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People react as they celebrate following the announcement that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace plan to pause the fighting, at a plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Israel and Hamas accept part of Trump peace plan, will free hostages and prisoners

OCT. 17, 2025

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Ross Colquhoun wakes up his wife Mary E. Brunkow to talk about her winning a Nobel Prize in medicine for part of her work on peripheral immune tolerance, in Seattle, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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AP’s race to Nobel winners highlights exclusive access and global collaboration

OCT. 17, 2025

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A child refugee from Myanmar stands on a water pipe while foraging for food in a forest near the Mae La refugee camp in the Tak province of Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

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AP tells exclusive story about devastation caused by U.S. foreign aid cuts

OCT. 17, 2025

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Cassandra Garduño cleans a canal in her chinampa, an island farm built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago, in San Gregorio Atlapulco, a borough of Mexico City, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

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AP and Mongabay join forces on powerful video about women reclaiming Aztec island farms in Mexico City

OCT. 17, 2025

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A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent takes part in an early morning operation in Park Ridge, Ill., Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

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AP reporting team uncovers a DHS ad blitz stirring up local police frustration

OCT. 17, 2025

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FILE – Louisiana State’s Maree Bennie (15) throws up her arms in defense as Delta State’s Wanda Hairston of Delta State passes the ball during the finals of the AIAW national basketball championships in Minneapolis, Minn., March 28, 1977. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

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Package on the 50th anniversary of the women’s basketball poll tips off season-long coverage looking at the impact of the AP Top 25 rankings

OCT. 17, 2025

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Israel and Hamas accept part of Trump peace plan, will free hostages and prisoners

It started when Evan Vucci, who was covering President Donald Trump at a roundtable event with conservative Christians, noticed an agitated Marco Rubio slipping Trump a note. Vucci and other news photographers in the room zoomed in on the handwriting on White House stationery that read, “You need to approve a Truth Social post soon […]

OCT. 17, 2025

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AP’s race to Nobel winners highlights exclusive access and global collaboration

With the Nobel team in Northern Europe alerting the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, the clock was ticking to find this year’s laureates. That task fell for the second year in a row to science writer Adithi Ramakrishnan, who searched for addresses and contact details for the winners or their institutions. In Seattle, photographer Lindsey […]

OCT. 17, 2025

A child refugee from Myanmar stands on a water pipe while foraging for food in a forest near the Mae La refugee camp in the Tak province of Thailand, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

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AP tells exclusive story about devastation caused by U.S. foreign aid cuts

Kristen Gelineau, who has reported on Myanmar and the Rohingya crisis since 2017, investigated claims that U.S. aid cuts were causing deaths, contrary to American officials’ assertions that they were not. With foreign journalists barred from the region and communications cut off, Gelineau relied on trusted local contacts to secure rare interviews inside Rohingya camps […]

OCT. 17, 2025

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AP and Mongabay join forces on powerful video about women reclaiming Aztec island farms in Mexico City

After meeting about a year ago, Teresa de Miguel, video producer for the Climate and Environment team, and Lucía Torres, head of video at environmental news platform Mongabay, collaborated on a video about chinampas, the island farms created by the Aztecs in Mexico City thousands of years ago. While much has been written about chinampas, […]

OCT. 17, 2025

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent takes part in an early morning operation in Park Ridge, Ill., Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

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AP reporting team uncovers a DHS ad blitz stirring up local police frustration

In the middle of the U.S. government shutdown, reporter Tom Beaumont noticed that the Department of Homeland Security remained well-funded. It was running a major ad campaign to recruit deportation officers, litigators and investigators under President Trump’s immigration agenda. Using AdImpact data, Beaumont found that DHS was targeting its ads specifically in “sanctuary cities” to […]

OCT. 17, 2025

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Package on the 50th anniversary of the women’s basketball poll tips off season-long coverage looking at the impact of the AP Top 25 rankings

The package tipping off the 50th anniversary of the women’s basketball poll resonated with customers and readers, thanks to a team effort led by Doug Feinberg. Doug’s sources and relationships built over 25 years covering the sport were instrumental in shaping coverage that illustrated how much of an impact the AP Top 25 rankings have […]

OCT. 17, 2025

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