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After Immigration Raids Photo Essay
Anaise, 3, clings to her mother, Veronica, an immigrant from Guatemala, as she works at a sewing machine in Los Angeles, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, amid ongoing ICE raids. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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AP reconstruction of the attempt to remove Guatemalan children from U.S. custody breaks news

SEPT. 12, 2025

Guatemala US Deportation Flights
People wait for loved ones from Guatemala deported from the United States outside La Aurora International Airport, in Guatemala City, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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AP offers exclusive account of deportation flight carrying migrant children

SEPT. 5, 2025

Venezuela Food Insecurity
A student shares her breakfast with a classmate at school in Coro, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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AP’s multiformat team shows the daily struggles for many Venezuelans to access food

SEPT. 5, 2025

School-Shooting-Minneapolis
Law enforcement officers gather outside the Annunciation Church's school in response to a reported mass shooting, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

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AP team tirelessly covers Minneapolis Catholic school shooting

SEPT. 5, 2025

Housing Cuts Rural America
Heather Colley, right, poses with her son, Michah, outside their home Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Talbott, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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Trump wants to axe an affordable housing grant that’s a lifeline for many rural communities

SEPT. 5, 2025

Ocean-Fisheries-The Fishing War
Famara Ndure, a fisherman for more than 40 years, leans against his boat in Gunjur, Gambia, after a day of work, on March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Grace Ekpu)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Exclusive all-format story highlights Gambian fishing war

SEPT. 5, 2025

APTOPIX Katrina Photo Projections Photo Essay
This photo of Leonard Thomas, 23, crying in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, taken by AP photographer Rick Bowmer, is projected Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, onto the flood wall in the Lower Ninth Ward, which was breached, flooding major parts of the city. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP photos, video, social take center stage for Hurricane Katrina anniversary coverage

SEPT. 5, 2025

Climate Scientists Trump
FILE - A firefighter battles the Canyon Fire on Aug. 7, 2025, in Hasley Canyon, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Scientists give harsh grades to Trump administration work aimed at undoing a key climate finding 

SEPT. 5, 2025

USA Gymnastics Abuse Inquiry
The Chow's Gymnastics & Dance Institute is seen Aug. 4, 2025, in West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Scott McFetridge)

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AP lands scoop on a long investigation and recent arrest of a gymnastics coach accused of sexually abusing three young athletes

AUG. 29, 2025

APTOPIX Trump District of Columbia
Armed officers prepare to place handcuffs on a man from within an apartment complex, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, in the Petworth neighborhood of northwest Washington. The officers pictured had "Washington Field Office" on their shirts underneath tactical gear that said Police. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Striking visuals dominate AP’s coverage of federal intervention in Washington, D.C.

AUG. 29, 2025

Trump Wars Fact Focus
FILE - President Donald Trump speaks at the Kennedy Center, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP breaks news on Trump administration’s review of U.S. visa holders

AUG. 29, 2025

APTOPIX Mideast Wars Gaza Hunger
Islam Qudeih shows her severely malnourished shirtless, 2-year-old daughter, Shamm, to journalists at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. Doctors said Shamm may have a genetic disorder that affects muscle and bone development, but there is no way to test for it in Gaza. On Tuesday, August 12, her family was granted permission to travel to a hospital in Italy. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

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Malnourished kids arrive daily at a Gaza hospital as Netanyahu denies hunger

AUG. 22, 2025

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