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Islam Qudeih shows her severely malnourished shirtless, 2-year-old daughter, Shamm, to journalists at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. Doctors said Shamm may have a genetic disorder that affects muscle and bone development, but there is no way to test for it in Gaza. On Tuesday, August 12, her family was granted permission to travel to a hospital in Italy. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

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Malnourished kids arrive daily at a Gaza hospital as Netanyahu denies hunger

AUG. 22, 2025

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Ukrainian soldiers from air-defence unit of 59th brigade fire at Russian strike drones in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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AP team in Ukraine captures the reality on the ground in Ukraine as leaders step up diplomatic efforts to end war

AUG. 22, 2025

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Cayden and his mother Robyn Gillespie walk in a county park Saturday, April 26, 2025, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

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Tenacious AP reporting bypasses official stonewalling to expose a failing system for incarcerated youth

AUG. 22, 2025

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APTOPIX Colombia Indigenous Youth Recruitment

Patricia Elago Zetty, an Indigenous Guard, poses for a photo on July 16, 2025, in Caldono, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

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Courageous reporting and deep source work exposed the crisis of child recruitment in Colombia

AUG. 22, 2025

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FILE – A group of sportswriters confer with Grantland Rice, noted sports authority, seated at center, in Chicago, Nov. 13, 1949, to select Look Magazine’s All-America college football team. Seated, from left: Hal Middlesworth, Daily Oklahoman; Rice; and Bert McGrane, Des Moines Register. Standing from left: Raymond Johnson, Nashville Tennessean; Francis Powers, Chicago Daily News; Tim Cohane, Look Magazine; Charley Johnson, Minneapolis Star; Bill Leiser, San Francisco Chronicle, and HG. Salsinger, Detroit News. (AP Photo/Paul Cannon, File)

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A project celebrating 100 years and a Top 25 blog spark huge audience engagement

AUG. 22, 2025

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Orange smoke signals the start of the parade of hundreds of tall ships sailing into the Dutch capital’s harbor for the 10th edition of SAIL, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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AUG. 21, 2025

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Malnourished kids arrive daily at a Gaza hospital as Netanyahu denies hunger

Israel’s prime minister stood before the press and declared that there is no hunger in Gaza. But inside the territory, doctors and aid workers were seeing something far different — children arriving daily at hospitals skeletal, starving and sometimes already dead. With meticulous reporting, fact-checking and triple-checking, Mariam Dagga and Lee Keath worked to understand […]

AUG. 22, 2025

Ukrainian soldiers from air-defence unit of 59th brigade fire at Russian strike drones in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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AP team in Ukraine captures the reality on the ground in Ukraine as leaders step up diplomatic efforts to end war

When President Donald Trump announced that he would be meeting Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska, AP already had a team near the front lines in Ukraine, reporting on the latest developments on the eastern front where the fighting never stops. As attention turned to Alaska, where Trump said the summit would be held, the […]

AUG. 22, 2025

Cayden and his mother Robyn Gillespie walk in a county park Saturday, April 26, 2025, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

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Tenacious AP reporting bypasses official stonewalling to expose a failing system for incarcerated youth

To investigate Florida’s online school for incarcerated youth, education reporter Bianca Vázquez Toness faced official stonewalling, with no access to detention centers or public records. Communications with students were monitored, making interviews nearly impossible. To overcome these hurdles, Vázquez Toness developed sources with families, obtained detainees’ letters to lawmakers and patiently waited for a key […]

AUG. 22, 2025

Patricia Elago Zetty, an Indigenous Guard, poses for a photo on July 16, 2025, in Caldono, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

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Courageous reporting and deep source work exposed the crisis of child recruitment in Colombia

To shine a light on the recruitment of children by armed groups in Colombia, reporter Steven Grattan and photographer Nadege Mazars traveled to the dangerous Cauca region, facing immense logistical challenges and physical risk. Gaining the trust of justifiably fearful sources was paramount to their success. Leveraging her years of experience in the area, Mazars […]

AUG. 22, 2025

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A project celebrating 100 years and a Top 25 blog spark huge audience engagement

To launch its college football coverage with deeper reader engagement, a multi-department AP team centered its strategy on the wildly popular Top 25 poll and the 100th anniversary of the AP All-America team. Instead of standard coverage, the team undertook a massive archival data project, digging through a century of scarce records. They successfully compiled […]

AUG. 22, 2025

APTOPIX Mideast Wars Lebanon Pager Attack Survivors

Hussein Dheini, 12, who was wounded in the pagers attack carried out by Israel on September 17, 2024, stands next to his mother, Faten Haidar, at the entrance of their home in the village of Teir Debba, southern Lebanon, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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AP shows the personal toll of Israel’s exploding-pager attack aimed at Hezbollah

Nearly a year after thousands of pagers distributed to the Hezbollah group exploded across Lebanon, unintended victims there are still carrying scars, including children. The attack was part of an Israeli operation against the Hezbollah militant group, which had started firing rockets into Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians following the Oct. 7 attack. AP […]

AUG. 15, 2025

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