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Support for solar energy and offshore wind falls among Democrats and independents, AP-NORC poll says

Americans’ support for green energy tax credits and renewable energies like wind and solar power has decreased in recent years, according to a new poll, driven by a softening in support from Democrats and independents. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that U.S. adults’ support for tax credits for electric vehicles and solar panels has […]

JUNE 23, 2025

Delta State’s women’s basketball legacy endures even as national spotlight has faded

A sparse crowd drifted into Walter Sillers Coliseum for Delta State’s first women’s basketball game in 1973. It was a 4 p.m. tipoff against Holmes Community College, announced only in the local paper in rural Cleveland, Mississippi. There were no tickets, no concessions or buzz. Just a handful of curious women’s basketball fans with no […]

APRIL 2, 2026

Michigan and TCU climb into top 10 of women’s AP Top 25 after big wins over ranked opponents

Michigan and TCU vaulted into the top 10 of The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll on Monday after big victories over ranked opponents. The sixth-ranked Wolverines climbed eight spots after routing then-No. 18 Notre Dame 93-54 on Saturday. No. 10 TCU moved up seven places as the Horned Frogs topped then-No. 10 N.C. State on the road […]

NOV. 17, 2025

AP’s decade-long push for court transparency key to current Cosby trial

On Sept. 25, 2018, Bill Cosby was led away from a Pennsylvania courthouse in handcuffs, sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his gated estate. 

AP Stylebook 2014 adds religion chapter with over 200 terms

The Associated Press today released the 2014 Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, which includes about 200 new or revised entries plus a separate chapter with more than 200 religion terms. Religion writer Rachel Zoll helped create the new chapter, which combines existing terms from the Stylebook’s entries with new and revised entries, […]

MAY 28, 2014

Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88. The Vatican said Francis died of a stroke that put him into a coma and led his heart to […]

APRIL 22, 2025

The Dirty Game’ – AP investigation into international soccer fraud

In this Nov. 5, 2012 photo, Croatian soccer player Mario Cizmek is seen at a stadium in Zagreb. Cizmek was sentenced involvement in match fixing. Former player Mario Cizmek was convicted of rigging games in Croatia’s first division in 2010. At his trial and in subsequent interviews with The Associated Press, he spoke about the […]

FEB. 12, 2013

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AP Top 25 college football poll kicks off 81st year

The AP Top 25, the longest-running college football poll of its kind, will begin its 81st year with the much-awaited preseason edition on Sunday, Aug. 21.

AUG. 18, 2016

AP photographer jumps into, and later records, highway drama

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (AP) — When a sport utility vehicle ran off a rural stretch of interstate and slammed into pine trees in Mississippi, nearly two dozen people rushed to help two sisters who were trapped inside the burning vehicle. Among them was AP photographer Gerald Herbert, who was on his on his way to […]

AUG. 20, 2012

AP pushes bid for independent coverage of Obama

Gary Pruitt, left, president and CEO of The Associated Press, and Julie Pace, AP’s chief White House correspondent, take questions after speaking to editors and publishers at the Newspaper Association of America’s mediaXchange 2014 convention in Denver, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) AP White House correspondent Julie Pace and chief White House photographer […]

MARCH 18, 2014

Scott Smith, nuevo corresponsal de la AP en Venezuela

Scott Smith (AP Foto/Ariana Cubillos) Read this in English. El nombramiento fue anunciado el lunes por Paul Haven, el director de noticias para Latinoamérica de la AP. Smith se incorporará a un galardonado equipo en Venezuela que ha estado cubriendo una de las crisis políticas más complejas del mundo en momentos de un inédito colapso […]

OCT. 23, 2017