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For these incarcerated students, online school has been a disaster

To earn his freedom, 15-year-old Cayden Gillespie had to complete three school assignments a day. But school had gone virtual for Cayden and other incarcerated young people in Florida. And sometimes, he didn’t understand it. One day last summer, he kept failing an online pre-algebra test. There were too many words to read. He didn’t know how […]

AUG. 14, 2025

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law. An Associated Press investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties […]

OCT. 22, 2025

Adopted and Locked Away: Kids promised ‘forever homes’ instead confined in for-profit institutions

She was 13 years old and scared of the dark when she arrived at a residential treatment center that had promised her adoptive parents it would help her heal — from the pain of not knowing who her mother was or why she’d given her away. Kate plugged in a night light in the dorm […]

APRIL 28, 2026

The Latest: Platner clinches Democratic nomination for US Senate in Maine

Voters across Maine, Nevada, South Carolina and North Dakota cast ballots Tuesday in another day of primary elections in America, but much of the political world was focused on Maine’s high-stakes U.S. Senate contest.

JUNE 10, 2026

Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on […]

SEPT. 9, 2025

Calling the presidential race state by state

At 2:29 a.m. ET on Wednesday, The Associated Press called the race for Donald Trump in a Flash, reserved for news alerts of the highest importance.

Calling the 2020 presidential race state by state

At 11:26 a.m. ET on Saturday, The Associated Press declared Joe Biden the winner of the U.S. presidential race.

For AP, it’s back to the future

The Associated Press has announced that it will move its corporate headquarters from midtown Manhattan to the Brookfield Place retail and office complex, across West Street from the World Trade Center. The move, planned for early 2017, will take AP back to the future.

AP earns 5 National Headliner Awards

All-formats AP coverage of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, AI-powered election misinformation, prison labor in the food industry and police restraint tactics received five honors in the 2025 National Headliner Awards, including four first-place wins. AP photojournalist Evan Vucci earned first place and Best in Show in the spot news photography category for […]

AP receives 4 awards from Deadline Club

We were pleased to receive four awards on Monday evening from the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

April Fools’ Day “pranks”?

At April Fools’ time, we’re sometimes asked how we feel about people planting “prank stories” in the media.

Calling the 2024 presidential race state by state

At 5:34 a.m. ET on Wednesday, The Associated Press declared Donald Trump the winner of the U.S. presidential race.