Fatalities

Hickory Ground Tribe vs Tribe
Robyn Soweka Sr., of Hickory Ground Tribal Town, right, describes a tribal challenge issued to the Poarch Band, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Wetumoka, Ala. At left is George Thompson, who is the Mekko, a ceremonial leader, of Hickory Ground in the Muscogee Nation. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

Casinos

A bitter fight between two tribes over sacred land where one built a casino

SEPT. 24, 2024

Social Media Tainted Drugs
Mikayla Brown and her husband, Tyler, visit the grave of their son, Elijah, who died of a fentanyl overdose at 15, in Paso Robles, Calif., Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

drugs

How social media became a storefront for deadly fake pills

SEPT. 13, 2024

Soccer Eriksson Obit
FILE - England's manager Sven Goran Eriksson, left, and captain David Beckham of Real Madrid, right, take part in a tour at Wembley stadium, in London, Tuesday May 23, 2006. Eriksson the Swedish soccer manager who spent five years as England’s first ever foreign-born coach, has died. He was 76, it was announced on Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

England

Sven-Goran Eriksson, Swedish soccer coach who was first foreigner to lead England team, dies at 76

AUG. 26, 2024

Israel Palestinians Doctors Killed
This handout photo taken on May 12, 2023 shows Dr. Adam Hamawy, left, a former U.S. Army combat plastic surgeon who volunteered in Gaza in May and Dr. Mohammed Tahir, a British surgeon, performing surgery on mangled hand from a blast injury at the European General Hospital, in Khan Younis, Gaza. (Adam Hamawy via AP)

Fatalities

As Gaza’s doctors struggle to save lives, many lose their own in Israeli airstrikes

JULY 17, 2024

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Yousef Salem works on his computer in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. In December 2023, in a matter of days, 173 of his relatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes. By spring that toll had risen to 270. He spent months filling a spreadsheet with their vital details as news of their deaths was confirmed, to preserve a last link to the web of relationships he thought would thrive for generations more. “My uncles were wiped out, totally. The heads of households, their wives, children, and grandchildren,” he said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Airstrikes

The war in Gaza has wiped out entire Palestinian families. AP documents 60 who lost dozens or more

JUNE 17, 2024

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Fatalities

AP teams shed light on different stories bonded by death

JAN. 12, 2024

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Fatalities

AP investigates Russia’s cover-up of deaths caused by dam explosion in Ukraine

JAN. 6, 2024

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In this image from March 4, 2022, surveillance video provided by the Ukrainian government, Russian troops lead nine men at gunpoint to their headquarters at 144 Yablunska St. in Bucha, Ukraine, in a March 4, 2022 image from surveillance video provided by the Ukrainian government. The men would be tortured and executed as part of what the Russians called “zachistka” – cleansing. The Russian occupiers hunted people on lists prepared by their intelligence services and went door to door to identify and neutralize potential threats. (Ukrainian government via AP)

Atrocities

‘Method to the violence’: Dogged investigation and groundbreaking visuals document Bucha ‘cleansing’

NOV. 11, 2022

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Injured people are treated on the street in the Itaewon district of Seoul, South Korea, early Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. More than 150 people died after being crushed in a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities attended by tens of thousands in the capital. (AP Photo / Lee Jin-man)

Crowds

South Korea staff puts AP ahead with rapid response, sharp coverage of Halloween crowd tragedy

NOV. 4, 2022

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Oleg Kotenko, Ukraine’s commissioner for issues of missing persons under special circumstances, uses his smartphone to record unidentified graves in the recently retaken city of Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 15, 2022. President Volodymr Zelenskyy said hundreds of civilian adults and children, as well as Ukrainian soldiers, had been found at the mass grave site after being tortured, shot or killed by Russian shelling. The bodies of civilians and Ukrainian soldiers killed by Russian forces were discovered one of the war’s largest mass grave sites on the outskirts of the city, one of the first taken by Russian forces after the war started in February.. mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers and unknown buried civilians was found in the forest of recently recaptured city of Izium. (AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka)

Atrocities

AP Exclusive: First photos, video of mass burial site in recaptured Ukrainian city of Izium

SEPT. 23, 2022

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Police and other first responders in San Antonio work the scene where dozens of migrants were found dead in an abandoned semitrailer in sweltering Texas heat, June 27, 2022. At least 53 people died in the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Fatalities

Across borders and formats, AP delivers sweeping, sensitive coverage of migrant smuggling tragedy

JULY 8, 2022

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Doctors help “Buffalo,” his nom de guerre, train with his new prosthetic limb at a clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 17, 2022. Buffalo, a 20-year-old junior sergeant whose leg was shredded by mortar rounds, is among the wounded evacuated in daring helicopter missions during the last-ditch defense of the Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol. A junior sergeant, heon the trail of a Russian tank, aiming to destroy it with his shoulder-launched, armor-piercing NLAW missile on the last day of the invasion’s first month A fight-crew member took his hand and told him not to worry, they'd make it home."I told him, 'All my life, I dreamed of flying a helicopter. It doesn't matter if we arrive — my dream has come true,'" Buffalo recalled. (AP Photo / Natacha Pisarenko)

Azovstal steel plant

Exclusive all-formats interviews reveal ‘impossible’ helicopter rescue missions to Mariupol

JULY 1, 2022

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