Best of the AP

Kingmaker Hero
AP Illustration / Marshall Ritzel

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP documents Elon Musk’s elevation of far-right figures in Europe

AUG. 8, 2025

Ocean-Fisheries-Antarctic-Krill
In this photo provided by Sea Shepherd, a whale swims near the krill trawler Fu Xing Hai with mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula in the background, on April 2, 2025. (Youenn Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd via AP)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP breaks news on anticipated shutdown of Antarctic krill fishery after record catch

AUG. 8, 2025

Elections Justice Department
FILE - Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows addresses a livestream as election workers scan ballots, Nov. 12, 2024, in Augusta Maine. (AP Photo/David Sharp, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Collaboration between beat team and AP statehouse network highlights Justice Department’s reach for voter data

AUG. 8, 2025

Mobile Homes Water Problems
Gerardo Sanchez, an outreach coordinator with the immigrant and farmworker justice group TODEC, helps deliver bottled water to mobile home residents in Oasis, Calif., Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

For millions in US mobile home parks, clean and safe tap water isn’t a given

AUG. 8, 2025

Education Digital Surveillance
FILE - A student uses a tablet during a middle school class in Johns Creek, Ga., May 9, 2013. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Students have been called to the office — and even arrested — for AI surveillance false alarms

AUG. 8, 2025

AP Poll AI
Audiologist Courtney Thayer sits at her desk in her office, Monday, July 28, 2025, in West Des Moines, Iowa. A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans say they have used artificial intelligence to search for information, according to a new poll that highlights the ubiquity of the technology. But it's younger adults who appear to be the generation leaning the most into AI, with many using it for brainstorms and work tasks. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Best of AP — First Winner

AP-NORC polling tracker provides a digital home for nearly a decade of public opinion data

AUG. 1, 2025

Immigration Militarized Border
A Stryker combat vehicle sits atop a hill overlooking the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Sunland Park, N.M., Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Best of AP — Second Winner

All-formats AP team gains extensive, exclusive access to militarized border zones

AUG. 1, 2025

Bathrooms Statehouses Women
On Monday, July 21, 2025, Colorado House Majority Leader Monica Duran, D-Wheat Ridge, holds a photo of Rep. Arie Taylor, the state's first Black woman legislator, who was instrumental in creating the first women's restroom at the state Capitol in Denver. (AP Photo/Rachel Woolf)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Women in legislatures across the U.S. fight for ‘potty parity’

AUG. 1, 2025

US Petroglyphs Hawaii
Cultural practitioner Glen Kila walks around the petroglyphs carved into the rock at Pokai Bay during low tide, July 22, 2025, in Waianae, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP joy and wonder video on Hawaii petroglyphs earns widespread customer use and hundreds of thousands of online views

AUG. 1, 2025

Trump-Immigration-Health
With posters illustrating stages of pregnancy behind them, people attend a health clinic about diabetes held by Holy Family Services, a birth center and women's clinic in the Rio Grande Valley, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Weslaco, Texas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP journalists document the impact of immigration policies on public health

AUG. 1, 2025

Trump Education Grant Freeze
Children raise their hands while participating in activities during the East Providence Boys and Girls Club Summer Camp at Emma G. Whiteknact Elementary School on Thursday, July 10, 2025, in Providence R.I. (AP Photo/Sophie Park)

Best of AP — First Winner

AP digs deep to illustrate real-life impact of Trump policies

JULY 25, 2025

Trump
President Donald Trump is greeted by Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., as he arrives at "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Best of AP — Second Winner

Emails show DeSantis administration blindsided county officials with plans for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

JULY 25, 2025

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