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Abortion-rights activists react following Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

From joy to anger, faith leaders react to Roe's reversal

Religious Americans are deeply divided in their views on abortion. That is clearly reflected in reactions from faith leaders to the Supreme Court’s momentous ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and the … more

By DAVID CRARY | 6/24/22

FILE - Technicians work on the Psyche spacecraft at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, April 11, 2022, in Pasadena, Calif. NASA put an asteroid mission on hold Friday, June 24, 2022, blaming the late delivery of its own navigation software. The Psyche mission to a strange metal asteroid of the same name was supposed to launch this September or October. But the agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab was several months late writing and delivering its software for navigation, guidance and control. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

NASA asteroid mission on hold due to late software delivery

NASA's plan to explore a strange metal asteroid is on hold. The space agency was late delivering its own navigation software for the spacecraft called Psyche. NASA said Friday there will be an … more

By SETH BORENSTEIN | 6/24/22

Tanya Britton prays before lunch as a sign memorializing babies aborted in the United States hangs on a chair in her kitchen in Tupelo, Miss., Tuesday, May 24, 2022. "Whatever I do, let it be for the end of abortion," 70-year-old Britton prays. "Let it be that one child be saved today. Let it be that Roe v. Wade be overturned." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

'We've done our part': End of Roe brings answer to prayer

Millions of people who've been immersed in the anti-abortion movement for the past half-century are rejoicing after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Among them is 70-year-old Tanya Britton … more

By MATT SEDENSKY | 6/24/22

Roswell Grey, 16, poses at Fairview Park in Sherman, Texas, Thursday, June 23, 2022. LGBTQ youth of faith across the United States are sharing their stories during Pride Month. They hope to encourage others to embrace their religious and gender identities. (AP Photo/Emil Lippe)

LGBTQ youth of faith retell their stories to inspire others

LGBTQ youth of faith across the United States are sharing their stories during Pride Month. They hope to encourage others to embrace their religious and gender identities. It comes at a time when … more

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO | 6/24/22

Afghans stand by the bodies of relatives killed in an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi)

Afghanistan earthquake victims face struggles getting aid

Donations for Afghanistan earthquake victims will face far more hurdles than other disasters, due to sanctions against the country’s Taliban government and its troubled relationship with Western … more

By GLENN GAMBOA | 6/24/22

A teddy bear is seen on a building destroyed by attacks in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

JUNE 17- JUNE 23, 2022 From the war in Ukraine to Budapest's Aquatics World Championships, the Royal Ascot race, western Europe's first heat wave and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa … more

By The Associated Press | 6/24/22

FILE - Search and rescue personnel work atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building, where scores of people remain missing after it partially collapsed the week before June 30, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. Friday, June 24, 2022, marks the anniversary of the oceanfront condo building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, Florida. The 12-story tower came down with a thunderous roar and left a giant pile of rubble in one of the deadliest collapses in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

A year on, Surfside remembers 98 victims of condo collapse

Friday marks the anniversary of the oceanfront condo building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, Florida. The 12-story tower came down with a thunderous roar and left a giant pile of rubble … more

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and CURT ANDERSON | 6/24/22

Indigenous protesters arrive to Quito to demonstrate in the capital against the economic policies of the government of President Guillermo Lasso, in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

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6/24/22

Experts endorse Moderna COVID-19 shots for kids ages 6 to 17

An expert panel backed a second COVID-19 vaccine option for kids ages 6 to 17. Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously Thursday to recommend Moderna's shots … more

By MIKE STOBBE | 6/23/22

Morgan Geyser speaks with attorney Anthony Cotton, Feb. 1, 2018. Geyser, 20, is asking a judge in Waukesha County to order her release as he did last year for her co-defendant, Anissa Weier. A hearing is scheduled Thursday, June 23, 2022. Geyser and Weier, also 20, pleaded guilty, but not guilty due to mental disease to attempted homicide after luring Payton Leutner into a Waukesha park following a sleepover in May 2014. Geyser repeatedly stabbed Leutner while Weier urged her on. All three girls were 12 at the time. (Rick Wood/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Woman committed over Slender Man stabbing seeks her release

The second of two women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade classmate in Wisconsin which they claimed was to appease the horror character … more

6/23/22

British singer-songwriter Rick Astley poses for a portrait before a concert at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill., on June 17, 2022. Astley has joined New Kids on the Block, Salt-N-Pepa, and En Vogue for the 57-date "Mixtape 2022" U.S. arena tour this summer. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Rick Astley revisits his career-making song with 'gratitude'

How does Rick Astley handle one of his songs being part of the biggest internet meme of all time? He rolls with it, obviously. He says he's “ever so grateful for it.” ”Never Gonna Give You Up" … more

