Search results

Showing 73 - 84 of 491 results for "p117"

Filter By:

Sort By:

Order:

Books Independent Wave
This photo provided by Amber Salazar shows the pop-up bookshop Banned Wagon Books at Dynamo Coffee Roasting Co., March 30, 2025, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Amber Salazar via AP)
Spotlights

A wave of new owners brings fresh energy to independent bookselling

NEW YORK (AP) — Amber Salazar is the kind of idealist you just knew would end up running a bookstore — a lifelong reader who felt angered “to the core” as she learned of book bans around the country. A resident of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Salazar last year opened Banned Wagon Books, a pop-up store she […]

MAY 22, 2025

Autism Swimming
In this handout photo provided by Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County, swim instructors work with students during an autism-specific swim class at Small Fish Big Fish, Tuesday, April 1, 2025 in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Ben Rusnak /Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County via AP)
Spotlights

For kids with autism, swim classes can be lifesaving

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In an airy indoor pool with fish cutouts on the walls, a group of small children bobbed, floated and tentatively flutter-kicked. It was what it looked like, a starter swimming class. But here, instructors worked one-on-one or even two to a child. Some held cards to help kids communicate […]

MAY 21, 2025

Cassie Ventura – Sean Combs
FILE - Cassie Ventura, left, and Sean "Diddy" Combs appear at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating "China: Through the Looking Glass" in New York on May 4, 2015. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Spotlights

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie testifies at his trial about abuse and ‘freak offs’

NEW YORK (AP) — Cassie, the R&B singer and former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs, testified Tuesday that the mercurial music mogul — powerful, abusive and controlling — beat her mercilessly and ordered her to have “disgusting” sex with strangers during drug-fueled, multi-day marathons he called “freak offs.” Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, sniffled […]

MAY 13, 2025

FILE - Kim Kardashian attends the Victoria Beckham Spring/Summer 2024 womenswear fashion collection presented on Sept. 29, 2023 in Paris. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer, File)
FILE - Kim Kardashian attends the Victoria Beckham Spring/Summer 2024 womenswear fashion collection presented on Sept. 29, 2023 in Paris. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer, File)
Spotlights

The Paris robbery of Kim Kardashian changed how celebrities think about exposure

PARIS (AP) — The ring gleamed in Instagram posts. So did the diamond necklace and the luxury Paris address. For Kim Kardashian, sharing online was second nature — an extension of her fame. But in the early hours of Oct. 3, 2016, that openness turned against her. Five masked men posing as police officers stormed […]

MAY 12, 2025

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)
FILE - President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)
Spotlights

Trump visiting Gulf Arab states while crises flare in Gaza and Iran

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — On his trip this week to the Middle East, U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, though his most pressing regional challenges concern two other countries: Israel and Iran. After ending a ceasefire two months ago, Israel is intensifying the war in the […]

MAY 12, 2025

Jelly Roll Pardon Application
Davidson County Sheriff's Office shows singer Jelly Roll with Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall at his Tennessee Board of Parole hearing on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 in Nashville, Tenn. (Davidson County Sheriff's Office via AP)
Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Outlets credit AP for news of country star Jelly Roll’s path to a pardon

Nashville-based reporter Jonathan Mattise, known for his expertise in courts and crime coverage, recognized that a story involving Grammy-nominated country star Jelly Roll would generate national attention—especially if it involved the singer’s bid for a pardon. Jelly Roll, known for his hit “Son of a Sinner,” had quietly appeared before Tennessee’s state parole board to […]

MAY 2, 2025

Trump
President Donald Trump arrives to speak on his first 100 days at Macomb County Community College Sports Expo Center, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Spotlights

Trump marks his first 100 days in office in campaign mode, focused on grudges and grievances

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday celebrated the 100th day of his second term — yet spent much of his rally marking it in campaign mode, fixated on past grudges and grievances. He repeatedly mocked his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, attacking his mental acuity and even how he appears in a bathing suit. He […]

APRIL 29, 2025

Food Dyes
Jobe Washington, right, and Dwight Brown use a large sifter to mix a shade of yellow coloring at Sensient Technologies Corp., a color additive manufacturing company, in St. Louis, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Spotlights

How bugs and beet juice could play roles in the race to replace artificial dyes in food

ST. LOUIS (AP) — As pressure grows to get artificial colors out of the U.S. food supply, the shift may well start at Abby Tampow’s laboratory desk. On an April afternoon, the scientist hovered over tiny dishes of red dye, each a slightly different ruby hue. Her task? To match the synthetic shade used for years in […]

APRIL 28, 2025

Congregants of the 104-year-old Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, which burned down in the Eaton fire, gather for their Shabbat dinner at the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, Calif., Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Congregants of the 104-year-old Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, which burned down in the Eaton fire, gather for their Shabbat dinner at the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, Calif., Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Spotlights

Jewish families channel Passover story after devastating losses in Los Angeles wildfires

PASADENA, California (AP) — Aty Rotter lost her family home and her spiritual home in the ravenous fire that scorched a large swath of Los Angeles County earlier this year. The house her late father built in Pasadena more than 60 years ago is gone to the fire that charred more than 21 square miles […]

APRIL 11, 2025

FILE - Thousands of unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland during the Great Depression, after some 2,000 jobs were made available for park improvements and repairs, Oct. 9, 1930. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Thousands of unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland during the Great Depression, after some 2,000 jobs were made available for park improvements and repairs, Oct. 9, 1930. (AP Photo, File)
Spotlights

Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists […]

APRIL 8, 2025

Statehouse Harassment
A person walks by a sign for a meeting in progress at the Oregon state Capitol on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Journalists across all 50 states show harassment still plagues statehouses in the years since #MeToo

David A. Lieb and the Associated Press have led the way in covering sexual harassment and misconduct in statehouses since 2017—tracking allegations against sitting lawmakers, new or strengthened workplace policies, and training requirements in legislatures across the country. When a Virginia lawmaker gave a floor speech detailing warnings she had received about which male colleagues […]

APRIL 4, 2025

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, after a French court convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years, Monday, March 31, 2025, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, after a French court convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years, Monday, March 31, 2025, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris. (Thomas Samson, Pool via AP)
Spotlights

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen barred from seeking office for 5 years, a political earthquake

PARIS (AP) — A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years — a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and an earthquake for French politics. Le Pen denounced the verdict in an interview with French TV channel TF1 as a […]

APRIL 1, 2025

Contact us
FOLLOW AP

You are now entering the English version

This page is not available in your selected language. You are now viewing the English version.

Continue