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Olga Lopatkina’s adopted children pose for a photo in Mariupol, Ukraine in February 2022. (Lopatkin Family via AP)

How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians

By SARAH EL DEEB, ANASTASIIA SHVETS and ELIZAVETA TILNAFebruary 21, 2023

DEA’s most corrupt agent: Parties, sex amid ‘unwinnable war’

By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMANDecember 1, 2022

This photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Jose Irizarry in Cartagena, Colombia, in 2017. Irizarry accepts he’s the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he conspired with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle. But he says he won't take the rap alone, accusing long-trusted DEA colleagues of joining him in skimming millions from money laundering stings to fund a decade’s worth of high living. (AP Photo)

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sports cars, Tiffany jewels and paramours around the world.

OAS launches external ethics probe into chief over romance

By JOSHUA GOODMANNovember 11, 2022

FILE - Secretary General of the Organization of American States, OAS, Luis Almagro addresses the OAS during the opening of the 52nd General Assembly of the OAS in Lima, Peru, Oct. 5, 2022. According to an administrative ruling on Oct. 24, 2022 by the OAS' top review panel, Almagro unfairly maligned the reputation of Brazilian lawyer Paulo Abrao who he abruptly fired as the region’s top human rights watchdog. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)

MIAMI (AP) — The Organization of American States has launched an external probe into allegations that Secretary General Luis Almagro may have violated the organization's code of ethics while carrying on an intimate relationship with a staffer.

Dubbed torture, ID policies leave transgender people sterile

By KRISTEN GELINEAUNovember 11, 2022

Lune Loh, 25, a transgender woman, is seen in a reflection on windows while attending an open mic night for poets in Singapore, on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Poetry has been a lifeline for Loh. In between military exercises, she often lay in her bunk, typing poems into her phone. After her shifts, she put on makeup and a wig and went to open mic nights around the city that drew members of the LGBTQ community. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

SINGAPORE (AP) — She was the only woman soldier working in the guard room, surrounded by men who harassed and frightened her after she said she was transgender. She tried to ignore them as they opened up their shirts and pretended to rape each other, while beckoning her to join them.

CDC to conduct health study at polluted former Army base

By MARTHA MENDOZA, JULIET LINDERMAN and JASON DEARENNovember 9, 2022

FILE - Labeled with asbestos and lead warnings, sheeting covers rubble from demolished barracks at Fort Ord on Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Fort Ord, Calif. In a Nov. 4, 2022 letter to Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., the director of the CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Patrick Breysse, wrote that “there are sufficient data and scientific reasons for ATSDR to re-evaluate health risks related to historical drinking water exposures at Fort Ord.” (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Federal health officials are conducting a new study to determine whether veterans once stationed at a now-shuttered California military base were exposed to dangerously high levels of cancer-causing toxins.

How Russian soldiers ran a ‘cleansing’ operation in Bucha

By ERIKA KINETZ, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and VASILISA STEPANENKONovember 3, 2022

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - Lifeless bodies of men, some with their hands tied behind their backs, lie on the ground in Bucha, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Russian soldiers picked up these men on March 4, 2022, as they swept the streets of Bucha to identify and neutralize potential threats. Ukrainian prosecutors now say they know who was responsible for the violence that day: Soldiers from the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division, who ultimately reported up to Col. Gen. Alexander Chaiko, a man known for his brutality as leader of Russia’s troops in Syria. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The first man arrived at 7:27 a.m. Russian soldiers covered his head and marched him up the driveway toward a nondescript office building.

Two minutes later, a pleading, gagged voice pierced the morning stillness.

China fishing fleet defied U.S. in standoff on the high seas

By JOSHUA GOODMANNovember 1, 2022

In this photo made available by the U.S. Coast Guard, guardsmen from the cutter James, seen at background right, conduct a boarding of a fishing vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, on Aug. 4, 2022. During the 10-day patrol for illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing, three vessels steamed away. Another turned aggressively 90 degrees toward the James, forcing the American vessel to maneuver to avoid being rammed. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Hunter Schnabel/U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

This summer, as China fired missiles into the sea off Taiwan to protest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, a much different kind of geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another corner of the Pacific Ocean.

Russia recruiting U.S.-trained Afghan commandos, vets say

By BERNARD CONDONOctober 31, 2022

FILE - New Afghan Army special forces members attend their graduation ceremony after a three-month training program at the Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 17, 2021. Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal last year are now being recruited by the Russian military to fight in Ukraine, three former Afghan generals told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal last year are now being recruited by the Russian military to fight in Ukraine, three former Afghan generals told The Associated Press.

