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Laryssa Moskvichova and her children fled the war in Ukraine 3 months ago and resettled in Prudentópolis, a Brazilian town founded by Ukrainians. She's been baking and selling Ukrainian specialties in her new home — like the <em>oreshki </em>on the plate. It's a walnut-shaped cookie filled with <em>doce de leite. </em>The markers belong to her 6-year-old daughter, who had just been coloring.

PHOTOS: Ukrainian refugees feel surprisingly at home in Brazil's 'Little Ukraine'

Eight families fled the war and traveled 5,000 miles to Brazil to live in a town settled by Ukrainians over a century ago. The language and customs — and kindnesses — have eased their transition.

"Wrecked shrimp boats and other vessels littered the waterfront on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, FL, one week after Hurricane Ian made landfall.

Shutting an agency managing sprawl might have put more people in Hurricane Ian's way

More than a decade ago, growth in Florida was managed under a statewide agency that provided checks and balances to prevent sprawl and protect natural resources. Then state leaders closed it.

Like millions of people, Michelle Milkowski bought Bitcoin and other digital currencies as the crypto industry spent millions of dollars on marketing.

Amid the hype, they bought crypto near its peak. Now, they cope with painful losses

Many first-time investors bought Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as they neared all-time highs, and crypto companies spent millions on marketing. Today, they are coping with painful losses.

Wooden crosses mark burials at a mass grave site in newly liberated Izium, Ukraine. Some of the graves have a name and date written in thick black marker, others have simply a number scrawled across — unidentified.

Outside a liberated Ukrainian town, inspectors search for evidence of war crimes

On the outskirts of the recently liberated town of Izium, investigators have found what Ukrainian officials are calling a mass grave. It is now being inspected for possible evidence of war crimes.

Larisa, 76, lives alone in her apartment in Sloviansk, Ukraine. She hasn't been outside since before the war.

For older Ukrainians in front-line cities, visits from social workers bring comfort

In Sloviansk, many of those who remain are over 60. Social workers help with food, medicine and cleaning. An 86-year-old calls her social worker "Firefly," saying, "She brings light in a dark time."

A mural in memory of Mary Luten, 59, who died while saving others in the Waverly flood, sits on display at The Walls Art Park. The flood on Aug. 21, 2021, killed 20 people and damaged more than 700 homes.

In a flood-ravaged Tennessee town, uncertainty hangs over the recovery

It's been one year since a flood tore through Waverly, Tenn., and killed 20 people. There's been lots of effort to rebuild, but it's still unclear if the town will ever be the same.

Miles Hatfield at his Kentucky home, which he had to abandon after it was flooded by runoff from an old coal mine.

How big coal companies avoid cleaning up their messes

A Bloomberg News/NPR investigation found that large U.S. coal companies used bankruptcy and asset transfers to move old mines to shaky new owners, putting at risk federally mandated land reclamation.

From left: Philippa, 23, from Sydney, Australia; Laura, 23, from Melbourne; and Isabella, 23, from Sydney wait in line to enter Tresor, one of Germany's popular nightclubs for electronic music, in Berlin in the early morning hours of Sept. 4.

How a whiskey-fueled meeting in 1949 led to Berlin's famed techno scene

All-night clubs in the German capital have long drawn "techno tourists." That might never have happened had a hotelier failed to negotiate the end of the city's curfew following World War II.

Paradegoers celebrate at the New York City Pride parade on Sunday.

NYC Pride sees fresh wave of activism from Supreme Court's abortion decision

For the first time since COVID, the LGBTQ Pride Parade happened in New York City on Sunday, June 26, 2022.

Luisa García is the director of Profem Tijuana, a Mexican clinic that offers abortions and is near the border with the United States. In July, Americans made up an estimated 50% of patients seeking abortions there.

This Mexican clinic is offering discreet abortions to Americans just over the border

In May, Americans made up 25% of patients receiving abortions at one clinic in Tijuana. By July, it was an estimated 50%. The director believes it's due to cost, privacy and convenience.

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