

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Persistence pays off with scoop: Harbaugh staying at Michigan

FEB. 11, 2022

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Reed Anfinson, publisher of the weekly Swift County Monitor-News, walks by old letterpress printing blocks and bound volumes at the newspaper's office in Benson, Minn., Nov. 29, 2021. Anfinson is also editor, photographer and reporter, and while his editorials lean left, he takes pains to report the news without bias. “There are no alternative facts,” he says. “There is just the truth.” But in an America of competing visions, some in the community say he has taken sides and they have lost trust in the paper. (AP Photo / David Goldman)

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Deft portrait of America’s divisions, played out on the prairie, draws praise

FEB. 4, 2022

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One of four hostages leaves the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, at about 5 p.m., Jan. 15, 2022. Police said the man was not hurt. Three other hostages escaped later that day. (Elias Valverde / The Dallas Morning News via AP)

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Teamwork delivers sharp coverage of synagogue hostage standoff

JAN. 21, 2022

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In this Dec. 10, 2021, photo provided by Sandra Hooker, from left, Avalinn Rackley, 7, Alanna Rackley, 3, and Annistyn Rackley, 9, pose for a picture in a bathroom in their home near Caruthersville, Missouri. Annistyn, a third-grader who loved swimming, dancing and cheerleading, was among dozens of people who died because of the severe storm on Friday, Dec. 10. A tornado hit her home and splintered it less than a week after the family had moved in, and, according to the relative who received the photo of the girl in the bathtub, it carried family members dozens of yards before dropping them in a muddy field. (Meghan Rackley/Courtesy of Sandra Hooker via AP)

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Family photo reveals a heartbreaking story in tornado’s aftermath

DEC. 24, 2021

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Wanda Vincent points to a natural gas well site a few hundred feet from her day care center, Mother’s Heart Learning Center in Arlington, Texas, Oct. 23, 2021. The well site is operated by TEP Barnett, a subsidiary of French energy giant Total Energies. The company is asking the city of Arlington for permission to add three wells at the site, despite opposition from Vincent, parents with children at the day care and neighborhood residents. (AP Photo / Martha Irvine)

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AP: Texas gas drilling disproportionately impacts residents of color

DEC. 10, 2021

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Neil Stolsmark looks out the window of his business in downtown Waukesha, Wis., Monday, Nov. 22, 2021, a day after an SUV plowed into a Christmas parade, killing several and injuring dozens of other people. A video taken by one of his friends shows a vehicle fatally hitting an elderly person. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

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Rapid all-formats AP response after SUV plows into holiday parade

DEC. 3, 2021

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Ihsanullah Patan, left, a horticulturist and refugee from Afghanistan, sits for a portrait with Caroline Clarin, right, whom he worked with in Afghanistan, and her wife, Sheril Raymond, at his home in Fergus Falls, Minn., Oct. 29, 2021. A U.S. Department of Agriculture adviser in Afghanistan, Clarin and her wife have been using their own time and money to get Afghans who worked for her program out of the country. Those who have started their life in the remote town of Fergus Falls near the North Dakota border say they consider the couple family. (AP Photo / David Goldman)

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Access yields engaging story of US couple rescuing Afghans

DEC. 3, 2021

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