AP in the News

FILE - In this May 20, 2018 file photo, Joe Kekedi takes pictures as lava enters the ocean, generating plumes of steam near Pahoa, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

In this May 16, 2018 photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. Four Democratic senators are asking Pruitt for details about his new legal defense fund. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Associated Press editor Stephanie Mullen poses for a photo in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. The Associated Press has named Mullen, a journalist with more than two decades of experience leading photographers, as deputy director of storytelling and photography for the U.S. West. The appointment was announced Friday, April 27, 2018, by Anna Johnson, the AP's news director for the West region. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

FILE- In this April 18, 2017, file photo Associated Press photographs are displayed at the AP headquarters in New York. The AP reports earnings Wednesday, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

FILE - In this June 21, 2017, file photo, special counsel Robert Mueller departs after a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Associated Press and other news organizations are asking a judge to unseal records in Mueller’s Russia investigation. The media coalition argued in a court filing on April 25, 2018, that Mueller’s probe is “one of the most consequential criminal investigations in our nation’s history” and that there’s overwhelming public interest in records from the case. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Associated Press staffers Howie Rumberg, left, and Oskar Garcia pose for a photograph Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in New York, after they were named deputy sports editors for newsgathering and storytelling at the AP. Rumberg and Garcia will oversee a team of more than 100 journalists reporting and editing sports news in all media formats across the world. They will direct coverage of breaking news, planned events and enterprise and will lead efforts to integrate new techniques into the core work of developing and presenting distinctive stories to AP customers and emerging audiences. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

In this May 1, 2015 photo, Tom Berman, Central Regional Editor for The Associated Press, poses for a photo in Chicago. The news cooperative announced on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, that Berman has been appointed to the new position of regional news director for the central United States, overseeing AP's journalism and news operations across media formats in 14 states stretching from Texas to the upper Midwest. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Associated Press journalist Nancy Benac is photographed in the news agency's Washington bureau, Friday, March 16, 2018. The Associated Press has named Nancy Benac as its White House news editor. Benac is a veteran Washington journalist who has covered the presidency and national political campaigns. The appointment was announced Monday by Julie Pace, AP’s Washington bureau chief. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)