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Miners carry sacks filled with mercury ore while their colleagues light the way in San Joaquin, Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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AP documents mercury’s long trail of damage from Mexico to the Amazon

SEPT. 26, 2025

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FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Vietnam’s President To Lam pose for photos at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam on June 20, 2024. (Nhac Nguyen/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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AP exposes hidden arms payments to skirt possible sanctions on Russia

SEPT. 26, 2025

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A fisherman prepares his net in the fishing community of El Morro de Puerto Santo, on Venezuela’s Paria Peninsula, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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AP team ventures deep into Venezuela’s drug-fishing frontier after U.S. strikes

SEPT. 26, 2025

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A mural on the side of a building is shown in downtown Muscatine, Iowa, on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley.)

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AP reveals how victims are getting caught up in Trump deportation dragnet for reporting crimes

SEPT. 26, 2025

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FILE — Cardinal Angelo Becciu talks to journalists during news conference in Rome, Sept. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

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Team devises new digital tools for breaking down complex Vatican coverage

SEPT. 26, 2025

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Natalie Briggs stands inside of what was once her bedroom in the remains of her home that was damaged during Hurricane Helene in Swannanoa, N.C., on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

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Education network collaboration shows how natural disasters disrupt kids’ learning for years

SEPT. 26, 2025

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Miners carry sacks filled with mercury ore while their colleagues light the way in San Joaquin, Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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AP documents mercury’s long trail of damage from Mexico to the Amazon

From a network of caves dug into the Mexican mountains, the pink dolphins swimming in the Amazon are more than 2,500 miles away, and The Associated Press showed how toxic mercury is flowing from one to the other — all while poisoning people on the way. It’s the result of a rush for gold, at […]

SEPT. 26, 2025

FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Vietnam’s President To Lam pose for photos at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam on June 20, 2024. (Nhac Nguyen/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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AP exposes hidden arms payments to skirt possible sanctions on Russia

A tip from a source who had noted David Rising’s reporting on Vietnam led him to obtain documents showing that Russia and Vietnam have developed a backdoor method of concealing arms deal payments to avoid potential American and other Western sanctions. The Vietnamese-language document seemed legitimate, but there was no immediate way to prove it. […]

SEPT. 26, 2025

A fisherman prepares his net in the fishing community of El Morro de Puerto Santo, on Venezuela’s Paria Peninsula, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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AP team ventures deep into Venezuela’s drug-fishing frontier after U.S. strikes

After a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug boat off Venezuela’s coast, an all-formats AP team delivered the first on-the-ground report from the remote Paria Peninsula — the departure point for the vessel at the center of a deadly escalation in hemispheric anti-drug policy. Reporting under security risks, the team revealed that local fishermen, […]

SEPT. 26, 2025

A mural on the side of a building is shown in downtown Muscatine, Iowa, on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley.)

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AP reveals how victims are getting caught up in Trump deportation dragnet for reporting crimes

Taking on a new immigration beat that looks at how state and local police work with ICE, Ryan J. Foley focused on how crime victims and witnesses without legal status are affected. He soon found a striking case near his Iowa City base: Felipe de Jesus Hernandez Marcelo, who entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico, […]

SEPT. 26, 2025

FILE — Cardinal Angelo Becciu talks to journalists during news conference in Rome, Sept. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

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Team devises new digital tools for breaking down complex Vatican coverage

The Vatican’s “trial of the century” had so many twists and turns that explaining the case involving the bungling of a 350 million-euro property investment – and all of its tentacles – to readers proved a challenge ahead of the appeals phase. After writing her appeals trial text preview in a traditional story form, Vatican […]

SEPT. 26, 2025

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Education network collaboration shows how natural disasters disrupt kids’ learning for years

Building on AP’s industry role in covering natural disasters and the Education team’s Pulitzer-finalist work on educational disruption, AP’s Alia Wong led an Education Reporting Network collaboration to examine how schools recover from disaster. The “Disrupted by Disaster” project combined exclusive data on missed school days with on-the-ground reporting from AP, CalMatters, Honolulu Civil Beat, […]

SEPT. 26, 2025

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