Abuse and neglect of children

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2020 file photo, a protester holds a sign with a message to stop supporting gangs during a protest demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A UNICEF report says that escalating gang violence has displaced thousands of women and children in the capital in the first two weeks of June 2021. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

Report: Gang violence displaces thousands in Haiti's capital

By Dánica Coto And Evens Sanon Jun. 15, 2021 10:09 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, in Donna, Texas. A move by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to shutter dozens of shelters housing about 4,000 migrant children is threatening to disrupt a national program offering care for minors who cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday, June 2 2021, that it didn't intend to close any facilities but that it was "assessing" the Republican governor's late Tuesday disaster declaration. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)

Texas push to close shelters for migrant kids alarms groups

By Adriana Gomez Licon And Acacia Coronado Jun. 02, 2021 05:31 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey addresses the media in Minneapolis. From COVID-19 to a budget shortfall, and from the death of George Floyd to the more recent death of a 6-year-old girl from gun violence, the mayor of Minneapolis says his city has experienced one trauma after another in the last year — and the city's Black community has felt the pain the most. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP, Pool File)

Minneapolis mayor: After year of reckoning, time for change

By Amy Forliti May. 20, 2021 05:46 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, May 16, 2021, file photo, a Palestinian man carries Suzy Ishkontana, 7, who was rescued from under the rubble of a destroyed house following deadly Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. Suzy and her father Riad were the only survivors of their family after an Israeli airstrike destroyed one of the buildings they lived in in Gaza City early Sunday, killing her mother and four siblings. The man and his daughter were pulled alive from under the rubble after several hours. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Gaza children bearing the brunt in Israel-Hamas conflict

By Fares Akram May. 18, 2021 05:32 PM EDT

Migrant men get haircuts at a migrant shelter, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in McAllen, Texas. The U.S. government continues to report large numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with an increase in adult crossers. But families and unaccompanied children are still arriving in dramatic numbers despite the weather changing in the Rio Grande Valley registering hotter days and nights. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

US agents encounter more single adults crossing border

By Adriana Gomez Licon May. 13, 2021 01:20 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Illinois

By The Associated Press May. 11, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Chicago Sun-Times. May 10, 2021. Editorial: Catholic religious orders must come clean about abusive clergy Despite...

FILE - In this April 22, 2021 file photo, a sleeping area set up inside exhibit hall B of the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif., where migrant children found at the U.S.-Mexico border without a parent will be temporarily housed. The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has now learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside. (Brittany Murray/The Orange County Register via AP, Pool, File)

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

By Garance Burke, Juliet Linderman And Martha Mendoza May. 11, 2021 07:00 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press May. 10, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Austin American-Statesman. May 7, 2021. Editorial: Texas GOP lawmakers trust you with a gun — but not with the vote ...

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press May. 07, 2021 05:43 PM EDT
Boston Globe. May 5, 2021. Editorial: Count counties out of federal aid program The six vestigial county governments...

In this April 27, 2021 photo, students walk out of school at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tenn. Members of the Black community in Knoxville, Tennessee, are calling for reforms to dispel longstanding disparities between Blacks and whites. They say that is one of the steps that needs to be taken to reduce increasing violence that has claimed the lives of five high school-age students this year. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi)

Knoxville's Black community protests after student deaths

By Kimberlee Kruesi May. 06, 2021 12:58 PM EDT

Members from Medicine Wheel Ride stand by their bikes tied with red ribbons at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, after riding to raise awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. (AP Photo/Cheyanne Mumphrey)

Vigils, rallies mark day of awareness for Indigenous victims

By Susan Montoya Bryan And Felicia Fonseca May. 05, 2021 12:05 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press Apr. 28, 2021 01:45 PM EDT
Rome News-Tribune. April 24, 2021. Editorial: Get involved: Our children and community’s future depend on it As a...

Advocates detail 'shadow pandemic' of violence against women

By Susan Montoya Bryan Apr. 27, 2021 05:54 PM EDT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Cases of domestic violence against Indigenous women and children and instances of sexual assault increased over the past year as...