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Search and rescue firefighters speak to a resident in a flooded neighborhood on Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

Kentucky 9-year-old boy caught by a flood on the way to his school bus is one of 18 dead in South after days of unrelenting rain

By Jon Cherry, Kimberlee Kruesi, and others

Personnel from Urban Search and Rescue Utah Task Force 1 continue to search for victims of the Impact Plastics tragedy in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, in Erwin, Tenn.

Lawsuit: Employee killed in Hurricane Helene wasn’t allowed to leave work as disaster struck

By Kimberlee Kruesi and The Associated Press

A person is removed by state police from the stands after guns were fired at Republican candidate Donald Trump at a campaign event at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. The suspected shooter who wounded Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally is dead, US media reported Saturday, along with one bystander. (Photo by Rebecca DROKE / AFP) (Photo by REBECCA DROKE/AFP via Getty Images)

Former fire chief who died at Trump rally used his body to shield family from gunfire

By Ron Todt, Mark Scolforo, and others

Bill Lee

Country music heartland Tennessee becomes first state to protect musicians from AI

By Kimberlee Kruesi and The Associated Press

FILE – Lilo Blank, 23, of Philadelphia, left, who supports abortion rights, and Lisa Verdonik, of Arlington, Va., who is anti-abortion, talk about their opposing views on abortion rights, Friday, May 13, 2022, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, ahead of expected abortion rights rallies across the country on Saturday. One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Abortions are harder to get for 25 million women of childbearing age a year after Roe’s fall

By Geoff Mulvihill, Kimberlee Kruesi, and others

NASHVILLE, TN – APRIL 06: Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville gestures during a vote on his expulsion from the state legislature at the State Capitol Building on April 6, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was expelled after he and two other Democratic reps led a protest at the Tennessee State Capital building in the wake of a mass shooting where three students and three adults were killed on March 27 at the Covenant School in Nashville. (Photo by Seth Herald/Getty Images)

Accusations of racism and ‘assault on democracy’ follow expulsion of 2 Tennessee House Democrats

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Jonathan Mattise, and others

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 3: Pro abortion demonstrators attempt to stop anti-abortion activists from walking from the Old St Patricks Church to a Planned Parenthood clinic, December 3, 2022 in New York City, New York.(Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Abortion clinics that change states to stay open face an all-out fight to block their arrival: ‘We’re sort of in uncharted legal territory’

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Sarah Rankin, and others

Two drag queens.

The war against drag shows is raging across the country and Tennessee is the front line

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Jeff McMillan, and others

Juneteenth celebration last year in Atlanta.

Push to make Juneteenth a paid holiday is stalled in many states

By Kimberlee Kruesi, Cheyann Harris, and others

Nurses at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., on April 10, 2020, raise their fists in solidarity after telling managers they can’t care for COVID-19 patients without N95 respirator masks to protect themselves.

Amid medical protective gear shortage, nurses are suspended for refusing coronavirus care without N95 masks

By Martha Mendoza, Kimberlee Kruesi, and others