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FILE – President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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AP leads — quite literally — coverage of Trump-Musk breakup

JUNE 13, 2025

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FILE – The Warrick Power Plant, a coal-fired electricity-generating station, operates, April 8, 2025, in Newburgh, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

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AP team shows potentially staggering consequences of Trump administration’s push to overhaul environmental rules

JUNE 13, 2025

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Los Angeles Metro police on horseback disperse protesters on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

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AP visuals dominate on Los Angeles protests following immigration arrests

JUNE 13, 2025

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FILE – Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, left, and journalist Megyn Kelly, attend a confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Secretary of Health and Human Services post, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

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Trump’s surgeon general pick criticizes others’ conflicts but profits from wellness product sales

JUNE 13, 2025

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A sign supporting citizenship for American Samoans is posted outside the Log Cabin Gifts store on the waterfront in Whittier, Alaska, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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AP report examines the unique citizenship status of American Samoans and its impact on their voting rights

JUNE 13, 2025

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Eileen Lamb, from left, who was diagnosed with autism as an adult, watches over her children, Charlie Lamb and Jude, right, who also have autism, and daughter Billie, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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RFK Jr. says autism ‘destroys’ families. Here’s what those families want you to know

JUNE 13, 2025

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FILE – President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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AP leads — quite literally — coverage of Trump-Musk breakup

It was a lead that was supercharged, soared high—and then blew up. White House reporter Michelle Price’s sharp and memorable take on the sudden and very public breakup between President Donald Trump and former adviser Elon Musk cut through the din of a chaotic Thursday news cycle. The story began as a 24-word alert just […]

JUNE 13, 2025

FILE – The Warrick Power Plant, a coal-fired electricity-generating station, operates, April 8, 2025, in Newburgh, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

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AP team shows potentially staggering consequences of Trump administration’s push to overhaul environmental rules

When EPA chief Lee Zeldin announced plans to roll back more than 30 environmental regulations, AP journalists from the climate, data and Washington teams immediately began investigating the potential consequences. Data journalist M.K. Wildeman and science writer Seth Borenstein set out to examine each major EPA rule targeted for repeal under the Trump administration, tallying […]

JUNE 13, 2025

Los Angeles Metro police on horseback disperse protesters on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

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AP visuals dominate on Los Angeles protests following immigration arrests

AP’s visual journalists led global news coverage over the weekend with standout reporting from the ground during protests in Southern California sparked by immigration arrests. As President Donald Trump announced the deployment of the National Guard, AP was first to set the visual agenda with continuous, live on-the-scene coverage. Photographers and videojournalists including Jae Hong, […]

JUNE 13, 2025

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Trump’s surgeon general pick criticizes others’ conflicts but profits from wellness product sales

After President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Casey Means as surgeon general, investigative reporter Michelle R. Smith and democracy team reporter Ali Swenson took a close look at her public profile—including speeches, books, interviews and social media. What they found revealed a striking contradiction. Means has frequently criticized other doctors and regulators for having hidden financial […]

JUNE 13, 2025

A sign supporting citizenship for American Samoans is posted outside the Log Cabin Gifts store on the waterfront in Whittier, Alaska, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

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AP report examines the unique citizenship status of American Samoans and its impact on their voting rights

AP reporters in Alaska flagged an unusual federal case in Whittier, where 11 members of a single American Samoan family voted or attempted to vote in a local school board election—unaware that, as U.S. nationals, they were not legally permitted to do so. Unlike other U.S. territories, people born in American Samoa are not granted […]

JUNE 13, 2025

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RFK Jr. says autism ‘destroys’ families. Here’s what those families want you to know

Reaction was swift when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made stark and controversial claims about life for autistic children while unveiling a sweeping federal study. But AP health policy reporter Amanda Seitz noticed one important perspective missing from much of the coverage—people actually living with autism or caring for someone […]

JUNE 13, 2025

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