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‘Saturday Night Live’ celebrates 50 years with comedy, music and show’s many, many famous friends

Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter duetted on Simon’s “Homeward Bound” to open the show, five-decade “Saturday Night Live” luminary Steve Martin delivered the monologue, and Paul McCartney gave an epic closing to a 50th anniversary special celebrating the sketch institution that was overflowing with famous former cast members, superstar hosts and legendary guests. The 83-year-old […]

FEB. 18, 2025

Ancestry.com and The Associated Press bring historical AP archives online

PROVO, Utah -- Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, is proud to announce a collaboration with the Associated Press that makes fifty years of news stories--in their original wire copy format--available online today.

NOV. 18, 2013

AP to publish first all-time college football ranking

The Associated Press will rank the nation’s all-time top college football programs for the first time, as tabulated from its more than 1,100 weekly polls of top college football teams over the past 80 years.

JULY 26, 2016

The Mets have spent more in Steve Cohen’s 4 years than Marlins, Pirates and Rays over the past 21

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets led the major leagues in spending for the third straight season in 2024 and have totaled $1.36 billion in payroll and luxury tax over four years under owner Steve Cohen, exceeding what the Marlins, Pirates and Rays each have spent on players in the past 21 seasons. […]

MARCH 7, 2025

Obama at midterm An AP discussion at NYU in Washington

From top left: AP Washington Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee, AP Chief White House Correspondent Julie Pace, AP State Department Reporter Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times White House Correspondent Kathleen Hennessey and Huffington Post White House Correspondent and Senior Political Editor Sam Stein. The prospects for President Barack Obama’s unfinished agenda at home and abroad, viewed against […]

APRIL 15, 2014

Pope Health – Photo Collection

This is a collection of photos chosen by AP photo editors.

FEB. 23, 2025

Champions League – Photo Collection

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from the first leg of the Champions League knock-out phase matches.

FEB. 17, 2025

Six Nations Rugby – Photo Collection

FEB. 12, 2025

AP’s live red carpet coverage to be featured on StyleHaul

Jennifer Lawrence, with her award for best actress in a leading role for “Silver Linings Playbook,” and Anne Hathaway with her award for best actress in a supporting role for “Les Miserables,” pose during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP) The Associated Press’ […]

JAN. 24, 2014

‘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

AP launches AI readiness survey for local newsrooms

This week AP started surveying local news outlets in the U.S. to assess their readiness to adopt technologies that use artificial intelligence, a first step in the news agency’s two-year commitment to help local newsrooms expand their use of AI tools.