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‘Unprecedented’ transparency into race calls

At 6:32 p.m. ET on Wednesday, more than a week after Election Day, The Associated Press called the U.S. House for the Republican Party after Republicans secured the 218th seat needed to gain control.

All-formats team brings readers to 48-hour race in inhospitably hot environment

The Badwater 135 Ultramarathon is one of the most grueling and dangerous races in the world, stretching 135 miles through California’s Death Valley — the hottest place on Earth — in the middle of July. This year, an Associated Press team set out to take audiences into this brutal environment and showcase what it says […]

JULY 25, 2025

Covering the monster typhoon

Associated Press journalists covering the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines are now living and working in two locations – the meeting room in a hotel that was largely destroyed and a spot at Tacloban’s seaside airport enclosed by a large party tent.

Man accused of killing 2 Israeli Embassy staffers in DC charged with murder of foreign officials

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington as they left an event at a Jewish museum told police after his arrest, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” federal authorities said Thursday in announcing criminal charges. Elias Rodriguez, 31, shouted “Free Palestine” as […]

MAY 22, 2025

How data journalism tools unlocked mystery of campaign donations

When Arizona law enforcement reporter Jacques Billeaud wanted to find out where donations to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign were coming from, he wasn’t going to let an unsearchable PDF format get in his way.

Writing about the ‘alt-right’

Recent developments have put the so-called "alt-right" movement in the news. They highlight the need for clarity around use of the term and around some related terms, such as "white nationalism" and "white supremacism."

Acclaimed photographer Anja Niedringhaus dies

In this image taken Friday Sept. 11, 2011 AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus attends an exhibition of her work in Berlin. Niedringhaus, 48, was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday, April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. Niedringhaus an internationally acclaimed […]

APRIL 4, 2014

Jonathan Wolman, Detroit News editor, former AP exec, dies

Jonathan Wolman, editor and publisher of The Detroit News, speaks during an announcement at the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News during a news conference in Detroit, Dec. 16, 2008. (AP Photo) Jonathan Wolman, who over more than 45 years in journalism served as editor and publisher of The Detroit News and previously worked […]

APRIL 15, 2019

AP, Frontline documentary ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ wins Academy Award® for ‘Best Documentary Feature Film’

A powerful, first-person view of the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, “20 Days in Mariupol” is told through the perspective of Ukrainian filmmaker and AP video journalist Mstyslav Chernov.

MARCH 10, 2024

Making a case for a singular ‘they’

During a panel at the American Copy Editors Society national conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Friday, it was announced that the 2017 AP Stylebook will include guidance on the limited use of “they” as a singular pronoun.

Venezuela avanza en ley de amnistía para la liberación masiva de presos por motivos políticos

La Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela aprobó el jueves en una primera discusión un proyecto de Ley de Amnistía propuesta por la presidenta encargada Delcy Rodríguez que apunta a la liberación masiva de presos por motivos políticos.

FEB. 5, 2026

Stellar night for AP race calling

A night of fast and accurate race calls by The Associated Press on Super Tuesday culminated as polls closed in California at 8 p.m. PT, when AP declared Bernie Sanders the winner of the night's biggest prize.