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FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo rioters break into the Capitol in Washington. Far-right media personality Tim Gionet, who calls himself "Baked Alaska," will not face house arrest after being charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol after court officials raised concerns about his recent encounters with police officers in Arizona. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

US intel report warns of more violence by QAnon followers

By Michael Kunzelman And Nomaan Merchant Jun. 14, 2021 03:00 PM EDT

US urges world to ensure HIV services for LGBTQ community

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 10, 2021 06:51 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the world’s nations Thursday to ensure equal access to HIV services to those most at risk of...

Editorial Roundup: Iowa

By The Associated Press May. 10, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Des Moines Register. May 6, 2021. Editorial: Iowa doesn’t have a labor shortage. It has a people shortage The next time...

A philanthropic drive to aid Black women is gaining momentum

By Haleluya Hadero Apr. 22, 2021 11:14 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 14, 2021 file photo, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., questions witnesses during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington. On Friday, April 16 The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that a photo showed Gaetz as a senior in high school with a mullet hairstyle and a tuxedo. The image is not genuine. A reverse-image search revealed Gaetz’s face was superimposed onto a different man’s portrait, which has been circulating as a meme online for at least 11 years. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Apr. 16, 2021 12:11 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 11, 2021, file photo, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak speaks with reporters after getting a COVID-19 vaccine at a supermarket pharmacy in Las Vegas. Gov. Sisolak's June 1 date for fully reopening Nevada drew a rapid response to reopen legal brothels in one county — and a blunt question to the the state's COVID-19 Task Force about cause-and-effect. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP, File)

Nevada sets June opening, official asks: 'What happens if?'

By Ken Ritter Apr. 14, 2021 06:14 PM EDT

A 27-year-old sex worker who goes by the name Angora shows the tattoo she had done to remember her 14-year-old brother Jose, who was murdered back home in Honduras after becoming an assistant to a group of horse thieves, as she waits for clients outside the Revolution subway station in Mexico City, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Angora says the competition for clients since the coronavirus pandemic began has exacerbated discrimination against immigrant sex workers from Central America in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Pandemic, hunger force thousands into sex work in Mexico

By Rebecca Blackwell Apr. 09, 2021 10:22 AM EDT

Congressman Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks at "Women for American First" event, Friday, April 9, 2021, in Doral, Fla. The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation of Rep. Gaetz, citing reports of sexual and other misconduct by the Florida Republican. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Gaetz vows to fight, tries to stay on offensive amid scandal

By Will Weissert And Adriana Gomez Licon Apr. 09, 2021 12:27 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 17, 2020, file photo Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee markup of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP, File)

Gaetz sex probe suddenly threatens a speedy Washington rise

By Alan Fram Apr. 03, 2021 10:01 AM EDT

In this Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, photo, Allissa Star poses for a photograph along the north shore of the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. Starr worked about a week every month at a brothel in Pahrump, Nev., outside of Las Vegas. Then the pandemic led to the shuttering of Nevada's licensed bordellos, the only place where prostitution is legal in the state, and they have remained closed since March, leaving sex workers like Starr struggling to pay the bills and turning to alternatives like "virtual" dates. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Pandemic makes prostitution taboo in Nevada's legal brothels

By Michelle L. Price Feb. 20, 2021 11:28 AM EST

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2021, file photo, Houston Police officers Kenneth Bigger, center, and Aaron Day, center right, hand out blankets to people under the elevated portion of I-45 in Houston as a winter weather continues to hit the area. Making decisions about risks — large or small — in the pandemic era is fraught enough. But the storms and outages ravaging Texas and other states have added a whole new layer to the process. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

The Latest: Texas reports 227 more confirmed COVID-19 deaths

By The Associated Press Feb. 20, 2021 03:30 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: Kentucky

By The Associated Press Feb. 17, 2021 08:16 AM EST
Recent editorials from Kentucky newspapers: ___ Feb. 14 The News-Enterprise on a state audit...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Journalists booted from Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall

By Ben Nadler Jan. 28, 2021 04:47 PM EST

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press Jan. 27, 2021 12:16 PM EST
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ Jan. 23 The Dothan Eagle on a U.S. congressman from...

This combination of photos shows various podcasts, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. But Apple and Google, among others, have left open a major loophole: Podcasts. (AP Photo/David Hamilton)

Extremists exploit a loophole in social moderation: Podcasts

By Tali Arbel Jan. 15, 2021 03:44 PM EST

This driver's license photo from the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), provided to AP by the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office, shows Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt was fatally shot by an employee of the Capitol Police inside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, while the rioters were moving toward the House chamber. (Maryland MVA/Courtesy of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Veterans on each side of the divide among Capitol mob dead

By The Associated Press Jan. 14, 2021 02:46 PM EST

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp takes the stage during a Republican election-night watch party, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Georgia's GOP governor under fire after US Senate losses

By Jeff Amy And Russ Bynum Jan. 09, 2021 08:25 AM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2018, file photo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad talks during a joint statement along with Nobel Peace Laureat Denis Mukwege and European Union Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini, at European Council's Europa building in Brussels. Murad says the coronavirus pandemic has increased trafficking of women and gender-based violence, leaving the health and safety of women “on the line.” The 27-year-old activist, who was forced into sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters in Iraq, says curfews, lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by governments to slow the spread of the virus “have had unintended consequences on women worldwide.” (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Nobel laureate says pandemic raising violence, trafficking

By Edith M. Lederer Dec. 01, 2020 01:51 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Nov. 16, 2020 10:00 AM EST
The Dallas Morning News. Nov. 13, 2020. What a federal torture case in Dallas tells us about sex trafficking It’s not a...

A mail-in official ballot for the 2020 General Election in the United States is shown Monday, Oct. 12, 2020 in Havertown, Pa. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)

EXPLAINER: From the 2020 election, some new political terms

By Deb Riechmann Nov. 02, 2020 01:44 PM EST