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From Hollywood to Hong Kong: AP covers the world of entertainment

Global Entertainment and Lifestyles Editor Nekesa Mumbi Moody oversees text and visual journalists based in New York, London, Hong Kong, Nashville and Los Angeles. Her staff covers movies, music, television, video games, fashion, food, travel and events including the Emmys, Grammys and Fashion Week. Ahead of the 87th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 22, the well-wired reporter and editor pulls back the curtain on AP’s entertainment operation and explains how her team plans to cover entertainment’s biggest night:

Survivors still being found from Myanmar earthquake, but hopes begin to fade as deaths exceed 2,700

BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. The fire department in Naypyitaw said the […]

APRIL 2, 2025

NATO leaders are set to agree on a historic defense spending pledge, but the hike won’t apply to all

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The head of the NATO military alliance warned Monday that no country could have an opt-out from a massive new hike in defense spending, and that progress they make toward reaching the new target will be reviewed in four years. At a summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday, NATO leaders […]

JUNE 23, 2025

Agencia antinarcóticos DEA colabora con Bolivia; se ultima su regreso al país, dice viceministro

La Administración de Control de Drogas de Estados Unidos, DEA, ya trabaja con Bolivia en el intercambio de información para la lucha contra el narcotráfico mientras el gobierno boliviano ultima los detalles de un acuerdo para su regreso al país después de 18 años, dijo el viceministro boliviano de Defensa Social y Sustancias Controladas, Ernesto Justiniano.

FEB. 13, 2026

Las mejores fotos de la semana en América Latina

José Antonio Kast fue juramentado como presidente de Chile. Miembros de un grupo local de autodefensa montaban guardia en el estado mexicano de Guerrero en respuesta a la violencia de los cárteles. El Clásico Mundial de Béisbol avanzaba con un partido entre Panamá y Colombia en Puerto Rico.

MARCH 13, 2026

Purdue reclaims No. 1 from Houston in AP Top 25, Louisville and Illinois jump into top 10

Purdue moved back to No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday ahead of Houston, which spent a single week there after leapfrogging the Boilermakers. It’s hardly a two-team race for the top, though. UConn, Arizona and Duke also got No. 1 votes from the 61-member media panel in a poll that also […]

NOV. 17, 2025

How the AP covered the RFK assassination 50 years ago

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speaks at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, June 5, 1968, following his victory in the previous day’s California primary election. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File) He heard pops of gunfire, then screams, and quickly rushed into the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel to see what was happening. People stood in a […]

JUNE 4, 2018

Myanmar authorities charge Associated Press journalist

This undated family photo provided on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 shows Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw in Yangon, Myanmar. (Thein Zaw family via AP) The six were arrested while covering protests against the Feb. 1 military coup in Myanmar that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The group includes journalists for Myanmar […]

MARCH 2, 2021

AP preseason basketball polls to be released beginning Oct. 21

The preseason AP Top 25 polls for men’s and women’s college basketball, the longest-running polls of their kind, will be released the weeks of Oct. 21 and 28.

OCT. 8, 2019

Spotlight on ‘Reporters reporting’

A new Associated Press Instagram account features AP journalists in the field, shooting photos and video and reporting news stories across the globe.  

The US is killing someone by firing squad for the 1st time in 15 years. Here’s a look at the history

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice in the Old West. In modern times, some consider it a more humane alternative to lethal injection. The firing squad has a long and thorny history in the U.S. South Carolina […]

MARCH 7, 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