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Trump pledged to roll back protections for transgender students. They’re flooding crisis hotlines

Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign. Many teens worry about how their lives could change once he takes office. During his presidential bid, Trump pledged to impose wide-ranging restrictions and roll back civil rights protections for […]

NOV. 13, 2024

Redistricting war accelerates winner-take-all political combat that’s straining American democracy

Willie Simon stood outside the Memphis motel where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, now a museum dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement.

MAY 4, 2026

First came Congress. Now a national redistricting battle may turn to statehouses and city councils

After a blitz of congressional redistricting ahead of the midterm elections, a national battle for partisan control is about to enter a new phase that could affect representation on everything from tax rates to social safety net programs, teacher salaries, housing regulations and local road repairs.

JUNE 7, 2026

FIFA and Infantino draw bipartisan skepticism ahead of the World Cup

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of mayors and other city leaders gathered in the ballroom of a Washington hotel on a snowy January morning this year gripped by anger and anxiety about the federal government's increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement operation that included the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.

JUNE 8, 2026

Simple ways to make meetings work better for employees on the autism spectrum

Before Megan Pilatzke was diagnosed with autism, she wondered why she always felt drained when she got home from work. All day long, she’d labored to understand when to speak up or stay silent in meetings. She replayed conversations in her head, worrying she’d misunderstood or said the wrong thing. Noisy environments distressed her. She watched […]

APRIL 16, 2026

Mamdani’s success in New York tests Democratic Party’s willingness to change

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stepped into the national spotlight this week as an ascendant political force within the Democratic Party. Democratic leaders aren’t so sure that’s a good thing. As progressives cheered across the nation, some of the most powerful Democrats in the country, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, downplayed the impact of Mamdani’s victories on […]

JUNE 25, 2026

Trump says these documents prove his false claims of election fraud. Here’s what they really say

President Donald Trump released a trove of documents during a primetime address to the nation that allies had hyped as a smoking gun that would prove his long-debunked allegations of mass voter fraud. Speaking from the White House on Thursday night, he described shocking revelations, like Chinese meddling to undermine his failed candidacy in 2020 and a […]

JULY 17, 2026

AP’s 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning photos

AP today earned its 57th and 58th Pulitzer Prizes—35th for photography—for public service and breaking news photography.

Big bills to view public documents discourage public access

In this photo taken March 9, 2015, Jason Parsley, executive editor of the South Florida Gay News, poses for a photo at his office in Wilton Manors, Fla. The public’s right to see government records is coming at an ever-increasing price, as authorities set fees and hourly charges that often prevent information from flowing. Broward […]

MARCH 13, 2015

US home sales rose in July as mortgage rates eased a bit and home prices grew more slowly

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in July as homebuyers were encouraged by a modest pullback in mortgage rates, slowing home price growth and the most properties on the market in over five years. Existing home sales rose 2% last month from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.01 million units, the […]

AUG. 21, 2025

Europe has ‘maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,’ energy agency head tells the AP

Europe has “maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war. IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what […]

APRIL 16, 2026

NFL’s International Player Pathway program is shining a spotlight on talent from around the world

Leander Wiegand knew very little about the NFL — or American football, for that matter — when his best friend urged him to check out something he saw on TV. It was the day after the Super Bowl in February 2016 and Wiegand’s buddy Kolja turned on a replay of Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos beating Cam Newton’s […]

OCT. 28, 2025