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FILE – Clemson fans cheer on the Tigers as they arrive at Williams-Brice Stadium before an NCAA college football game against South Carolina Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File)

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NOV. 4, 2024

FILE – French President Emmanuel Macron leaves after paying his respects by the coffin of slain teacher Samuel Paty in the courtyard of the Sorbonne university during a national memorial event, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020 in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool, File)

College athletes are getting paid and fans are starting to see a growing share of the bill

NOV. 4, 2024

At Tennessee, they are adding a ‘talent fee’ to the price of sports tickets. At Arkansas, they will charge 3% more at the concessions stands. At Michigan and Michigan State, athletic directors sent letters alerting boosters that winning is going to start costing more. And, in a first, Clemson is going to start adding an […]

FILE – People return items purchased online at an Amazon counter inside a Kohl’s department store in Clifton, New Jersey, on September 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Trial opens in France in the beheading of a teacher over prophet cartoons

NOV. 4, 2024

PARIS (AP) — The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam’s prophet to his middle school students for a lesson on freedom of expression. Paty’s shocking death left an imprint on […]

FILE – Music producer Quincy Jones poses for a portrait to promote his documentary “Quincy” during the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 7, 2018, in Toronto. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Many retailers offer ‘returnless refunds.’ Just don’t expect them to talk much about it

NOV. 4, 2024

It’s one of the most under-publicized policies of some of the biggest U.S. retailers: sometimes they give customers full refunds and let them keep unwanted items too. Returnless refunds are a tool that more retailers are using to keep online shoppers happy and to reduce shipping fees, processing time and other ballooning costs from returned […]

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump gestures at a campaign rally at Greensboro Coliseum, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Quincy Jones, music titan who worked with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, dies at 91

NOV. 4, 2024

Quincy Jones, the multitalented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and hundreds of other recording artists, has died at 91. Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, says he died Sunday night at his home in the […]

Elections

Trump is using election lies to lay the groundwork for challenging 2024 results if he loses

NOV. 2, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has spent months laying the groundwork to challenge the results of the 2024 election if he loses — just as he did four years ago. At rally after rally, he urges his supporters to deliver a victory “too big to rig,” telling them the only way he can lose is if […]

CAPTION CORRECTS TYPE OF MUNITION A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet hits a building in Ghobeiri, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Best of AP — First Winner

AP photographer Bilal Hussein captures moment bomb launched from an Israeli jet hit a building in Beirut

NOV. 1, 2024

Bilal Hussein happened to be at a nearby Hezbollah press conference when the Israeli military posted a warning that it would strike two buildings on Beirut’s southern outskirts. He was determined to try and capture the moment the bomb fell safely and planned his next moves carefully. And then he did it. “I heard the […]

John Olsen, of Ankeny, Iowa, stands in line for early voting at the Polk County Election Office, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Best of AP — Second Winner

American Angst: AP chronicles sentiment of key voting blocs in battleground states

NOV. 1, 2024

In a year marked by polarization and political division, the AP White House team — Aamer Madhani, Darlene Superville, Will Weissert, Josh Boak and Chris Megerian — along with Gary Fields and Amanda Seitz — ventured into the heart of battleground states to capture the voices of Americans whose votes may shape the presidential election. […]

Assistant professor of information science Allison Koenecke, an author of a recent study that found hallucinations in a speech-to-text transcription tool, works in her office at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. The text preceded by “#Ground truth” shows what was actually said while the sentences preceded by “”text”” was how the transcription program interpreted the words. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

FILE – The sun rises over Sapelo Island, Ga., a Gullah-Geechee community, on June 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one said

NOV. 1, 2024

Story ideas can emerge anywhere, and this one came from a panel at the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference, where investigative reporter Garance Burke first heard about unusual problems tied to a popular artificial intelligence-fueled transcription tool called Whisper. Her co-panelist, New York University Professor Hilke Schellmann, privately shared her emerging AI research on how […]

Buttons, who the Associated Press is referring to only by her childhood nickname because of her legal status, sits for a portrait behind her baby photo taken before she was adopted from Iran to a family in America, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. Buttons is one of thousands of children adopted from abroad by American parents, many of them military service members, who were left without citizenship by loopholes in American law that Congress has been aware of for decades, yet remains unwilling to fix. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

AP scores scoops on deadly collapse of gangway at Sapelo Island

NOV. 1, 2024

AP led the way on coverage of the collapse of a gangway at the dock on Sapelo Island, Ga., that resulted in the deaths of seven people and several other people who were injured, including exclusive user-generated content video of the heartbreaking, chaotic scene in the minutes following the collapse. It was late in the […]

FILE – View of the ICC, the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Thousands of children adopted by Americans are without citizenship. Congress is unwilling to act

NOV. 1, 2024

Claire Galofaro and Kim Tong-hyung were reporting on decades-old abuses in foreign adoptions from South Korea when a source mentioned a very modern-day issue born out of that neglectful system: thousands of children adopted to the United States from abroad had been deprived of citizenship by loopholes in the law that Congress has been unwilling […]

International Court Misconduct Accusations

International court prosecutor who charged Netanyahu faces sexual misconduct accusation

NOV. 1, 2024

Joshua Goodman and Molly Quell exclusively broke the details of a sexual misconduct accusation against the lead prosecutor of the International Criminal Court that happened at the same time he was seeking war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his actions in Gaza. Their reporting from the earliest rumors into a full-fledged […]

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AP announces winners of 2024 Oliver S. Gramling Awards

OCT. 30, 2024

NEW YORK – Associated Press journalists and staffers from across the globe are among the winners of the 2024 Oliver S. Gramling Awards and Chairman’s Prize, the highest internal honors of The Associated Press. Created in 1994 to recognize AP staffers for professional excellence, the Gramling Awards are decided each year by a panel of […]

A view of the White House in Washington, Sunday, July 21, 2024. President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

AP announces 2024 general election plans

OCT. 29, 2024

The Associated Press, the most trusted source of accurate information on election night for nearly two centuries, will deliver that expertise to its member news organizations, customers and the public across all platforms when it counts the vote, declares the winners and covers the results on Nov. 5. On election night, AP will count the […]

AP in the News

To fight misinfo, news outlets are putting plans in place to combat false election night stories

OCT. 25, 2024

By DAVID BAUDER, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As news outlets get ready for election night, they’re not only focusing on what happens. They’re keeping watch over what doesn’t. Several plans to combat misinformation are in place across newsrooms that will follow the climax of a hard-fought campaign on Nov. 5. The Associated Press and […]

AP, dpa to launch new Arabic news service

OCT. 10, 2024

The Associated Press and German press agency dpa today announced they will launch an Arabic news wire comprising text stories from both news agencies. The news wire, called the Global Arabic News Service, will provide more than 200 Arabic language news stories from AP and dpa each day, from the Middle East, Europe, the U.S. […]

AP, AppliedXL to deliver AI-powered news tips to local newsrooms

SEPT. 17, 2024

The Associated Press and AppliedXL announced today a collaboration to provide AI-powered local news tips and advisories on health, energy and environment issues to AP member newsrooms in an effort to enhance local journalism. Leveraging AppliedXL’s autonomous news gathering technology and informed by input from AP journalists, the new initiative, AP Local Lede, identifies and […]

AP in the News

News organizations seek unsealing of plea deal with 9/11 defendants

SEPT. 6, 2024

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven news organizations filed a legal motion Friday asking the U.S. military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to make public the plea agreement that prosecutors struck with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two fellow defendants. The plea agreements, filed early last month and promptly sealed, triggered objections from Republican […]