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AP names Sally Stapleton to manage new global religion team

The appointment was announced Friday by Sarah Nordgren, AP’s deputy managing editor for sports, business, entertainment, health, science and religion. As global religion editor, Stapleton will lead a team funded by a $4.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to the Religious News Foundation. The AP will work with Religion News Service and The Conversation to […]

JUNE 21, 2019

AP expands China video news offering with CCTV+ collaboration

As global interest in China continues to grow, The Associated Press has extended its existing relationship with CCTV+, the video news agency of China Central Television, to bring its comprehensive video news coverage to the online AP Video Hub platform.

MARCH 7, 2018

New survey takes pulse of young Americans

As the run-up to the U.S. midterm elections begins, the new Youth Political Pulse survey, by MTV with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, aims to reveal what political issues matter most to young Americans.

Canada loses measles elimination status after ongoing outbreaks

Canada is no longer measles-free because of ongoing outbreaks, international health experts said Monday, as childhood vaccination rates fall and the highly contagious virus spreads across North and South America. The loss of the country’s measles elimination status comes more than a year after the highly contagious virus started spreading. Canada has logged 5,138 measles cases this year […]

NOV. 10, 2025

Young adults are less likely to follow politics or say voting is important: AP-NORC poll

Mairekk Griffiths, a 26-year-old cook in a Denver suburb, doesn’t think he’ll ever pay a lot of attention to U.S. politics unless radical change happens. “If another party was likely to win, I’d be interested in that,” said Griffiths, who voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential race but, like many his age, does not see voting […]

AUG. 5, 2025

Teacher in Nigeria loses dozens of relatives and pupils in devastating floods

MOKWA, Nigeria (AP) — On May 29, Mallam Hassan Umar stood waist-deep and barefoot in muddy water, his eyes on the remnants of his Arabic school, now reduced to sludge and shattered wood by devastating floods. The Islamic teacher, clutching only the threadbare clothes he escaped with, started shouting the names of the pupils he […]

JUNE 5, 2025

Trump’s approval on economy falls in AP-NORC poll, showing new warning signs for president

President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher, according to a new AP-NORC poll, with even Republicans showing less faith in his leadership. The findings from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research show a president who is struggling with unfulfilled promises to […]

APRIL 20, 2026

Yu Zidi is only 12 but she stuns the swim world with some of the year’s fastest times

Yu Zidi of China is only 12 years old and will race at the world swimming championships later this month in Singapore. That’s amazing. But her age is only part of the picture. Not only is she very young, but her times in three events this year are among the best in the world. And […]

JULY 17, 2025

AP nombra a Fernando Gonzalez Director de Noticias adjunto

Fernando González. (AP Photo) CIUDAD DE MEXICO (AP) — Fernando González, un veterano periodista de televisión que ha cubierto Latinoamérica y el Caribe durante los últimos 30 años, ha sido nombrado Director de Noticias Adjunto para la región de The Associated Press. González, quien ha sido editor regional de vídeo para Latinoamérica y el Caribe […]

MAY 4, 2016

Survey Young adults do consume news, in their own way

Travis Morgan sits with a newspaper outside a coffee shop in Grants Pass, Ore. on Thursday, March 12, 2015. Morgan, 33, a pilot, says he still likes reading a printed newspaper, watching the news on his television, and using a search engine to dig more deeply if he wants to know more. He is among […]

MARCH 16, 2015

ABC News and AP announce documentary spotlighting intersection between the KKK and law enforcement from George Stephanopoulos Pr

‘Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK’ Premieres on Hulu Thursday, April 27. In a first-time collaboration, ABC News and The Associated Press announced today a documentary that takes viewers inside one of the world’s most sinister secret societies — the Ku Klux Klan. Based on an award-winning investigative AP series, the true-crime documentary captures the infiltration […]

APRIL 19, 2023

AP to name 90th All-America team, resume teams for all 5 major conferences

The Associated Press All-America team, the longest-running annual roster of the nation’s top college football players, will be announced Dec. 13. The AP also will name all-conference teams for all five major football conferences for the first time since 1977, starting Dec. 14.

DEC. 3, 2015