Search results

Showing 97 - 108 of 1122 results for "p22"

Filter By:

Sort By:

Order:

Alaska Fat Bear Week
This image provided by the National Park Service shows bear 901 at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, on Sept. 12, 2025. (E Johnston/National Park Service via AP)
Spotlights

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week kicks off with online voting to crown the most oversized ursine

After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular online voting contest called Fat Bear Week. Those casting votes online starting Tuesday will choose between 11 mammoth brown bears and […]

SEPT. 23, 2025

Portugal Blessing of the Helmets
Helmets lie on the ground at the Roman Catholic holy shrine of Fatima, as motorcyclists arrive to have their helmets blessed during the 10th Pilgrimage of the Blessing of Helmets that draws tens of thousands, in Fatima, Portugal, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)
Spotlights

Thousands of motorcyclists converge on Portuguese shrine for annual Blessing of the Helmets

Motorcycle rallies have a reputation for beer drinking, rock ‘n’ roll and perhaps the odd brawl. But at an annual gathering in northern Portugal, the strongest tipple is a sip of communion wine and the music is strictly hymns set to a church organ. Over the weekend, an estimated 180,000 members of Portugal’s motorcycling community […]

SEPT. 22, 2025

Election 2026 Senate North Carolina
FILE - This photo combination shows North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, in Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 23, 2024, left, and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley, in Gastonia, N.C., July 31, 2025, right. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson, Erik Verduzco, file)
Spotlights

Ukrainian refugee’s train stabbing death becomes early flashpoint in 2026 North Carolina Senate race

 Republicans in North Carolina and beyond are making a concerted effort to turn the stabbing death of a Ukrainian woman on a Charlotte commuter train into a political liability for Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper in his bid to win a key U.S. Senate race that is still more than a year away. GOP candidate Michael Whatley has said Cooper […]

SEPT. 22, 2025

Italy Ferrari Aircraft Carrier
Italian driver Fabio Barone attempts to break his own speed record on a ship, at the wheel of a Ferrari SF 90, on the flight deck of the Italian Navy aircraft carrier Nave Trieste, docked at the port of Civitavecchia, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Spotlights

One man in an Italian supercar atop an aircraft carrier has a record in his sights

Along Italy’s Mediterranean coast on Thursday, driver Fabio Barone raced across the flight deck of a navy ship while chasing a world record: the fastest car on a boat. Last year, Barone set the Italian Timekeepers Federation’s record on another aircraft carrier in southern Italy, hitting 152 kilometers per hour (94.4 mph). In Civitavecchia, on […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Film Review – Him
This image released by Universal Pictures shows Marlon Wayans in a scene from "Him." (Universal Pictures via AP)
Spotlights

Jordan Peele’s ‘Him’ delves into Faustian bargains. What are you willing to sacrifice?

Since it first premiered in 1926, F.W. Murnau’s “Faust” has been lauded as one of the greatest silent films ever made. And in the century that’s followed, striking a deal with the devil has been one of cinema’s most enduring tropes. “Him,” the Jordan Peele-produced horror film reaching theaters Friday, is the latest testament to the fact that, in […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Spain Sagrada Familia
Miniature replicas of the new central tower that will crown the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia, making it the largest Christian church in Europe, are displayed during a press conference in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Spotlights

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia is ready to raise its highest tower and become Europe’s tallest church

After well over a century under construction, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica is ready to raise its immense central tower and become the tallest Christian church in Europe. The basilica’s General Director Xavier Martínez said Thursday that “the tower will be finished at the end of this year or the beginning of 2026.” “This is an important moment […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Prehistoric Amber
This photo provided by researchers in September 2025 shows a Diptera Nematocera fly of the family Chironomidae (non-biting midges) trapped in a Cretaceous-era amber sample discovered in Ecuador. (Mónica Solórzano-Kraemer via AP)
Spotlights

Discovery of insects trapped in amber sheds light on ancient Amazon rainforest

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants were just beginning to diversify and spread around the world. Many of the specimens found at a sandstone quarry in Ecuador date to 112 million years […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Japan Sacred Shrine Rebuilt Photo Gallery
Shinto priests and a girl called "monoimi" march into the main palace of Toyoukedaijingu, also known as Geku, or the outer sanctuary, of the Ise Jingu shrine complex as they begin Yamaguchisai, a kickoff ceremony of Shikinen Sengu, which concludes in 2033, in Ise, central Japan, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Spotlights

Photos show historic Japanese shrine that is torn down and rebuilt every 20 years

Ise Jingu is Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, which every 20 years is completely knocked down and rebuilt in an expensive, time-consuming process that has endured for the last 1,300 years. The last operation to replace the 125 shrine buildings was completed in 2013, and this year marks the beginning of the latest process, which is being […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Alaska Fat Bear Week
This image provided by the National Park Service shows the cubs 803s at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska on July 19, 2025. (C. Loberg/National Park Service via AP)
Spotlights

What to know about Fat Bear Week, and the brawny bruins ready to battle for the title

The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest known as Fat Bear Week. The main event featuring adult bears starts next week, but first up Thursday is what the National Park Service […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Education-Natural Disasters-Displaced Students
Nicole Schoychid, left, and Rebekah Canu, co-founders of Wildwood Agile Leaning Center, embrace inside the schoolhouse, which was damaged by flooding in Hurricane Helene, as they are surrounded by debris and mud, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Boone, N.C. The school had to compete against many other organizations and businesses vying for their own space in Boone after Helene damaged the town, creating a “bottleneck” from demand, Schoychid says. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Spotlights

Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina a year ago. Some students never returned to school

When 12-year-old Natalie Briggs visited the ruins of her home after Hurricane Helene, she had to tightrope across a wooden beam to reach what was once her bedroom. Knots of electrical wires were draped inside the skeleton of the house. Months after the storm, light filtered through breaks in the tarps over the windows. “All I […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

POY Latam Photographer of the Year 2025
FILE PHOTO GALLERY - A police car goes up in flames, set on fire during a protest led by soccer fans in support of retirees demanding higher pensions and opposing austerity measures implemented by Javier Milei's government, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
Spotlights

AP photographer Rodrigo Abd wins POY Latam photojournalist of the year

Founded in 2011, Pictures of the Year Latin America, or POY Latam, is a biennial documentary and artistic photography contest in Ibero-America. It was created with the support of the Missouri School of Journalism Pictures of the Year International (POY), a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. This year, Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Federal Reserve Powell
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, speaks during a news conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Spotlights

Federal Reserve cuts key rate for first time this year

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday and projected it would do so twice more this year as concern grows at the central bank about the health of the nation’s labor market. The move is the Fed’s first cut since December and lowered its short-term rate to […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Contact us
FOLLOW AP

You are now entering the English version

This page is not available in your selected language. You are now viewing the English version.

Continue