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AP names Byrne news director for southern South America
AP News Director for Southern America Paul Byrne. (AP Photo/Leo Lavalle) Based in Buenos Aires, Byrne will lead coverage in text, photos and video for Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, a diverse territory where economic potential collides with deep-rooted poverty, defining the challenges and opportunities facing Latin America. The announcement was made Thursday by Matt […]
NOV. 21, 2019

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

Monfils outduels fellow Frenchman in an Australian Open 1st-round match for the ages
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The pragmatic pro in Gael Monfils would like to have finished off his first-round win in straight sets against up-and-coming fellow Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard at the Australian Open. The entertainer’s instinct in him got a lot of value out of clinching it in five. In a duel between the 38-year-old […]
JAN. 13, 2025

U.S. economy shrinks 0.3% in first quarter as Trump trade wars disrupt businesses
The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.3% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business. First-quarter growth was slowed by a surge in imports as companies in the United States tried to bring in foreign goods before Trump imposed massive tariffs. The January-March drop […]
APRIL 29, 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

A Kenyan school like no other may be an African education blueprint
At a special school in Kenya, the classrooms look like few others. Instead of standing and lecturing at Rare Gem Talent School, teachers use hands-on lessons focused on sights, sounds, and feelings designed for a unique type of learner: students with dyslexia.
FEB. 19, 2026

Arkansas’ Darius Acuff and Florida’s Todd Golden garner top spots in the AP’s All-SEC awards
Darius Acuff Jr., who is on pace to become the first since Pete Maravich in 1970 to lead the Southeastern Conference in scoring and assists in the same season, is The Associated Press player of the year in the league. With Acuff averaging 22.2 points and 6.4 assists, the 17th-ranked Razorbacks earned the No. 3 seed in this […]
MARCH 10, 2026

AP photographer killed, reporter wounded
Anja Niedringhaus Anja Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed instantly, according to an AP Television News freelancer who witnessed the shooting. Kathy Gannon, an AP correspondent who for many years was the news organization’s Afghanistan bureau chief and currently is a special correspondent for the region, was shot twice and later underwent […]
APRIL 4, 2014

Senators ask military to review Yemen abuse reported by AP
A renovated building in Aden Central Prison, known as Mansoura, is shown in this May 9, 2017, photo in Aden, Yemen. (AP Photo/Maad El Zikry) WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure mounted on the U.S. Defense Department Friday after multiple U.S. senators called for investigations into reports that U.S. military interrogators worked with forces from the United […]
JUNE 23, 2017

Religion News Service, AP and The Conversation launch global religion journalism initiative
NEW YORK -- Religion News Foundation (RNF), Religion News Service (RNS), The Associated Press (AP) and The Conversation announced today the creation of a global religion journalism initiative, an effort to expand religion news reporting in the U.S. and around the world.
APRIL 24, 2019

AP announces 2024 general election plans
The Associated Press, the most trusted source of accurate information on election night for nearly two centuries, will deliver that expertise to its member news organizations, customers and the public across all platforms when it counts the vote, declares the winners and covers the results on Nov. 5. On election night, AP will count the […]
OCT. 29, 2024