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Musicians play for tips from motorists in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo)
Musicians play for tips from motorists in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo)

Drug cartels

In the heartland of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, the old ways have changed and violence rages

OCT. 16, 2024

In this image from video made by the Evansville Police Department, rookie sheriff’s Deputy Asson Hacker, below, undergoes training with Mike Fisher, a sheriff's major from a nearby county, during
In this image from video made by the Evansville Police Department, rookie sheriff’s Deputy Asson Hacker, below, undergoes training with Mike Fisher, a sheriff's major from a nearby county, during "Big Fight" day for the Southwest Indiana Law Enforcement Academy in Evansville, Ind., on March 2, 2023. (Evansville Police Department via AP)

Fatalities

A series of deaths and the ‘Big Fight’: Uncovering police force in one Midwestern city

OCT. 10, 2024

Day on the Texas Border
Florida State Troopers in an airboat patrol the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (Jordan Vonderhaar/The Texas Tribune via AP)

Law enforcement

One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric

SEPT. 25, 2024

Eric B. Ricks
Mural artist Eric B. Ricks poses for a portrait in front of a mural that he oversaw and instructed a young artist to paint in 2017, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Community

As fast as it comes down, graffiti returns to DC streets. Not all of it unwelcome

SEPT. 23, 2024

Tyre Nichols
FILE - People hold signs during a news conference discussing the death of Tyre Nichols, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. Nichols' loved ones will gather Jan. 7, 2024, near the site of his fatal beating to remember his life one year after he was beaten by police. Police cameras captured the beating of Nichols after a traffic stop on Jan. 7, 2022. The 29-year-old skateboarder and amateur photographer died three days later in a hospital. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Law enforcement

Visual storytelling unlocks tragic storyline in voluminous Tyre Nichols documents

SEPT. 20, 2024

AI Police Reports
Captain Jason Bussert demonstrates Draft One, an AI powered software that creates police reports from body cam audio, at Oklahoma City police headquarters on Friday, May 31, 2024 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

Government

Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?

AUG. 26, 2024

Belarus Prisoners Left Behind
This photo combination shows Belarus political prisoners, clockwise from top left, Viasna human rights group founder and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski in , Belarus' opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova, journalist Andrzej Poczobut and opposition activist Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya holding a portrait of her jailed husband Syarhey Tsikhanousky.

Law enforcement

Strong reporting and storytelling on the little-told Belarus element of the headline-grabbing East-West prisoner swap

AUG. 16, 2024

Russia Freed Dissidents Pivovarov
Andrei Pivovarov, a Russian dissident freed in the Aug. 1 East-West prisoner swap, right, and his wife, Tatyana Usmanova, pose for a photo before an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)

Law enforcement

Longest-held Russian dissident freed in swap says ‘colors get brighter by the day’ in his new life

AUG. 14, 2024

2 years after Ukrainian POW deaths, survivors and leaked UN analysis point to Russia as the culprit
Two years after explosions ripped through the Russian-controlled Olenivka prison barracks, killing more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war and injuring dozens more, independent investigations into the attack have stalled or been abandoned. (AP video/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

Law enforcement

Teamwork and patience uncover new answers in mysterious explosion at Ukrainian prisoners of war barracks

AUG. 2, 2024

Philanthropy Nonprofit NIL
FILE - A Michigan State football helmet is seen during an NCAA college football game against Penn State on Nov. 24, 2023, in Detroit. Three years into the new age of college sports, where athletes are allowed to profit from their successes through name, image and likeness deals, everyone is still trying to find out what the new normal will be. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)

College students

Unintended consequences: How NIL in college sports has raised questions about nonprofits

JULY 29, 2024

DEA Files-Rape Accusation_DEA_documents_01
illustration includes a photo obtained by The Associated Press of then-U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Jose Irizarry and other images from DEA documents. (AP Illustration/Marshall Ritzel)

DEA

Secret DEA files show agents joked about rape in a WhatsApp chat. Then one of them was accused of it

JULY 26, 2024

Russia Ukraine War Investigating Olenivka
FILE - A girl holds a photo of a Ukrainian POW killed in the 2022 explosions at the Russian-controlled prison barracks in Olenivka, eastern Ukraine, during a memorial in Kyiv on July 29, 2023. An AP investigation interviewed survivors, family and investigators and obtained an internal U.N. analysis. All pointed to Russia as the culprit. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Law enforcement

2 years after Ukrainian POW deaths, survivors and leaked UN analysis point to Russia as the culprit

JULY 25, 2024

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