2024 Year in Review - The Associated Press
6 days ago · From the ballots of India, France, United Kingdom and many more countries to the shifting candidates, trials, and even assassination attempts in the United States, 2024 unfolded as a year of monumental elections and political change. Nature's shifts spared no corner of the globe—eclipses darkened skies, while floods, earthquakes, fires, and extreme weather …
Exclusive reporting reveals Chinese mining in shrinking reserve in ...
6 days ago · 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 ...
Indigenous Mayans seek personhood for sacred underground …
6 days ago · By Teresa DeMiguel, Rodrigo Abd . When AP Climate video journalist and producer Teresa de Miguel first heard about the push to grant Mexico’s stunning cenotes, or underground lakes, personhood status, she knew it was crucial to find a good character to tell the story.
AP swift to the story when Bashar Assad’s government falls
6 days ago · 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 ...
U.S. Olympic and Paralympic coach put on leave after exclusive AP ...
6 days ago · By Martha Bellisle, Mary Sedor 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.
Southern California photo crew there first for coverage of the …
6 days ago · The explosive Dec. 10 wildfire in Malibu threatened high-end homes and had most of the students on the campus of Pepperdine University seeking shelter. The Los Angeles crew of Marcio Sanchez and Jae Hong saw this one coming. Years of covering fires and learning fire behavior and wind threats told ...
American found after Syrian imprisonment | The ... - The …
6 days ago · By Sarah El Deeb, Nick Ingram. After Travis Timmerman, an American who had been held in a Syrian prison for months, was found outside of Damascus, AP journalists rushed to the scene and interviewed the family that had taken him in. Timmerman had already been moved to another location, but a few hours later, correspondent Sarah El Deeb managed to parlay a …