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AP buys stake in Bambuser, strengthens live UGC video capability

 LONDON -- The Associated Press today announced the purchase of a minority stake in Bambuser, the pioneering live video service that allows users to broadcast, watch and share live video through mobile phones and computers. The investment builds on the exclusive editorial relationship that the AP has with Bambuser and further strengthens the AP’s world-leading capability to source and stream live video news from eyewitnesses.

JUNE 20, 2013

Man charged in attack on AP photographer, police at Capitol

In this Jan. 6, 2021, image from video, Alan William Byerly, right, is seen allegedly attacking an AP photographer during a riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he assaulted an Associated Press photographer and police officers during […]

JULY 7, 2021

AP Top 25 college football poll kicks off 81st year

The AP Top 25, the longest-running college football poll of its kind, will begin its 81st year with the much-awaited preseason edition on Sunday, Aug. 21.

AUG. 18, 2016

AP preseason basketball polls to be released Nov 2-3

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 week of Nov. 2.

OCT. 22, 2015

AP chief urges governments to support free press

Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll speaks at the International Government Communication Forum, in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Al Moutasim Al Maskery) Kathleen Carroll said the media can be a proxy for questions and concerns by citizens and the role of independent journalists is to ask questions on behalf of […]

FEB. 24, 2014

New survey takes pulse of young Americans

As the run-up to the U.S. midterm elections begins, the new Youth Political Pulse survey, by MTV with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, aims to reveal what political issues matter most to young Americans.

Court filing links spy exposed by AP to Israel’s Black Cube

In this image from video, a man identified as former Israeli intelligence officer Aharon Almog-Assouline speaks during an interview at a restaurant in New York on Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick) LONDON (AP) — A Canadian attorney says he appears to have been targeted by the same undercover operative unmasked by The Associated Press at […]

FEB. 27, 2019

Celebrity deaths force media to examine suicide reporting

This combination of 2004 and 2016 file photos shows fashion designer Kate Spade and chef Anthony Bourdain in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, Andy Kropa/Invision) NEW YORK (AP) — The deaths of designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain have caused media organizations to look at how they cover suicide and whether more could […]

JUNE 13, 2018

Another New Hampshire man gets a pig kidney as transplant trials are poised to start

A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant, at a crucial point in the quest to prove if animals organs really might save human lives. The 54-year-old New Hampshire man is faring well after his June 14 operation, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced Monday. “I really wanted to contribute […]

SEPT. 8, 2025

Congress certifies Trump’s 2024 win, without the Jan. 6 mob violence of four years ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings Monday that unfolded without challenge, in stark contrast to the Jan. 6, 2021, violence as his mob of supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Lawmakers convened under heavy security and a winter snowstorm to meet the date required by […]

JAN. 6, 2025

U.S. Olympic and Paralympic coach put on leave after exclusive AP report on sexual abuse 

After the AP reported that two-time Olympic biathlete Joanne Reid had been sexually harassed and abused by her coach for years, several athletes contacted reporter Martha Bellisle to say it also happened to them going back far as the 1990s. The combined accounts showed a 30-year pattern of the abuse and mistreatment of female biathletes […]

DEC. 20, 2024

AP’s top albums of 2024: Beyoncé, Charli XCX, Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Mk.gee and more

NEW YORK (AP) — Ten of the top albums of the year, as chosen by Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman. “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé She rode in on a white horse, in patriotic chaps and wielding an American flag. She declared, this “ain’t a Country album” but “a ‘Beyoncé’ album” — positioning herself in opposition […]

DEC. 5, 2024