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The rise and fall of ‘The Hills’ star Spencer Pratt’s improbable campaign for Los Angeles mayor

He wrote a memoir called “The Guy You Loved to Hate.” He's dabbled in rap, releasing a song called “I’m a Celebrity." He started a company selling crystals claimed to have healing properties.

JUNE 9, 2026

All-formats team brings readers to 48-hour race in inhospitably hot environment

The Badwater 135 Ultramarathon is one of the most grueling and dangerous races in the world, stretching 135 miles through California’s Death Valley — the hottest place on Earth — in the middle of July. This year, an Associated Press team set out to take audiences into this brutal environment and showcase what it says […]

JULY 25, 2025

Daytona 500 – Photo Collection

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from the NASCAR Daytona 500 race.

FEB. 17, 2025

Week in Pictures

MARCH 26, 2026

Obama meets with Talarico, aiming to boost Democrat’s bid for US Senate in Texas

Former President Barack Obama met with U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico Tuesday in Texas, putting his support behind a campaign that Democrats see as a shot, if a long one, for the party to win statewide in the reliably conservative state.

MAY 12, 2026

Huge floats, wild costumes and nonstop street parties: Brazil Carnival in photos

The world’s biggest party is back as Carnival celebrations return to Brazil with glittery, outrageous costumes, samba rhythms ringing out until dawn and hundreds of raucous roaming parties flooding the streets.

FEB. 16, 2026

Week in Pictures

APRIL 16, 2026

EXPLAINER Calling a race is tricky How AP does it

The Trumbull County Courthouse is shown, Oct. 16, 2020, in Warren, Ohio. (AP Photo/David Dermer) WASHINGTON (AP) — In the 2020 U.S. general election, The Associated Press will declare winners in more than 7,000 races – starting with the White House and reaching down the ballot to every seat in every state legislature. To do […]

NOV. 3, 2020

AP Top 25 college football poll to be released Aug 23

The AP Top 25, the longest-running college football poll of its kind, will release its much-awaited, preseason edition on Sunday, Aug. 23.

AUG. 13, 2015

AP images of Vietnam War make homecoming in exhibitAP images of Vietnam War make homecoming in exhibit

They were so much more than just photographs, Vietnam’s president said Thursday, recalling black-and-white images he said he will never forget from the war that ended 40 years ago: A Buddhist monk consumed by flames in a fiery suicide. A screaming Vietnamese child running down a road naked, as her skin burns from a napalm […]

JUNE 11, 2015

Ferguson demands high fees to turn over city files

WASHINGTON (AP) – Officials in Ferguson, Missouri, are charging nearly 10 times the cost of some of their own employees’ salaries before they will agree to turn over files under public records laws about the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The move discourages journalists and civil rights groups from investigating the shooting and its […]

SEPT. 29, 2014

Afghan court sentences AP journalist’s killer to 20 years

In this photo taken in October 2012, Associated Press reporter Kathy Gannon, second from left, and photographer Anja Niedringhaus pose for a photo with Afghan police recruits at the main police training academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s highest court has ruled that the police officer convicted of murdering Niedringhaus and wounding Gannon almost one year […]

MARCH 28, 2015