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This 2021 photo shows library building of Highlander Folk School in New Market, Tenn. A fight is brewing in Tennessee over the legacy of a legendary social justice school that counts Rosa Parks among its alumni and Eleanor Roosevelt among its supporters. One of the few buildings left is the Highlander library. Preservationists restored the building and want it listed on the National Register of Historic Places. But the Highlander Research and Education Center never stopped working from a new location.(David Currey via AP)

Who gets to tell the story of a historic civil rights site?

A fight is brewing in Tennessee over a legendary civil rights and labor organizing center whose alumni and supporters include Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt. The original Highlander Folk School was … more

By TRAVIS LOLLER | 9/3/22

NASA's new moon rocket is illuminated by xenon lights as she sits on Launch Pad 39-B hours ahead of a planned launch at the Kennedy Space Center Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. This is scheduled to be the first flight of NASA's 21st-century moon-exploration program, named Artemis after Apollo's mythological twin sister. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Fuel leak disrupts NASA's 2nd shot at launching moon rocket

NASA's new moon rocket has sprung another fuel leak. The problem cropped up at daybreak Saturday as the Florida launch team began loading nearly 1 million gallons of fuel into the 322-foot rocket. … more

By MARCIA DUNN | 9/3/22

FILE - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev (l) and his wife Raisa wave to well wishers when strolling through market place in downtown Stuttgart, Wednesday, June 14, 1989. In background is the New Castle where Gorbachev had talks with representatives of West German state Baden-Wurttemberg. When Mikhail Gorbachev is buried Saturday at Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery, he will once again be next to his wife, Raisa, with whom he shared the world stage in a visibly close and loving marriage that was unprecedented for a Soviet leader. Gorbachev's very public devotion to his family broke the stuffy mold of previous Soviet leaders, just as his openness to political reform did. (AP Photo/Arne Dedert, File)

Gorbachev's marriage, like his politics, broke the mold

When Mikhail Gorbachev is buried Saturday at a Moscow cemetery he will once again be next to his wife, Raisa. The two had shared the world stage for more than a decade in a visibly close marriage … more

By JULIA RUBIN | 9/3/22

Cadets practice with gas masks during a lesson in a bomb shelter on the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Fighting raged Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, near Europe's biggest nuclear power plant in a Russian-held area of eastern Ukraine, as experts from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency assessing damage expressed concern over the facility's “physical integrity.” (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

AP Week in Pictures: Global

AUGUST 27 - SEPTEMBER 2, 2022 From economic protests in Sri Lanka, to the aftermath of flooding in Pakistan, to an excessive-heat warning in Los Angeles, this photo gallery highlights some of the … more

9/2/22

A trickle of water comes out of the faucet of Mary Gaines a resident of the Golden Keys Senior Living apartments in her kitchen in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. A recent flood worsened Jackson's longstanding water system problems. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

EXPLAINER: Mississippi capital's water woes are extensive

Mississippi's capital city is struggling with its water system. Many of Jackson's 150,000 residents have had little or no water coming from their faucets the past several days. Problems started days … more

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | 9/2/22

This August 2022 photo provided by Pfizer shows vials of the company's updated COVID-19 vaccine during production in Kalamazoo, Mich. U.S. regulators have authorized updated COVID-19 boosters, the first to directly target today's most common omicron strain. The move on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2022, by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives. (Pfizer via AP)

EXPLAINER: Should you get a new COVID booster? If so, when?

New COVID-19 boosters targeting today’s most common omicron strains should begin arriving within days. The new shots offer Americans a chance to get the most up-to-date protection at yet another … more

By LAURAN NEERGAARD | 9/2/22

Anastasia Ohrimenko, 26, is comforted by relatives and friends as she cries next to a coffin with the body of her husband Yury Styglyuk, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in combat on August 24 in Maryinka, Donetsk, during his funeral in Bucha, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

AUG. 26-SEPT. 1, 2022 This week's top photos include those documenting the death of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and the return to school of Ukrainian refugees in Romania. Russian … more

By The Associated Press | 9/2/22

A youth makes an "L" during a campaign rally to support Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's bid for reelection in Manaus, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

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9/2/22

Amazon bid to scrap historic union win blocked

A hearing officer for a federal labor board has rebuffed Amazon’s attempt to scrap a historic union win at a warehouse on Staten Island, New York. Shortly after the labor win in April, Amazon filed … more

