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Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim ‘Trump Accounts’

Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion Tuesday to provide 25 million American children 10 and under an incentive to claim the new investment accounts for children created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation. The historic gift has little precedent, with few single charitable commitments in the past 25 years exceeding $1 billion. […]

DEC. 2, 2025

AP, Frontline doc ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ wins Sundance audience award

PARK CITY, UTAH — The visceral feature film “20 Days in Mariupol” by The Associated Press and Frontline (PBS) has been awarded the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition Audience Award.

JAN. 27, 2023

U.S. economy shrinks 0.3% in first quarter as Trump trade wars disrupt businesses

The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.3% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business. First-quarter growth was slowed by a surge in imports as companies in the United States tried to bring in foreign goods before Trump imposed massive tariffs. The January-March drop […]

APRIL 29, 2025

Suicides in the US military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides in the U.S. military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend that the Pentagon has struggled to abate, according to a Defense Department report released on Thursday. The increase is a bit of a setback after the deaths dipped slightly the previous year. The number of suicides and the rate per […]

NOV. 14, 2024

Ex-AP writer McArthur, who covered Vietnam, dies

This April 28, 1972 file photo shows once-and-future bureau chiefs at The Associated Press’ Saigon bureau, from left, George Esper (1973-75), Malcolm Browne (1961-64), George McArthur (1968-69), Edwin Q. White (1965-67), and Richard Pyle (1970-73). McArthur, a former AP foreign correspondent who reported all over the world and spent years in Saigon covering the Vietnam […]

APRIL 13, 2013

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

AP, Frontline documentary ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ to make world premiere at Sundance Film Festival

NEW YORK — The new feature film “20 Days in Mariupol” from The Associated Press and Frontline, the award-winning PBS documentary series housed at GBH in Boston, will make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this January in Park City, Utah, and be featured in the festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.

DEC. 8, 2022

Focused amid the gunfire, an AP photographer captures another perspective of attack on Trump

By  GENE J. PUSKAR, The Associated Press BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Gene Puskar has been with The Associated Press for 45 years. Based in Pittsburgh, his career has spanned a wide range of events including the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, the Sept. 11 attack that downed Flight 93, Stanley Cups and World Series, […]

JULY 28, 2024

Why does AP call US elections?

For 178 years, The Associated Press has played a vital role in U.S. elections, counting the vote and declaring the winners – and reporting them to the world, without fear or favor.  

The Associated Press and PodcastOne to deliver real-time news in on-demand podcasts

LOS ANGELES – The Associated Press, one of the most trusted sources of independent news and information, and PodcastOne, the leader in advertiser-supported podcasts with more than 200 top programs that boast more than 120 million monthly downloads, announced today a groundbreaking collaboration to deliver real-time news reports in on-demand podcasts with PodcastOne’s AP Up-To-The-Minute Newscast.

DEC. 18, 2014

AP VoteCast data from midterms is now available

The Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago today made available the data from AP VoteCast’s more than 120,000 interviews with voters in the runup to the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.

Spotlight on AP’s visual storytelling

In 2024, AP photojournalists across nearly 100 countries and in all 50 states documented the world’s most urgent stories. From pivotal moments including the attempted assassination of President-elect Donald Trump to the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, AP photographers were on the front lines, capturing history as it unfolded. Beyond breaking news, […]