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Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette Moore, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the late 1940s.

Remembering the man who 'laid the groundwork for the modern civil rights movement'

Seventy years ago, Florida civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette, were killed in a bombing at their home on Christmas Day. No one was charged with their murders.

Surgical instruments used in a kidney transplant in 2016. The agency that oversees organ allocation, the United Network for Organ Sharing, is under scrutiny after a report documented loss and waste of donated organs, often because of problems transporting the organs.

Transplant agency is criticized for donor organs arriving late, damaged or diseased

A probe found troubling lapses in the country's organ transplant system. Blood types mismatched, diseased organs accidentally transplanted and donor organs lost or damaged in transit.

Carl Allamby recently completed all of his training and was hired as an attending physician at Cleveland Clinic's Hillcrest Hospital. He's 51.

What's it take to go from mechanic to physician at 51? Patience, an Ohio doctor says

Talk about a late bloomer. Carl Allamby, who ran an auto repair shop for more than 20 years, was recently hired as an attending physician at Cleveland Clinic's Hillcrest Hospital at age 51.

New record label La Boîte à Pépites dedicated its first release to French composer Charlotte Sohy (1877-1955).

A new label revives forgotten female composers' music

The new record label La Boîte à Pépites is dedicated to raising the profile of female composers whose works have been neglected.

Many soldiers in Ukraine will long be left with the mental toll of trench warfare

The brutal trench warfare-style fighting happening in eastern Ukraine is traumatizing soldiers. There are concerns in Ukraine about the psychological legacy it will leave behind.

A boy stands amidst trees in the Tangi Valley where a river and irrigation ditches water crops of tomatoes, sunflowers, grapes and apricots. During the war the remote mountain valleys were the scene of brutal combat and attacks on civilians.

Afghans in a battle-scarred valley welcomed Taliban rule, but expect more

In rural Wardak province, some Afghans celebrated the return of the Taliban. One year later, here's what they want from the new government.

Attorney General Merrick Garland. visits the Tops Friendly Market grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, the site of a May mass shooting in which 10 Black people were killed.

Buffalo shooting suspect says his motive was to prevent 'eliminating the white race'

Prosecutors release court documents in suspect Payton Gendron's first appearance in federal court on hate crime charges.

Crime scene tape is stretched across an area at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, Calif., Sunday, May 15, 2022, after a fatal shooting.

California churchgoers hog-tied gunman in deadly attack

Four others were critically wounded and another person suffered minor injures, officials said.

A truck arrives at Larne port in County Antrim, where a customs post has been established as part of the Northern Ireland Protocol, on November 29, 2021.

A trade dispute between the U.K. and the EU erupts over post-Brexit deal

The international trade dispute has drawn widespread condemnation and threatened to disrupt the relative peace in Northern Ireland since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Belfast.

A mural of Rep. John Lewis on a street named after him Feb. 11, in Nashville, Tenn. The late Lewis was part of a movement that marched downtown from the historically Black neighborhood of North Nashville to take part in lunch counter sit-ins. That same neighborhood is redistricted into a mostly white congressional district, which some Democrats are comparing past civil rights violations.

Today in Nashville, 9 Republicans run for a seat redistricted out of Democrats' reach

GOP lawmakers in Tennessee have redrawn Nashville from one Democratic congressional district into three GOP-leaning districts. Democrats will have a difficult, if not impossible, time getting elected.

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