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Supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro take part in a caravan of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts who gathered in a show of support for him in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Bolsonaro seeks to rev up his support with motorcycle rally

By Debora Alvares and Tatiana Pollastri - Associated Press

President Jair Bolsonaro led thousands of motorcyclists on a campaign ride through Brazil's most populous state Friday, seeking to drum up support ahead of October's elections as he trails in early opinion polls.

In this Tuesday, May 19, 2020, photo, health investigator Mackenzie Bray adjusts her mask at the Salt Lake County Health Department, in Salt Lake City. Bray normally works to track contacts for people with sexually transmitted diseases, but she was re-assigned during the coronavirus pandemic. She is now one of 130 people at this county health department assigned to track down COVID-19 cases in Utah's urban center around Salt Lake City. The investigators, many of them nurses, each juggle 30 to 40 cases that can include a total of several hundred people. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) **FILE**

CDC: Gonorrhea, syphilis rose during first year of pandemic

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Cases of the sexually transmitted diseases gonorrhea and syphilis increased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than half of the infections coming from young people aged 15-24, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

Tara Kramer sits in her apartment with her cat Busy, Friday, April 8, 2022, in Des Moines, Iowa. Month by month, more of the roughly 40 million Americans who get help buying food through the federal SNAP program are seeing their benefits plunge even as the nation struggles with the biggest increase in food costs in decades. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

States scale back food stamp benefits even as prices soar

By Scott McFetridge - Associated Press

Month by month, more of the roughly 40 million Americans who get help buying groceries through the federal food stamp program are seeing their benefits plunge even as the nation struggles with the biggest increase in food costs in decades.

A member of Team Ukraine looks out over a lake at the Invictus Games venue in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, April 14, 2022. The week-long games for active servicemen and veterans who are ill, injured or wounded opens Saturday in this Dutch city that calls itself the global center of peace and justice. Those concepts seem a world away to the team of 19 athletes from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

For Ukrainian competitors Invictus Games are break from war

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Until a few days ago, Volodymyr Musyak was on the front lines defending Ukraine from Russia's devastating assault on his nation. Now he's preparing to pick up a bow and arrow in the Invictus Games archery competition.

In this June 11, 2019, photo, three wild horses come to face with Raymond, right, the only mule in the herd, on a sand dune at mile marker 16 on Swan Beach in Corolla, N.C. (Sarah Holm/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

1st foal born this year to OBX wild horses dies

Associated Press

A foal born this year to a herd of wild Spanish mustangs that roams North Carolina's Outer Banks has died unexpectedly, according to a group that manages the herd.

FILE - This May 4, 2021 file photo shows the outside of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. Small businesses that have been buffeted by the pandemic, inflation and shipping woes have another challenge to add to their plate: taxes. Tax season can be complicated for everyone, but as the April 18 filing deadline looms, small business owners, contractors, entrepreneurs and others face even more rules and regulations that are ever-changing. The Internal Revenue Service has announced a backlog and warned that more delays are to be expected. The IRS said earlier this month it was hiring 10,000 workers to deal with a backlog of 23 million items triggered by limiting operations during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

House panels probe gov't use of facial recognition software

By Fatima Hussein and Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

Two House committees have launched an investigation into the government's use of facial recognition software that was most recently used by the Internal Revenue Service, but stopped after complaints from lawmakers and privacy advocates.