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AP reporters win Polk award for seafood slavery probe

The AP reporters, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza and Esther Htusan, will share the award for foreign reporting with Ian Urbina of The New York Times, for a separate series portraying widespread lawlessness at sea. The awards were announced Sunday by Long Island University. Journalists who wrote about segregated schools, killings by police officers […]

FEB. 15, 2016

AP teams across the Middle East, Washington and Europe deliver authoritative coverage of the Israel-Iran war

During 12 days of intense conflict between Israel and Iran, AP delivered urgent, wide-ranging coverage that underscored its global reach and cross-format strength. With teams reporting under fire in Tehran and Tel Aviv, and round-the-clock coordination across the Middle East, Washington and Europe, AP became a go-to source for newsrooms and audiences around the world. […]

JULY 7, 2025

Burkina Faso’s only eye doctor for children sees the trauma of both play and conflict

BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso (AP) — Isaka Diallo was playing with friends when a stone struck his left eye. For two weeks, his parents searched hospitals in western Burkina Faso for an eye doctor. The village clinic only prescribed painkillers. Other health workers did not know what to do. When they eventually found Dr. Claudette Yaméogo, Burkina Faso’s […]

JULY 10, 2025

One Tech Tip: All you need to know about the iPhone’s Lockdown Mode

A little known security feature on iPhones is in the spotlight after it stymied efforts by U.S. federal authorities to search devices seized from a reporter.

FEB. 12, 2026

General ‘shocked’ by AP report on AWOL guns, considers fix

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2022 for the Department of Defense in Washington, June 17, 2021. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP) Shocked by an Associated Press investigation into the loss and theft of military guns, […]

JUNE 17, 2021

New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won’t sign new Pentagon rules

News organizations including The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a Defense Department document about its new press rules, making it likely the Trump administration will evict their reporters from the Pentagon. Those outlets say the policy threatens to punish them for routine […]

OCT. 13, 2025

Visitors to a New Jersey zoo get to watch veterinarians treat the animals

Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown tortoise getting a veterinary checkup. Over the next half-hour, spectators watched through a plate-glass window as the young sulcata tortoise — an endangered species […]

NOV. 17, 2025

US- and Israeli-backed group pauses food delivery in Gaza after deadly shootings

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli- and U.S.-backed group paused food delivery at its three distribution sites in the Gaza Strip after health officials said dozens of Palestinians were killed in a series of shootings near the sites this week. Israeli strikes across the territory, meanwhile, killed 26 people overnight and into Wednesday, officials said. […]

JUNE 4, 2025

EXPLAINER Why does The Associated Press call US elections

Election worker Donna Young inspects a mail-in ballot for damage at the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters in Sacramento, Calif., June 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Why has The Associated Press tallied votes and declared winners in U.S. elections since the middle of the 19th century? Because the Founding Fathers didn’t establish a national clearinghouse […]

OCT. 28, 2022

US assistant news directors are named

In a memo to staff on Wednesday, U.S. News Director Josh Hoffner announced four key news leadership positions around the country:

South Korean authorities take impeached President Yoon to detention center after questioning

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was sent to a detention center near Seoul on Wednesday night, after being questioned by anti-corruption officials who took him into custody over his imposition of martial law last month. Yoon was detained in a major law enforcement operation at the presidential compound […]

JAN. 15, 2025

PART IV AP IMPACT NRC and industry rewrite nuke history

By JEFF DONN ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — When commercial nuclear power was getting its start in the 1960s and 1970s, industry and regulators stated unequivocally that reactors were designed only to operate for 40 years. Now they tell another story — insisting that the units were built with no inherent life span, and can run for up to a century, an Associated Press investigation shows.

APRIL 16, 2012