FBI probing ex-CIA officer’s spying for World Cup host Qatar

By ALAN SUDERMANOctober 27, 2022

FILE - Branding is displayed near the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Qatar’s ruling emir has lashed out at criticism of the country over its hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, complaining of an “unprecedented campaign” targeting the first Arab nation to hold the tournament. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

A former CIA officer who spied on Qatar’s rivals to help the tiny Arab country land this year’s World Cup is now under FBI scrutiny and newly obtained documents show he offered clandestine services that went beyond soccer to try to influence U.S.

‘They took my big love’: Ukraine woman searches for answers

By ERIKA KINETZOctober 25, 2022

Tetiana Boikiv, 52, center, walks with friends and neighbors during a funeral service for her husband, Mykola "Kolia" Moroz, 47, in the Ukrainian village of Ozera, near Bucha, on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Russian soldiers took Kolia from his house on March 15. He was tortured and shot, his body found two weeks later in a village 15 kilometers (9 miles) away where Russians set up a major forward operating base for their assault on the capitol, Kyiv. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

OZERA, Ukraine (AP) — Tetiana Boikiv peered from the doorway of the cellar at the Russian soldiers questioning her husband about his phone.

“Come up,” her husband, Mykola Moroz, called to her.

Afghan couple accuse US Marine of abducting their baby

By JULIET LINDERMAN, CLAIRE GALOFARO and MARTHA MENDOZAOctober 20, 2022

This illustration depicts a baby being held, and an airplane leaving the Kabul, Afghanistan airport. An Afghan couple who arrived in the U.S. as refugees are suing a U.S. Marine and his wife for allegedly abducting their baby. The Marine says he is the child's lawful parent. (AP Illustration/Nat Castaneda)

The young Afghan couple raced to the airport in Kabul, clutching their baby girl close amid the chaotic withdrawal of American troops last year.

WHO Syria boss accused of corruption, fraud, abuse, AP finds

By MARIA CHENGOctober 20, 2022

FILE - Dr. Akjemal Magtymova, the World Health Organization's representative in Syria, speaks during an interview at her office in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. Staffers at the WHO’s Syrian office have alleged that their boss mismanaged millions of dollars, plied government officials with gifts -- including computers, gold coins and cars -- and acted frivolously as COVID-19 swept the country. (AP Photo)

LONDON (AP) — Staffers at the World Health Organization’s Syrian office have alleged that their boss mismanaged millions of dollars, plied government officials with gifts -- including computers, gold coins and cars -- and acted frivolously as COVID-19 swept the country.

How Michael Flynn goes local to spread Christian nationalism

By MICHELLE R. SMITHOctober 18, 2022

This image from video posted on Rumble on Feb. 23, 2022 shows Michael Flynn speaking at The Hollow in Venice, Fla. Flynn, who once led the U.S. military's intelligence agency, now is at the center of a far-right Christian nationalist movement that has a growing influence in the Republican Party. (AP Photo)

VENICE, Fla. (AP) — It was less than three weeks before the Sarasota County, Florida, school board election when the former White House national security adviser weighed in on the local political race.

A woman is baptized during the ReAwaken America Tour at Cornerstone Church in Batavia, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. In the version of America laid out at the ReAwaken tour, Christianity is at the center of American life and institutions, it's under attack, and attendees need to fight to restore and protect the nation's Christian roots. It’s a message repeated over and over at ReAwaken — one that upends the constitutional ideal of a pluralist democracy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Michael Flynn’s ReAwaken roadshow recruits ‘Army of God’

By MICHELLE R. SMITH and RICHARD LARDNEROctober 7, 2022

Org. of American States boss faces probe over relationship

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and GISELA SALOMONOctober 7, 2022

Secretary General of the Organization of American States, OAS, Luis Almagro addresses the OAS during the opening of the 52nd General Assembly of the OAS in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

MIAMI (AP) — The head of the Organization of American States is facing an internal investigation into allegations he carried on an intimate relationship with a staffer that may have violated the organization’s code of ethics, The Associated Press has learned.

Whistleblower: 665 left FBI over misconduct in two decades

By ERIC TUCKER and JIM MUSTIANOctober 6, 2022

FILE - The FBI seal is displayed on a podium before a news conference at the agency's headquarters on June 14, 2018, in Washington. A U.S. senator is pressing the FBI for more information after a whistleblower alleged that an internal review found 665 FBI personnel have resigned or retired to avoid accountability in misconduct probes over the past two decades, according to a letter early from the senator early Oct. 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. senator is pressing the FBI for more information after a whistleblower alleged that an internal review found 665 FBI personnel have resigned or retired to avoid accountability in misconduct probes over the past two decades.

