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Additions to AP’s Ukraine team

In a memo to staff on Monday, News Director for Europe and Africa James Jordan and Deputy Director for International Photography Tony Hicks made two announcements: Hanna Arhirova is AP’s new Ukraine correspondent, and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko and photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, previously AP freelancers, have joined the staff:

Former army chief seen as Zelenskyy’s top rival reveals to AP a rift between them

For two years, AP’s Kyiv team pursued an interview with Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the former commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces who is widely viewed as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s most significant political rival. After his dismissal and appointment as ambassador to the United Kingdom, his aides repeatedly declined requests. Samya Kullab renewed the effort after Zaluzhnyi hired […]

FEB. 27, 2026

AP and Municipal Bond Information Services announce new municipal bond index

NEW YORK — The Associated Press and Municipal Bond Information Services, LLC (MBIS), a national consortium of municipal inter-dealer brokers, announce the creation of the AP Municipal Bond Index, a breakthrough service built on market data aggregated from the MBIS member firms. The AP Municipal Bond Index will be the only benchmark based on observable, intraday pretrade and trade data and will be launched in the second half of 2016, with beta versions now available to limited market participants.  Andrew Kalotay & Associates has been engaged to build the index calculation engine.

APRIL 11, 2016

Georgia Democrats blast requirement to recount votes by hand in bill that would keep ballot QR codes

Legislation to keep Georgia’s embattled vote-counting method in place for this year’s midterm elections faced strong opposition from state Democrats on Monday after Republicans in the Georgia Senate approved an amendment that would require a hand recount of ballots. Georgia’s governor, Republican Brian Kemp, had called lawmakers into a special session in part to address […]

JUNE 22, 2026

Prize-winning AP team served as world’s eyes in Mariupol

An apartment building explodes after Russian army tank fire in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) NEW YORK (AP) — Instincts about the strategic significance of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol led a team of Associated Press journalists there just as Russians were about to lay siege. It proved to be a […]

MAY 9, 2023

Rights groups condemn Bangladesh for canceling accreditation of 167 journalists

NEW DELHI (AP) — An association of editors and rights groups has condemned a decision by Bangladesh’s interim government to cancel press accreditations for 167 journalists, calling it a threat to press freedom in the country. Between Oct. 29 and Nov. 7, the Press Information Department revoked the accreditations in three phases, drawing widespread criticism […]

NOV. 13, 2024

AP announces 3 new content collaborations with nonprofit newsrooms

The Associated Press today announced three new content sharing agreements with U.S. nonprofit news newsrooms: Deep South Today, The Maine Monitor and The Nevada Independent. The agreements are part of an effort to expand the reach of local news ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election and increase access to AP’s fact-based, nonpartisan journalism. The […]

AUG. 21, 2024

Trump’s politically motivated sanctions against Brazil strain relations among old allies

SAO PAULO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear who his new Latin America priority is: former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a personal and political ally. In doing so, he has damaged one of the Western hemisphere’s most important and long-standing relationships, by levying 50% tariffs that begin to take effect Wednesday on the largest Latin America economy, sanctioning […]

AUG. 5, 2025

Houthi rebels say a US airstrike that hit Yemen prison holding African migrants kills 68

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday alleged a U.S. airstrike hit a prison holding African migrants, killing at least 68 people and wounding 47 others. The U.S. military said it was investigating. The strike in Yemen’s Saada governorate, a stronghold for the Houthis, is the latest incident in the country’s decadelong war […]

APRIL 28, 2025

Nvidia’s AI chip sales surged again in latest quarter, but worries about a tech bubble persist

Nvidia’s sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets remained a hot commodity during the company’s latest quarter, but the demand wasn’t quite feverish enough to ease recent worries that the AI craze may be fading. The results announced Wednesday were hotly anticipated because Nvidia has emerged as key barometer of a two-year-old AI boom that has […]

AUG. 27, 2025

Pride Parades Across the World

Parades were held across the world on weekends for Pride month.

JUNE 23, 2025

Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were […]

JAN. 29, 2025