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America 250 Memorial Day
Parade participants march and perform near the National Mall along Constitution Avenue in Washington to commemorate the Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, 2026, coinciding with the nation's 250th anniversary celebrations. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Memorials

Photos of Memorial Day events remembering US soldiers and sailors

MAY 25, 2026

AP Poll Birth Rates
FILE - A doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman at a hospital in Chicago, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File)

Child care

US adults want the government to focus on child care costs, not birth rates, AP-NORC poll finds

JULY 8, 2025

Spain United Nations Development Funding
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, left, speaks with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as they pose for a photo with nation leaders and representatives, at the start of the four-day Financing for Development meeting, in Seville, Spain, Monday, June 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Angel Garcia)

Poverty

US skips global UN meeting aimed at raising trillions of dollars to combat poverty

JUNE 30, 2025

APTOPIX Trump Miltary Parade
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Hayle Mayer, left, and Corporal Addison Merrell, watch fireworks at the Washington Monument while attending a military parade commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary and coinciding with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Politics

National pride is declining in America. And it’s splitting by party lines, new Gallup polling shows

JUNE 30, 2025

Italy-Journalists-Spyware
FILE - Giorgia Meloni attends a debate at the Senate in Rome, Oct. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)

Israel

US-backed Israeli company’s spyware used to target European journalists, Citizen Lab finds

JUNE 12, 2025

Flag Day
The U.S. Capitol is seen past American flags on the National Mall, Friday, June 6, 2025, on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Conflict

The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day arose decades after Betsy Ross sewed her first

JUNE 12, 2025

LGTBQ Poll
Audrey Campos poses for The Associated Press while hosting a Loteria game night at Jackie O's Cocktail Club in Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Ronaldo Bolaños)

Transgender

Most LGBTQ+ adults feel Americans don’t accept transgender people, Pew poll finds

MAY 29, 2025

Senate Democrats
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, of N.Y., right, speaks as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., left, listens during a news conference to protest cuts in the World Trade Center Health Program on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Politics

Democrats are deeply pessimistic about the future of their party, an AP-NORC poll finds

MAY 14, 2025

USAID Three Generations
Cathy Votaw, 69, left, and her daughter Anna Eisenberg, pose with a painting of Votaw's father, Albert Votaw, portrayed as a young man in the 1940's, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, at their home in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

International news

USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it

MAY 12, 2025

This photograph released by the U.S. Navy shows a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter hovering over the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier while operating in the Middle East on April 12, 2025. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan Jordan/U.S. Navy via AP)
This photograph released by the U.S. Navy shows a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter hovering over the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier while operating in the Middle East on April 12, 2025. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan Jordan/U.S. Navy via AP)

Iran

Another US aircraft carrier in Mideast waters ahead of second round of Iran-US nuclear talks

APRIL 15, 2025

President Donald Trump greets El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele as he arrives at the West Wing of the White House, Monday, April 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump greets El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele as he arrives at the West Wing of the White House, Monday, April 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

El Salvador

El Salvador President Bukele says he won’t be releasing a Maryland man back to the US

APRIL 14, 2025

A woman poses for photos on a mock red carpet setup outside TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A woman poses for photos on a mock red carpet setup outside TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Travel

US expected a big travel year, but overseas visitors — angered by Trump — are heading elsewhere

APRIL 8, 2025

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