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AP, Frontline documentary ’20 Days in Mariupol’ wins ‘Best Documentary’ at 2024 BAFTA film awards

“20 Days in Mariupol,” the feature documentary from The Associated Press and PBS “Frontline” has earned a 2024 EE BAFTA Film Award in the Best Documentary category. A powerful, first-person view of the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, “20 Days in Mariupol” is told through the perspective of Ukrainian filmmaker and AP video […]

FEB. 19, 2024

For first time, AP to name college basketball players of the week

The Associated Press for the first time will name players of the week for men’s and women’s college basketball throughout the upcoming season.

NOV. 2, 2023

Health emergencies and pandemics

Survivors recount ‘very apocalyptic’ cyclone that ripped through French territory of Mayotte

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — They clustered around water taps, rare sources of electricity and each other. Four days after the strongest cyclone in nearly a century ripped through the French island territory of Mayotte off the coast of Africa, survivors recalled the horror of the storm that caught many by surprise. Associated Press journalists reached […]

DEC. 18, 2024

New AP Stylebook includes 300 new or revised entries, inclusive storytelling chapter

The Associated Press today released the 56th edition of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, which includes more than 300 new or revised entries and a new chapter on inclusive storytelling.

JUNE 1, 2022

A family digs through trash for bits of food, showing Gaza’s growing desperation

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — With flies buzzing all around them, the woman and her daughter picked through the pile of garbage bags for scraps of food at the foot of a destroyed building in Gaza City. She found a small pile of cooked rice, a few scraps of bread, a box with some […]

MAY 27, 2025

Economic impacts in monetary policy

Climate related impacts

A look at the venues for the 2026 Winter Games in Milan Cortina

MILAN (AP) — Next year’s Winter Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but they will actually be staged across a large swath of northern Italy.

FEB. 5, 2025

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire quiets one front but Gaza sees no end to war

JERUSALEM (AP) — For many across the Middle East, the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire came as a relief: the first major sign of progress in the region since war began more than a year ago. But for Palestinians in Gaza and families of hostages held in the territory, the news appeared only to inaugurate a newer, grimmer […]

NOV. 27, 2024

Mamdani proves his power with New York endorsements, plus more takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani waded into Democratic U.S. House primaries to boost three progressives over establishment-backed candidates. All of them won Tuesday, defeating two incumbents and essentially ensuring that two self-described democratic socialists will be elected to Congress in their deep blue districts.

JUNE 24, 2026

AP-Frontline doc ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ debuts at Sundance

The AP-Frontline documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing retelling of the Russian siege of the city, made its world premiere Friday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.