By HALELUYA HADERO | 9/1/22

This photo provided by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, in New York, shows the three bronze panels at one of the entrances to Bartlett Hall, at West Point, that depicts the history of the United States. A commission created by Congress is recommending that multiple historical reminders tied to Confederate officers during the Civil War be removed — many honoring Robert E. Lee, one of the academy's most famous graduates. (U.S. Military Academy at West Point via AP)

Panel: West Point should rename Lee Barracks, nix KKK art

A commission created by Congress is recommending changes at West Point when it comes to commemorating Robert E. Lee and other Confederate officers during the Civil War. The commission also takes aim … more

By MICHAEL HILL | 9/1/22

Members of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, from left, Richard Houskamp, Anthony Daunt and Mary Ellen Gurewitz listen to attorneys Olivia Flower and Steve Liedel during a hearing, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in Lansing, Mich. The elections board rejected an abortion rights initiative after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot. The two Democrats voted in favor, but getting the measure on the ballot required at least three votes of the four-member board. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Michigan high court asked to OK ballot question on abortion

An abortion-rights group has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to approve a November ballot question on whether the right to abortion should be enshrined in the state constitution. Reproductive … more

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT | 9/1/22

Firefighters walk in a line during a wildfire in Castaic, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

California wildfires prompt evacuations amid heat wave

Firefighters are battling two California blazes that are raging in rural areas and have prompted evacuations in the midst of a scorching heat wave. Authorities are battling a 4,625-acre blaze that … more

9/1/22

FILE - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott passes in front of a memorial outside Robb Elementary School to honor the victims killed in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 29, 2022. Abbott on Wednesday, Aug. 31 pushed back on calls by Uvalde families for new gun control measures in Texas, saying that raising the minimum age to purchase weapons like the one used in the Robb Elementary School massacre would be “unconstitutional." (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Texas governor pushes back on raising gun age after Uvalde

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is pushing back on calls by Uvalde families for new gun control measures in Texas in wake of the Robb Elementary School massacre. Abbott said Wednesday that that raising … more

By PAUL J. WEBER | 8/31/22

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Bulloch County Sheriff's Office shows Marc Wilson, of Sharpsburg, Ga. Wilson was charged with killing a 17-year-old girl in a highway shooting after opening fire from his car in self-defense after the pickup truck in which the girl was a passenger tried to force him off the road, a defense attorney told a jury as his murder trial opened on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. (Bulloch County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Georgia man guilty of manslaughter in shooting of teen girl

A biracial man who says he was fending off a racist attack when he fired a gun into a pickup truck on a Georgia highway has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter for killing one of the truck's … more

8/31/22

This image released by ABC shows Quinta Brunson in a scene from "Abbott Elementary." (Ser Baffo/ABC via AP)

AP Emmy pundits call a win for 'Succession,' split on comedy

So many TV shows, so few nominees who will end up with trophies at the Primetime Emmy Awards. A total of 25 Emmys will be presented during the Sept. 12 ceremony in the glamor categories including … more

By LYNN ELBER and MARK KENNEDY | 8/31/22

Syria: Israel strikes Aleppo airport

Israel has launched airstrikes targeting Syria's Aleppo International Airport. Syrian state media on Wednesday did not report any casualties, while Britain-based opposition war-monitor the Syrian … more

Associated Press | 8/31/22

Detroit Police and investigators look over a shooting scene on Pennington Drive, north of Seven Mile Road, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, in Detroit. Four people were shot, with fatalities, by a person who appeared to be firing at people randomly over a roughly 2 1/2-hour period Sunday morning in Detroit, police said. (Jose Juarez/Special to Detroit News via AP)

Man charged in random Detroit shootings that killed 3

A 19-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in a series of apparently random shootings over roughly two hours last weekend in Detroit that left three people dead and a fourth wounded. … more

By COREY WILLIAMS | 8/31/22

Ambitious 'Lord of the Rings' prequel hopes to slay dragons

The return of dragons has been a hit. Now it’s time for the return of the elves and dwarves. Amazon Studios is launching “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” an ambitious, … more

By MARK KENNEDY | 8/31/22

Catherine Deneuve eyes lifetime achievement award in Venice

Catherine Deneuve is not that fond of reminiscing, even as she prepares to collect a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice International Film Festival. She tells reporters "we don’t have time to … more

By LINDSEY BAHR | 8/31/22

Leaky battleship in Texas set to make trip for $35M repairs

The greatest challenge in recent years for the only surviving battleship that served in both world wars has been a leaky hull that's raised concerns it could sink. Now the foundation in charge of the … more

By JUAN A. LOZANO | 8/31/22