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FILE – This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP, File)
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MARCH 14, 2025
Experience and preparation allowed AP reporter Jeffrey Collins to take news consumers inside the South Carolina death chamber for the first firing-squad execution in the United States since 2010, delivering gripping first-person reports for text and video. “My role is to tell people … what it looks like, what it sounds like, and what actually \[…\]
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FILE – A woman walks near a church in Nuuk, Greenland, Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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### Compelling, all-formats package shows how Greenlanders are responding to being thrust into the global spotlight
MARCH 14, 2025
Religion reporter Luis Andres Henao, Spain and Portugal chief photographer Emilio Morenatti, and freelance videographer James Brooks undertook AP’s first reporting trip to Greenland since President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. could take over the world’s largest island. The team faced significant challenges in one of the most rugged places on Earth. On the first \[…\]
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A worker turns excelsa coffee beans to dry near Nzara, South Sudan on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
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### AP produces exclusive, visuals-driven story on climate-resistant coffee in South Sudan
MARCH 14, 2025
South Sudan has been plagued by crises that West Africa reporter Sam Mednick has covered extensively. On a reporting trip last year, she learned of an initiative that could showcase the country in a different light—one centered on a rare, climate-resistant coffee bean with the potential to improve farmers’ livelihoods. The story took months of \[…\]
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Demonstrators rally during the “No Kings Day” protest on Presidents Day in Washington, in support of federal workers and against recent actions by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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### AP breaks news on Pentagon’s purge of DEI content with deep source work and collaboration
MARCH 14, 2025
As the Pentagon moved to purge diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) content from its online platforms, Tara Copp received a database of more than 26,000 photos, webpages, and other materials—while on a flight during vacation. Copp and Lolita C. Baldor quickly tapped into their source networks to verify the database and began screenshotting, while five \[…\]
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FILE – A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File)
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### AP partners with Texas Tribune for unique on-the-ground view of measles outbreak, breaking news on death
MARCH 14, 2025
AP and Texas Tribune reporters spent days in West Texas and eastern New Mexico, providing a nuanced look at life in the middle of Texas’ worst measles outbreak in 30 years. Their reporting included interviews with residents and medical professionals, as well as exclusive all-formats access to a Mennonite service—a critical focal point in the \[…\]
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A sign for flu vaccination is displayed on a screen at a pharmacy store in Buffalo Grove, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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### AP gets exclusive details on rehiring moves at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
MARCH 14, 2025
The job cuts sweeping federal agencies have been chaotic and difficult to track, especially given the lack of official information. But two weeks after firing hundreds of workers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) abruptly reversed course, telling dozens they could return. Medical writer Mike Stobbe first learned from a source that about \[…\]
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Lab workers at Johns Hopkins University work in Richard Huganir’s lab in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
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### AP produces in-depth look at how medical research cuts will affect patients and the local economy in every U.S. state
MARCH 14, 2025
Medical writer Lauran Neergaard knew from years of covering the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that research funding does far more than support scientists in laboratories—it leads to medical discoveries, treatments for diseases, and drives local economies across the country. But how could AP show the impact of potential budget cuts in a way that \[…\]
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Zhen Yin, of China, slides during his second run at the skeleton world championships, Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Lake Placid, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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### AP’s coverage of bobsled and skeleton world championships illustrates challenges ahead for 2026 Winter Olympics
MARCH 14, 2025
Tim Reynolds delivered two exclusive stories from the bobsled and skeleton world championships in Lake Placid, New York, while also securing exclusive access to documents related to the city’s bid to serve as a competition site for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina. Reynolds’ deep connections within the sliding community allowed him to uncover the \[…\]
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Northwestern freshman Kat Righeimer, one of six women from Kobe Bryant’s Mamba Academy going through their first experience with college basketball, warms up with teammates during NCAA college basketball practice in Evanston, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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MARCH 14, 2025
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — On the fifth anniversary of that day — when the helicopter crashed, and she lost Coach Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and so much more — Kat Righeimer became a scholarship player at Northwestern. The former walk-on, who played for Kobe Bryant with the Mamba Academy, soaked in the moment with her \[…\]
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Isaac Ukwu, a defensive end for the Detroit Lions, acts out a scene from “The Matrix” during a filmmaking workshop for NFL players on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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### NFL players score a shot at Hollywood through hands-on training sessions with filmmaker Deon Taylor
MARCH 14, 2025
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Isaac Ukwu’s sights were solely set on just playing in the NFL — until two season-ending knee injuries in college served as a harsh reality of football’s fragility. The setbacks reshaped Ukwu’s perspective, showing him that football was part of him, but not all of him. Even after signing with \[…\]
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Filipino Catholic priest Flavie Villanueva, left, consoles Melinda Lafuente, as she holds the urn containing the remains of her son Angelo, during an interment ceremony for victims of extrajudicial killings, at the “Dambana ng Paghilom” or Shrine of Healing inside a cemetery in Caloocan City, Philippines, Wednesday March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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### ICC takes custody of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in crimes against humanity case
MARCH 14, 2025
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court took custody of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday on a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity for deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office. Rights groups and families of victims hailed Duterte’s arrest, and the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, called it \[…\]
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An injured passenger, rescued by security forces from a passenger train attacked by insurgents, is carried on a stretcher after arriving on a special train for the wounded and survivors, organized by the army, at a railway station in Much, in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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### Pakistan says insurgents who attacked a passenger train killed 21 hostages while all others freed
MARCH 14, 2025
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Insurgents who attacked a passenger train carrying 440 passengers in restive southwestern Pakistan killed 21 hostages before security forces killed all 33 of the assailants, and all other passengers were rescued, officials said Wednesday. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the separatist Baloch Liberation Army group was behind the attack, and the \[…\]
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