COVID-19

Polio Eradication Failures
A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

COVID-19

The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback

AUG. 5, 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)

COVID-19

AP journalists document the impact of immigration policies on public health

AUG. 1, 2025

Global Vaccinated Children
FILE - A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File)

COVID-19

Global vaccination efforts stall, leaving millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases

JUNE 24, 2025

Dying to Serve Benefits Backlog
FILE - Sharline Volcy holds a wedding picture of her and her deceased husband, Roland Donat, Feb. 3, 2025, in Orange, N.J. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

COVID-19

AP investigation finds yearslong backlog in federal program promising benefits for families of deceased officers

JUNE 20, 2025

EPA Power Plants
FILE - The Warrick Power Plant, a coal-fired electricity-generating station, operates, April 8, 2025, in Newburgh, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Climate

AP team shows potentially staggering consequences of Trump administration’s push to overhaul environmental rules

JUNE 13, 2025

Boulder Attack
Law enforcement officials investigate after an attack on the Pearl Street Mall Sunday, June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Breaking news

AP moves quickly on news of attack in Boulder pedestrian mall

JUNE 6, 2025

Public Health Slashed
A mobile health unit is parked outside of Independence High School in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley)

COVID-19

AP provides look at how cuts in Washington are impacting the invisible work of local public health departments across the country

JUNE 6, 2025

Severe Weather
Damaged equipment sits on a farm struck by Wednesday night's tornado on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Lake City, Ark. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

COVID-19

AP details hollowed-out National Weather Service offices that experts say risk lives

APRIL 11, 2025

Laughing Gas-FDA Warning
FILE - A sign for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

COVID-19

AP breaks news of FDA tobacco chief’s removal

APRIL 11, 2025

FILE - A measles sign is seen at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Feb. 25, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)
FILE - A measles sign is seen at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Feb. 25, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)

COVID-19

The US has three measles-related deaths and hundreds of cases. Here’s what to know

APRIL 8, 2025

People protest outside of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 after layoffs were announced. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
People protest outside of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 after layoffs were announced. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)

COVID-19

Mass layoffs are underway at the nation’s public health agencies

APRIL 2, 2025

Anti-Asian Hate-5 Years
FILE - Jen Ho Lee, a 76-year-old South Korean immigrant, poses in her apartment with a sign from a recent rally against anti-Asian hate crimes she attended Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

COVID-19

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are still targets of hatred 5 years after pandemic surge

MARCH 28, 2025

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