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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

AP combines sports and climate coverage in reporting how climate change is shrinking the pool of Winter Olympics venues

Ahead of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, AP brought together its sports and climate reporting teams for a smart, timely and deeply reported story on how climate change is threatening the long-term future of the Winter Games. The team moved quickly to be the first to report on new research from University of Waterloo professor […]

JAN. 30, 2026

Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake ‘parking lot’

Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore. The Wisconsin Historical Society announced Wednesday that archaeologists have mapped the location of 16 canoes submerged in the lake bed of Lake Mendota in Madison. Tamara Thomsen, the state’s […]

NOV. 19, 2025

Enslaved fishermen freed: How we got that story

A team of AP journalists yesterday received the gold award in the ninth annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism.

AP changes writing style to capitalize ″b″ in Black

People walk by Associated Press photographs on display at AP headquarters in New York in this April 18, 2017 file photo. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) The change conveys “an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa,” John Daniszewski, AP’s […]

JUNE 19, 2020

At least 10 killed at adult education center in what officials say is Sweden’s worst mass shooting

At least 10 people, including the gunman, were killed Tuesday at an adult education center in what Sweden’s prime minister called the country’s worst mass shooting. But a final death toll, a conclusive number of wounded and a motive hadn’t yet been determined hours later. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson gave a news conference in the […]

FEB. 4, 2025

Pride Parades Across the World

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

JUNE 23, 2025

Week in Pictures

This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Pamela Hassell, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.

MAY 9, 2025

2025 Video Spotlights

JAN. 12, 2026

70% of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be gone in the next 10 years, a report shows

BERLIN (AP) — Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive but 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years — meaning time is running out to hear the voices of the last generation who suffered through one of the worst atrocities in history. Currently, the survivors’ median age is […]

APRIL 24, 2025

Week in Pictures

JULY 18, 2025

Florida’s Mote Marine Laboratory relocates hundreds of marine animals to new $130M facility

Crews used large nets, water-filled containers and box trucks to relocate hundreds of river otters, sea turtles, manatees, penguins and sharks to their new home: Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium. Over the past couple of months, the marine animals were removed from the hard-to-reach island and relocated to a brand new center, where Mote believes they […]

OCT. 7, 2025