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Stellar night for AP race calling

A night of fast and accurate race calls by The Associated Press on Super Tuesday culminated as polls closed in California at 8 p.m. PT, when AP declared Bernie Sanders the winner of the night's biggest prize.

AP calls the presidential race – state by state

NEW YORK -- Since 1848, the Associated Press has counted the votes on which many news organizations base their projections and declare winners.

NOV. 7, 2012

AP Content Services supports Mie Prefecture in tourism drive for G7 Summit

The Associated Press announced today that it is working with the local government office in Mie Prefecture, Japan, supporting its tourism drive ahead of the G7 Japan 2016 lse-Shima Summit, which will be held on May 26 and 27, 2016.  The AP team will work with Mie Prefecture to create content and produce and distribute a series of videos and photos in order to promote the region to potential overseas visitors and media organizations.

MAY 26, 2016

PA Media

Gregory Katz, acclaimed AP journalist, dies at 67

Gregory Katz, AP acting London bureau chief, stands in front of St. George’s Chapel in Windsor near London while covering the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, May 19, 2018. (AP Photo) NEW YORK (AP) — Gregory Katz, an acclaimed correspondent for The Associated Press in London who recently led the news cooperative’s […]

JUNE 24, 2020

Longtime AP photographer Edward Kolenovsky dies at 87

This Feb. 15, 1985 file photo shows former AP photographer Ed Kolenovsky transmitting photos at the bureau office in Houston. (AP Photo) Terry Kolenovsky said her father-in-law died at the Houston-area home of her and her husband, Edward Kolenovsky Jr. She said he had Parkinson’s disease and dementia and been hospitalized, but that he insisted […]

MAY 17, 2016

CISION PR Newswire

ABC News and AP announce documentary spotlighting intersection between the KKK and law enforcement from George Stephanopoulos Pr

‘Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK’ Premieres on Hulu Thursday, April 27. In a first-time collaboration, ABC News and The Associated Press announced today a documentary that takes viewers inside one of the world’s most sinister secret societies — the Ku Klux Klan. Based on an award-winning investigative AP series, the true-crime documentary captures the infiltration […]

APRIL 19, 2023

Longtime AP executive James W. Mangan dies at age 87

Andrew Mangan said his father died of a heart ailment Friday while playing tennis in San Antonio. “If you look at his career history, AP tossed a lot of different challenges to Jim. He did well in every one of them,” said Louis D. Boccardi, former AP president and CEO. James Mangan started with AP […]

AUG. 26, 2015

The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024

It was a murder case almost everyone had an opinion on. O.J. Simpson ‘s “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement in America and brought an intersection of sports, crime, entertainment and class that was hard to turn away from. In a controversial verdict, […]

DEC. 3, 2024

Calling the 2020 presidential race state by state

At 11:26 a.m. ET on Saturday, The Associated Press declared Joe Biden the winner of the U.S. presidential race.

UPDATED: AP statement on destruction of Gaza bureau

UPDATED May 17, 2021: AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt issued this statement on Monday regarding the destruction of AP's Gaza bureau: