Best of the AP

SpaceX IPO

FILE - Elon Musk departs after a welcome ceremony with President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Best of the AP — Second Winner

AP delivers stellar all-formats coverage of SpaceX stock debut that turned founder Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire

JUNE 19, 2026

WCup Homelessness Soccer

Tommy Elam sits on a sidewalk with his belongings in downtown Atlanta on Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/R.J. Rico)

Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

Ahead of the World Cup, AP examines how some host cities house homeless people

JUNE 19, 2026

Kenya School Fire

A relative grieves while standing between caskets carrying the remains of girls who died in the Utumishi Academy school fire during a memorial service at Gilgil Stadium, Nakuru County, Kenya, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

AP offers detailed accounts of Kenya’s school fire, from breaking news to the funeral

JUNE 19, 2026

Chad Sexual Exploitation

FILE - Refugees run for food in the Tine transit camp in Chad's Wadi Fara province on May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly, File)

Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

In an exclusive, AP reveals results of an aid group’s investigation into sexual exploitation of refugees

JUNE 19, 2026

UFC Freedom 250 Trump

President Donald Trump and Dana White, UFC president and CEO, arrive for UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, June 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

AP documents the UFC Freedom 250 cage fight at the White House with a strong visual package

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)

Best of the AP — First Winner

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

Sudan Scars Of War

A woman who said she was abducted and sexually assaulted by the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, before paying a ransom, poses for a portrait after an interview with The Associated Press in Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Best of the AP — Second Winner

AP delivers exclusive and tough reporting on Sudanese women facing sexual assault in the country’s war

JUNE 12, 2026

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 the 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 the 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 the AP — Honorable Mention

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

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)

Best of the AP — First Winner

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

JUNE 5, 2026

Migration Equatorial Guinea US Deportees

A street scene in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Best of the AP — Second Winner

AP delivers exclusive and rare account from inside an African hotel where asylum seekers deported by the U.S. are imprisoned

JUNE 5, 2026

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