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Wood, journalist who covered Middle East, joins AP to focus on North Dakota oil

Wood, 26, has worked as a freelance journalist in the Middle East since 2009, based in Beirut. His work, including coverage of the Syrian conflict and its spillover in the region, has been published in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune and The Christian Science Monitor, among others. The appointment was announced Monday by […]

FEB. 18, 2014

Fauci documentary marks AP foray into film

A documentary co-produced by AP examining the career of Dr. Anthony Fauci will air on up to 200 PBS stations across the U.S.

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

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 Fernando González director de noticias de Caribe, Andes

Fernando González, designado director de noticias de Associated Press para las regiones caribeña y andina.posa para la foto eb Ciudad de México, 23 de marzo de 2020. (AP Foto/Marco Ugarte) González, quien desde 2016 era subdirector de noticias para Latinoamérica y el Caribe en Ciudad de México, ayudará a conducir las operaciones de recolección de […]

MARCH 24, 2020

AP names Carlo Piovano as Europe business editor

Piovano, 36, will oversee breaking news and enterprise business coverage throughout Europe, coordinating between business staffers in London, Frankfurt and Moscow and general news reporters all over the continent. He has been AP’s acting Europe Business Editor for the last year. “Carlo has been a steady leader for us, sharpening our coverage to help us […]

NOV. 10, 2014

AP names Muhammed Muheisen as chief Mideast photographer

In this Thursday, March 26, 2015 photo, Associated Press chief photographer for Pakistan Muhammed Muheisen poses for a photograph in Amsterdam. The Associated Press has named the award-winning photographer, frequently honored for his striking photos of people in their everyday environment, as its chief photographer for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The appointment was […]

JUNE 17, 2015

AP nombra director editorial para el Cono Sur

En esta foto del 2 de abril de 2013, el editor de Associated Press Editor Peter Prengaman posa para una foto en Atlanta. Prengaman, periodista multiformato y gerente de noticias que ha reportado desde una docena de países para AP, ha sido nombrado director editorial para el Cono Sur a cargo de la cobertura en […]

DEC. 1, 2014

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

‘Incredibly fast’ coverage of Germany mass shooting

When news of a mass shooting in Hanau, Germany, broke on Wednesday night, AP sprung into action to deliver fast all-formats coverage of the attack that left nine people dead.

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