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ESPN icon Dick Vitale is back for start of another college basketball season after cancer fight

The college basketball season has arrived, and broadcasting great Dick Vitale has taken a long journey to again meet the sport at its starting line. Surgeries, radiation treatments and chemotherapy amid a cancer fight kept him off the airwaves for two years until his return shortly before March Madness. But on Tuesday, the 86-year-old Basketball Hall of Famer will […]

NOV. 3, 2025

Kathleen Carroll APs executive editor stepping down

Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll. (AP Photo/Doug McSchooler) NEW YORK (AP) — Kathleen Carroll, the executive editor of The Associated Press who championed ambitious, investigative journalism and pushed the cooperative forward in a rapidly changing digital world, announced Wednesday that she will step down after 14 years leading the world’s oldest news […]

JULY 20, 2016

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Trump places 25% tariff on imported autos. Carmakers could face higher costs and lower sales

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he was placing 25% tariffs on auto imports, a move the White House claims would foster domestic manufacturing but could also put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains. “This will continue to spur growth,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “We’ll effectively be charging a 25% tariff.” The […]

MARCH 28, 2025

Marina Villeneuve named AP government reporter for Maine

The appointment was announced Wednesday by Karen Testa, AP’s editor for the east region of the U.S., and William J. Kole, news editor for New England. “Marina’s curiosity and intellect, combined with her aggressive pursuit of data and public records, make her a perfect fit as a government and breaking news reporter. We’re thrilled to […]

APRIL 27, 2016

A North Carolina wildlife crossing will save people. Can it save the last wild red wolves too?

ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. (AP) — Hunters were once the greatest human threat to the country’s only unique wolf species. Today, it’s motorists. That fact was brought home last June, when red wolf breeding male No. 2444 was struck and killed on U.S. 64 near Manns Harbor, North Carolina. His death likely meant […]

FEB. 4, 2025

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

NEW YORK (AP) — Used to leading off, Ichiro Suzuki got antsy when he had to wait. Considered a no-doubt pick for baseball’s Hall of Fame and possibly the second unanimous selection, he waited by the phone for the expected call Tuesday. Fifteen minutes passed without a ring. “I actually started getting kind of nervous,” […]

JAN. 21, 2025

AP’s Doug Ferguson gets PGA lifetime journalism award

AP golf writer Doug Ferguson poses at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Ferguson is the 30th recipient of the PGA award, which recognizes members of the media for steadfast coverage of golf throughout a career. Ferguson has covered more than 500 golf events. Ferguson joined the AP as […]

JAN. 15, 2019

AP reporter deported from South Sudan

Justin Lynch, an American freelance journalist who had reported on human rights violations in the violence-plagued nation for the past six months, said he was arrested by members of South Sudan’s National Security Service who temporarily seized his mobile phones and allowed him to pack a bag. The agents told him only that he was […]

DEC. 6, 2016

AP photo exhibit The American President to open at Federal Hall in Manhattan

"The American President," an exhibit of compelling presidential news photos from The Associated Press, will be on display Sept. 8 through Election Day at Federal Hall National Memorial in New York.

SEPT. 6, 2016

Canada and the EU swiftly retaliate against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs

BRUSSELS (AP) — Major trade partners swiftly hit back at President Donald Trump’s increased tariffs on aluminum and steel imports, imposing stiff new taxes on U.S products from textiles and water heaters to beef and bourbon. Canada, the largest supplier of steel and aluminum to the U.S., said Wednesday it will place 25% reciprocal tariffs […]

MARCH 14, 2025

Food authority Sara Moulton to write column for AP

Starting Aug. 6, The Associated Press will begin publishing a weekly healthy eating column by Sara Moulton, star of public television's "Sara's Weeknight Meals" and a longtime Food Network host. The column will be available to subscribers of AP's Lifestyles service.

AUG. 1, 2012