Big Brazilian gold refiner delisted amid Amazon mining probe

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and DAVID BILLEROctober 6, 2022

FILE - A miner processes gold he illegally extracted from the Madeira River in Nova Olinda, Amazonas state, Brazil, Nov. 26, 2021. One of Brazil’s biggest gold refiners, which has been accused of processing gold mined illegally deep in the Amazon rainforest, has been stripped of an important industry certification that global manufacturers from Apple to Tesla rely on to root out abuses in their supply chains. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

MIAMI (AP) — One of Brazil’s biggest gold refiners, which processes gold suspected of being mined illegally in the Amazon rainforest, has been stripped of an important industry seal of approval that global manufacturers from Apple to Tesla rely on to root out abuses in their supply chains.

White House unveils artificial intelligence ‘Bill of Rights’

By GARANCE BURKEOctober 4, 2022

FILE - Alondra Nelson speaks during an event at The Queen theater, Jan. 16, 2021, in Wilmington, Del. On Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, the Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals to align artificial intelligence-powered tools with what it called the values of Democracy and equity, including guidelines for how to protect people’s personal data and limit surveillance. “We can and should expect better and demand better from our technologies,” said Nelson, Deputy Director for Science and Society at the Office of White House Science and Technology Policy. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

The Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals Tuesday aimed at averting harms caused by the rise of artificial intelligence systems, including guidelines for how to protect people’s personal data and limit surveillance.

Russia smuggling Ukrainian grain to help pay for Putin’s war

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, SARAH EL DEEB and BEATRICE DUPUYOctober 3, 2022

The cargo ship Laodicea sails through the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 7, 2022. An Associated Press investigation shows the ship, owned by the Syrian government, is part of an extensive Russian-run smuggling operation that has been hauling stolen Ukrainian grain from ports in occupied Crimea to customers in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Yoruk Isik)

BEIRUT (AP) — When the bulk cargo ship Laodicea docked in Lebanon last summer, Ukrainian diplomats said the vessel was carrying grain stolen by Russia and urged Lebanese officials to impound the ship.

Mattresses lie on the floor in a holding cell at the basement of a police station which was used by Russian forces in the recently liberated town of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. Based on accounts of survivors and police, Associated Press journalists located 10 torture sites in the town and gained access to five of them including the police station. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

10 torture sites in 1 town: Russia sowed pain, fear in Izium

By LORI HINNANT, EVGENIY MALOLETKA and VASILISA STEPANENKOOctober 2, 2022

Records contradict Majewski’s account of military punishment

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and JAMES LAPORTASeptember 28, 2022

FILE - J.R. Majewski, Republican candidate for U.S. Representative for Ohio's 9th Congressional District, speaks at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 17, 2022. Majewski has centered his campaign for a competitive Ohio congressional seat around his biography as an Air Force veteran. But one of the big questions that has surfaced is why Majewski was told that he could not reenlist in the Air Force after his initial four years were up. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican J.R. Majewski has centered his campaign for a competitive Ohio congressional seat around his biography as an Air Force veteran.

Churches defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting

By JASON DEAREN and MICHAEL REZENDESSeptember 28, 2022

FILE - The angel Moroni statue atop the Salt Lake Temple is silhouetted against a cloud-covered sky, at Temple Square in Salt Lake City on Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

It was a frigid Sunday evening at the Catholic Newman Center in Salt Lake City when the priest warned parishioners who had gathered after Mass that their right to private confessions was in jeopardy.

Locked Up: The prison labor that built business empires

By MARGIE MASON and ROBIN McDOWELLSeptember 22, 2022

Photograph shows two white men overseeing African American men hammering boulders as others walk with wheelbarrows in a shallow pit phosphate mine, Dunnellon, Florida, 1890. (Library of Congress via AP)

More than 150 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee.

It was powered largely by African American men who had been arrested for minor offenses — like stealing a hog — if they committed any crime at all.

Ohio GOP House candidate has misrepresented military service

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and JAMES LAPORTASeptember 22, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Campaigning for a northwestern Ohio congressional seat, Republican J.R. Majewski presents himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, once describing “tough” conditions including a lack of running water that forced him to go more than 40 days without a shower.

