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USA Gymnastics Abuse Inquiry
The Chow's Gymnastics & Dance Institute is seen Aug. 4, 2025, in West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Scott McFetridge)

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AP lands scoop on a long investigation and recent arrest of a gymnastics coach accused of sexually abusing three young athletes

AUG. 29, 2025

APTOPIX Trump District of Columbia
Armed officers prepare to place handcuffs on a man from within an apartment complex, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, in the Petworth neighborhood of northwest Washington. The officers pictured had "Washington Field Office" on their shirts underneath tactical gear that said Police. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Striking visuals dominate AP’s coverage of federal intervention in Washington, D.C.

AUG. 29, 2025

Trump Wars Fact Focus
FILE - President Donald Trump speaks at the Kennedy Center, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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AP breaks news on Trump administration’s review of U.S. visa holders

AUG. 29, 2025

APTOPIX Mideast Wars Gaza Hunger
Islam Qudeih shows her severely malnourished shirtless, 2-year-old daughter, Shamm, to journalists at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. Doctors said Shamm may have a genetic disorder that affects muscle and bone development, but there is no way to test for it in Gaza. On Tuesday, August 12, her family was granted permission to travel to a hospital in Italy. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

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Malnourished kids arrive daily at a Gaza hospital as Netanyahu denies hunger

AUG. 22, 2025

APTOPIX Russia Ukraine War
Ukrainian soldiers from air-defence unit of 59th brigade fire at Russian strike drones in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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AP team in Ukraine captures the reality on the ground in Ukraine as leaders step up diplomatic efforts to end war

AUG. 22, 2025

Education Juvenile Detention
Cayden and his mother Robyn Gillespie walk in a county park Saturday, April 26, 2025, in Gainesville, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Tenacious AP reporting bypasses official stonewalling to expose a failing system for incarcerated youth

AUG. 22, 2025

APTOPIX Colombia Indigenous Youth Recruitment
Patricia Elago Zetty, an Indigenous Guard, poses for a photo on July 16, 2025, in Caldono, Colombia. (AP Photo/Nadège Mazars)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Courageous reporting and deep source work exposed the crisis of child recruitment in Colombia

AUG. 22, 2025

AP All-America at 100 Football
FILE - A group of sportswriters confer with Grantland Rice, noted sports authority, seated at center, in Chicago, Nov. 13, 1949, to select Look Magazine's All-America college football team. Seated, from left: Hal Middlesworth, Daily Oklahoman; Rice; and Bert McGrane, Des Moines Register. Standing from left: Raymond Johnson, Nashville Tennessean; Francis Powers, Chicago Daily News; Tim Cohane, Look Magazine; Charley Johnson, Minneapolis Star; Bill Leiser, San Francisco Chronicle, and HG. Salsinger, Detroit News. (AP Photo/Paul Cannon, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

A project celebrating 100 years and a Top 25 blog spark huge audience engagement

AUG. 22, 2025

APTOPIX Mideast Wars Lebanon Pager Attack Survivors
Hussein Dheini, 12, who was wounded in the pagers attack carried out by Israel on September 17, 2024, stands next to his mother, Faten Haidar, at the entrance of their home in the village of Teir Debba, southern Lebanon, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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AP shows the personal toll of Israel’s exploding-pager attack aimed at Hezbollah

AUG. 15, 2025

Texas Floods-Timeline
FILE - Rescue workers are seen a boat as they search for missing people near Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area, July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)

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AP uses exclusive audio files to build an an interactive timeline revealing chaos and lack of preparedness during deadly Texas floods

AUG. 15, 2025

POLIO-FALLAS DE ERRADICACIÓN
Un trabajador médico administra la vacuna contra la polio a un niño, el 21 de abril de 2025, en Karachi, Pakistán. (AP Foto/Fareed Khan, Archivo)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback

AUG. 15, 2025

Education Surveillance
Tim Reiland, 42, center, the parent of daughter Zoe Reiland, 17, right, and Anakin Reiland, 15, photographed in Clinton, Miss., Monday, March 10, 2025, said he had no idea their previous schools, in Oklahoma, were using surveillance technology to monitor the students. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Students arrested, called to the office for AI surveillance false alarms, AP reveals

AUG. 15, 2025

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