By ANNA LIZ NICHOLS and DAVID EGGERT and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Peter Lyoya took his six children from Congo in 2014 to escape violence. Now he fears he brought t…
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Echoes of one million lost in the spaces they left behind
By DAVID GOLDMAN AP Photographer Put your son in Sherman Peebles’ barber chair and along with a buzz you could count on Peebles, a sheriff’s deputy who cut hair as a sideline, to issue a fatherl…
COVID-19, overdoses pushed US to highest death total ever
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history, and new data and research are offering more insights into how it got that bad. The main reason for the inc…
America’s homeless ranks graying as more retire on streets
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Karla Finocchio’s slide into homelessness began when she split with her partner of 18 years and temporarily moved in with a cousin. The 55-year-old …
The AP Interview: Zelenskyy seeks peace despite atrocities
By ADAM SCHRECK and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that he is committed to pressing for peace despite Russian attacks on c…
Ukrainian defenders dig in as Russia boosts firepower
By ADAM SCHRECK and CARA ANNA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukrainian forces dug in on Sunday, Russia lined up more firepower and tapped a decorated general to take centralized control of t…
Social programs weak in many states with tough abortion laws
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, CAMILLE FASSETT and JASEN LO Associated Press States with some of the nation’s strictest abortion laws are also some of the hardest places to have and raise a healthy child, esp…
Inflation hits nonprofits’ services, ability to fundraise
By DAN PARKS of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy Last Mile Food Rescue in Cincinnati started shopping in November for a refrigerated box truck to move perishable donations from …
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
By The Associated Press A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The A…
Cheers for Jackson, who declares, ‘We’ve made it, all of us’
By ZEKE MILLER and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to th…