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AP Syria missile photos dominate front pages

As the United States, Britain and France launched air strikes on Syria early Saturday, AP photographer Hassan Ammar, in Damascus, captured remarkable photos that ran on the front pages of some 100 newspapers across the globe.

AP wins Pulitzer Prize for Seafood from Slaves investigation

NEW YORK – The Associated Press today won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service based on its international investigation of the fishing industry in Southeast Asia that freed more than 2,000 slaves and traced the seafood they caught to supermarkets and pet food providers across the U.S.

APRIL 18, 2016

JFK chronicle published by AP ahead of centennial

The Associated Press has published “JFK: A Daily Chronicle of the White House Years,” an account of President John F. Kennedy’s 1,036 days as commander-in-chief, ahead of the 100th anniversary of his birth on May 29.

MAY 23, 2017

AP elimina fotos alteradas de Fidel Castro

Las imágenes fueron difundidas por Estudios Revolución, una entidad gubernamental que distribuye imágenes de funcionarios y actividades de gobierno, durante la reciente cumbre de Latinoamérica y el Caribe en La Habana. Fueron retransmitidas por la AP y por otras agencias noticiosas internacionales a sus clientes alrededor del mundo. “Hemos concluido que varias fotografías oficiales de […]

FEB. 10, 2014

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Stellar night for AP race calling

A night of fast and accurate race calls by The Associated Press on Super Tuesday culminated as polls closed in California at 8 p.m. PT, when AP declared Bernie Sanders the winner of the night's biggest prize.

Venezuela avanza en ley de amnistía para la liberación masiva de presos por motivos políticos

La Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela aprobó el jueves en una primera discusión un proyecto de Ley de Amnistía propuesta por la presidenta encargada Delcy Rodríguez que apunta a la liberación masiva de presos por motivos políticos.

FEB. 5, 2026

Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years for more than a millennium

Deep in the forests of the Japanese Alps, Shinto priests keep watch as woodsmen dressed in ceremonial white chop their axes into two ancient cypress trees, timing their swings so that they strike from three directions. An hour later, the head woodcutter shouts, “A tree is falling!” as one of the 300-year-old trees crashes down, […]

SEPT. 23, 2025

For AP, it’s back to the future

The Associated Press has announced that it will move its corporate headquarters from midtown Manhattan to the Brookfield Place retail and office complex, across West Street from the World Trade Center. The move, planned for early 2017, will take AP back to the future.

AP’s long history of reporting from Cuba

As the United States and Cuba move to restore diplomatic relations for the first time in more than 50 years, a look at The Associated Press’ long and unparalleled history on the island reflects the tensions that have marked the relationship between the two countries.

AP-NORC Center releases new survey on low-wage workers

Chicago, March 20, 2013 — The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research announces the publication and availability of a major two-part study designed to better understand how lower-wage workers and those who employ them view such jobs and the opportunities for advancing the careers of lower wage workers. Funding for the surveys was provided […]

MARCH 20, 2013

Earthquake compounds Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis as the death toll passes 2,000

BANGKOK (AP) — The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media said Monday, as accounts of some people’s last moments emerged: Two hundred Buddhist monks crushed by a collapsing monastery. Fifty children killed when a preschool classroom crumbled. Seven hundred Muslims struck while praying at mosques for Ramadan. […]

APRIL 1, 2025