Author: AP

North Carolina anti-abortion activists Flip Benham and Tanner Howard discuss outreach efforts to divert women from getting abortions at abortion clinics in Charlotte, N.C. (June 22) (AP video: Erik Verduzco)

A year after floods in Pakistan killed at least 1,700 people and caused billions of dollars in economic losses, the country still hasn’t fully recovered. (AP Video by: Muhammad Farooq, Naveed Shukat and Fazal Tawab. Produced by: Teresa de Miguel)
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A year on from Pakistan’s devastating floods, one impact that residents fear will be long-lasting is the destruction of schools. (AP Video by: Muhammad Farooq)

The desperate search for five people aboard a missing submersible is complicated by daunting challenges at the location. (June 21)

Here’s the latest for Wednesday June 21: Sounds head during submersible search; Indian Prime Minister Modi going to Washington, DC; Judge strikes down Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for minors; Longest day of the year marked at Stonehenge.
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Mourners gathered in central Israel to attend the funeral of 21-year-old Harel Masoud, killed in a shooting attack by a suspected Palestinian gunman. (June 21)

Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women’s prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot or stabbed to death. (June 21) (AP video/Elmer Martinez, pro…

Advocates say schools across the U.S. are removing students with disabilities from classrooms, often in response to challenging behavior, by cutting the days they’re allowed to attend. Parents and advocates argue the move amounts to discrimination. (Ju…

A seemingly curious alliance of druids, pagans, hippies, local residents, tourists and costumed witches and wizards are gathering around a prehistoric stone circle on a plain in southern England to express their devotion to the sun, or to have some com…

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