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Israel Palestinians Gaza
A view of the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City after it was damaged by an Israeli strike during the war with Hamas, Wednesday. Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Best of AP — First Winner

AP teams show Palestinians working to salvage Gaza’s history

FEB. 20, 2026

Immigration Agency Misconduct
In this screengrab made from body camera footage provided by the Othello, Wash., Police Department, police officers arrest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement supervisor Koby Williams in July 2022 during an underage sex sting operation. (Othello Police Department via AP)

Best of AP — Second Winner

AP exposes criminal misconduct by ICE employees amid massive hiring surge

FEB. 20, 2026

APTOPIX Immigration Enforcement Minnesota
Two people sit in the street with their hands up in front of Minnesota State Patrol during a protest and noise demonstration calling for an end to federal immigration enforcement operations in the city, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Best of AP — Special Citation

AP staff deliver rapid, powerful coverage of Minnesota immigration enforcement surge

FEB. 20, 2026

APTOPIX US Steel Plant Explosion
U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pa., on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (Quinn Glabicki/Pittsburgh's Public Source via AP)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP collaboration with Pittsburgh’s Public Source produces standout series on deadly steel mill explosion

FEB. 20, 2026

Vladyslav Heraskevych
Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych holds his crash helmet as he stands outside the sliding center at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP’s Tim Reynolds first to report Ukrainian skeleton racer’s Olympic disqualification

FEB. 20, 2026

Climate High Seas Treaty What to Know
FILE - Corals grow off Efate Island, Vanuatu, Saturday, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP breaks news on Trump administration effort to undermine U.N. climate resolution

FEB. 20, 2026

Profound Autism
Ronan Murphy hugs his mother, Andrea, while looking at the snow falling outside their home in Ayer, Mass., on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP cuts through confusion and misinformation about autism with focus on profound needs

FEB. 20, 2026

Navy Leader Aircraft Carriers
FILE - U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Daryl Caudle, talks to selected journalists during his visit in Tokyo, Nov. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP interview with a top Navy leader reveals distinctive details on his efforts to shift aircraft carrier strategy

FEB. 20, 2026

Milan Cortina Olympics Alpine Skiing Vonn’s Father
FILE - United States' Lindsey Vonn poses with her career medals with her father Alan Kildow, in the finish area after the women's downhill race, at the alpine ski World Championships in Are, Sweden, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Andrew Dampf wins an exclusive interview with the father of injured Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn

FEB. 20, 2026

PFAS-Forever Stained
Faye Jackson has lived for decades on a patch of rural land, right, in Resaca, Ga., on the banks of the Conasauga River, seen on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Collaboration shows how the carpet industry’s reliance on forever chemicals in the South polluted a region

FEB. 13, 2026

Afghan Baby-Adoption
FILE - Children stand in front of a home destroyed during a Sept. 5, 2019, night raid by U.S. forces in a village in a remote region of Afghanistan, on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

US government worked against itself to let Marine adopt Afghan girl, documents obtained by AP show

FEB. 13, 2026

Decomposing Bodies One Victim’s Story
Derrick Johnson, whose mother's body was one of 189 left to decay in the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., holds photos of her in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Intimate, thorough and fast coverage of sentencing for Colorado funeral home owner in grisly case sets AP apart

FEB. 13, 2026

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