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Suárez to Mariners, Durán to Phillies as MLB trade market heats up before Thursday’s deadline

The Seattle Mariners acquired slugger Eugenio Suárez, the Philadelphia Phillies dealt for hard-throwing reliever Jhoan Durán and identical twin relievers Tyler and Taylor Rogers got traded on the same day, capping a busy Wednesday as the Major League Baseball trade deadline approaches on Thursday. Suárez — who had 36 homers and 87 RBIs this season for the Arizona […]

JULY 31, 2025

One year later: AP minidoc marks COVID-19 anniversary

The Associated Press has released a minidocumentary marking the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Portrait unveiled in Ga. for AP political reporter

A portrait of Associated Press reporter Dick Pettys, who covered Georgia politics for decades, is unveiled on the Senate floor as his son Beaux, right, thanks legislators and artist Dick Yarbrough Monday, March 10, 2014, in Atlanta. Pettys died in October 2012 at age 66. The portrait painted by Dick Yarbrough was presented Monday in […]

MARCH 10, 2014

Sarah Nordgren becomes executive director of APME

Sarah Nordgren poses for a photo at The Associated Press headquarters in New York on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. Nordgren has been named executive director of Associated Press Media Editors and director of AP’s U.S. news operations. (AP Photo/Santos Chaparro) As executive director of APME, Nordgren will lead an industry organization that seeks to foster […]

NOV. 3, 2015

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.

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

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

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