Best of AP — Honorable Mention

WCup Iran Soccer
FILE - Nigeria's Akor Adams, right, fights for the ball with Iran's Mohammad Ghorbani during a friendly soccer match between Iran and Nigeria in Antalya, southern Turkey, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Riza Ozel, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP lands exclusive interviews with Iranian players at World Cup training camp

JUNE 12, 2026

France Notre Dame Underground Treasures
Archaeological workers wearing hard hats dig 4 meters (13 feet) underground during excavations outside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Paris staff negotiate exclusive access to an archaeological dig beneath Notre Dame

JUNE 12, 2026

New Zealand Steampunk Festival
Ryleigh Shepherd competes in a parasol duelling contest at the Steampunk NZ Festival in ?amaru, New Zealand, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP captures the creativity and community spirit of a quirky steampunk festival in New Zealand

JUNE 12, 2026

Venezuela Colombia
Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez waves as she waits for Colombian President Gustavo Petro at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP reveals prosecutors were told to stand down on Venezuelan leader

JUNE 5, 2026

Pentagon Congress
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense hearing on the budget request for the Department of Defense, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Pentagon team scores a pair of scoops related to the Iran war

JUNE 5, 2026

Russia Putin War Narrative
FILE - Smoke rises in the aftermath of a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Zoya Shu, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

A timely look inside the pressures shaping Putin’s next moves

JUNE 5, 2026

Trump China
President Donald Trump gestures to reporters as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Washington, on return from Beijing where he met with China's President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP provides incisive, cascading coverage of the evolving political landscape

MAY 29, 2026

FBI Congress
FBI director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration; the United States Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives the on Capitol Hill, Tuesday May 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Aggressive investigative reporting and public records tracking expose controversial FBI travel scoop

MAY 22, 2026

Teenage Buddhist Lama
Buddhist lamas, Trulshik Yangsi Rinpoche, left, and Jalue Dorje, who is recognized as the eighth Terchen Taksham Rinpoche, laugh while posing for a portrait at the Yak and Yeti hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Years of deep source building yields an unmatched all-formats portrait of an American Buddhist lama’s Himalayan journey

MAY 22, 2026

Mexico Violence
A National Guardsman walks past a resident sitting outside her home after armed attacks by local criminal groups forced more than dozens of residents to flee, in Tula, Mexico, Friday, May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Cross-format bravery and rare access expose the invisible displacement crisis of Indigenous communities in Mexico

MAY 22, 2026

Sweden Military Exercises
Swedish servicemen looks out of an armoured vehicle during a military exercises in Gotland, Sweden, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Burrows)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Enterprise reporting and sharp linguistic tradecraft turn routine NATO exercise into an agenda-setting scoop on military readiness

MAY 22, 2026

Immigrants Public Housing
A plastic dollhouse sits among a pile of furniture discarded by families in a public housing subdivision in Port Isabel, Texas, on April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Deep beat reporting and strategic analysis connect local public housing exodus to sweeping federal policy changes

MAY 22, 2026

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