Woman’s rape cries go unheard in unmonitored drug sting

By JIM MUSTIANSeptember 13, 2022

This photo taken Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, shows the house in Alexandria, La., where a female informant on an undercover drug operation was allegedly raped as her law enforcement handlers left her on her own in January 2021. The case highlights the perils informants face around the country under loosely regulated arrangements. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — A woman outfitted with a tiny microphone and hidden camera walked up to a dilapidated drug house on a chilly afternoon last year looking to buy meth from a dealer known on the streets as “Mississippi.”

Michael Flynn: From government insider to holy warrior

By MICHELLE R. SMITHSeptember 7, 2022

Michael Flynn, a retired three-star general who served as Trump's national security adviser, speaks on stage during the ReAwaken America tour at Cornerstone Church, in Batavia, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Thousands of people gathered to hear his message that the nation is facing an existential threat, and to save it, his supporters must act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — The crowd swayed on its feet, arms pumping, the beat of Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” thumping in their chests. The people under the revival tent hooted as Michael Flynn strode across the stage, bopping and laughing, singing the refrain into his microphone and encouraging the audience to sing along to the transgressive rock anthem.

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

By GARANCE BURKE and JASON DEARENSeptember 2, 2022

Red flag laws get little use as shootings, gun deaths soar

By BERNARD CONDONSeptember 2, 2022

FILE - A Lake Forest, Ill., police officer walks down Central Ave in Highland Park, Ill., on Monday, July 4, 2022, after a shooter fired on the Chicago northern suburb's Fourth of July parade. Chicago is one of the nation's gun violence hotspots and a seemingly ideal place to employ Illinois' "red flag” law that allows police to step in and take firearms away from people who threaten to kill. But amid more than 8,500 shootings resulting in 1,800 deaths since 2020, the law was used there just four times. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune via AP, File)

Chicago is one of the nation's gun violence hotspots and a seemingly ideal place to employ Illinois' "red flag” law that allows police to step in and take firearms away from people who threaten to kill.

Prince William charity invests with bank tied to dirty fuels

By ED DAVEYAugust 19, 2022

FILE - Britain's Prince William speaks during a meeting with Earthshot prize winners and finalists at the Glasgow Science Center on the sidelines of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 2, 2021. The conservation charity founded by the prince, who launched the Earthshot Prize, keeps its investments in a bank that is one of the world’s biggest backers of fossil fuels. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)

LONDON (AP) — The conservation charity founded by Prince William, second in line to the British throne and who launched the Earthshot Prize, keeps its investments in a bank that is one of the world's biggest backers of fossil fuels, The Associated Press has learned.

In Mississippi, a trespasser, a killing and DEA meddling

By JIM MUSTIANAugust 10, 2022

This April 28, 2021 booking photo provided by the Copiah County, Miss., Sheriff's Office shows DEA Agent Harold Duane Poole. Records obtained by The Associated Press raise new questions about how Poole avoided trial after he was charged with the murder of Chase Brewer and whether DEA brass overreached to protect one of their own amid a flurry of misconduct cases. (Copiah County Sheriff's Office via AP)

CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Harold Duane Poole was waiting with his semiautomatic service rifle — and an explanation — when deputies arrived at his sprawling wooded property on a warm spring night last year and found a bullet-riddled body near the driveway.

A depiction of a rare earth mining operation in Myanmar. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

‘The Sacrifice Zone’: Myanmar bears cost of green energy

By DAKE KANG, VICTORIA MILKO and LORI HINNANTAugust 9, 2022

A dirt road leads to what was once the home of Paul Adams and his family on the outskirts of Bisbee, Ariz., Oct. 26, 2021. Adams, a Mormon and U.S. Border Patrol agent living with his wife and six children, admitted he had posted videos on the dark web of him molesting two of his children, a 9-year-old girl and a younger daughter he began raping when she was only 6 months old. Adams killed himself after his arrest. The revelation that Mormon officials directed an effort to conceal years of abuse in the Adams household sparked a criminal investigation of the church by Cochise County attorney and a civil lawsuit by three of the Adams' children. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen

By MICHAEL REZENDESAugust 4, 2022

Motorman Danny Perez, right, and forehand Kory Mercantel, work on Latshaw oil drilling rig #43 in Odessa, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. Most rigs run day and night, with crews of roughnecks rotating in 12-hour shifts. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Hidden Menace: Massive methane leaks speed up climate change

