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Mariana López sits with her 7-year-old daughter at their home in Ahuachapan, El Salvador, May 19, 2022. López says she had an obstetric emergency in 2000, but was arrested on suspicion of inducing an abortion. She served 17 years in prison before being released when her 25-year sentence was commuted. El Salvador bans abortion under all circumstances; women who suffer miscarriages and stillbirths are sometimes accused of killing their babies and sentenced to years or even decades in prison. (AP Photo / Jessie Wardarski)

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AP explores El Salvador’s strict abortion ban through the voices of women who lived it

JUNE 17, 2022

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Using a tablet screen, Rupesh Kotiya, left, communicates with his son Ronan, 11, who holds a medical suction tube at their home in Plano, Texas, April 10, 2022. Ronan helps care for his father who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease. Millions of Americans with serious health problems depend on children ages 18 and younger to provide some or all of their care at home. An exact number is hard to pin down, but researchers think millions of children are involved in caregiving in the U.S. (AP Photo / LM Otero)

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Intimate AP package explores the burdens borne by young children providing essential care for parents

JUNE 10, 2022

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Vincent Salazar, right, father of Layla Salazar, weeps while kneeling in front of a cross with his daughter's name at a memorial site for the victims killed in this week's elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Friday, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

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AP delivers fast, comprehensive, all-formats coverage of Uvalde, Texas, school shooting

JUNE 3, 2022

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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)

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Ukrainian medic gives AP exclusive bodycam video revealing the tragedy of Mariupol

MAY 27, 2022

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Escaped inmate Casey White arrives at the Lauderdale County Courthouse in Florence, Ala., after waiving extradition in Indiana Tuesday, May 10, 2022 (Dan Busey/The TimesDaily via AP)

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AP Exclusive: Inside the 11-day search for escaped Alabama inmate and his jailer accomplice

MAY 20, 2022

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At left, residents of Mariupol, Ukraine, wait for food at the field kitchen outside the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre, March 9, 2022.. The theater was in use as the city’s main bomb shelter when a Russian airstrike destroyed much of the building on March 16. Survivors say at least 100 people were at the field kitchen at the time of the attack; none of them survived. At right, on March 17, one day after the attack, rubble covers the area where the field kitchen stood. Survivors say about 1,000 people were in the building at the time of the airstrike. AP’s reconstruction of the incident shows about 600 people died in the attack.on March 17, 2022, in Mariupol, Ukraine. The March 16, 2022, bombing of the theater stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the Ukraine war. (Lev Sandalov via AP) AP Photo / Alexei Alexandrov

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Unique AP visual investigation points to 600 dead in airstrike on Mariupol theater

MAY 13, 2022

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Joey and Paula Reed, parents of U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Russian prisoner Trevor Reed, stand in Lafayette Park near the White House, March 30, 2022. Reed was released April 27 in a secretive, unexpected prisoner swap in Turkey, first reported by the AP. (AP Photo / Patrick Semansky)

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Flawless source work, preparation deliver all-formats scoop on US-Russia prisoner swap

MAY 6, 2022

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Dr. Marta Kopan, 38 weeks pregnant, holds her 6-year-old son Nazar, April 3, 2022, at an apartment in Lviv, western Ukraine, loaned to them by a cousin after the family fled their home in Kyiv. The place in Kyiv where Marta was meant to give birth was bombed. Her birth plan, like almost everything else, was left behind. (AP Photo / Nariman El-Mofty)

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Inside a Lviv apartment building, AP team gives a glimpse of life for displaced Ukrainians

APRIL 29, 2022

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AP team tells the poignant stories behind ‘empty spaces’ as US nears 1 million COVID deaths

APRIL 22, 2022

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he's committed to pressing for peace despite Russian attacks on civilians that have stunned the world. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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Perseverance lands AP interview with Ukrainian president; team in Bucha documents evidence of war crimes

APRIL 15, 2022

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A woman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Ukraine visuals document an exceptionally dark chapter of the war; intelligence says aides misled Putin

APRIL 8, 2022

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Pregnant woman Mariana Vishegirskaya emerges from a maternity and children’s hospital that was gutted by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Vishegirskaya survived the shelling and later gave birth to a girl in another hospital in Mariupol. The attack on the hospital, part of AP’s exclusive coverage from the besieged city, also figures prominently in ongoing joint investigation by AP and PBS Frontline, documenting potential Russian war crimes. (AP Photo / Mstyslav Chernov)

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AP account of last journalists in Mariupol is a must-read; investigation builds case for war crimes

APRIL 1, 2022

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