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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)

Best of AP — Second Winner

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)

Best of AP — First Winner

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)

Best of AP — Second Winner

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)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

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

AUG. 15, 2025

Abortion Trump Nominees
FILE - Protesters hold competing signs outside Manhattan federal court during an abortion-rights demonstration in New York, May 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP research into Trump’s judicial nominees shows many of them have strong anti-abortion ties

AUG. 15, 2025

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Gaza
Palestinians carry sacks of flour taken from a humanitarian aid convoy en route to Gaza City, in the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Best of AP — First Winner

AP team brings images of Gaza suffering to the world

AUG. 8, 2025

APTOPIX Trump
President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with African leaders including Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco EmbalÛ, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Best of AP — Second Winner

AP team shows deep impact of Trump administration tariffs on factory workers in Lesotho

AUG. 8, 2025

Ireland Baby Mass Graves
Historian Catherine Corless poses for a photo at Tuam cemetery, Ireland, in Tuam, Ireland, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP explores how a baby grave discovery has grown to haunt Ireland

AUG. 8, 2025

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