Author: AP

Reunification Ride transports children three hours from Chicago to visit their mothers at Logan Correctional, Illinois’ largest state prison for women and transgender people. (2 June 2023)

Fort Bragg sheds its Confederate namesake to become Fort Liberty; some veterans say it is an important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to current and prospective Black service members.

Former President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail in Iowa Thursday and continued the drumbeat of attacks against his top rival, Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor spent two days crisscrossing the state earlier this week. (June 1)
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Dev Shah, a 14-year-old from Largo, Florida, in the Tampa Bay area, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. His winning word was “psammophile,” an organism that prefers or thrives in sandy environments. (June 2)

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Claressa Shields, the self-anointed “Greatest Woman Of All Time” and current undisputed middleweight champion, is fighting for gender equality in boxing (June 2) (AP video: Mike Householder)

Supporters of Ousmane Sonko and police have clashed in Dakar after the Senegalese opposition leader was convicted of corrupting youth. (June 2) (AP video: Yesica Fisch)

The AP has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to Epstein’s death from the federal Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act. They include a detailed psychological reconstruction of the events leading to Epstein’s suicide, …

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As the annual celebration of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen uprising approaches, a new exhibit is opening in New York City to remember the protests. (June 1) (AP Video/Ted Shaffrey/Robert Bumsted)

Jordanian Kingdom celebrates royal wedding