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With China and the US at intense economic odds, other nations are being forced to choose sides

WASHINGTON (AP) — One went to the United States. The other went to China. It was a sign of the times. While the Swiss president was in Washington last week to lobby U.S. officials over President Donald Trump’s threatened 31% tariff on Swiss goods, the Swiss foreign minister was in Beijing, expressing his nation’s willingness to strengthen […]

APRIL 28, 2025

Trump’s approval rating on immigration and government spending has slipped, new AP-NORC poll finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — Only about one-quarter of U.S. adults say that President Donald Trump’s policies have helped them since he took office, according to a new poll that finds underwhelming marks for him on key issues, including the economy, immigration, government spending and health care. In fact, the Republican president fails to earn majority approval on any […]

JULY 23, 2025

Judge rejects immediately restoring AP’s access to White House but urges government to reconsider

By MATT SEDENSKY, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press’ access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not demonstrated it had suffered any irreparable harm. But he urged the Trump administration to reconsider its two-week-old ban, saying […]

FEB. 25, 2025

Australia is banning social media for people under 16. Could this work elsewhere — or even there?

It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history — one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until they turn 16. Australia’s new law, approved by its Parliament last week, is an attempt to swim […]

DEC. 4, 2024

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

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

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

AI’s Increasing Energy Demand

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