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A new ICE facility could speed up deportations for families and kids

The Trump administration plans to open a 528-bed holding facility for migrant families and unaccompanied children next to an airport hub, positioning itself to speed up deportations. The location in Alexandria, Louisiana, would remove logistical headaches caused by wrangling children from foster homes and shelters across the country and not having anywhere to put them during final preparations for flight. Those obstacles […]

JULY 6, 2026

A centuries-old festival in Japan brings Shinto traditions and towering floats to the streets

There’s a special moment when Katsushi Horikawa feels closer to the gods. It comes as he rides atop one of the towering floats pulled through the streets in a centuries-old procession in Japan. This is the Gion Matsuri festival, born more than 1,000 years ago as a ritual to ward off epidemics and celebrated in the former imperial […]

JULY 19, 2026

What a reporter found when uncovering why federal agents allowed a deadly drug to hit the streets

Jim Mustian reported and co-wrote an Associated Press story that revealed the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to be distributed in New Mexico as part of an effort to build bigger federal prosecutions. Mustian, along with AP journalist Joshua Goodman, reviewed hundreds of internal DEA records and interviewed current and former agents, […]

JUNE 22, 2026

Comic-Con 2026: Johnny Depp promotes ‘Ebenezer’ and ENHYPEN members meet ‘Twilight’ cast

Johnny Depp scolded Comic-Con International attendees in character as Ebenezer Scrooge as the nation’s biggest pop culture convention opened Thursday. “Do you have jobs? It seems as though you have so much spare time. Why are you here?” said the actor, clad in an overcoat and top hat as he emerged from a faux snow-lined downtown San […]

JULY 24, 2026

This ethnic community in Estonia turns a village into a symbolic kingdom for a day

As an accordion plays, 80-year-old Maime Kapten spins across the grass field, her embroidered skirt swirling and silver chains and coins around her neck jangling. Kapten is a member of the Seto ethnic community, which once a year turns a village in southeastern Estonia into a symbolic kingdom for a day — complete with entry visas instead […]

AUG. 3, 2026

A summit and parade in China may signal a geopolitical shift. They might also be political jockeying

TOKYO (AP) — The leaders of China, North Korea and Russia stood shoulder to shoulder Wednesday as high-tech military hardware and thousands of marching soldiers filled the streets of Beijing. Two days earlier, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping huddled together, smiling broadly and clasping hands at a meeting of the Shanghai […]

SEPT. 4, 2025

PHOTO COLLECTION: Transgender Rights

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

APRIL 1, 2025

Greenland: Daily Life – Photo Collection

This is a collection of photos chosen by AP photo editors.

FEB. 19, 2025

Photos show the ‘Feline Oscars,’ an international feline beauty competition in Romania

MARCH 22, 2026

Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists […]

APRIL 8, 2025

Gene Hackman, found dead at 95, was one of Hollywood’s most respected actors

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the industry’s most respected and honored performers, has been found dead along with his wife at their home. He was 95. Hackman was a frequent and versatile presence on screen from the 1960s until […]

FEB. 28, 2025

Many Americans have come to rely on Chinese-made drones. Now lawmakers want to ban them

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russell Hedrick, a North Carolina farmer, flies drones to spray fertilizers on his corn, soybean and wheat fields at a fraction of what it would cost him to use a conventional ground spreader. As a volunteer rescuer, Hedrick uses thermal drones to search for people trapped by mudslides and cargo drones to […]

DEC. 23, 2024