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The debate over disproportionate use of force by police that followed George Floyd’s death has largely ignored some of the most vulnerable targets: children. apne.ws/DWDQ540

THREAD 🧵 Out of the world’s 100 most polluted cities, 94 are in India, China, and Pakistan. Here’s a look at air quality around the world and the impact air pollutants have on our health 👇 aje.io/2suxut

Happy new year! The The Associated Press data team is hiring two more data journalists to focus on specific beats. AP’s preparing for grant-funded expansions of its coverage of education and climate, and we believe data is critical to help provide context and clarity for those stories. (1/5)

For people of color at the Capitol, the Jan. 6 attack was more than a violent challenge to a free and fair election — it was a familiar display of white supremacist violence, this time at the very seat of American democracy. apne.ws/3dBYs72

For Pramila Jayapal, when a colleague said members take their pins off to disguise: “I thought there’s no way I’m taking off my pin. Because it was either you get recognized by the insurrectionist or you don’t get recognized by Capitol Police as a brown woman or Black woman,”

A story centered on the debates about which data to use. Love to see it. Finding the data that can help tell the current story is not so cut and dry. But in the end, "We need the data. We need to show receipts to readers." apnews.com/article/omicro…

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Important stuff from ⁦C.L.R. James Baldwin 🐟⁩ on the oil wells down the street. “Los Angeles weighs phasing out oil and gas drilling | AP News” apnews.com/article/scienc…

There are a lot of people working to help local news. You know one we often don't talk a lot about? The Associated Press. They're working with AI poynter.org/business-work/… Data journalism poynter.org/reporting-edit… And now education reporting. Here's Angela Fu's latest poynter.org/reporting-edit…

An The Associated Press analysis of federal regulatory data found that several major utility companies in states like Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, Florida and Maryland are charging customers late fees that are much higher than the national average. apne.ws/oMHM2MY

The The Associated Press and press freedom advocates are reiterating their calls for freelance journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro to be freed immediately after spending 100 days in detention without charge in Ethiopia. #FreeAmirAmanKiyaro apne.ws/EPVlMSg

Sen. Cory Booker cut through a tense third day of hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday with a speech on racial progress that drew tears from the nominee and held the rapt attention of colleagues. apne.ws/zVPCJM8

Soon, likely within the next few weeks, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 will surpass 1 million. From the first deaths on the West Coast to the soaring toll in New York, and then every place in between, the nation has been marked by unfathomable loss. apne.ws/KUTyniT

One of the Arab world best known journalist and an Al-Jazeera reporter Shireen Abi Akleh was shot and killed during #Israel raid in West Bank (from The Associated Press)- Shocking and heartbreaking apnews.com/article/88d1a4…

Mass shootings have become nearly commonplace in America. But the nation's staggering murder rate can often be seen more clearly in the deaths that never make national news. apnews.com/article/gun-vi…

A law in New Zealand grants personhood status to the Whanganui River, declaring it a living whole. Five years since the law passed, The Associated Press followed the river upstream to find out what its status means to those whose lives are entwined with its waters. apnews.com/article/religi…

Queen Elizabeth II inherited millions of subjects around the world upon taking the throne in 1952. Many of them were unwilling. Today, in the British Empire’s former colonies, her death brings complicated feelings, including anger. apnews.com/article/king-c…

FROM BIRTH TO DEATH: I spent the past year exploring how the legacy of racism in America has laid the foundation for the health inequities Black people face from their first breath to their final moments. Five stories. Five families and communities. apnews.com/article/from-b…

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You can't spell #cheAP without The Associated Press! Our rank-and-file are demanding fair pay for all we do. Will Executive Editor Julie Pace and CEO Daisy Veerasingham publicly release their compensation packages and take pay cuts? #AskAP