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What’s the deal with Davos?

DAVOS, Switzerland — It’s hard to think of any other event quite like the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting here in the Swiss Alps. The U.N. General Assembly draws more world leaders. The Oscars attract more celebrities. But nothing brings together quite this combination of corporate executives, academics, philanthropists and media.

Lifetime achievement award for AP White House photographer

AP senior photographer J. Scott Applewhite received the White House News Photographers Association’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual “Eyes of History” awards gala in Washington on Saturday night.

Andale Gross named head of Race and Ethnicity team

Deputy Managing Editor for U.S. News Noreen Gillespie and Josh Hoffner, news editor for national beats, announced a key appointment on Monday, sending this memo to staff:

WWI soldiers’ messages in a bottle found on Australian beach more than 100 years later

Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia’s coast. The Brown family found the Schweppes-brand bottle just above the waterline at Wharton Beach near Esperance in Western Australia state on Oct. 9, Deb […]

OCT. 29, 2025

AP to present VoteCast results at AAPOR polling conference

The Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago will present the results of AP VoteCast, the new standard in election research, at the American Association for Public Opinion Research conference in Toronto on Saturday.

MAY 14, 2019

Pope Francis shows further slight improvement as he battles pneumonia, the Vatican says

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has shown further slight improvement as he battles double pneumonia, but doctors said Wednesday his prognosis is still guarded. A chest CT scan taken Tuesday evening showed the “normal evolution” of an infection as it is being treated, the Vatican said in its late update. The 88-year-old pope, who had […]

FEB. 28, 2025

AP editors’ note on Manning

Update: The following advisory was sent to AP member editors and other subscribers on Aug. 26, 2013, at 6:03 p.m.:

In a ‘flash’: Alerting news of the president’s impeachment

At 8:34 p.m. ET on Wednesday, AP pushed out the news, "President Donald Trump impeached by US House of Representatives."

AP statement on EPA meeting

UPDATED on May 22 at 1:53 p.m. ET: The following statement is from AP Director of Media Relations Lauren Easton:

Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents from their village, never to return. Pagano […]

DEC. 10, 2024

Iowa AP reporter and editor Melanie Welte dies

Her husband, David Welte, said she died after contracting pneumonia while awaiting a liver transplant. For most of the past 21 years, the news day for the AP in Iowa began with a 5 a.m. message from Welte to AP customers that announced she had arrived at work and was on the hunt for news. […]

FEB. 4, 2013

NYPD Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases

NEW YORK (AP) — In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department’s secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday. The Demographics Unit is at the heart of a […]

AUG. 21, 2012