Cultural preservation
Canadian athletes, parents call for culture change in sports

May. 20, 2022 09:09 PM EDT
Scales should be banned from children’s gyms. Parents should be permitted to watch. Rules of acceptable behavior should be posted on gym walls with a toll-free line...

Tourists relax in the shade in St. Mark's square, in Venice, Italy, Thursday, June 17, 2021. After a 15-month pause in mass international travel, Venetians are contemplating how to welcome visitors back to the picture-postcard canals and Byzantine backdrops without suffering the indignities of crowds clogging its narrow alleyways, day-trippers perched on stoops to imbibe a panino and hordes of selfie-takers straining for a spot on the Rialto Bridge or in front of St. Mark’s Basilica. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
UNESCO watching as Venice grapples with over-tourism

By Colleen Barry Jun. 25, 2021 02:47 AM EDT

Residents walk past a cement post decorated with a smiley face and a message that reads in Uru; “I’m happy,” in the Urus del Lago Poopo indigenous community, in Punaca, Bolivia, Monday, May 24, 2021. None of the inhabitants speak Uru, the language of their ancestors. However, in the past few years they have decided to recover their native language. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Bolivia's 'People of the Water' try to survive loss of lake

By Carlos Valdez Jun. 09, 2021 12:35 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Kentucky

By The Associated Press May. 05, 2021 02:11 PM EDT
Bowling Green Daily News. May 4, 2021. Editorial: Wigwam Village project aims to preserve quirky slice of local history ...

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2017, file photo, a view of Longwood House on St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, where Napoleon Bonaparte lived during his exile until his death in 1821. Commemorations of the May 5, 1821 death of Napoleon are going ahead on St. Helena, the remote South Atlantic island where the deposed French emperor died in exile. But they are not happening with an influx of international visitors that was expected before COVID-19 swept across the world. While the volcanic island has not had any confirmed COVID-19 cases, reaching it got even harder because of travel restrictions during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Christopher Torchia, File)
200 years: Remote St. Helena island marks Napoleon's death

By Christopher Torchia May. 05, 2021 05:40 AM EDT

First lady Jill Biden, center, is greeted by Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, and his wife Phefelia Nez, right, upon arrival in Window Rock, Ariz., in the Navajo Nation on Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)
Jill Biden hears from Navajo women on needs, priorities

By Felicia Fonseca Apr. 22, 2021 01:05 AM EDT

Jeet Singh and Rubi Morgan take a selfie with the River Oaks Theatre marquee after watching "Minari" on the second last day of the theater Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Houston. The pair was going to buy tickets of the last screening of the theater, but the show was sold out so they picked the second last day. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Historic Houston movie theater closes due to pandemic

By Juan A. Lozano Apr. 03, 2021 09:36 AM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, May 9, 2020 file photo, the Rev. Fabian Arias performs an in-home service beside the remains of Raul Luis Lopez who died from COVID-19 the previous month, in the Corona neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
One very jumbled year: Glimpses of AP's pandemic journalism

By Aya Elamroussi Mar. 13, 2021 05:00 AM EST

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015 file photo, Kurds living in Switzerland stage a protest on the Kirchenfeld bridge after clashes with Turkish nationalists in downtown Bern, Switzerland. At a time when seemingly everyone in Europe is wearing masks to battle COVID-19, the Swiss go to the polls Sunday, March 7, 2021 to vote on a long-laid proposal to ban face-coverings like niqabs and burqas worn by some Muslim women or by protesters in ski masks or bandannas. (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP, File)
Swiss seen backing proposal to ban face coverings in public

Mar. 07, 2021 02:15 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press Feb. 22, 2021 10:00 AM EST
Dallas Morning News. Feb. 18, 2021. Editorial: ‘Only the strong survive?’ That isn’t the society we want. Former Colorado City Mayor Tim...

In this Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 photo, a man rolls up his sleeve and prepares to receive the COVID-19 vaccine inside the hospital belonging to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, in Cherokee , N.C. The native American tribe of 16,000 in Western North Carolina has faced little resistance while distributing the vaccine to tribal members. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan)
Native Americans embrace vaccine, virus containment measures

By Sarah Blake Morgan Feb. 17, 2021 01:10 AM EST

Students sit on the campus of Spelman College on Sept. 26, 2018, in Atlanta. Several historically Black colleges and universities, including Spelman College, will receive more than $650,000 in grants to preserve their campuses as part of a new initiative announced Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Historic Black colleges to get $650,000 to preserve campuses

By Christine Fernando Feb. 16, 2021 10:44 AM EST

File - In this Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021 file photo, Israeli police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox Jews in Ashdod, Israel. Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clashed with Israeli police officers dispatched to close schools in Jerusalem and Ashdod that had opened in violation of coronavirus lockdown rules, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
Israel's ultra-Orthodox reject criticism, defy virus rules

By Ilan Ben Zion Feb. 10, 2021 01:24 AM EST

Fresh funding aims to revitalize Indigenous oral history

By Susan Montoya Bryan Feb. 09, 2021 03:45 PM EST
Associated Press (AP) — A major effort is getting underway at several universities, tribal museums and libraries around the U.S. to digitize the oral histories...

Nurse practitioner Sigrid Stokes, 76, gives a health care worker a COVID-19 vaccine at the Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Stokes is following in her family's footsteps during the pandemic. In 1918, Stokes' mother Kristine Berg Mueller was a 14-year-old hospital volunteer in Norway during the Spanish Flu pandemic, putting her in regular contact with the deadly disease. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
2 nurses: Her mom battled 1918 pandemic, she fights this one

By Haven Daley And John Rogers Feb. 05, 2021 12:05 AM EST

The nineteenth century "Belle Epoque" hall of the fan hand-making museum is pictured in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Just like the leaves of its gilded fans, France's storied hand fan-making museum could fold up and vanish. The splendid Musee de l'Eventail in Paris, a classed historical monument, is the culture world's latest coronavirus victim. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Paris' virus-battered Fan Museum thrown life-line

Jan. 25, 2021 09:44 AM EST

The nineteenth century "Belle Epoque" hall of the fan hand-making museum is pictured in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Just like the leaves of its gilded fans, France's storied hand fan-making museum could fold up and vanish. The splendid Musee de l'Eventail in Paris, a classed historical monument, is the culture world's latest coronavirus victim. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
U.N. calls on France to help as virus imperils Fan Museum

By Thomas Adamson And Michel Euler Jan. 21, 2021 06:53 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

By The Associated Press Jan. 06, 2021 07:08 PM EST
Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers: ___ Jan. 5 The Times and Democrat on remaining...

New Washington law sets $100 cap on copayments for insulin

Jan. 02, 2021 03:37 PM EST
SEATTLE (AP) — Many Washington residents with diabetes will have an easier time affording insulin this year, as a law imposes a $100 cap on patient copayments....

Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

By The Associated Press Dec. 09, 2020 03:45 PM EST
Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers: ___ Dec. 8 The Post and Courier on the rollout of...