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AP’s reporting on SafeSport leads to head of the Senate Judiciary Committee opening an inquiry into the center that investigates sex-abuse cases involving Olympic sports athletes

If not for AP national sports writer Eddie Pells, the world may never have learned that a center dedicated to protecting athletes from sexual abuse had hired an investigator who would later be arrested for a series of crimes, including rape. Most of the alleged crimes occurred before the investigator joined the center, which fired […]

FEB. 14, 2025

World’s oldest known tortoise still very much alive despite rumor to the contrary

Reports on April Fools’ Day of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a 193-year-old tortoise called Jonathan — were greatly exaggerated. Jonathan is still kicking — albeit slowly — on the island of St. Helena. “It was a hoax,” Anne Dillon, head of communications on the island, told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I […]

APRIL 2, 2026

Everbridge teams with The Associated Press to integrate global news report into market-leading critical event management platfor

Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management (CEM), and The Associated Press today announced a collaboration that will incorporate AP’s global news report into the Everbridge Critical Event Management platform.

AUG. 9, 2021

Former AP football writer Goldberg dies at 73

This is an undated file photo showing former Associated Press sports writer Dave Goldberg. Goldberg, one of the nation’s top football writers and an award-winning veteran of 41 years at The Associated Press, died Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y. He was 73. (AP Photo/Bernadette Tuazon) Goldberg, one of […]

FEB. 9, 2015

Epstein story shows investigative journalism is thriving

Federal prosecutors announced sex trafficking and conspiracy charges against wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, July 8, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) NEW YORK (AP) — The Miami Herald’s stories on sex trafficking charges against billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein illustrate a counter-intuitive trend: Investigative journalism is thriving as the news media industry struggles. In announcing new […]

JULY 11, 2019

Super Bowl through the years: Off the field with AP photographers

The Associated Press has covered every Super Bowl since the first in 1967. Here’s a look at AP photographers, editors and technicians at work covering football’s biggest contest through the years.

Three new deputy bureau chiefs in Washington

Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace today announced three key appointments: editors J. David Ake, Kathleen Hennessey and Elizabeth Kennedy are the new deputy Washington bureau chiefs, leading AP’s coverage of the U.S. government and American politics.

What is AP? CEO explains in op-ed

In an editorial published on Sunday by several AP member news organizations, AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt outlined the news cooperative’s standards, origins and structure:

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:

Reporter reveals disparity in state salaries

As the only news agency with reporters in all 50 statehouses across the country, The Associated Press is well-positioned to break important state government news. A recent report by an enterprising journalist in Minnesota revealed that 145 local officials earn more than the governor. A staff memo from Senior Managing Editor Michael Oreskes explains:

AP Interview: Security guard who foiled Stade de France bomber recounts traumatic night

Salim Toorabally’s mental scars from the Paris terror attacks 10 years ago have not healed with time and the images of that night at Stade de France remain indelible. The November 2015 attacks began at France’s national stadium and spread across the city in assaults that killed 132 people and injured over 400. One person died and least 14 […]

NOV. 13, 2025

The US is killing someone by firing squad for the 1st time in 15 years. Here’s a look at the history

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice in the Old West. In modern times, some consider it a more humane alternative to lethal injection. The firing squad has a long and thorny history in the U.S. South Carolina […]

MARCH 7, 2025