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Spain train crash: How a journalist’s quick thinking led to vital info

It was Spain’s worst rail disaster in 70 years. An express train careened off the tracks in a jumble of flying steel, killing 79 people. In chaos that followed one key question emerged almost instantly: Was the train driver speeding? Initial but unsourced reports indicated he was. Video of the crash from a security camera seemed to show this. But as in the immediate aftermath of most disasters, precise, reliable information was very hard to come by.

A look at AP’s work base in Tacloban

Singapore-based photographer Maye-E Wong is among the Associated Press journalists who’ve been documenting the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan since it slammed into the Philippines Nov. 8.

The NBA Finals are set: It’ll be Thunder vs. Pacers, starting Thursday night

The seeds for the 2025 NBA Finals began getting planted unknowingly in 2017, back when Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was about to enroll at Kentucky and Tyrese Haliburton was getting ready for his senior year of high school in Wisconsin.

JUNE 1, 2025

AP sees slight revenue decline in 2012

Revenue dropped 0.8 percent to $622.2 million last year from $627.6 million in 2011, the not-for-profit news cooperative said at its annual meeting on Monday. The AP had a net loss of $25.6 million for 2012, down from a loss of $193.3 million the year before. The 2011 loss was mostly due to a non-cash […]

APRIL 15, 2013

AP statement on Ethiopia freelancer

UPDATED March 18, 2022: Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Julie Pace issued this statement about AP-accredited freelance journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro, who today appeared in court in Ethiopia and continues to be detained:

The Atlantic releases the Signal chat showing Hegseth’s detailed attack plans against the Houthis

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Atlantic on Wednesday released the entire Signal chat among senior national security officials, showing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop — before the men and women flying those attacks against Yemen’s Houthis this month on behalf of the United States […]

MARCH 28, 2025

Tras 448 días preso en Venezuela, argentino Nahuel Gallo reclama por quienes siguen detenidos

“¡No te olvides de nosotros!”. La frase con la que lo despidieron sus compañeros de pabellón todavía resuena en los oídos del argentino Nahuel Gallo, quien estuvo 448 días preso en Rodeo I, la cárcel ubicada a las afueras de Caracas.

MAY 22, 2026

Nearly 700 people were killed 100 years ago this week in the deadliest US tornado

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) — From Logan School’s top floor, 11-year-old Othella Silvey should have been able to see her house easily — it was less than two blocks away. But after a monstrous tornado ripped through the Illinois town of Murphysboro on March 18, 1925, Othella saw nothing but flattened wasteland. “She couldn’t tell which […]

MARCH 17, 2025

AP photographer jumps into, and later records, highway drama

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (AP) — When a sport utility vehicle ran off a rural stretch of interstate and slammed into pine trees in Mississippi, nearly two dozen people rushed to help two sisters who were trapped inside the burning vehicle. Among them was AP photographer Gerald Herbert, who was on his on his way to […]

AUG. 20, 2012

AP pushes bid for independent coverage of Obama

Gary Pruitt, left, president and CEO of The Associated Press, and Julie Pace, AP’s chief White House correspondent, take questions after speaking to editors and publishers at the Newspaper Association of America’s mediaXchange 2014 convention in Denver, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) AP White House correspondent Julie Pace and chief White House photographer […]

MARCH 18, 2014

Indulge in lychee-frosted sugar cookies with citrus notes and buttercream

At first glance, these Lychee-Frosted Sugar Cookies from my cookbook “108 Asian Cookies: Not-Too-Sweet Treats from a Third-Culture Kitchen” appear humble when unfrosted, like any other ordinary sugar cookie, like those you would find at the supermarket. But don’t be fooled. These charming sugar cookies shine even on their own with their rich buttery base, tender crumb, […]

DEC. 15, 2025

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