Inside the Scam - FRONTLINE / AP collaboration

Follow scams as they unfold — and examine tactics used to manipulate victims.

How Africa is grappling with an impending aging crisis

Across Africa, a wave of longevity is arriving, promising to reshape the demographics of a continent wholly unprepared for it. This AP series explores the impacts of aging in Africa.

In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — New pants to replace Alex Morisey’s tattered khakis will have to wait. There’s no cash left for sugar-free cookies either.

Empty spaces, broken hearts in a Texas town gutted by loss

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Josie Albrecht drove frantically from house to house, retracing the school bus route she drives twice a day, delivering Uvalde’s children safely to and from school.

Echoes of one million lost in the spaces they left behind

Put your son in Sherman Peebles' barber chair and along with a buzz you could count on Peebles, a sheriff’s deputy who cut hair as a sideline, to issue a fatherly warning about staying out of trouble.

As COVID fueled the drug crisis, Native Americans hit worst

BEMIDJI, Minn. (AP) — The medicine man told her she should soon give her son back to the earth. Rachel Taylor kissed her fingertips and pressed them to the crow sewn onto a leather bag nestled on the...

'They become our family:' Couple make home in US heartland for Afghan allies

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For tribes, 'good fire' a key to restoring nature and people

WEITCHPEC, Calif. (AP) — Elizabeth Azzuz stood in prayer on a Northern California mountainside, arms outstretched, grasping a handmade torch of dried wormwood branches, the fuel her Native American...