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Marc Maron ends his podcast with final guest Barack Obama after 16 years and nearly 1,700 episodes

 Barack Obama helped Marc Maron lock the gates on his podcast Monday, returning to the show for the final episode after 16 years and more than 1,600 episodes. The former president gave new status to “WTF With Marc Maron” and to podcasts in general when he visited Maron’s Los Angeles garage studio while still in office a decade ago. Obama […]

OCT. 13, 2025

Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right leader known for fiery rhetoric against immigration, dies at 96

PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, died Tuesday. He was 96. One of the most polarizing figures in French politics, Le Pen made Islam and Muslim immigrants his primary […]

JAN. 7, 2025

Lights, camera, action: Photographing the Oscars

The Associated Press was selected to take all photographs of the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday, trusted to capture the event on behalf of members of the photography pool.

AP’s decade-long push for court transparency key to current Cosby trial

On Sept. 25, 2018, Bill Cosby was led away from a Pennsylvania courthouse in handcuffs, sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his gated estate. 

AP hires Barbara Rodriguez as reporter in Iowa

Barbara Rodriguez The appointment of Barbara Rodriguez was announced Friday by David Scott, the AP’s regional editor for the central U.S., and Scott McFetridge, the AP’s news editor for Iowa and Nebraska. The 26-year-old Rodriguez will move to Des Moines from Chicago, where she worked at the AP’s Central Region editing desk. She previously worked […]

JAN. 4, 2013

Pandemic forces journalists to rethink campaign coverage

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally at Xtreme Manufacturing, in Henderson, Nevada, Sept. 13. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) NEW YORK (AP) — When the coronavirus shutdown began, ABC News’ Martha Raddatz figured her plan for a cross-country road trip to meet voters would be shelved, too. Instead, this week Raddatz nears the end […]

SEPT. 15, 2020

Terrance Harris named AP sports news reporter in Orlando

The appointment was announced Tuesday by South Sports Editor Oscar Dixon and interim South Editor Ravi Nessman. “Terrance is an experienced journalist with a track record of breaking news, producing multi-platform enterprise and has vast video experience after working for a digital-first news operation,” Dixon said. Harris, 46, has covered sports for more than two […]

MARCH 9, 2016

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Foto de AP de asesinato en Turquía gana World Press Photo

En esta imagen de archivo, tomada el 19 de diciembre de 2016, Mevlut Mert Altintas grita después de disparar a Andrei Karlov (derecha), el embajador de Rusia en Turquía, en una galería de arte en Ankara, Turquía. El fotógrafo de Associated Press Burhan Ozbilici ganó el World Press Photo 2017 el 13 de febrero de […]

FEB. 13, 2017

News groups protest govt. limits on use of economic data

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press and four other news organizations on Tuesday urged the Labor Department to reverse its decision last month to restrict news agencies’ use of economic data. In a joint letter, the AP, Bloomberg News, Dow Jones, Market News and Reuters asserted that the changes the department announced Jan. 16 would make the economic data […]

FEB. 4, 2020