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERINGJuly 28, 2022

Cameroon becomes a go-to country for foreign fishing vessels

By RICHA SYAL and GRACE EKPUJuly 27, 2022

A Cameroonian flag flies on a ship at the port in Douala, Cameroon, on April 10, 2022. In recent years, the country has emerged as one of several go-to countries for the widely criticized “flags of convenience” system, under which companies can - for a fee - register their ships in a foreign country even though there is no link between the vessel and the nation whose flag it flies. (AP Photo/Grace Ekpu)

DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) — Off the coast of West Africa, the Trondheim is a familiar sight: a soccer field-sized ship, plying the waters from Nigeria to Mauritania as it pulls in tons of mackerel and sardines — and flying the red, yellow and green flag of Cameroon.

‘The mouth of a bear’: Ukrainian refugees sent to Russia

By LORI HINNANT, CARA ANNA, VASILISA STEPANENKO and SARAH EL DEEBJuly 20, 2022

People from Mariupol and eastern Ukraine disembark from a train at the railway station in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Thursday, April 7, 2022, to be taken to temporary residences in the region. About 500 refugees from the Mariupol area arrived in Nizhny Novgorod on a special train organized by Russia from eastern Ukraine, about 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the border. (AP Photo)

NARVA, Estonia (AP) — For weeks Natalya Zadoyanova had lost contact with her younger brother Dmitriy, who was trapped in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.

Ukrainian medic Yuliia Paievska, known as Taira, poses for a photograph during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, July 8, 2022. The celebrated Ukrainian medic who was held captive by Russian forces says she thinks about the prisoners she left behind constantly. Before she was captured, Paievska had recorded harrowing bodycam footage showing her team's efforts to save the wounded in the besieged city of Mariupol. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Famed Ukrainian medic describes ‘hell’ of Russian captivity

By LORI HINNANT and VASILISA STEPANENKOJuly 11, 2022

UN: Russia and Ukraine are to blame for nursing home attack

By RICHARD LARDNER and BEATRICE DUPUYJuly 11, 2022

This image from Maxar Technologies shows a nursing home in the eastern region of Luhansk, Ukraine, on Oct. 13, 2021. A United Nations report says Ukraine’s armed forces bear a large share of the blame for a deadly assault on a care home for the elderly and disabled. Ukrainian fighters occupied the facility in March and then battled Kremlin-backed rebels while dozens of patients and staff were trapped inside. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Russian forces assaulted a nursing home in the eastern region of Luhansk. Dozens of elderly and disabled patients, many of them bedridden, were trapped inside without water or electricity.

Red flags missed: How July 4 suspect slipped through system

By BERNARD CONDON and JIM MUSTIANJuly 7, 2022

A memorial to the seven people killed and others injured in Monday's Fourth of July mass shooting grows at a veterans memorial Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Highland Park, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Illinois’ “red-flag” law could have stopped the suspect in the Independence Day parade shooting from buying a gun or at least delayed the purchase of the weapon he’s accused of using to kill seven people and wound dozens.

FBI opens sweeping probe of clergy sex abuse in New Orleans

By JIM MUSTIANJuly 1, 2022

FILE - Archbishop Gregory Aymond conducts the procession to lead a live streamed Easter Mass in St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Sunday, April 12, 2020. The FBI has opened a widening investigation into Roman Catholic sex abuse in New Orleans, looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them. The FBI declined to comment, as did the Louisiana State Police, which is assisting in the inquiry. The Archdiocese of New Orleans declined to discuss the federal investigation. “I’d prefer not to pursue this conversation,” Aymond told AP. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them, officials and others familiar with the inquiry told The Associated Press.

Charter business thrives as US-expelled Haitians flee Haiti

By JULIE WATSON, GISELA PEREZ de ACHA, KATIE LICARI, TRENTON DANIEL and PATRICIA LUNAJune 14, 2022

Haitian migrants wait in line to check-in for a flight to Chile, at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. Thousands of Haitians in recent months have boarded charter flights to South America, according to flight tracking information and independent verification by The Associated Press in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — With jokes, upbeat Caribbean music and vacation scenes of sun-kissed beaches and palm trees, Haitian influencers on YouTube and TikTok advertise charter flights to South America.

Brookings president resigns amid FBI foreign lobbying probe

By ALAN SUDERMAN and JIM MUSTIANJune 13, 2022

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2015, file photo, retired Gen. John Allen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to examine the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. On Wednesday, June 8, 2022, the prestigious Brookings Institution placed Alllen, its president, Allen, on administrative leave amid a federal investigation into his foreign lobbying. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

The president of the Brookings Institution resigned Sunday amid a federal investigation into whether he illegally lobbied on behalf of the wealthy Persian Gulf nation of Qatar.

