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Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first test flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth. Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida, soaring from the same pad used to launch NASA’s […]

JAN. 16, 2025

Singapore exhibit showcases life in North Korea through AP photographers lens

An exhibition in Singapore will highlight the work of Wong Maye-E, AP’s lead photographer in North Korea, offering glimpses of everyday life in the reclusive country.

SEPT. 7, 2016

AP to publish first all-time college basketball ranking

The Associated Press will rank the nation’s all-time top men’s college basketball programs for the first time, as tabulated from its more than 1,100 weekly polls of top basketball teams over the past 68 years.

MARCH 14, 2017

By chance, AP reporter on scene to witness Rushdie attack

Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman) NEW YORK (AP) — Reporter Joshua Goodman traveled with his family to the Chautauqua Institution in western New York for […]

AUG. 12, 2022

There are sharks in Las Vegas feasting on hundreds of pounds of fish every week

When Becky O’Brien dangles herring over a tank of over a dozen swimming sharks, it only takes seconds for a zebra shark to snatch the fish from her tongs. The lead aquarist said she always knew she wanted to work with marine life; she just didn’t think she’d be a shark dietitian at a 1.3 million gallon […]

MARCH 18, 2026

Arizona still unanimous No. 1 in AP Top 25 poll ahead of showdown with No. 13 BYU

Arizona remained the unanimous No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll ahead of Monday night’s showdown at No. 13 BYU, while fellow unbeaten Nebraska climbed to a program-best fifth ahead of its big week in the Big Ten. The Wildcats, riding their best start since the 2013-14 season, received all 60 first-place […]

JAN. 26, 2026

Economic impacts in monetary policy

A look at the venues for the 2026 Winter Games in Milan Cortina

MILAN (AP) — Next year’s Winter Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but they will actually be staged across a large swath of northern Italy.

FEB. 5, 2025

Discovery of insects trapped in amber sheds light on ancient Amazon rainforest

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning to diversify and spread around the world. Many of the specimens found at a sandstone quarry in Ecuador date to 112 million years […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Whistle-blower or leaker?

With two secret-spilling stories in the news — NSA/ Edward Snowden and Wikileaks/Bradley Manning — we reviewed for our staff today our use of the term “whistle-blower” (hyphenated, per the AP Stylebook).

SC Senate honors retiring AP journalist Jack Jones

State Sen. Dick Harpootlian took to the Senate floor Thursday, one day before Jones retires after 25 years with the AP. Harpootlian recalled how Jones covered the Statehouse starting in 1979 with the South Carolina Radio News Network. Jones also worked as news director at WLTX-TV in Columbia before joining the AP in 1994. Jones […]

MARCH 28, 2019

AP earns World Press Photo honors

Photos of a deadly Ethiopian Airlines plane crash, California wildfires, Brazilian sports fans and Hurricane Dorian’s destruction earned The Associated Press top honors in the 2020 World Press Photo Contest.