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August 15, 2019 at 9:09 pm

Claims: Migrant children molested in U.S.-funded foster care

WASHINGTON (AP) — This story is part of an ongoing joint investigation between The Associated Press and the PBS series FRONTLINE on the treatment of...

July 28, 2019 at 9:43 pm

Priests accused of sex abuse turned to under-the-radar group VIEW

DRYDEN, Mich. (AP) — The visiting priests arrived discreetly, day and night. Stripped of their collars and cassocks, they went unnoticed in a series of...

Father Eduard Perrone reads under an umbrella in Warren, Mich., Friday, June 7, 2019. On Sunday, July 7, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit said it had removed Perrone, one of Opus Bono Sacerdotii’s co-founders, from public ministry after a church review board decided there was a â€œsemblance of truthâ€ to allegations that he abused a child decades ago.â€¯Perrone told The Associated Press that he â€œnever would have done such a thing.â€ (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) NY422 NY422

July 28, 2019 at 9:38 pm

Unmarked buildings, quiet legal help for accused priests VIEW

DRYDEN, Mich. (AP) — The visiting priests arrived discreetly, day and night. Stripped of their collars and cassocks, they went unnoticed in this tiny Midwestern...

July 28, 2019 at 9:27 pm

Priests accused of sex abuse turned to under-the-radar group VIEW

DRYDEN, Mich. (AP) — The visiting priests arrived discreetly, day and night.?? Stripped of their collars and cassocks, they went unnoticed in this tiny Midwestern...

June 11, 2019 at 12:17 am

As bishops gather, prosecutors step up scrutiny of church

DETROIT (AP) — Hundreds of boxes. Millions of records. From Michigan to New Mexico this month, attorneys general are sifting through files on clergy sex...

March 31, 2019 at 9:27 pm

Harris eyes reform as candidate, was cautious as prosecutor VIEW

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Kamala Harris made her much-heralded arrival in Washington as California's first black U.S. senator, she made a curious early decision. Within...

March 1, 2019 at 9:32 am

Board that handles federal worker disputes is now vacant

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Merit Systems Protection Board, a quasi-judicial government body tasked with settling workplace disputes for millions of federal workers, is officially vacant...

Doris Cochran poses for a portrait in her apartment in Arlington, Va., on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. Cochran is a disabled mother of two young boys living in subsidized housing in Arlington, Virginia. Sheâ€™s stockpiling canned foods to try to make sure her family wonâ€™t go hungry if her food stamps run out. She says she just doesnâ€™t know â€œwhatâ€™s going to happenâ€ and thatâ€™s what scares her the most. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz) DCSG104 DCSG104

January 21, 2019 at 5:47 am

Some fear federal safety net is unraveling for those in need VIEW

As the longest government shutdown in U.S. history stretches into a fifth week with no end in sight, millions of poor Americans who depend on...

January 11, 2019 at 9:39 pm

Selective shutdown? Trump tries to blunt impact, takes heat

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown is wreaking havoc on many Americans: Hundreds of thousands of federal employees don't know when they'll see their next...

January 10, 2019 at 11:12 am

Payday without pay hits federal workers as shutdown drags on

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Payday will come Friday without any checks for about 800,000 federal employees affected by the government shutdown, forcing workers to scale...