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Election 2024 Trump Netanyahu
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Friday, July 26, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Sourcing in Trump camp leads to exclusive photos of Netanyahu meeting at Mar-A-Lago

AUG. 2, 2024

DEA Files-Rape Accusation_DEA_documents_01
illustration includes a photo obtained by The Associated Press of then-U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Jose Irizarry and other images from DEA documents. (AP Illustration/Marshall Ritzel)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Secret DEA files show agents joked about rape in a WhatsApp chat. Then one of them was accused of it

AUG. 2, 2024

APTOPIX New Mexico-Apache Christ
The Apache Christ painting hangs behind the altar of St. Joseph Apache Mission church in Mescalero, New Mexico, Saturday, July 13, 2024. The painting, an icon that depicts Christ as a Mescalero medicine man, was the forefront of a tension-filled episode between the community and the local Diocese when it was removed by the church's then priest when the region was reeling from wildfires. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Apache Christ icon controversy sparks debate over Indigenous Catholic faith practices

AUG. 2, 2024

Russia US Journalist
FILE - Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir service, attends a court hearing in Kazan, Russia on April 1, 2024. A Russian court has convicted Kurmasheva of spreading false information about the Russian army and sentenced her to 6½ years in prison after a secret trial, court records and officials said Monday July 22, 2024. (AP Photo, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP exclusively breaks news of US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva’s conviction in rapid, secret trial

AUG. 2, 2024

2 years after Ukrainian POW deaths, survivors and leaked UN analysis point to Russia as the culprit
Two years after explosions ripped through the Russian-controlled Olenivka prison barracks, killing more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war and injuring dozens more, independent investigations into the attack have stalled or been abandoned. (AP video/Vasilisa Stepanenko)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Teamwork and patience uncover new answers in mysterious explosion at Ukrainian prisoners of war barracks

AUG. 2, 2024

Venezuela Daily Life
Residents walk through the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Best of AP — First Winner

Novel approach engages audience on Venezuela election 

JULY 26, 2024

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Best of AP — Second Winner

The biggest of stories came to the small city of Butler. AP showed how its newspaper met the moment

JULY 26, 2024

Climate Greenhouses Heat Workers
A former greenhouse worker at AppHarvest, who wishes to remain anonymous, poses for a portrait behind a sheet of plastic, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Morehead, Ky. Workers say they saw colleagues carried out on makeshift stretchers due to heat, and dozens more helped outside on others' shoulders. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Persistence, source building and originality leads to critical, in-depth coverage of working conditions in greenhouses

JULY 26, 2024

Pictures of the Week Global Photo Gallery
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents after an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Best of AP — First Winner

AP photographers Vucci and Puskar and reporter Carr Smyth dominate with photos and account of assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump

JULY 19, 2024

APTOPIX Olympics Paris 2024 War Trauma
Kateryna Tabashnyk, a high jumper, sits for a portrait Sunday, June 9, 2024, at the athletics arena of the "Polytechnic" sports complex, which was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. On the eve of the war, which started Feb. 24, 2022, Ukraine cancelled its athletics championship and Tabashnyk was in Kharkiv. The threat posed by thousands of Russian troops at the border, just 20 kilometers (12 miles) from her hometown, was real. But Tabashnyk said, “I was 100% sure that this could not happen.” (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Best of AP — Second Winner

AP exclusive series shows how Russian invasion is dismantling Ukraine as an Olympic powerhouse

JULY 19, 2024

APTOPIX Baldwin Set Trial
Actor Alec Baldwin, right, hugs his defense attorney Alex Spiro after District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer threw out the involuntary manslaughter case for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the Western movie "Rust," Friday, July 12, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. (Luis Sánchez Saturno/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP, Pool)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP delivers fast, definitive coverage of stunning end to Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial

JULY 19, 2024

APTOPIX Climate Spearfishing
Mark Ojibway wades in shallow water looking for walleye during the spring spearfishing season at the Chippewa Flowage on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, Sunday, April 14, 2024, near Hayward, Wis. Walleye numbers in some lakes are dwindling due to warming waters, increasingly variable seasonal changes and lakeshore development. Losing the species would mean losing a food source for Ojibwe and other Indigenous people, a sovereign right to fish and a deep connection to tradition and nature. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP journalists highlight climate change threat to Indigenous traditions in comprehensive, empathetic coverage

JULY 19, 2024

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