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Exclusive rare interview with Hungary’s main opposition leader ahead of crucial elections

Ahead of Hungary’s pivotal elections, AP’s Budapest team secured a rare and timely exclusive interview with opposition leader Péter Magyar, offering critical insight into a race that could reshape the country’s political future. Video journalist Bela Szandelszky and correspondent Justin Spike spent months pursuing access, attending rallies across Hungary and building trust despite repeated refusals […]

APRIL 10, 2026

Tennis star Monica Seles reveals her diagnosis with myasthenia gravis

Monica Seles first noticed the symptoms of myasthenia gravis — a neuromuscular autoimmune disease she discussed during a recent interview with The Associated Press — while she was swinging a racket the way she’d done so many times during, and after, a career that included nine Grand Slam titles and a place in the International Tennis Hall […]

AUG. 12, 2025

Big Ten ties record with nine teams in AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll; UConn, Texas still 1-2

The Big Ten matched The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball record with nine ranked teams as Nebraska entered at No. 24 on Monday. The conference set the mark last year on Dec. 2 and this week has three teams in the top 10 alone. UConn still is No. 1, receiving 23 first-place votes from a national […]

DEC. 8, 2025

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OCT. 16, 2025

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OCT. 2, 2025

AP investigation finds yearslong backlog in federal program promising benefits for families of deceased officers

In the second installment of his Only on AP series “Dying to Serve,” investigative reporter Ryan J. Foley uncovered a deep and persistent backlog in the federal Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program—a program designed to provide life-changing financial support to families of officers killed or disabled in the line of duty. Foley analyzed decades’ worth […]

JUNE 20, 2025

AP journalists provide round-the-clock all-formats coverage of deadly Hong Kong fire

As flames engulfed seven high-rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong’s Tai Po complex, AP teams sprang into action, delivering an all-formats, round-the-clock response to one of the deadliest urban fires in recent memory. Business writer Thomas Chan was the first to flag the story and kept the team updated on critical developments — often ahead […]

DEC. 5, 2025

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FEB. 26, 2026

Maine is stuck in ranked-choice voting limbo. That’s not likely to change soon

Mainers decided to begin using ranked-choice voting in elections for the state Legislature, governor and federal offices all the way back in November of 2016 — the first state in the nation to do so. But nearly a decade and multiple court cases later, full implementation of that new system approved by 52 percent of voters has languished in a sort of legal and administrative purgatory.

MAY 12, 2026

A look at presidential libraries as the Obama Presidential Center opens to the public this week

Whenever historian Geoffrey Ward visits the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum to do research, he finds himself caught up in the spirit of FDR himself, the sense of landed contentment and cheerful disarray that helped define his public image.

JUNE 17, 2026

More Americans say Israel has gone too far in the Gaza conflict

At a moment of growing international alarm about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, more U.S. adults view Israel’s military action in the Palestinian territory as excessive than at the beginning of the war, according to a new poll. About half of Americans say the military response from Israel in the Gaza Strip has “gone too far,” according […]

SEPT. 18, 2025

Trump pledged to roll back protections for transgender students. They’re flooding crisis hotlines

Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign. Many teens worry about how their lives could change once he takes office. During his presidential bid, Trump pledged to impose wide-ranging restrictions and roll back civil rights protections for […]

NOV. 13, 2024