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Lawrence Ray, an ex-convict convicted of sex trafficking and extortion for forcing young women into prostitution or forced labor after winning trust by posing as a father-figure. Ray, who moved into his daughter's college dorm after getting out of prison, charmed her schoolmates before turning on the close-knit group and using threats and violence to force them to work for him. U.S. Attorney's office via AP hide caption
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In February, ahead of the Texas statewide primary, Carlos Vanegas at the Harris County Elections Office in Houston pushes a cart with mail-in ballots to be sent to voters. The county ultimately rejected thousands of the mail ballots it received back. Scott Dalton for NPR hide caption
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Charging Putin for potential war crimes is difficult, and any penalty hard to enforce
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Nursing home residents suffer from staffing shortages, but the jobs are hard to fill
In this photo taken from video footage released by the Roscosmos Space Agency, three Russian cosmonauts sport yellow spacesuits upon arriving on the International Space Station. A NASA astronaut now says it was not in support for Ukraine, but for the Russians' university school colors. Roscosmos/AP hide caption
El Peso Hero saves civilians in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol in a special edition of Héctor Rodríguez's self-published comic book series. The 18-page issue is free, with text in English, Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian. Héctor Rodríguez hide caption
Mexican American superhero saves Ukrainian civilians in comic book issue
People who fled the war in Ukraine and members of the Ukrainian diaspora pray in an Orthodox church in Krakow on Sunday. Omar Marques/Getty Images hide caption
Krakow, Poland's second-largest city, strains to accommodate Ukrainian refugees
Shelter animals are also suffering the consequences of the war in Ukraine. This week, volunteers at a shelter outside Kyiv, the capital, found more than 250 malnourished dogs that had survived weeks without food or water but also more than 300 that had starved to death. Rodrigo Abd/AP hide caption
Neighborhoods are separated by barriers as part of lockdown measures in Shanghai to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant. Hector Retamal /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Sri Lankan nuns protest against the economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Eranga Jayawardena/AP hide caption
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