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What TikTok creators say a ban would mean for them

TikTok creators across the country are expressing frustration over a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would lead to a nationwide ban of the app if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake.

FILE - Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno speaks during a forum, Feb. 19, 2024, in the TLB Auditorium at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. (Jeremy Wadsworth/The Blade via AP, File)

How the AP reported that someone with access to Bernie Moreno’s email created adult website profile

50-year-old Natalia Zhyvohliad, an internally displaced person from Nova Petrivka in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, is pictured with her children, daughter-in-law and grandson in their temporary modular house in Kolomyya, Ivano-Frankivsk region on Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

Russia forces Ukrainians in occupied territories to take its passports – and fight in its army

People are reflected in a window of a hotel at the Davos Promenade in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

AI-created election disinformation is deceiving voters globally

FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with servicemen at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Putin is poised to sweep to another six-year term in the March 15-17 presidential election, relying on his rigid control of Russia established during his 24 years in power — the longest Kremlin tenure since Soviet leader Josef Stalin. (Mikhail Tereshchenko, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin is set to win 6 more years in power. Here’s how it will affect the war and Russia’s relations

AP Investigations

FILE - The exterior of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is shown in Hailey, Idaho, on Sept., 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen, File)

Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges

FILE - The interior of the I-Soon office, also known as Anxun in Mandarin, is seen after office hours in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan Province on Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)

Behind the doors of a Chinese hacking company, a sordid culture fueled by influence, alcohol and sex

FILE - Manuel Rocha sits in his office at Steel Hector & Davis in Miami in January 2003, joining the firm to help open doors in Latin America. On Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, Rocha, 73, told a judge he would admit to federal counts of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government, charges that could land him behind bars for several years. (Raul Rubiera/Miami Herald via AP, File)

Red flags, missed clues: How accused US diplomat-turned-Cuban spy avoided scrutiny for decades

In this 1973 photo, three guards shake down and body search a prisoner and at the Cummins Unit of' Arkansas Department of Corrections in Grady, Ark. (Bruce Jackson via AP)

A hidden web links hundreds of popular food brands to work done by US prisoners

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a small copy of his nation's constitution during ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Exclusive: A secret US program spied on top Venezuelan officials to build drug cases

Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP)

Dissolving Trump’s business empire would stand apart in history of NY fraud law

This image from video posted by Hamas on Dec. 20, 2023, purports to show Hamas militants using machining equipment to make their own domestic copies of the AM-50 Sayyad, an Iranian-made a sniper rifle that fires a .50- caliber round powerful enough to punch through up to an inch of steel. Experts interviewed by The Associated Press said it would be nearly impossible for Hamas to manufacture a safe and accurate sniper rifle using the rudimentary equipment shown in the video. Watermark at upper left reads “military media.” (Hamas via AP)

Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea

Lisa Hohnstreiter holds a smartphone displaying a photograph of her mother, Nancy Harrison, and her brother, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, in Warren, Mich. Not long after DeAngelo Martin was released from jail, he killed for the second time. On March 19, 2019, the body of Nancy Harrison, 52, was discovered in an abandoned house on Coventry Street. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

A serial killer set Detroit on edge. Police missteps over 15 years allowed him to roam free

U.S.-funded infrastructure in Gaza largely unscathed as death toll soars

Rohingya child bride, R, age 16, holds her newborn baby while standing in an apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Oct. 4, 2023. R left Bangladesh's refugee camps for Malaysia in 2022 to marry her 27-year-old husband as conditions in the camps deteriorated. R says she wasn't ready to have a baby, but felt lonely and is now glad to have the company. (AP Photo/Victoria Milko)

Young Rohingya girls fleeing violence, starvation find new horrors in arranged marriages in Malaysia

Chelsea Goodrich poses for a portrait in Ketchum, Idaho, on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. Goodrich's father, a popular Idaho dentist and former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church, was excommunicated after sharing details about his relationship with her when she was a child during a religious confession. Recordings obtained by The Associated Press show that instead of helping prosecutors, the church used a legal playbook that has helped protect itself from sex abuse claims. Goodrich's father is today a free man, and she says she decided to speak out to protect other children. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen)

Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims

FILE - People jostle each other to buy subsidized sacks of wheat flour in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, after a recent price hike of flour in the country. An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China - including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia and Laos - found the debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of tax revenue needed to keep schools open, provide electricity and pay for food and fuel. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt, File)

China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse

FILE - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., testifies before a House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 20, 2023. Rising to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic due to his strident opposition to vaccines, Democratic presidential candidate Kennedy Jr. portrays himself as a true Democrat inheriting the mantle of the Kennedy family. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite. It’s one of many inconsistencies

FILE - Joseph Moore looks out of a window at his home in Jacksonville, Fla., on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Moore worked for nearly 10 years as an undercover informant for the FBI, infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in Florida, foiling at least two murder plots, according to investigators, and investigating ties between law enforcement and the white supremacist organization. "From where I sat, with the intelligence laid out, I can tell you that none of these agencies have any control over any of it. It is more prevalent and consequential than any of them are willing to admit." (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted, File)

New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement

FILE - Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, arrive at Circuit Court, Thursday, March 30, 2023 in Charlottesville, Va. The U.S. government has warned a Virginia judge that allowing Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife to keep an Afghan war orphan risks violating international law and could be viewed around the world as “endorsing an act of international child abduction,” according to secret court records reviewed by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Secret records: Government says Marine’s adoption of Afghan orphan seen as abduction, must be undone