Retired Gen. John Allen wrote in a letter to the think tank that he was leaving with a “heavy heart" but did not offer a direct explanation.

Brookings places retired general on leave amid FBI probe

By ALAN SUDERMAN and JIM MUSTIANJune 9, 2022

The prestigious Brookings Institution placed its president, retired four-star Marine Gen. John Allen, on administrative leave Wednesday amid a federal investigation into his role in an illegal lobbying campaign on behalf of the wealthy Persian Gulf nation of Qatar.

Former U.S. ambassador points finger in Qatar lobbying probe

By ALAN SUDERMAN and JIM MUSTIANJune 3, 2022

FILE - U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Olson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 16, 2015. Olson, who has signed a plea deal with prosecutors in January, is pushing federal prosecutors explain why he’s facing criminal charges for illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of Qatar while a retired four-star general who worked with him on the effort is not. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

A former high-ranking U.S. ambassador admitted Friday to illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of Qatar after demanding that prosecutors tell him why a retired four-star general who worked with him on the effort has not also been charged.

‘No excuse’ to withhold deadly arrest video, governor says

By JAKE BLEIBERG and JIM MUSTIANJune 3, 2022

FILE - Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks about the investigation into the death of Ronald Greene in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. On Wednesday, June 1, 2022, Louisiana lawmakers are asking Bel Edwards and his top attorneys to testify before a bipartisan committee investigating allegations of a cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said there was “no excuse” for a video he watched of the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene failing to reach prosecutors for another six months. But he maintained he couldn't have known at the time that the footage had not already been turned over.

Oregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases

By SALLY HO AND GARANCE BURKEJune 2, 2022

FILE - Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Oct. 19, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for an entirely new process that officials said will make more racially equitable decisions. Wyden said he had long been concerned about the algorithms used by his state’s child welfare system and reached out to the department again following an AP story to ask questions about racial bias – a prevailing concern with the growing use of artificial intelligence tools in child protective services. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make better, more racially equitable decisions.

Governor saw deadly arrest video months before prosecutors

By JIM MUSTIAN and JAKE BLEIBERGMay 27, 2022

FILE - Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks about the investigation into the death of Ronald Greene in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — With racial tensions still simmering over the killing of George Floyd, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his top lawyers gathered in a state police conference room in October 2020 to prepare for the fallout from a troubling case closer to home: troopers’ deadly arrest of Ronald Greene.

Yuliia Paievska, known as Taira, looks in the mirror and turns off her camera in Mariupol, Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022. Using a body camera, she recorded her team's frantic efforts to bring people back from the brink of death. (Yuliia Paievska via AP)

Captive medic’s bodycam shows firsthand horror of Mariupol

By VASILISA STEPANENKO and LORI HINNANTMay 20, 2022

War Crimes Watch: Targeting schools, Russia bombs the future

By JASON DEAREN, JULIET LINDERMAN and OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYIMay 17, 2022

FILE - A man removes a destroyed curtain inside a school damaged among other residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. As of early May, the Ukrainian government says Russia has shelled more than 1,000 schools, completely destroying 95. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As she lay buried under the rubble, her legs broken and eyes blinded by blood and thick clouds of dust, all Inna Levchenko could hear was screams. It was 12:15 p.m. on March 3, and moments earlier a blast had pulverized the school where she’d taught for 30 years.

AP Exclusive: Black Lives Matter has $42 million in assets

By AARON MORRISONMay 17, 2022

D'Zhane Parker, left, Cicley Gay, center, and Shalomyah Bowers pose for a portrait on Friday, May 13, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

NEW YORK (AP) — The foundation started by organizers of the Black Lives Matter movement is still worth tens of millions of dollars, after spending more than $37 million on grants, real estate, consultants, and other expenses, according to tax documents filed with the IRS.

Uyghur Nursimangul Abdureshid, 34, poses for a photograph during an interview with The Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey on May 4, 2022. Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world, an Associated Press review of leaked data shows. Abdureshid's brother, Memetali Abdureshid, who ran a car repair shop, was listed as being sentenced to 15 years and 11 months in prison on charges of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and “preparing to carry out terrorist activities." (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Uyghur county in China has highest prison rate in the world

By HUIZHONG WU and DAKE KANGMay 17, 2022

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