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Stair climbers love their exercise, even when security guards act like they’re up to something

Tom McGee began climbing stairs for exercise 20 years ago as part of an effort to stay off cigarettes. It hasn’t always been easy: His climbs in hotel stairwells sometimes draw the attention of security guards. “I’ve gotten kicked out of about every hotel in the city,” said McGee, a 69-year-old market researcher who lives […]

MARCH 16, 2026

Freshman stars Cameron Boozer, AJ Dybantsa and Darius Acuff Jr. picked for AP All-America first team

Duke forward Cameron Boozer, BYU star AJ Dybantsa and Darius Acuff Jr. of Arkansas arrived this season as part of what could go down as one of the most heralded freshman classes in college basketball history. They lived up to their billing, too, and were announced Tuesday as first-team AP All-Americans. Boozer was a unanimous choice […]

MARCH 17, 2026

Sabra Ayres named AP’s chief correspondent for Ukraine

Sabra Ayres, a longtime foreign correspondent with extensive experience covering Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe, has been named The Associated Press’ Chief Correspondent for Ukraine.

What to know about mRNA vaccines

So-called mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic — and now scientists are using that Nobel Prize-winning technology to try to develop vaccines and treatments against a long list of diseases including cancer and cystic fibrosis. But this week, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine critic, canceled $500 million in government-funded research projects […]

AUG. 6, 2025

In 2020, AP photographers captured a world in distress

Migrants flee from the second fire in two days at the overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, on Sept. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) Behold, a world in distress: A 64-year-old woman weeps, hugging her husband as he lay dying in the COVID-19 unit of a California hospital. A crowded refugee […]

DEC. 1, 2020

Alleanza ANSA-Associated Press dal 2015

ANSA e Associated Press (AP), rispettivamente la prima agenzia di informazione multimediale in Italia e la prima agenzia del mondo, hanno firmato un accordo pluriennale a decorrere dal 1 gennaio 2015 per l’utilizzo e la commercializzazione dei loro principali prodotti testi, foto e video su tutte le piattaforme. Con questo accordo ANSA è il distributore […]

AUG. 26, 2014

AP debuts puzzle app featuring news, entertainment video

The Associated Press, in collaboration with Autonomy, Inc., and The G-Machine, Inc., today announced the debut of AP Video Puzzles, a mobile puzzle app, using AP’s news and entertainment video footage.

MAY 2, 2014

Foreign media call on Egypt to free journalists

The team was taken into custody Dec. 29 at a hotel room in Cairo where they were working after the Egyptian government raided the offices of the Qatar-based satellite news broadcaster. The Interior Ministry said the arrest of acting bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian, correspondent Peter Greste of Australia and producer Baher Mohamed, an […]

JAN. 13, 2014

Agency Officer wrong to demand deletion of photo of inmates

Inmates in the custody of the New Jersey Department of Corrections move furniture from the New Jersey State House in Trenton, New Jersey, June 27, 2017. New Jersey’s corrections department said June 29 that one of its officers was wrong when he demanded that an Associated Press reporter delete the photograph of inmates working at the statehouse.  (AP Photo/Michael Catalini) […]

JUNE 29, 2017

Ohio’s high court dismisses media lawsuit over bodycam video

In not taking up the issue, the court noted that the video had already been released — two days after news organizations requested the footage in the July 19, 2015, traffic stop and fatal shooting of a black motorist by a white University of Cincinnati officer. News organizations including The Associated Press sued Hamilton County […]

DEC. 20, 2016

AP designa subdirector de foto para Latinoamérica y Caribe

Director de Fotografía y narrativa para América Latina y el Caribe Riacardo Mazalan. (Foto AP) Matt Chandler, director de noticias regional de AP, hizo el anuncio el jueves. “Ricardo es muy respetado por los fotógrafos, con sus décadas de experiencia en el manejo de grandes sucesos de última hora y la organización de eventos especiales […]

OCT. 3, 2019

Indian Ocean exploration mission makes historic broadcast

An image taken from video issued by Nekton shows a submersible from the vessel Ocean Zephyr during a descent into the Indian Ocean off Alphonse Atoll near the Seychelles, March 12, 2019. (Nekton via AP) ALPHONSE ISLAND, Seychelles (AP) — A British-led scientific mission to document changes taking place beneath the Indian Ocean has broadcast […]

MARCH 12, 2019