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FILE - Points of Light president and CEO Jennifer Sirangelo speaks at the 2025 Points of Light Conference in New Orleans on June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

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Points of Light to unveil new strategy that it hopes will ignite a volunteerism boom

Americans overwhelmingly want to volunteer. Nonprofits desperately need them. The problem, according to the nonprofit Points of Light, is connecting the two. The organization, founded by former President George H.W. Bush to encourage service, is set to unveil plans to improve that connection at its annual conference in Washington on June 22. Jennifer Sirangelo, president and CEO […]

JUNE 18, 2026

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Ana Paula Oliveira poses for a photo by a mural honoring her late son Johnatha, who was killed by police when he was 19, in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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United by grief, mothers in Brazil demand reparations after police killed their sons

When a Brazilian police officer killed Ana Paula Oliveira’s 19-year-old son in a Rio de Janeiro favela in 2014, the mother of two didn’t think she would survive the grief. Founding a group with other grieving mothers — attending judicial hearings, protests and commemorative events together and providing essential psychological support to one another — saved her […]

JULY 15, 2026

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FILE - Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, May 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Wyden alleges RFK Jr. broke the law in calls urging Libertarians to quit Iowa races

High-ranking Senate Democrat Ron Wyden has alleged that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. broke the law with recent phone calls urging third-party candidates to drop out of two Iowa congressional races.

JULY 14, 2026

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This combination of images shows Joan Wilder on Nov. 22, 2024, Grace Boutot on Oct. 17, 2024, and Joanne Reid on Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, Steven Senne, Darko Bandic)

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US Biathlon officials ignored sexual harassment and abuse of female racers for decades, athletes say

Sexual abuse and harassment by coaches and others who held positions of power over women on the U.S. Biathlon team have been dismissed, ignored or excused over decades by officials more concerned with winning medals than holding offenders accountable, according to a half-dozen former Olympians and other biathletes. And while the men involved climbed the […]

DEC. 11, 2024

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In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

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An AP team goes to the birthplace of Tren de Aragua, the gang put at the center of Trump’s anti-immigrant narrative

The Tren de Aragua gang has been known for more than a decade in Venezuela, but it gained global notoriety after U.S. President Donald Trump placed it at the center of his anti-immigrant narrative. The U.S. government designated Tren de Aragua a terrorist organization and deported more than 200 Venezuelans it claimed were linked to […]

APRIL 4, 2025

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Activist Yren Rotela waves an Amnesty International flag during a Pride March in Asuncion, Paraguay, Saturday, June 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

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For Paraguay’s transgender women, survival often means leaving home

In Paraguay, one of the most conservative countries in the Americas, many LGBTQ+ people feel compelled to leave their hometowns due to discrimination, harassment and gender-based violence. Social rejection and the absence of legal protections take a particular toll on transgender women like Alejandra Mongelós, who first fled her home in 2013 when she was 8 and already identifying […]

SEPT. 30, 2025

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Myanmar's rescuers work through rubble of a collapsed building following Friday's earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo)

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Survivors still being found from Myanmar earthquake, but hopes begin to fade as deaths exceed 2,700

BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. The fire department in Naypyitaw said the […]

APRIL 2, 2025

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This image released by Universal Pictures shows Marlon Wayans in a scene from "Him." (Universal Pictures via AP)

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Jordan Peele’s ‘Him’ delves into Faustian bargains. What are you willing to sacrifice?

Since it first premiered in 1926, F.W. Murnau’s “Faust” has been lauded as one of the greatest silent films ever made. And in the century that’s followed, striking a deal with the devil has been one of cinema’s most enduring tropes. “Him,” the Jordan Peele-produced horror film reaching theaters Friday, is the latest testament to the fact that, in […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

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A man walks past a Vietnamese flag painted on a wall in Hanoi, Vietnam on August 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

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Vietnam wants to be the next Asian tiger and it’s overhauling its economy to make it happen

Beneath red banners and a gold bust of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi’s central party school, Communist Party chief To Lam declared the arrival of “a new era of development” late last year. The speech was more than symbolic— it signaled the launch of what could be Vietnam’s most ambitious economic overhaul in decades. Vietnam […]

AUG. 13, 2025

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Santa Ana Pueblo Conservation Officer William Woody points to images of a war shield that was stolen from the tribe's ceremonial village decades ago, during an interview in Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M., on June 26, 2025 (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

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Investigators search for Native American items stolen decades ago in New Mexico

The decades-old case file describes a medium-sized bowl crafted at Santa Ana Pueblo more than a century ago. Handed down over generations, this pottery piece adorned with dark red triangles was used for making bread. The bowl is among nearly 150 antiquities stolen from the Native American community’s ceremonial village during a series of burglaries […]

AUG. 12, 2025

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Workers install panels at a solar project Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Galena, Alaska. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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In rural Alaska, a village turns to solar and biomass energies to cut diesel and save money

GALENA, Alaska (AP) — Eric Huntington built his dream cabin nestled in the wilderness of central Alaska, eventually raising two daughters there. But over the years, he learned that living in this quiet, remote village came with a hefty cost. Every year, the Huntington family spent about $7,000 on diesel to heat the cabin during […]

JUNE 18, 2025

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South Korea's Democratic Party's presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung, gestures as he speaks to supporters outside of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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Outspoken liberal leader Lee elected South Korea’s president, closing period of political tumult

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Lee Jae-myung, who rose from childhood poverty to become South Korea’s leading liberal politician vowing to fight inequality and corruption, will become the country’s next president on Wednesday after an election that closed one of the most turbulent chapters in the young democracy. Lee, 60, the candidate of the liberal opposition Democratic Party, […]

JUNE 3, 2025

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Points of Light to unveil new strategy that it hopes will ignite a volunteerism boom

United by grief, mothers in Brazil demand reparations after police killed their sons

Wyden alleges RFK Jr. broke the law in calls urging Libertarians to quit Iowa races

US Biathlon officials ignored sexual harassment and abuse of female racers for decades, athletes say

An AP team goes to the birthplace of Tren de Aragua, the gang put at the center of Trump’s anti-immigrant narrative

For Paraguay’s transgender women, survival often means leaving home

Survivors still being found from Myanmar earthquake, but hopes begin to fade as deaths exceed 2,700

Jordan Peele’s ‘Him’ delves into Faustian bargains. What are you willing to sacrifice?

Vietnam wants to be the next Asian tiger and it’s overhauling its economy to make it happen

Investigators search for Native American items stolen decades ago in New Mexico

In rural Alaska, a village turns to solar and biomass energies to cut diesel and save money

Outspoken liberal leader Lee elected South Korea’s president, closing period of political tumult

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