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FILE - In this 1993 file photo, actor Gene Hackman is seen. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - In this 1993 file photo, actor Gene Hackman is seen. (AP Photo/File)
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Gene Hackman, found dead at 95, was one of Hollywood’s most respected actors

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the industry’s most respected and honored performers, has been found dead along with his wife at their home. He was 95. Hackman was a frequent and versatile presence on screen from the 1960s until […]

FEB. 28, 2025

Security officers and rescuers gather at a destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Security officers and rescuers gather at a destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
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Israeli strikes kill at least 12 Lebanese rescuers and 15 people in Syria

BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed at least 12 Lebanese rescue workers on Thursday inside a civil defense center in the eastern city of Baalbek, according to health and rescue officials, hours after state media in Syria said Israeli strikes in and around the capital killed at least 15 people. Lebanese emergency workers were […]

NOV. 14, 2024

Giant Troll Sculptures
The face of a giant troll sculpture created by the Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo and his team that's part of an installation of six sculptures called "Trolls Save the Humans" is seen on display at the historic estate Filoli, Saturday, July 5, 2025, in Woodside, Calif. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
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Giant trolls have a message for humans about protecting the planet

WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Nestled in forests around the world, a gentle army of giant wooden trolls want to show humans how to live better without destroying the planet. The Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo and his team have created 170 troll sculptures from discarded materials such as wooden pallets, old furniture and wine barrels. Twelve years […]

JULY 23, 2025

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Ligia Ipiales weaves horsehair sieves, a mesh known as a “cedazo,” in Guangopolo, Ecuador, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Ecuadorian artisans working to preserve the traditional craft of weaving horsehair strainers

In her modest home in Guangopolo, east of Ecuador’s capital, Ligia Ipiales carefully separates strands from a horse’s tail, weaving a mesh as fine as gauze for a “cedazo,” a traditional sieve clinging to survival. The craft that once made the village famous is now fading. Only nine “cedacero” artisans remain. The youngest is 51-year-old Guido Paucar, […]

JUNE 9, 2026

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AP in the News

The Associated Press wins duPont-Columbia award for Ukraine war documentary ’20 Days in Mariupol’

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has won a prestigious broadcast journalism award for “20 Days in Mariupol,” its documentary on the war in Ukraine produced with PBS’ “Frontline.” The documentary was among 15 winners of the 2024 duPont-Columbia Awards announced at a ceremony at Columbia University in New York on Thursday. Founded in 1942, the […]

JAN. 25, 2024

Trucks line up to cross the border into the United States as tariffs against Mexico go into effect, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Trucks line up to cross the border into the United States as tariffs against Mexico go into effect, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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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

Ed Lutgen shows off his tattoo while waiting to hear the results of the union vote on a new contract offer from Boeing, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at IAM District 751 Union Hall in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Ed Lutgen shows off his tattoo while waiting to hear the results of the union vote on a new contract offer from Boeing, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at IAM District 751 Union Hall in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
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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

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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

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Kenneth and Irene Hernandez pay their respects as they visit a makeshift memorial with crosses placed near the scene of a shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A man opened fire inside the church in the small South Texas community on Sunday, killing and wounding many. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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.

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From top left, AP photographers Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras. Bottom row from left Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen.

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.

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AP in the News

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

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In this Tuesday April 19,2011 photo showing Associated Press pulitzer prize winning photographer Nick Ut poses for a photo in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
AP in the News

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

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