The Hackneys’ daughter looks at her reflection in a bedroom mirror during a supervised visit at her parent's home in Oakdale, Pa., on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. At 8 months old, the young child was taken from her parents custody after arriving at the hospital severely dehydrated and malnourished. The Hackneys and their lawyer believe the Allegheny County Family Screening tool may have flagged the couple as dangerous because of their disabilities. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Not magic: Opaque AI tool may flag parents with disabilities

Longtime Florida social worker Connie Going looks at a computer screen with an image of her adopted son Davion in her adoptions office June 12, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Going said the Family-Match tool gives false hope to waiting parents by failing to deliver successful matches, and ultimately makes her job harder. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Inspired by online dating, AI tool for adoption matchmaking falls short for vulnerable foster kids

Illustration of detained Ukrainian civilians digging into frozen ground. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more

A baby was found in the rubble of a US raid in Afghanistan. But who exactly was killed and why?

In this Oct. 27, 2021 photo, MJ embraces her adoptive mother in Arizona. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Sex-abuse video victimizes child long after abuser is gone

Gun violence

As guns in the U.S. outnumber people, AP examines a nation trapped in its cycle of gun violence

The tombstone of Army Sgt. Cody Bowman stands at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Sunday, June 11, 2023, in Dallas. For decades, discussions of suicide prevention skirted fraught questions about firearms; the Army has punted implementing measures that might be controversial. But a growing movement has taken hold, among researchers, the Veterans Administration, ordinary people like Bowman's mother, Barbie Rohde, if this country wants to get serious about addressing an epidemic of suicide, it must find a way to honor veterans and active-duty service members, respect their rights to own a gun, but keep it out of their hands on their darkest days. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Americans have fundamental freedoms – to life, liberty, happiness. Do gun rights overshadow them all?

Sandy Phillips, left, and her husband, Lonnie, stand for a portrait in Longmont, Colo., Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Suffering through their own personal loss after a mass shooting in Colorado in 2012, the couple set out to help other parents like them, traveling to shooting sites around the country in this RV. The trip continued for a decade. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

In the shadow of loss, a mother’s long search for happiness

Janet Paulsen, left, is embraced by her friend, Susan McElvey, after lunch in Acworth, Ga., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Some states take abusers’ guns. Will the Supreme Court stop them?

The wreck of a traditional Mauritanian fishing boat, known as a pirogue, also used by migrants to reach Spain's Canary Islands, sits on a beach near Nouadhibou, Mauritania, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. In 2021, at least seven boats appearing to be from Northwest Africa washed up in the Caribbean and in Brazil. All carried dead bodies. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

In 2021, at least seven boats appearing to be from northwest Africa washed up in the Caribbean and in Brazil. All carried dead bodies. For nearly two years, The AP worked to uncover the story of one of those doomed boats.

In predominantly Black schools, students’ mental health is further tested by pressures and discrimination they endure because they are Black, as well as violence and poverty in their communities that have faced years of disinvestment. (AP Illustration)

From Birth to Death: Black Americans and a lifetime of disparities

From birth to death, Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared to their white counterparts.

Brine evaporates in pools at the lithium extraction plant facilities of the SQM Lithium company near Peine, Chile, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. In the “lithium triangle” – a region spanning Argentina, Chile and Bolivia – native communities sit upon a treasure trove of the stuff: an estimated trillion dollars in lithium. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Native groups sit on a treasure trove of lithium. Now mines threaten their water, culture and wealth

In the “lithium triangle” – a region spanning Argentina, Chile and Bolivia – native communities sit upon an estimated trillion dollars in lithium.

Nguyen Thi Thuy, a vendor who sells steamed buns on a floating market, paddles her boat in Can Tho, Vietnam, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. On good days she makes about $4 — hardly enough to put food on the table. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the lure of moving to the city grows even stronger amid climate shocks

The lure of the city has always been strong for the poor in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. Millions have moved from the mostly agricultural region to big cities like Ho Chi Minh City for factory jobs that offer them a chance to get ahead.

Gabrielle Longhi poses for a portrait, Friday, March 8, 2024, in Los Angeles. In a recent lawsuit, Longhi alleges she was sexually abused at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland. The sexual abuse of children by Catholic nuns often has been overlooked in the Catholic clergy abuse crisis, but survivors of nun abuse hope to raise awareness of the issue. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

Victims of Catholic nuns rely on each other after being overlooked in the clergy sex abuse crisis

The sexual abuse of children by Catholic sisters and nuns has been overshadowed by far more common reports of male clergy abuse.

Commuters take a ride in a ferry crossing the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

How this AP photographer in Istanbul found a distinctive moment observing daily life

For AP Photographer Francisco Seco, taking photos of daily life in cities around the world is one of his favorite activities because it gives him a sense of the people of that city in relaxed moments.

FILE - Archivist of the U.S., John Carlin, stands behind a 1947 Harry Truman presidential diary, July 10, 2003, at the National Archives in Washington. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

The diaries of presidents offer history in the raw — even the naked — and may have secrets to tell

Many presidents have used journals to confide in themselves, express raw opinions — and sometimes spill state secrets.