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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

Venezuela Colombia
Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez waves as she waits for Colombian President Gustavo Petro at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

AP reveals prosecutors were told to stand down on Venezuelan leader

JUNE 5, 2026

Pentagon Congress
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense hearing on the budget request for the Department of Defense, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

Pentagon team scores a pair of scoops related to the Iran war

JUNE 5, 2026

Russia Putin War Narrative
FILE - Smoke rises in the aftermath of a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Zoya Shu, File)

Best of the AP — Honorable Mention

A timely look inside the pressures shaping Putin’s next moves

JUNE 5, 2026

APTOPIX Congo Ebola
A woman cries as Red Cross workers carry the coffin of a person who died of Ebola from a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Best of the AP — First Winner

AP’s Goma team delivers haunting all-formats coverage of Ebola outbreak in one of the world’s most remote and vulnerable places

MAY 29, 2026

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