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AP to make select US election data available to financial institutions through Google Cloud 

The Associated Press today announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud, making select historical data from U.S. elections available in Google Cloud’s BigQuery, giving financial institutions the ability to gain granular insights from AP’s gold-standard election results.  Through this collaboration, Google Cloud customers gain access to raw, machine-readable results from past presidential, congressional and gubernatorial […]

APRIL 9, 2024

Journalists impeded, not muzzled, by Russian reporting rules

Journalists film a TV screen translating a court session of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in Pokrov, Vladimir region, east of Moscow, Russia, March 22, 2022. (AP Photo) NEW YORK (AP) — In a recent dispatch from Moscow, BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg noted that a new Russian law required him to refer to the invasion […]

APRIL 1, 2022

AP, Frontline to Premiere 2 Documentary Specials on Ukraine War

The PBS investigative series Frontline and The Associated Press announced today the premiere of two documentary specials that investigate the toll of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

JULY 27, 2022

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 election coverage to include live video, shareable content

The Associated Press on election night will have video interviews with staffers and other shareable content from across the U.S. to augment its reports to members and customers worldwide.

NOV. 3, 2016

Longtime AP track writer Bert Rosenthal dies at 79

FILE – This Jan. 10, 1980, file photo, shows Associated Press sports writer Bert Rosenthal in New York. Rosenthal, who became one of the top track and field writers in the United States in more than four decades with The Associated Press, died Sunday night, Nov. 15, 2015, in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he had lived […]

NOV. 17, 2015

Sally Buzbee named Associated Press executive editor

Buzbee’s appointment is effective Jan. 1. She will oversee a global news operation that includes journalists working in more than 260 locations in 106 countries to deliver text, video and photo coverage. Washington Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee is named AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor, effective Jan. 1, 2017. (AP Photo) “The AP’s mission […]

NOV. 17, 2016

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.

Ukrainian front-line school system goes underground to protect against bombs and radiation

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — To be a parent in the Ukrainian front-line city of Zaporizhzhia means weighing your child’s life against the Russian weapons within striking distance. Most rain death in an instant: the drones, the ballistic missiles, the glide bombs, the artillery shells. But Russian soldiers control another weapon they have never deployed, with […]

NOV. 1, 2024

US hiring fell sharply in July, an unexpected setback for the economy stoking recession fears

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy suffered an unexpected setback in July as hiring fell sharply and the unemployment rate rose for the fourth straight month with raised interest rates taking a toll on businesses and households. Employers added just 114,000 jobs in July — 35% fewer than expected — and unemployment, now at 4.3%, is the […]

AUG. 2, 2024

A legacy of documenting the presidency

For 128 years, The Associated Press has documented the presidency in photos, with its photographers capturing some of the most defining moments in American history.  From pivotal moments inside the Oval Office to events on and beyond the White House grounds, AP has witnessed for the world the actions of the president of the United […]