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AP obtains exclusive document planning new U.S.-backed aid regime for Gaza, swiftly publishing before the competition

For weeks, rumors had swirled about a new U.S.-backed plan to oversee aid distribution in Gaza, but no one would speak on the record. Then one morning, Sam Mednick obtained a document outlining the proposal—provided by an aid worker in Gaza. Realizing the urgency and sensitivity of the material, Mednick immediately flagged it to colleagues […]

MAY 16, 2025

The Grand Egyptian Museum showcasing 50,000 artifacts is finally opening

 After two decades of anticipation and countless delays, the Grand Egyptian Museum is finally having its grand reveal. The museum, which is set to officially open Saturday, highlights Egypt’s ancient civilization and is a centerpiece of the government’s drive to boost the tourist industry, a major source of foreign currency in the cash-strapped country. Located […]

OCT. 30, 2025

NFL teams don’t use game-day roster flexibility with emergency QBs as often as one would think

Brian Schottenheimer is two games into his head coaching career with the Dallas Cowboys, and he didn’t have an emergency quarterback designated for either one. This after a year as Dallas offensive coordinator when the Cowboys had Trey Lance available as a third quarterback every week because they wanted to protect him from waivers. The NFL is […]

SEPT. 16, 2025

A destroyed Israeli kibbutz on the Lebanese border starts to pick up the pieces. Who will return?

KIBBUTZ MANARA, Israel (AP) — Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel is so close to the Lebanese border that patrons of a local pub joke, with gallows humor, that the militant group Hezbollah could see if they were eating sunflower seeds or potato chips with their beers. The proximity made Manara so vulnerable in the war […]

JAN. 27, 2025

Los cielos más oscuros del mundo, bajo presión en el desierto de Atacama

Los ojos tardan unos instantes en acostumbrarse a la oscuridad. De repente aparece una tenue chispa y luego otra, más brillante. Pronto estrellas, planetas y constelaciones emergen y la galaxia entera se plasma en el cielo.

APRIL 26, 2026

RFK Jr is launching a podcast to expose ‘lies’ that have made Americans sick

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new podcast that he says will begin “a new era of radical transparency in government,” according to a teaser video first obtained by The Associated Press. The show, titled “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast,” will launch next week and feature Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine crusader who has […]

APRIL 8, 2026

Knicks fever sweeps New York for Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the Spurs

Inside Madison Square Garden, Spike Lee wore a Knicks jersey with Pope Leo’s name on the back. On the concourse and the street, fans in blue and orange cheered and chanted. Watch parties sprung up all over the city, including one at a Brooklyn funeral home. Knicks fever reached a new peak Monday night, with New […]

JUNE 9, 2026

Chronicling ‘the unraveling of a nation’

The Overseas Press Club announced today that AP Venezuela correspondent Hannah Dreier has won its award for the best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad.

Additions to AP’s Washington bureau

In a memo to staff, Washington Bureau Chief Anna Johnson announced the addition of three new reporters to AP’s Washington team:

Celebrating courage in the name of fallen AP photographer

The 2021 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photographer who was killed in 2014 reporting in Afghanistan, has been awarded to Fatima Shbair, a Palestinian freelance photojournalist based in Gaza City.

How a school bomb-scare case sparked a media vs. FBI fight

WASHINGTON (AP) — The young hacker was told in no uncertain terms: You are safe with me. “I am not trying to find out your true identity,” AP journalist Norm Weatherill assured the teenager in an online chat. “As a member of the Press, I would rather not know who you are as writers are […]

MARCH 18, 2017