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How I got those border clash photos

Early on New Year’s Day, an AP photographer at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, captured dramatic photos of tear gas being fired at migrants climbing a fence.

Additions to AP Elections

AP Elections announced several new additions to the team as The Associated Press continues to strengthen and grow one of its core services. With a history of accuracy dating back to 1848, AP sets the standard for counting the vote, declaring winners and explaining the results of American elections to the public. The news organization […]

Gregory Katz, acclaimed AP journalist, dies at 67

Gregory Katz, AP acting London bureau chief, stands in front of St. George’s Chapel in Windsor near London while covering the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, May 19, 2018. (AP Photo) NEW YORK (AP) — Gregory Katz, an acclaimed correspondent for The Associated Press in London who recently led the news cooperative’s […]

JUNE 24, 2020

Court filing links spy exposed by AP to Israel’s Black Cube

In this image from video, a man identified as former Israeli intelligence officer Aharon Almog-Assouline speaks during an interview at a restaurant in New York on Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick) LONDON (AP) — A Canadian attorney says he appears to have been targeted by the same undercover operative unmasked by The Associated Press at […]

FEB. 27, 2019

Media fight access restrictions on child detention centers

A mother migrating from Honduras holds her one-year-old child in the back of a transport van after surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents, June 25, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) NEW YORK (AP) — The children at the center of the national debate over President Donald Trump’s immigration policy have been heard […]

JUNE 26, 2018

EPA blocks some news outlets from water contaminants summit

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) NEW YORK (AP) — A reporter for The Associated Press was grabbed by the shoulders and shoved out of an Environmental Protection Agency building by a security guard Tuesday for trying to […]

MAY 22, 2018

Years after abuse reports, ex-coach at renowned US gymnastics academy is arrested by FBI

The U.S. gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions. Liang “Chow” Qiao, the owner of Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, thought highly enough […]

AUG. 19, 2025

Roger Federer elected to International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1st year of eligibility

Well, this will come as no surprise to anyone who’s paid any attention over the past quarter-century: Roger Federer was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, the Rhode Island-based Hall announced Wednesday. The first man to win 20 Grand Slam singles titles, and part of an era of unprecedented greatness with […]

NOV. 19, 2025

US overdose deaths fell 27% last year, the largest one-year decline ever seen

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023. The CDC has been collecting comparable data […]

MAY 14, 2025

Netanyahu is testifying in his corruption trial. He has been dogged by scandal for years

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the witness stand Tuesday for the first time in his long-running trial on corruption charges. But long before these accusations emerged, Netanyahu has been vexed by a flurry of embarrassing scandals and allegations. Netanyahu consistently and vehemently denies wrongdoing and has assailed investigations into […]

DEC. 10, 2024

Louvre official says fraud ‘inevitable’ at large museums as France probes multimillion euro scheme

PARIS (AP) — For the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, it is “statistically inevitable” that fraud would come up at some point, the museum’s No. 2 said in the wake of a decade-long, 10 million euro ($11.8 million) suspected ticket-fraud scheme revealed last week. Kim Pham, the Louvre’s general administrator, told The Associated Press that the museum’s […]

FEB. 18, 2026

Stair climbers love their exercise, even when security guards act like they’re up to something

Tom McGee began climbing stairs for exercise 20 years ago as part of an effort to stay off cigarettes. It hasn’t always been easy: His climbs in hotel stairwells sometimes draw the attention of security guards. “I’ve gotten kicked out of about every hotel in the city,” said McGee, a 69-year-old market researcher who lives […]

MARCH 16, 2026