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AP Wirephotos 90th anniversary

From the launch of the revolutionary Wirephoto service to today’s digital innovations, AP Photos continues to connect audiences with history as it unfolds. This year, we celebrate nine decades of Wirephoto, the technology that transmitted photos from 1935 to 1995, bringing unforgettable images to millions worldwide at near instantaneous speed.

Numbers to know for each of the 16 teams remaining in March Madness

The smaller the number, the larger the impact at this year’s NCAA Tournament. Arkansas, the No. 10 seed in the West Region, is the only double-digit seed still alive heading into the regional semifinals. All four No. 1 seeds and three of the four No. 2 seeds are still standing. But the seeds aren’t the […]

MARCH 28, 2025

Anna Wintour taps Chloe Malle as Vogue successor — but she’s still in charge

NEW YORK (AP) — Anna Wintour ended weeks of fashion-world speculation Tuesday when she named Chloe Malle her successor as head of editorial content at Vogue — but the most powerful person in the business isn’t going anywhere. Wintour, 75, remains chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director of American Vogue and the magazine’s 27 other […]

SEPT. 2, 2025

China’s military parade is a show of strength from a country devastated in World War II

SHENYANG, China (AP) — Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949. It was a far cry from the military might the country will display Wednesday in a parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of […]

SEPT. 2, 2025

Iran accelerates production of near weapons-grade uranium, IAEA says, as tensions with US ratchet up

VIENNA (AP) — Iran has accelerated its production of near weapons-grade uranium as tensions between Tehran and Washington rise after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, a report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog seen by The Associated Press on Wednesday showed. The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said that as […]

FEB. 28, 2025

A North Carolina wildlife crossing will save people. Can it save the last wild red wolves too?

ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. (AP) — Hunters were once the greatest human threat to the country’s only unique wolf species. Today, it’s motorists. That fact was brought home last June, when red wolf breeding male No. 2444 was struck and killed on U.S. 64 near Manns Harbor, North Carolina. His death likely meant […]

FEB. 4, 2025

Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents from their village, never to return. Pagano […]

DEC. 10, 2024

Paris Hilton launches recovery fund for women business owners after disasters

The pop culture star, advocate and entrepreneur Paris Hilton launched an initiative Monday to support female small-business owners impacted by disasters, a nationwide expansion of her philanthropic support for women entrepreneurs after the 2025 Los Angeles fires. Hilton is donating $350,000 to kick-start the Back in Business Recovery Fund, with a goal to raise at least $1 million […]

MARCH 9, 2026

House GOP pushes ‘big’ budget resolution to passage, a crucial step toward delivering Trump’s agenda

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a push from President Donald Trump, House Republicans sent a GOP budget blueprint to passage Tuesday, a step toward delivering his “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts despite a wall of opposition from Democrats and discomfort among Republicans. House Speaker Mike Johnson […]

FEB. 25, 2025

Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Russia and the U.S. agreed Tuesday to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and economic ties, the two countries’ top diplomats said after talks that reflected an extraordinary about-face in U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump. In an interview with The Associated Press […]

FEB. 18, 2025

Many retailers offer ‘returnless refunds.’ Just don’t expect them to talk much about it

It’s one of the most under-publicized policies of some of the biggest U.S. retailers: sometimes they give customers full refunds and let them keep unwanted items too. Returnless refunds are a tool that more retailers are using to keep online shoppers happy and to reduce shipping fees, processing time and other ballooning costs from returned […]

NOV. 4, 2024

30 years after discovery of remains, DNA could identify all of a serial killer’s victims

WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer’s property, a renewed quest is playing out in laboratories to solve a long-running mystery: Who were they? A new team working to identify the unknown dead says the key to their success will be […]

JAN. 7, 2025