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The Moradi family sits for a portrait on a small boat in Band-i-Mir lake, one of the tourist attractions in the Bamiyan Valley region in Afghanistan, Saturday, June 17, 2023. The family traveled a long way from Helmand to spend a few days for their summer vacation. During their first stint in power from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban banned photography of humans and animals as contrary to the teachings of Islam. On Aug. 26, 2023 they banned all women from entering all national parks including Band-i-Mir, in a move that has triggered widespread condemnation.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

From an old-style Afghan camera, a new view of life under the Taliban emerges

Two years after U.S. troops left, AP photographer Rodrigo Abd returned to Afghanistan with an idea: to use an old-style Afghan “box camera” to document how life has changed under Taliban rule.
 
Passengers disembark from a cruise ship that has docked on June 12, 2023, in downtown Juneau, Alaska. As the Mendenhall Glacier continues to recede, tourists are flooding into Juneau. A record number of cruise ship passengers are expected this year in the city of about 30,000 people. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Crammed with tourists, Alaska’s capital wonders what will happen as its magnificent glacier recedes

 
Maya Johnson, 7, of New York, is playfully swung into the lake by her friends during Camp Be'chol Lashon, a sleepaway camp for Jewish children of color, Friday, July 28, 2023, in Petaluma, Calif., at Walker Creek Ranch. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Summer camp in California gives Jewish children of color a haven to be different together

 
A boy who lost his parents and five of his siblings during a Sept. 5, 2019, night raid by U.S. forces, stands in the yard of their home that was destroyed in the attack in a remote region of Afghanistan, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. What exactly happened that fall night is at the center of a bitter international custody dispute over an orphaned baby found amid the rubble. The high-profile legal battle pits an Afghan family against an American one, and has drawn responses from the White House and the Taliban. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

A baby was found in the rubble of a US raid in Afghanistan. But who exactly was killed and why?

 
Jacq'lene Massey shields her eyes from the sun as she watches for her husband, Folsom State Prison inmate Gerald Massey, to be released with the couple's children, Grace, 9, center, and Brian, 12, right in Folsom, Calif., Monday, July 3, 2023. Gerald Massey was released on parole after serving nine years of a 15-to-life sentence for a drunk driving incident that killed his close friend. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Thousands more prisoners across the US will get free college paid for by the government

 

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Dozens of migrants sit in a wooden boat adrift off the waters of Tunisia early Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Some 110 people were rescued by the non-governmental organization Open Arms during a mission in the Mediterranean Sea after their boat capsized. (AP Photo/Valeria Ferraro)

Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

In 2021, at least seven boats appearing to be from northwest Africa washed up in the Caribbean and in Brazil. All carried dead bodies. For nearly two years, The AP worked to uncover the story of one of those doomed boats.

From Birth to Death: Black Americans and a lifetime of disparities

From birth to death, Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared to their white counterparts.
Jamal Hussein’s boat in the storm. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery.

 
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, meets with Kenya's President William Ruto, second left, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, Pool)

Kenya’s president is committing his country to lead a multinational force to Haiti to combat gangs

 
A syringe is seen on the ground as Lisa McFadden waits to be treated near a Baltimore City Health Department RV, Monday, March 20, 2023, in Baltimore. The Baltimore City Health Department's harm reduction program uses the RV to address the opioid crisis, which includes expanding access to medication assisted treatment by deploying a team of medical staff to neighborhoods with high rates of substance abuse and offering buprenorphine prescriptions. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Abstinence not required: How a Baltimore drug treatment program prioritizes saving lives

 
FILE - People jostle each other to buy subsidized sacks of wheat flour in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, after a recent price hike of flour in the country. An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China - including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia and Laos - found the debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of tax revenue needed to keep schools open, provide electricity and pay for food and fuel. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt, File)

China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse

 
Siblings Mylouise Veillard, left, and Myson walk home with water they collected from a well, for cooking, cleaning and drinking, in a rural area of Saint-Louis-du-Sud, Haiti, Thursday, May 25, 2023. The siblings were considered “poverty orphans" for three years until they were reunited with their mother, Renèse Estève, who had dropped them off at an orphanage where she believed they'd get better care. Their mother brought them home after she was startled at the weight they had lost, convinced they'd be better off living in grinding poverty. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

30,000 Haitian kids live in private orphanages. Officials want to shutter them and reunite families.

 
Marvin Hailey, of North Carolina, removes an American flag from a booth after severe weather canceled a campaign rally where former President Donald Trump was expected to speak Saturday, May 13, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney)

Trump tells former adviser Michael Flynn: ‘We’re going to bring you back’