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Fact-checking to ‘reach deeper’ into communities

As the Nov. 6 U.S. midterm elections approach, AP has stepped up efforts to fact-check political misinformation circulating at the local, state and national levels. 

A kiss for the ages

Nearly a year after taking the Pulitzer-winning picture, AP photographer Emilio Morenatti reconnected with the elderly couple whom he photographed kissing through a plastic sheet during the global pandemic, recounting what he felt at the time.

The reconstruction of Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange takes shape after a destructive fire

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Balancing on wooden boards, coppersmiths are hammering and fastening sheets of the reddish-brown metal onto the roof of Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange. Fifteen months after a devastating fire destroyed more than half the building, a multistage effort to restore the 400-year-old landmark is beginning to take shape as workers lay a new copper […]

JULY 14, 2025

Study finds little agreement between Republicans and Democrats on media sources they trust

A new survey that probes the level of trust Democrats and Republicans have for news sources finds the business-oriented publications Forbes and The Wall Street Journal share an unusual distinction: They’re the only two of 30 news sources that sympathizers for both parties told the Pew Research Center they’re more likely to trust than distrust. Pew’s survey, […]

JUNE 10, 2025

The NBA draft lottery: 14 ping-pong balls, and the right to pick No. 1 overall on the line

Sometime around 6 p.m. EDT Monday, locked inside a secure room with no way of communicating with the outside world, team executives and others will watch 14 ping-pong balls start to bounce inside a machine. The balls will be numbered, 1 through 14. One will be drawn, then a second, then a third, then a […]

MAY 12, 2025

Boiler up! Purdue tops preseason AP Top 25 for first time, ahead of Houston, reigning champ Florida

Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers earned 35 of 61 first-place votes to top Monday’s poll to begin the 2025-26 season. That put Matt Painter’s squad ahead of the two teams that played in last year’s NCAA title game, with runner-up Houston at No. […]

OCT. 13, 2025

Roger Federer leads the Tennis Hall of Fame nominees. See who else made the list

Roger Federer leads the list of nominees announced Wednesday for the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s class of 2026. He was the first man to win 20 Grand Slam singles titles and ushered in an era of unprecedented greatness with younger rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. With a terrific forehand and serve, an attacking, all-court […]

OCT. 1, 2025

Apple’s iPhone 17 line-up includes a new ultra-thin model and $100 price hike for Pro model

Apple on Tuesday rolled out its next generation iPhones, which include a new ultra-thin model and a slight price hike for one of its high-end models, while the company feels the squeeze of a global trade war. The iPhone 17 line-up includes a new slimmed-down model that will adopt the “Air” name that Apple already […]

SEPT. 9, 2025

US- and Israeli-backed group pauses food delivery in Gaza after deadly shootings

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli- and U.S.-backed group paused food delivery at its three distribution sites in the Gaza Strip after health officials said dozens of Palestinians were killed in a series of shootings near the sites this week. Israeli strikes across the territory, meanwhile, killed 26 people overnight and into Wednesday, officials said. […]

JUNE 4, 2025

Brussels attacks highlight importance of live video and user-generated content

Quickly switching on the need to obtain user-generated content, making the most of a stroke of luck involving a news partner and literally sprinting to get our own boots on the ground enabled The Associated Press to lead with its coverage of the Brussels Airport attack.

AP Columbia, Mo. reporter Zagier to St. Louis

Zagier, 46, begins work in St. Louis on Aug. 5, reporting to St. Louis Correspondent Jim Salter and Missouri-Kansas News Editor Chris Clark in Kansas City, Mo. “Alan is a strong reporter with a proven history of reacting swiftly to breaking news across the state and breaking news himself through dogged reporting,” Clark said. “He’ll […]

JULY 16, 2013

Maddow breaks down reading AP story on ‘tender age’ shelters

MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” moderates a panel at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Oct. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) The host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” was live on the air Tuesday evening when she tried to read the AP’s exclusive story . After trying to get through the first […]

JUNE 20, 2018