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In this April 18, 2021, photo provided by the Rev. Cedric Prakash, priests pray over the body of the late Rev. Jerry Sequeira before his cremation in Ahmedabad, India. Sequeira is one of more than 500 Catholic priests and nuns who have died from COVID-19 in India according to the Rev. Suresh Mathew, a priest at Holy Redeemer's Church in New Delhi and the editor of the church-run Indian Currents magazine. (Cedric Prakash via AP)

COVID-19 takes toll on Catholic clergy in hard-hit countries

The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll among Roman Catholic priests and nuns around the world, killing hundreds of them in a handful of the hardest-hit countries alone
FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 file photo, a man protests the policies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during Orban's talks with Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw, Poland. The coronavirus pandemic has upended life around the globe, but it has hasn't stopped the spread of authoritarianism and extremism. Some researchers believe it may even have accelerated it, but curbing individual freedoms and boosting the reach of the state. Since COVID-19 hit, Hungary has banned children from being told about homosexuality. China shut Hong Kong's last pro-democracy newspaper. Brazil's president has extolled dictatorship. Belarus has hijacked a passenger plane. A Cambodian human rights lawyer calls the pandemic 'a dictator's dream opportunity.' But there are also resistance movements, as protesters from Hungary to Brazil take to the streets to defend democracy. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Authoritarianism advances as world battles the pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has upended life around the globe, but it has hasn't stopped the spread of authoritarianism and extremism
Megan Sims, second from right, along with daughter Aaliyah and son Christian, talks with Hendrée Jones, executive director of Horizons in Carrboro, N.C., Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Sims couldn't stop using drugs during the pandemic, even as she discovered she was pregnant. Through word of mouth, Sims discovered Horizons, a substance use disorder treatment program at the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine that is designed specifically for pregnant women and mothers. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

For pregnant women, pandemic made hunt for drug rehab harder

Specialized rehab programs for pregnant women are a rarity, but experts say they're needed to reduce the number of babies born to mothers who are increasingly struggling with drug use
Leon Charles, left, Director General of Haiti's Police leaves a room after a news conference at police headquarters in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. Charles gave an updated on the investigation of the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moise. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Miami security firm faces questions in Haiti assassination

A small private security company in Miami faces questions about its role in the assassination of Haiti's president
The Biden administration is beginning to distribute expanded child tax credit payments, giving parents on average $423 in July 2021, with payments continuing through the end of the year.
How the expanded child tax credit payments work
The Biden administration is beginning to distribute expanded child tax credit payments, giving parents on average $423 this month, with payments continuing through the end of the year.
This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian White Helmet civil defense worker digging in the rubble of destroyed house that hit by Syrian government rockets, in Ibleen village, southern Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, July 15, 2021. At least eight civilians were killed, including three children, when Syrian government rockets hit two villages in the last rebel stronghold in Idlib province, rescue workers and a war monitor said Thursday. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
Renewed strikes on Syria's last rebel enclave kill 9
Syrian rescue workers and a war monitor say government rockets killed at least nine civilians in the last rebel stronghold in northwestern Syria
Death of man found in Lake Michigan consistent with drowning
An autopsy has determined the cause of death of a man whose body was recovered from Lake Michigan off northwestern Indiana is consistent with drowning
Chicago man, 73, dies after struck in head during carjacking
Authorities say a 73-year-old man has died after being struck in the head during an apparent carjacking in Chicago
'Boogaloo' ex-convict gets home confinement for illegal gun
A Maryland man who belonged to the anti-government "boogaloo" movement has been sentenced to six months of home confinement for illegally possessing a firearm
FILE - In this Monday, May 24, 2021 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland. The head of the World Health Organization said Thursday, July 15 that he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus and acknowledged it was premature to rule out that the pandemic may have been linked to a laboratory leak. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)
WHO chief says it was 'premature' to rule out COVID lab leak
The head of the World Health Organization has acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak
Will COVID-19 vaccines work if I have a weak immune system? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
Will COVID-19 vaccines work if I have a weak immune system?
COVID-19 vaccines probably won't work as well if you have a weakened immune system, but the shots should still offer some protection
FILE — In this Sunday, May 10, 2020 file photo, Sharon Rivera adjusts flowers and other items left at the grave of her daughter, Victoria, at Calvary Cemetery in New York, on Mother's Day. Victoria died of a drug overdose in Sept. 22, 2019, when she just 21 years old. According to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, drug overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.S. overdose deaths hit record 93,000 in pandemic last year
Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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