By MARK KENNEDY | 6/23/22

Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning appears in Alexandria, Va., on May 16, 2019, left, and cover art from Manning's book “README.txt,” releasing Oct. 18. (AP Photo, left, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux via AP)

Chelsea Manning memoir to be published in October

A memoir by Chelsea Manning will come out this fall. The book is titled “README.txt,” and it's scheduled for release Oct. 18. Manning’s book was first announced in 2019 but did not have a title … more

6/23/22

People line up for a commercial bus that will take them to the San Antonio airport at a warehouse run by the Mission: Border Hope nonprofit group run by the United Methodist Church in Eagle Pass, Texas, May 23, 2022. The Border Patrol releases up to 1,000 migrants daily at Mission: Border Hope. The nonprofit group outgrew a church and moved to the warehouse in April amid the Biden administration's rapidly expanding practice of releasing migrants on parole, particularly those who are not subject to a pandemic rule that prevents migrants from seeking asylum.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Border Patrol paroles migrants to avoid massive overcrowding

The Border Patrol paroled more than 207,000 migrants who crossed from Mexico from August through May. In the previous seven months, it paroled only 11. It is a low-key but far-reaching change from … more

By ELLIOT SPAGAT | 6/23/22

An entryway to Everett Middle School is seen Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in San Francisco. The first week of school was supposed to mark a triumphant return to classrooms at Everett after more than a year of distance learning. But as computer science teacher Yesi Castro-Mitchell welcomed a class of sixth graders last fall, she says a student started punching her, again and again. Across America one of the most difficult academic years in modern history was also one of the most violent, educators and experts say. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

After year of violence, US schools try to tame tensions

One of the most difficult academic years in the nation's history was also one of the most violent. That's according to educators and experts, who reported many more fights and assaults since last … more

By JOCELYN GECKER | 6/23/22

Neil Handler speaks about how his son Jonah was trapped inside a pocket of fallen concrete after the Surfside, Fla., condo collapse, as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Bal Harbour, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Teen's miraculous survival in Florida collapse finds purpose

People have compared the survival of a teenage boy in one of the deadliest collapses in U.S. history to the Bible story of Jonah and the whale. At 16, Jonah Handler is suffering from post-traumatic … more

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON | 6/23/22

FILE - Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin's sentencing at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, on June 25, 2021. Two Minnesotans filed federal civil rights lawsuits on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, against the city of Minneapolis and former Officer Derek Chauvin, alleging they were traumatized when he used his “signature move” on them of kneeling on a subject's neck — the same way that he killed George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

Feds want 25 years for Chauvin for violating Floyd's rights

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to give former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin a 25-year sentence for violating the rights of George Floyd, as well as the rights of a 14-year-old Black boy … more

By AMY FORLITI | 6/22/22

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2002 file photo, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks in Orlando, Fla. South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg faces the state's first impeachment trial next week for his conduct surrounding a 2020 car crash in which he struck and killed a pedestrian. A conviction would be a victory for Noem, who has adamantly pushed for Ravnsborg's ouster. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

South Dakota Gov. Noem gets emphatic win with AG's removal

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem got an emphatic victory when the Senate removed Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office by convicting him of impeachment for killing a pedestrian with his car. Noem … more

By STEPHEN GROVES | 6/22/22

FILE - Ted Wafer, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., testifies in his own defense during his second degree murder trial in Detroit on Aug. 4, 2014. Wafer, who said he feared for his life when he fatally shot a young woman on his porch in 2013, was given the same 17-year prison sentence Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at a new hearing ordered by the Michigan Supreme Court. (Clarence Tabb Jr./Detroit News via AP, File)

17-year sentence sticks for man who killed woman on porch

A Detroit-area man who said he feared for his life when he fatally shot a young woman on his porch in 2013 has been sentenced to the same 17-year prison term he initially received. Ted Wafer was back … more

By ED WHITE | 6/22/22

FILE - Emergency personnel arrive to evacuate people at a mass shelter, Sept. 2, 2021 in Independence, La. The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse for Hurricane Ida has been arrested. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry says 68-year-old Bob Glynn Dean Jr. faces multiple counts of cruelty to persons with infirmities, Medicaid fraud, and obstruction of justice. Online booking records show that Dean was in custody Wednesday, June 22, 2022 in Tangipahoa Parish. (Chris Granger/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

Nursing home owner whose residents suffered in Ida arrested

The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse for Hurricane Ida has been arrested. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff … more

By KEVIN McGILL | 6/22/22

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz stands as prospective jurors enter the courtroom for jury selection in the penalty phase of Cruz's trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Cruz previously plead guilty to all 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 shootings. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool)

School shooter's jury selection enters final stretch

The final phase of jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is underway. It began Wednesday with prosecutors and defense attorneys asking candidates about their job … more

By TERRY SPENCER | 6/22/22