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Iran US Israel
A woman sits on rubble across from a residential building damaged last Sunday during the U.S.-Israeli air campaign in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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AP’s Tehran team covers story under increasingly grim circumstances

MARCH 20, 2026

Mideast Wars Palestinians Transferred from Gaza
Palestinians who traveled to South Africa via a charter flight organized by an Israeli group whose founder supported U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to resettle Palestinians from Gaza stand in their temporary flat in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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AP finds an Israeli group behind the mystery flights that have evacuated Palestinians from Gaza

MARCH 20, 2026

Trump Sewage Leak Infrastructure
Workers build a cofferdam to stop the flow of raw sewage into the Potomac River after a massive sewage pipe rupture in Glen Echo, Md., Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Human waste backing up in basements is a gut-churning sign of US infrastructure problems

MARCH 20, 2026

Trump Immigration Missing Data
FILE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a person, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Immigration data story points out holes in administration’s transparency claims

MARCH 20, 2026

Hakan Fidan
Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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World exclusive interview with Turkish foreign minister on the war engulfing the Middle East

MARCH 20, 2026

Immigration Detention Conditions
Owen Ramsingh, who spent months in Camp East Montana before his deportation to The Netherlands, poses for a portrait in his father's home in Utrecht, Netherlands, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

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AP uses 911 calls to offer one of the most detailed accounts of life inside largest ICE detention camp

MARCH 13, 2026

Trump
President Donald Trump arrives for a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Best of AP — Second Winner

Bauder approaches media beat with sharp, audience-friendly coverage

MARCH 13, 2026

CDC Vaccine Committee
FILE - Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, with the FDA, listens during a meeting of the Advisory Committee in Immunization Practices at the CDC, June 25, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Accountability reporting gets inside secretive FDA deliberations on antidepressants

MARCH 13, 2026

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Best of AP — Honorable Mention

The US-Israeli war with Iran in maps, graphics and images

MARCH 13, 2026

China Cheap Housing
Residents play with their children in a playground at the semi-abandoned "Life in Venice" housing complex in Qidong, on China's east coast, Feb. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP sheds light on a trend in China of young people “retiring” early

MARCH 13, 2026

APTOPIX Lebanon Israel Iran
Rescue workers check a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Best of AP — First Winner

Speed, planning and teamwork give The Associated Press a decisive advantage in covering the Iran war in its earliest hours

MARCH 6, 2026

Iran Hospital Crackdown
FILE - In this photo obtained by The Associated Press, Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP, File)

Best of AP — Second Winner

AP reporter speaks to Iranian doctors who say agents intimidated them and obstructed medical care

MARCH 6, 2026

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