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‘Vietnam The Real War,’ photo history by AP, to publish Oct 1

“Vietnam: The Real War” (Abrams; Oct. 1, 2013; 304 pages; 300 photographs; US $40.00/CAN $45.00/UK £25.00) UPDATED: Read The New York Times preview. To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the great photographic legacies of the 20th century. Collected in […]

SEPT. 5, 2013

Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others

By DAVID BAUDER, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece on Monday for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of […]

MAY 6, 2024

AP publishes history of baseball’s ‘Banned’ players, coaches

The Associated Press and Diversion Books have published “Banned: Baseball’s Blacklist of All-Stars and Also-Rans,” a comprehensive history written by former AP sports writer Hal Bock.

FEB. 21, 2017

Week in Pictures

DEC. 6, 2024

What are Gaelic games and how are they producing NFL hopefuls in kicking and punting?

Ireland’s indigenous sports are called Gaelic games, and Gaelic football in particular features kicking skills that can transfer to American football via placekicking and punting. A growing number of Gaelic football players are giving American football a shot, either through college programs or the NFL’s international player pathway program. Before the Pittsburgh Steelers face the Minnesota Vikings at Croke Park in the first regular-season NFL […]

SEPT. 24, 2025

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

AP, AppliedXL to deliver AI-powered news tips to local newsrooms

The Associated Press and AppliedXL announced today a collaboration to provide AI-powered local news tips and advisories on health, energy and environment issues to AP member newsrooms in an effort to enhance local journalism. Leveraging AppliedXL’s autonomous news gathering technology and informed by input from AP journalists, the new initiative, AP Local Lede, identifies and […]

SEPT. 17, 2024

The 97th Academy Awards: Top Photos – Collection

This is a collection of photos from the red carpet, show, press room and celebrations at the 97th annual Academy Awards, chosen by AP photo editors.

MARCH 3, 2025

‘We don’t speculate’ How AP counts votes and calls races

A woman casts her ballot on the first day of early voting in a recently-shuttered store at Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, Kansas, Oct. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) AP will use that vote count to declare winners in some 7,000 races, so the world knows who wins not only the White House, but […]

OCT. 24, 2020

‘The Boston Marathon Bombing’ to feature AP reporters’ stories behind the story

The Associated Press announces the publication this week of “The Boston Marathon Bombing: The Long Run From Terror to Revival.”

MAY 18, 2015

Exclusive data analysis and mapping reveal the link between rising poverty and support for France’s far right

Using deep beat knowledge, John Leicester and Samuel Petrequin identified a revealing trend when new French statistics showed record poverty levels. Suspecting a correlation with rising support for Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, the pair dove into regional data to quantify that connection. Their analysis showed direct, statistically significant links between economic hardship and […]

DEC. 1, 2025