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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2017 file photo, a blindfolded suspected Islamic State militant stands against a wall at a Kurdish screening center in Dibis, Iraq. An analysis by the Associated Press of a spreadsheet listing all 27,849 people imprisoned in Iraq as of late January 2018, shows that Iraq has detained or imprisoned more than 19,000 people accused of connections to IS or other terror-related offenses. More than 3,000 people have been sentenced to death. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen, File)

Death penalty

AP analysis: At least 19,000 in Iraq detained for terrorism, thousands sentenced to death

MARCH 30, 2018

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Officials investigate the scene where a suspect in a series of bombing attacks in Austin blew himself up as authorities closed in, Wednesday, March 21, 2018, in Round Rock, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Explosives

Multi-format team dominates coverage of Austin serial bombing

MARCH 30, 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)

Education

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)

Education

AP photo and reporting beats from Florida school shooting

FEB. 23, 2018

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Douglas Haig takes questions from reporters at a news conference in Chandler, Ariz., Feb. 2, 2018. Haig, a 55-year-old aerospace engineer who sold ammunition as a hobby for about 25 years, said he lawfully sold ammunition to Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more in the Las Vegas shooting of Oct. 1, 2017. Haig has since been charged with illegally manufacturing and selling armor-piercing ammunition to Paddock. (AP Photo / Brian Skoloff)

Ammunition

APNewsBreak: Man charged with selling armor-piercing bullets to Las Vegas shooter

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)

Drug cartels

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

FEB. 2, 2018

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Neurologist Dr. Ricardo Cruciani in Philadelphia, Nov. 21, 2017, after pleading guilty, to misdemeanor charges that he groped women at a clinic. (AP Photo / Matt Rourke)

Law enforcement

​APNewsBreak: Patients in three states accuse prominent Philadelphia doctor of sexual abuse

NOV. 24, 2017

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A New York Police Department officer stands next to a sheet-covered body near a mangled bicycle after a truck driven by a terror suspect ran down people on a bike path in lower Manhattan, Oct. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Fatalities

Rapid response after truck driver kills eight on New York bike path

NOV. 10, 2017

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Ruby Williams, second from left, talks about her missing daughter Brenda, with her other daughters, from left, Sandra Walker, Sharon Scott and Sheila Williams, as they hold a photo of Brenda, in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 23, 2017. After decades of waiting to know what happened to Brenda, Tampa Police officials told the family that they found a DNA match in a jawbone found in 1986. Brenda Williams, a young mother of two, went missing in 1978. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Cold cases

Only on AP: Family – and journalist – rewarded with answers in 40-year-old cold case

OCT. 13, 2017

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A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas Strip, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Automatic weapons

Exclusive visuals, reporting distinguish Vegas shooting coverage

OCT. 13, 2017

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Rayquan Briscoe sits outside his home in Wilmington, Del., July 25, 2017. In November 2015 he was walking to an appointment with his probation officer on a drug conviction when he heard gunshots. Briscoe tried to run, but his legs failed him: He’d been struck in the back, just to the right of his spinal column. At 17 he was paralyzed from the waist down. (AP Photo / Allen G. Breed)

Law enforcement

Smaller US cities struggle with high teen gun violence rates

SEPT. 15, 2017

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This combination of photos shows shows younger and older photos of "juvenile lifers," top row from left, William Washington, Jennifer M. Pruitt and John Sam Hall; middle row from left, Damion Lavoial Todd, Ahmad Rashad Williams and Evan Miller; bottom row from left, Giovanni Reid, Johnny Antoine Beck and Bobby Hines. During the late 1980 and into the 1990s, many states enacted laws to punish juvenile criminals like adults and the U.S. became an international outlier, sentencing offenders under 18 to live out their lives in prison for crimes including homicide, rape, kidnapping and armed robbery. (Michigan Department of Corrections, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Lawrence County Alabama Sheriff's Office, Alabama Department of Corrections via AP)

Justice system

50-state investigation reveals arbitrary patchwork of justice for juvenile lifers

AUG. 10, 2017

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