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News media coalition announces partnership to test small news drones at FAA test site

A coalition of 10 news media companies [including The Associated Press] is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) for the testing of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to gather news.

JAN. 15, 2015

Counting the victims of the Texas church shooting

We have continued to discuss the Texas church shooting and the best choice of words when discussing the number of deaths in the attack. Police have reported that the gunman killed 26 people. However, we now know that they were counting the fetus of one of the victims.

Trump’s trade war draws swift retaliation with new tariffs from Mexico, Canada and China

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump launched a trade war Tuesday against America’s three biggest trading partners, drawing immediate retaliation from Mexico, Canada and China and sending financial markets into a tailspin as the U.S. faced the threat of rekindled inflation and paralyzing uncertainty for business. Just after midnight, Trump imposed 25% taxes, or tariffs, […]

MARCH 4, 2025

Pulitzer win recognizes AP’s commitment to telling story of Syria

Five Associated Press photographers from around the globe were awarded the Pulitzer Prize this week for their powerful and heartrending coverage of the Syrian civil war, and AP was a finalist for its multiformat coverage there.

Strike at Boeing was part of a new era of labor activism long in decline at US work places

Aircraft assembly workers at Boeing factories near Seattle and elsewhere voted to end a seven-week strike overnight. Leaders of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers district in Seattle said 59% of members who cast ballots agreed to approve the company’s fourth formal offer and the third put to a vote. Organized labor has […]

NOV. 5, 2024

AP announces winners of 2024 Oliver S. Gramling Awards 

NEW YORK – Associated Press journalists and staffers from across the globe are among the winners of the 2024 Oliver S. Gramling Awards and Chairman’s Prize, the highest internal honors of The Associated Press.  Created in 1994 to recognize AP staffers for professional excellence, the Gramling Awards are decided each year by a panel of […]

OCT. 30, 2024

Associated Press images of migrants’ struggle are recognized with a Pulitzer Prize

NEW YORK (AP) — The images, captured by Associated Press photographers throughout 2023 and recognized Monday with a Pulitzer Prize, spotlight the humanity of an unprecedented global migration story often overlooked in a storm of statistics and political rhetoric. In the middle of the Central American jungle, a woman fleeing upheaval in her native Haiti […]

MAY 6, 2024

AP and Trump administration argue access case before federal appeals court; no ruling yet

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press and the Trump administration renewed their argument Monday over a president’s ability to limit media access to journalists he disagrees with, resuming a courtroom dispute with potential First Amendment implications that began last winter when the president announced that he had renamed the Gulf of Mexico. President Donald Trump restricted the […]

NOV. 24, 2025

DIARY Shouts, a hurried evacuation, and then the bombs came

A police officer stands on rubble from a building housing AP’s office and other media in Gaza City that was destroyed after Israeli warplanes demolished it, May 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — My colleagues’ shouts awakened me, and the pounding of my heart drowned out the racing of my […]

MAY 16, 2021

AP’s legendary ‘Napalm Girl’ photographer Nick Ut to retire

AP Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut poses for a photo in Los Angeles, April 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) LOS ANGELES (AP) — It would seem all but impossible to sum up one of the most distinguished careers in photojournalism in only four words, but that’s just what Nick Ut does when he says, “From hell to […]

MARCH 13, 2017

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 Fernando González director de noticias de Caribe, Andes

Fernando González, designado director de noticias de Associated Press para las regiones caribeña y andina.posa para la foto eb Ciudad de México, 23 de marzo de 2020. (AP Foto/Marco Ugarte) González, quien desde 2016 era subdirector de noticias para Latinoamérica y el Caribe en Ciudad de México, ayudará a conducir las operaciones de recolección de […]

MARCH 24, 2020