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Mezcal mexicano, alegría de béisbol venezolano y más fotos de la semana en Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Trabajadores produjeron mezcal en una destilería del estado de Oaxaca, en medio de un auge de la bebida alcohólica mexicana que ha traído beneficios económicos para muchos productores locales, pero que también ha provocado un aumento de los costos ambientales.

MARCH 20, 2026

Former AP White House photographer honored for ‘Lifetime Achievement’

Former Associated Press Senior White House photographer Ron Edmonds is being honored by the White House News Photographers Association with its Lifetime Achievement Award. It will be presented at the 2013 “Eyes of History” annual awards gala on Saturday, May 11, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington.

Maria Sherman appointed AP’s music writer, based in Los Angeles

Sherman, whose first day was Monday, will lead music coverage for the AP’s entertainment and lifestyles department, which boasts video, photo and text journalists on three continents. She will also work closely with colleagues in AP’s U.S. and international bureaus and across its global beat teams. “Our readers and our customers will discover new music and be better informed […]

JUNE 6, 2023

March Madness tips off with First Four in Dayton, with Miami (Ohio) in the field and close to home

March Madness tips off with the First Four, featuring one of this season’s best stories in Miami (Ohio) and a matchup of formerly embattled head coaches in Texas’ Sean Miller and NC State’s Will Wade. Coming off their only loss of the season, the RedHawks have a chance to silence some skeptics against fellow No. […]

MARCH 17, 2026

Japanese women struggle to find a place in the Japanese sumo world

 Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from the traditional ring, the dohyō in Japanese. That legacy is facing quiet resistance. While professional sumo — the sumo that the world […]

SEPT. 11, 2025

Suicides in the US military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides in the U.S. military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend that the Pentagon has struggled to abate, according to a Defense Department report released on Thursday. The increase is a bit of a setback after the deaths dipped slightly the previous year. The number of suicides and the rate per […]

NOV. 14, 2024

Tras ataque mortal en un colegio, Chile prepara medidas para frenar la violencia escolar

Chile fue sacudido hace unos días por un ataque armado en un colegio, cuando un estudiante de 18 años mató con un cuchillo a una inspectora y dejó cuatro heridos. El incidente, considerado por las autoridades como el primer caso de violencia escolar planificada, desató una ola de amenazas de tiroteos y otros hechos violentos.

APRIL 9, 2026

AP, Frontline documentary ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ to make world premiere at Sundance Film Festival

NEW YORK — The new feature film “20 Days in Mariupol” from The Associated Press and Frontline, the award-winning PBS documentary series housed at GBH in Boston, will make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this January in Park City, Utah, and be featured in the festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.

DEC. 8, 2022

AP introduces two new Stylebook subscription products

NEW YORK – The Associated Press today announced the launch of two new subscription products from the AP Stylebook.   The first, Stylebook & Webster’s New World Online, integrates about 185,000 definitions from the Stylebook’s primary dictionary to make it easy for users to find entries from both resources at the same time. Subscribers can […]

OCT. 29, 2013

AP image of Turkish assassin wins World Press Photo award

Mevlut Mert Altintas, an off-duty police officer, shouts after shooting Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey, Dec. 19, 2016. AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici won the 2017 World Press Photo competition Monday Feb. 13, 2017 for the image. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) AMSTERDAM (AP) — As an off-duty policeman who had just […]

FEB. 13, 2017

Facebook finally gets serious about fighting fake news

Fake news stories touch on a broad range of subjects, from unproven cancer cures to celebrity hoaxes and backyard Bigfoot sightings. But fake political stories have drawn attention because of the possibility that they influenced public perceptions and could have swayed the U.S. presidential election. There have been other dangerous real-world consequences. A fake story […]

DEC. 15, 2016

Journalist’s arrest threatens reporting from Russia

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is escorted by officers from the Lefortovsky court to a bus, in Moscow, Russia, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) NEW YORK (AP) — The arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second time […]

MARCH 31, 2023