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PART IV AP IMPACT NRC and industry rewrite nuke history

By JEFF DONN ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — When commercial nuclear power was getting its start in the 1960s and 1970s, industry and regulators stated unequivocally that reactors were designed only to operate for 40 years. Now they tell another story — insisting that the units were built with no inherent life span, and can run for up to a century, an Associated Press investigation shows.

APRIL 16, 2012

AP CEO addresses phone records seizure and safeguards

Prepared remarks Gary Pruitt President and CEO, The Associated Press Address to the National Press ClubJune 19, 2013 Good afternoon. Before coming over here to talk to you today, I thought I should get a sense of how the seizure of AP’s phone records by the DOJ is affecting our reporters. It’s been six weeks, […]

JUNE 19, 2013

Big Ten ties record with nine teams in AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll; UConn, Texas still 1-2

The Big Ten matched The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball record with nine ranked teams as Nebraska entered at No. 24 on Monday. The conference set the mark last year on Dec. 2 and this week has three teams in the top 10 alone. UConn still is No. 1, receiving 23 first-place votes from a national […]

DEC. 8, 2025

AP names Mary Hudetz as New Mexico law enforcement reporter

Mary Hudetz, seen in this July 2013 photo, a former Associated Press journalist and current editor of Native Peoples Magazine in Phoenix, will return to the AP in August to become the news cooperative’s law enforcement reporter in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The hire was announced Wednesday by Traci Carl, the AP’s West editor overseeing news […]

JULY 30, 2015

Ataque en pirámides de México fue una acción bien planeada de un seguidor de tiroteos en EEUU

El ataque en las emblemáticas pirámides de Teotihuacán que acabó con una turista muerta y otros 13 heridos —entre ellos un niño de 6 años y un adolescente de 13— fue una acción bien planificada por un mexicano de 27 años que actuó solo y era seguidor de acciones violentas en Estados Unidos, informaron el martes las autoridades.

APRIL 21, 2026

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

Millions of AP images and video now available on single platform with AI-powered search

The Associated Press announced today the launch of a unique artificial intelligence-powered search experience on AP Newsroom, the global news agency’s single platform for multimedia content.  

JUNE 1, 2023

Interstellar comet keeps its distance as it makes its closest approach to Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles (269 million kilometers) of our planet on Friday, the closest it gets on its grand tour of the solar system. […]

DEC. 15, 2025

PM Carney says ‘Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland’

JAN. 21, 2026

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

Journalist’s arrest threatens reporting from Russia

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is escorted by officers from the Lefortovsky court to a bus, in Moscow, Russia, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) NEW YORK (AP) — The arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges in Russia has news organizations based outside the country weighing for the second time […]

MARCH 31, 2023