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Teaming up to investigate a controversial carbon pipeline

A new reporting collaboration between AP and Lee Enterprises, published today, examines a major controversial carbon pipeline project in the Midwest that’s now in doubt following local opposition. Working together, journalists from AP and Lee Enterprises found the company behind the proposed pipeline that would transport carbon dioxide emissions across five Midwest states filed hundreds […]

AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists

A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech. U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, an appointee of President Donald Trump, ruled that the government […]

APRIL 9, 2025

AP Fund for Journalism announces board of directors, 1st program with nearly 50 local newsrooms  

The AP Fund for Journalism (APFJ) today announced its board of directors and a local newsroom pilot program in which it will work with nearly 50 nonprofit news organizations to support state and local news reporting. The program marks the first such project for APFJ, the charitable organization created by The Associated Press in 2024 […]

APRIL 8, 2025

How I got those photos of Trump reading tariffs coverage

After President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs, AP was there to document the president’s visit to Florida as financial markets reeled and recession fears loomed.    Photographer Alex Brandon captured a series of images, including photos of the president reading coverage of the tariffs in a newspaper.   Brandon explains how he made those photos:  […]

The Associated Press, banned from White House press pool, renews request to court for reinstatement

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for The Associated Press asked a federal judge Thursday to reinstate the agency’s access to the White House press pool and other official events, saying the Trump administration’s ban is a fundamental attack on freedom of speech and should be overturned. The government insisted there was no evidence that AP […]

MARCH 27, 2025

AP’s Doug Feinberg chosen for US Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame

NEW YORK (AP) — Doug Feinberg, an Associated Press Basketball Writer who has covered the women’s game for nearly 20 years, has been chosen for the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame Class of 2025. Feinberg joined the AP in 1995 and has covered women’s hoops since 2006, including oversight of the AP Top […]

MARCH 12, 2025

Facing competition from Big Tech, states dangle incentives and loosen laws to attract power plants

Facing projections of spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers increasingly worry about protecting their residents and economies from rising electric bills, power outages and other consequences of falling behind Big Tech in a race for electricity. Some states are dangling financial incentives. Others are […]

MARCH 9, 2025

A legacy of documenting the presidency

For 128 years, The Associated Press has documented the presidency in photos, with its photographers capturing some of the most defining moments in American history.  From pivotal moments inside the Oval Office to events on and beyond the White House grounds, AP has witnessed for the world the actions of the president of the United […]

AP again seeks end of its White House ban, saying the Trump administration is retaliating further

By DAVID BAUDER, The Associated Press The Associated Press is asking a federal judge for a second time to immediately restore its access to presidential events, arguing that the Trump White House has doubled down on retaliating against the news outlet for its refusal to follow the president’s executive order that renamed the Gulf of […]

MARCH 4, 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

Trump says AP will be curtailed at the White House until it changes its style to Gulf of America

By DAVID BAUDER, The Associated Press President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will continue to restrict The Associated Press’ access to his events and news conferences until the news outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico in its reports. He acknowledged that the move was a presidential retaliation against the news agency’s […]

FEB. 18, 2025

AP reporter and photographer barred from Air Force One over ‘Gulf of Mexico’ terminology dispute

By DAVID BAUDER, The Associated Press The White House barred a credentialed Associated Press reporter and photographer from boarding the presidential airplane Friday for a weekend trip with Donald Trump, saying the news agency’s stance on how to refer to the Gulf of Mexico was to blame for the exclusion. It represented a significant escalation […]

FEB. 14, 2025