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Michael Carvajal, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining issues facing prisons and jails during the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 2, 2020. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Pool via AP)

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Years of beat work on troubled US federal prisons leads to AP scoop on director’s resignation

JAN. 14, 2022

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Qandi Gul, 10, holds her brother outside housing for those displaced by war and drought near Herat, Afghanistan, Dec. 16, 2021. Gul’s father sold her into marriage without telling his wife Aziz, taking a down payment so he could feed his family of five children. Without that money, he told Aziz, they would all starve. He had to sacrifice one to save the rest. But Aziz is fighting to save her daughter from being forced into the arranged marriage. (AP Photo / Mstyslav Chernov)

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Stunning AP package reveals desperate Afghan parents selling children; readers respond

JAN. 7, 2022

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Afghan migrant Ali Rezaie looks at a map on his phone as he and Sayed Hamza trek through the French-Italian Alps to reach a migrant refuge in Briancon, France, Dec. 12, 2021. When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August, some Afghans resolved to escape and embarked on forbidding journeys of thousands of kilometers to Europe. Like others, Rezaie’s odyssey through five countries carried him high into the French-Italian Alps, where he was pushing through knee-deep snow to evade border guards. (AP Photo / Daniel Cole)

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Only on AP: Exclusive coverage as Afghan migrants trek across Alps in winter

DEC. 31, 2021

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FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a rally outside the Albany County Courthouse in Albany, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2019, following a hearing about vaccine religious exemptions. An AP investigation finds that Kennedy’s organization, Children’s Health Defense, has raked in money and followers as Kennedy used his star power as a member of one of America’s most famous families to open doors, raise money and lend his group credibility while spreading misinformation about COVID vaccines. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

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Tenacious reporting examines soaring influence, funding of RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine group

DEC. 24, 2021

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In this June 8, 2021 photo, with dark clouds overhead, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)

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Preparation pays off with dominant coverage of Supreme Court ruling on Texas abortion law

DEC. 17, 2021

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FILE - Peng Shuai of China serves against Monica Niculescu of Romania during their women's singles match of the China Open tennis tournament at the Diamond Court in Beijing, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. The head of the women’s professional tennis tour announced Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, that all WTA tournaments would be suspended in China because of concerns about the safety of Peng Shuai, a Grand Slam doubles champion who accused a former high-ranking government official in that country of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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AP scores exclusive WTA interview on Peng Shuai, suspension of China tournaments

DEC. 10, 2021

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Sailboats used by smugglers to transport migrants are beached on Le Cannelle beach at Isola Capo Rizzuto in the Calabria region of southern Italy, Nov. 13, 2021. Thousands of refugees have arrived in Italy this fall by a lesser-known Calabrian route from Turkey, paying heftier smuggling fees to travel below deck on crammed luxury sailboats that can be less conspicuous than the inflatable boats used in the Central Mediterranean. (AP Photo / Alessandra Tarantino)

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Alert reporting reveals a new European migration tactic — packed luxury sailboats landing in Italy

DEC. 3, 2021

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A pickup truck with a Confederate flag-themed decal is parked outside the Reception and Medical Center, a Florida prison hospital where new inmates are processed, in Lake Butler, Fla., April 16, 2021. An AP investigation revealed state prison guards openly touting associations with white supremacist groups to intimidate inmates and Black colleagues, a persistent practice that goes unpunished and is allowed to fester in Florida and prisons elsewhere in the U.S. (AP Photo / David Goldman, File)

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AP investigation reveals white supremacists working in Florida prisons, race-based abuse of inmates

NOV. 26, 2021

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FILE - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., July 20, 2006. Nearly 100 federal Bureau of Prisons employees have been arrested, convicted or sentenced in criminal cases since the start of 2019, accused of crimes from smuggling drugs and weapons to stealing prison property, sexually assaulting inmates and murder. Those arrested include Ray Garcia, the warden at the Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

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It’s criminal: AP investigation reveals federal prison employees charged with misconduct, crimes

NOV. 19, 2021

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With wind turbines in the foreground, steam rises from the coal-fired power station Neurath near the Garzweiler open-pit coal mine in Luetzerath, Germany, Oct. 25, 2021. Coal is the world’s biggest fuel source for generating electric power, and also the single biggest source of greenhouse gases impacting climate. (AP Photo / Michael Probst)

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Planning, expertise, global perspective connect AP readers to Glasgow climate talks

NOV. 12, 2021

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In an AP illustration, people are arrested on the street by Myanmar’s military. Since its takeover of the government in February, the the country’s military has used torture against those it has detained in a methodical and systemic way across the country, the AP found in rare interviews with 28 people imprisoned and released in recent months.(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)

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With rare interviews, AP reveals Myanmar military using systematic torture across country

NOV. 5, 2021

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Children stand in the courtyard of the Maison La Providence de Dieu orphanage it Ganthier, Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Oct. 17, 2021, where a gang abducted 17 missionaries — 12 adults and five children — of U.S.-based Christian Aid Ministries. The 400 Mawozo gang, notorious for brazen kidnappings and killings took the group of 16 U.S. citizens and one Canadian after a visit to the orphanage. (AP Photo / Joseph Odelyn)

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AP team delivers sweeping all-formats coverage of missionaries’ kidnapping in Haiti

OCT. 29, 2021

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