Best of the AP

Teenage Terror Wave

(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP exclusive reporting revealed an alarming rise in underage terrorist suspects, radicalized online

APRIL 18, 2025

Trump

President Donald Trump signs an executive order during an event in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Election graphics team, DC bureau collaborate on innovative interactive of Trump connections

APRIL 18, 2025

Midwest-Carbon-Pipeline-Lawsuits-Takeaways

A sign protesting the installation of a Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline stands on a farm in Lake County, S.D., on Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP journalists team with Lee Enterprises to investigate a controversial carbon pipeline

APRIL 18, 2025

Texas Attorney General Investigation

FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Best of AP — First Winner

AP reporters get scoop by uncovering the end of the Paxton probe

APRIL 11, 2025

China Diplomats Dating Banned

FILE - Uniformed and plainclothes security officers stand guard outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Best of AP — Second Winner

AP reports exclusively on first known blanket ban on U.S. diplomats dating foreign citizens since Cold War

APRIL 11, 2025

Masters Memorabilia Thefts

FILE - The clubhouse of the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., is seen in this Sunday, April 3, 2005, file photo. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP provides unparalleled insight into the challenging Masters golf course in an interactive graphic

APRIL 11, 2025

Severe Weather

Damaged equipment sits on a farm struck by Wednesday night's tornado on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Lake City, Ark. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP details hollowed-out National Weather Service offices that experts say risk lives

APRIL 11, 2025

Laughing Gas-FDA Warning

FILE - A sign for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP breaks news of FDA tobacco chief’s removal

APRIL 11, 2025

A rescuer works through rubble of a collapsed building following Friday's earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo)

A rescuer works through rubble of a collapsed building following Friday's earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 1, 2025. (AP Photo)

Best of AP — First Winner

Seamless collaboration delivers swift and multifaceted all-formats coverage of the Southeast Asia earthquake

APRIL 4, 2025

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Oscars Director

Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian director of "No Other Land," is released from a police station in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba a day after being detained by the Israeli army following an attack by Jewish settlers, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Best of AP — Second Winner

AP breaks and dominates on story of Oscar-winning filmmaker’s detention in occupied West Bank

APRIL 4, 2025

El Salvador Deportees

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

An AP team goes to the birthplace of Tren de Aragua, the gang put at the center of Trump’s anti-immigrant narrative

APRIL 4, 2025

Millennial Saint

A teenager uses a smartphone to take a picture at the tomb of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

When covering a millennial saint, AP journalists show flexibility and fresh approach

APRIL 4, 2025

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