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APTOPIX Foreign Aid Sex Work or Starve Photo Essay
Princy Tamang, a former HIV outreach worker who turned to sex work to survive after losing her job amid the U.S. foreign aid cuts, poses for a portrait, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Hetauda, Nepal. Tamang, who has endured beatings from clients and has been forced to have sex without condoms since transitioning to sex work, fears she will contract HIV. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

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Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive 

JULY 31, 2026

ICE Shooting Maine
Members of the Capitol Area Indivisible group protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside the Edmund Muskie Federal Building, Thursday, July 16, 2026, in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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AP team uncovers details about Maine ICE officer who killed Colombian man

JULY 24, 2026

AP Poll US Jews Divisions
FILE - President Donald Trump gestures during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House, Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington, as Rabbi Levi Shemtov watches. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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AP-NORC poll and reporting highlights U.S. Jewish community’s views on sensitive issues

JULY 17, 2026

Iran Stress on Families
FILE - A man sits on a bench in a memorial, set for the school children who were killed during a strike on a school in southern town of Minab on Feb. 28, in northern Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

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As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian children 

JULY 10, 2026

APTOPIX Venezuela Earthquake
A man jumps on a collapsed building after an earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Adrian Naranjo)

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Defining the story: AP’s comprehensive coverage of Venezuela’s double earthquake   

JULY 6, 2026

Climate India Heat Factories
Sweat is visible on a worker on a hot day at Vinit Fabrics in Palsana near Surat, India, Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

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Multiformat AP team brings audiences inside India’s stifling factory floors 

JUNE 26, 2026

Philippines Earthquake
Residents pass by a collapsed structure after an earthquake in General Santos, Philippines on Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo)

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AP delivers comprehensive earthquake coverage through all formats

JUNE 19, 2026

Immigration Separated Again
Ederson Galicia Alva, right, walks with his mother, Mirsy Maricela Alva López, and sister, Briseidy, through the historic center of Guatemala City, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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AP finds that dozens of kids separated during Trump’s first administration faced separation again / From festering infections to untreated cancers, AP-KFF Health News collaboration reveals scope and depth of medical neglect in ICE custody 

JUNE 12, 2026

APTOPIX Immigration Detention Centers
Detainees wave and spell out a rough SOS to a helicopter flying overhead, at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Krome Detention Center, Friday, July 4, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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AP investigation finds ICE detainees dying by suicide at ‘alarming’ rate

JUNE 5, 2026

APTOPIX Congo Ebola
A woman cries as Red Cross workers carry the coffin of a person who died of Ebola from a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

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AP’s Goma team delivers haunting all-formats coverage of Ebola outbreak in one of the world’s most remote and vulnerable places

MAY 29, 2026

Christian IVF Doctor
Sarah Atkinson, left, and Dr. John Gordon verify patient information while prepping a frozen embryo for transfer at Rejoice Fertility, Jan. 11, 2026, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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AP delivers a nuanced look into the debates over IVF through prism of Christian IVF doctor’s career pivot

MAY 22, 2026

APTOPIX Hantavirus Ship
Passengers on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, watch epidemiologists board the boat in Praia, during their voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)

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Team efforts help AP dominate developing story of major global interest

MAY 15, 2026

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