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2024 Year in Review

DEC. 20, 2024

Alicia Keys performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs on Feb. 11, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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2024 Through the lens: A Year in Photos

DEC. 17, 2024

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Biathlon competition medals, credentials, and media clippings belonging to Grace Boutot, silver medalist in Youth World Championships in 2009, are displayed for a photograph at her home, Oct. 17, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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U.S. Olympic and Paralympic coach put on leave after exclusive AP report on sexual abuse 

DEC. 20, 2024

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Deforestation is visible near the Muchacha mine in November 2020, near the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Congo. (AP Photo)

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Exclusive reporting reveals Chinese mining in shrinking reserve in Congo

DEC. 20, 2024

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Syrian opposition fighters ride in a truck in Talhiya, Idlib province, Syria, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

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AP swift to the story when Bashar Assad’s government falls

DEC. 20, 2024

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A car drives past flames from the Franklin Fire at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

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Southern California photo crew there first for coverage of the Franklin fire in Malibu

DEC. 20, 2024

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Best of AP — First Winner

U.S. Olympic and Paralympic coach put on leave after exclusive AP report on sexual abuse 

After the AP reported that two-time Olympic biathlete Joanne Reid had been sexually harassed and abused by her coach for years, several athletes contacted reporter Martha Bellisle to say it also happened to them going back far as the 1990s. The combined accounts showed a 30-year pattern of the abuse and mistreatment of female biathletes […]

DEC. 20, 2024

Deforestation is visible near the Muchacha mine in November 2020, near the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in Congo. (AP Photo)

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Exclusive reporting reveals Chinese mining in shrinking reserve in Congo

West Africa newsperson Sam Mednick uncovered the extent of mining within the contested boundaries of a protected heritage site in eastern Congo. Mednick was tipped off to Chinese companies expanding their mining under shady circumstances, and one of those companies quickly expanded operations with legal permits to mine by the Okapi Wildlife Reserve while the […]

DEC. 20, 2024

Syrian opposition fighters ride in a truck in Talhiya, Idlib province, Syria, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

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AP swift to the story when Bashar Assad’s government falls

The fall of the authoritarian government of Bashar Assad in Syria to rebel fighters came swiftly and unexpectedly, but AP’s Middle East team rose to the challenge. Beirut-based photographer Hussein Malla was the first in, rushing to the border as soon as AP learned that Assad had gone. His photos were all over front pages, blogs […]

DEC. 20, 2024

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