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Texas is No. 1 in preseason AP Top 25 for first time, edging Penn St, Ohio St; 10 SEC teams ranked

AUG. 12, 2025

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno raises his right fist during a rally for Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, in Middletown, Ohio, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)

A US senator from Colombia emerges as a Trump link for Latin America’s conservatives

AUG. 12, 2025

A vendor gives “pan de batalla,” or battle bread, which is made with government subsidized flour, to a client at a restaurant in La Paz, Bolivia, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

How a shrunken piece of bread explains Bolivia’s economic catastrophe ahead of elections

AUG. 11, 2025

In this image made from video, Maple, an English springer spaniel wearing a protective suit, looks up at her handler, Sue Stejskal, at Michigan State University’s Pollinator Performance Center Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

Former K-9 Maple is busy as a bee sniffing out threats to Michigan State University colonies

AUG. 11, 2025

Vobia Kawaja, a 34-year-old mother of five, sits outside her home with her children and neighbors’ children in Kotobi, Mundri West County, South Sudan, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Florence Miettaux)

Mental health clinics in violence-prone South Sudan are rare and endangered

AUG. 11, 2025

Detroit Lions safety Morice Norris (26) is hit in the helmet by Atlanta Falcons running back Nathan Carter (38) during the second half of an NFL preseason football game Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Lions’ Morice Norris shares good news after he was taken off field in ambulance

AUG. 9, 2025

Palestinians carry sacks of flour taken from a humanitarian aid convoy en route to Gaza City, in the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

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Best of AP — First Winner

AP team brings images of Gaza suffering to the world

The desperation inside Gaza as food became increasingly and dangerously scarce was abundantly clear in the video and photos our team in Gaza captured in recent days. Our exclusive footage and images, used extensively by our customers, show Palestinians clambering over trucks, snatching at whatever they can get their hands on, and hunting for food […]

AUG. 8, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with African leaders including Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco EmbalÛ, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Best of AP — Second Winner

AP team shows deep impact of Trump administration tariffs on factory workers in Lesotho

While global tariff coverage has largely focused on major U.S. trading partners, a team of AP journalists came across a clothing factory in Lesotho that had largely closed its doors under the weight of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The team — on a reporting trip in the area for another story — seized the opportunity […]

AUG. 8, 2025

Historian Catherine Corless poses for a photo at Tuam cemetery, Ireland, in Tuam, Ireland, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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AP explores how a baby grave discovery has grown to haunt Ireland

When officials in Ireland announced in June they would soon begin digging at a suspected mass grave for children born to unwed mothers, AP staffers in the U.K. immediately began planning an all-formats package. They knew interest would be intense in what was found at the site, a former home for those mothers run by […]

AUG. 8, 2025

In this photo provided by Sea Shepherd, a whale swims near the krill trawler Fu Xing Hai with mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula in the background, on April 2, 2025. (Youenn Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd via AP)

AP documents Elon Musk’s elevation of far-right figures in Europe

X’s amplification and elevation of Elon Musk since he bought Twitter has been reported before, but an AP team took a fresh and data-driven approach to document how Musk has wielded his power online to elevate far-right players across Europe. With no prospect of help from X, AP’s data team worked with the data provider […]

AUG. 8, 2025

FILE – Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows addresses a livestream as election workers scan ballots, Nov. 12, 2024, in Augusta Maine. (AP Photo/David Sharp, File)

AP breaks news on anticipated shutdown of Antarctic krill fishery after record catch

Goodman built on earlier reporting about industrial krill fishing in Antarctica with a notable scoop about overfishing in one of the world’s most sensitive sea areas. A source he’d cultivated from earlier reporting shared a July catch report that showed trawling for the tiny crustacean critical to whales’ diets was at a record and nearing […]

AUG. 8, 2025