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Data illuminates marijuana legalization impact

In a memo to staff, Managing Editor Brian Carovillano recounts how members of AP’s marijuana beat team created a first-of-its-kind national database of medical marijuana trends and revealed how the legalization of pot has often hurt medical marijuana users:

Big Ten puts 10 on AP All-America first team, led by 4 from Ohio State and Hoosier star Mendoza

Four players from Ohio State are among 10 first-team picks from the Big Ten Conference on The Associated Press All-America team released Monday, a group headed by repeat selection Caleb Downs of the Buckeyes and AP Player of the Year Fernando Mendoza of Indiana. The AP has named an All-America team every year since 1925, and […]

DEC. 15, 2025

Teacher in Nigeria loses dozens of relatives and pupils in devastating floods

MOKWA, Nigeria (AP) — On May 29, Mallam Hassan Umar stood waist-deep and barefoot in muddy water, his eyes on the remnants of his Arabic school, now reduced to sludge and shattered wood by devastating floods. The Islamic teacher, clutching only the threadbare clothes he escaped with, started shouting the names of the pupils he […]

JUNE 5, 2025

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

Additions to AP’s Washington investigations team

AP is welcoming three journalists to its Washington investigations team. Read the memo to staff:

AP reporters win Polk award for seafood slavery probe

The AP reporters, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza and Esther Htusan, will share the award for foreign reporting with Ian Urbina of The New York Times, for a separate series portraying widespread lawlessness at sea. The awards were announced Sunday by Long Island University. Journalists who wrote about segregated schools, killings by police officers […]

FEB. 15, 2016

AP reporter and photographer barred from Air Force One over ‘Gulf of Mexico’ terminology dispute

By DAVID BAUDER, The Associated Press The White House barred a credentialed Associated Press reporter and photographer from boarding the presidential airplane Friday for a weekend trip with Donald Trump, saying the news agency’s stance on how to refer to the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for the exclusion. It represented a significant escalation […]

FEB. 14, 2025

AP photographer’s early experiences in Washington helped prepare her to cover wartime diplomacy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jacquelyn Martin is a staff photojournalist with The Associated Press based in Washington. She covers politics at the White House and Congress and has traveled the world as a pool photographer covering every secretary of state since Hillary Clinton. She is also known for her self-driven enterprise feature packages for which she […]

MARCH 31, 2024

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NOV. 18, 2024

Colapso de la red eléctrica en Cuba y otras fotos de la semana en Latinoamérica y el Caribe

La red eléctrica nacional de Cuba sufrió una avería grave que dejó sin suministro a las provincias orientales de la isla mientras residentes en la capital, La Habana, enfrentan constantes apagones. Algunos en la ciudad prendieron fuego a barricadas para protestar por los prolongados cortes.

MAY 15, 2026

AP calls Iowa Democratic caucuses for Clinton

Update: AP called the Iowa Democratic caucuses for Hillary Clinton just after 1 p.m. ET after the state party said it had finalized all results and planned no recount and after Bernie Sanders' campaign said it did not intend to ask for a recount.

AP, Frontline launch ‘War Crimes Watch Ukraine’

Today, The Associated Press and the PBS investigative documentary series Frontline announced the launch of "War Crimes Watch Ukraine," a major reporting effort to gather, verify and comprehensively catalog evidence of potential war crimes committed during one of the largest conflicts in Europe since the end of World War II.

MARCH 25, 2022