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An expanding NATO uses its diversity as strength. Member troops know Russia is watching
The NATO military alliance is working to turn its diversity into strength as its membership grows in response to Russia's threat. More than 20,000 soldiers from 13 member nations are currently in … more
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FILE - A cyclist travels around Lake Michigan near the Adler Planetarium Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, in Chicago. Federal meteorologists on Friday, March 8, have made it official: It's the warmest U.S. winter on record by far. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
Much of America asks: Where did winter go? Spring starts early as US winter was warmest on record
Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter. In parka strongholds Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine, … more
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FILE - Januelle Datka, her baby girl Princess and her 15-year-old daughter Titti, pose for a photo at a makeshift shelter in Jean-Kere Almicar's front yard, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 4, 2023. Both mother and daughter said they were raped by gang members and that both became pregnant. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
Behind-the-scenes of AP photographer's experience covering violence against women in Haiti
Ariana Cubillos is an Associated Press photojournalist based in Caracas, Venezuela. She was based in Haiti from 2004 to 2009, also covering the country’s 2010 earthquake and its descent into gang … more
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FILE - This Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 file photo shows the headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tenn. The status of a federal investigation into a leading Southern Baptist agency’s handling of sexual abuse is unclear. But this much is clear — survivors of abuse and their advocates are more skeptical than ever of leaders' intentions to address the scandal in the nation's largest Protestant denomination. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
Sex abuse survivors dispute Southern Baptist leadership and say federal investigation is ongoing
The status of a federal investigation into a leading Southern Baptist agency’s handling of sexual abuse is unclear. But this much is clear — survivors remain deeply skeptical of the … more
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Sunglasses won’t cut it during the April 8 eclipse. Special eclipse glasses are crucial for safely observing the sun as the moon marches across the late morning and afternoon sky on April 8, covering more and more and then less and less of our star. (Feb. 8) (AP Video/Shelby Lum)
April’s total solar eclipse is a month away. Here’s why it’s worth the watch and how to stay safe
A total solar eclipse is coming to North America. On April 8, the sun will pull another disappearing act across parts of Mexico, the United States and Canada, turning day into night for as much as 4 … more
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Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry gives a public lecture at the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday March. 1, 2024. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry said Friday elections in his country need to be held as soon as possible in order to bring stability to the troubled Caribbean nation facing gang violence that threatens to overran government. Henry is in Kenya trying to salvage the deployment of a foreign armed force to Haiti to help combat gangs. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Haiti's prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry is struggling to stay in power as he tries to return home, where gang attacks have shuttered his country's main international airport and freed more than 4,000 … more
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A family member of a passenger on board of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 holds a flower during the tenth annual remembrance event at a shopping mall, in Subang Jaya, outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, March 3, 2024. (AP Photo/FL Wong)
AP Week in Pictures: Asia
March 1-7, 2024 A family member of a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 attended the 10th annual remembrance event in Malaysia, Chinese leader Xi Jinping drank a cup of tea during … more
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Oliver Paradee accompanies his father, Andrew Paradee, as he fills out his ballot in the primary election, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Stowe, Vt. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
AP Week in Pictures: Global
March 1-7, 2024 From polio vaccines in India to violence in Haiti to snow storms in California, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or … more
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A tractor transporting farmers' produce to sell at the markets, crosses the La Paz river inundated by a mudslide due to persistent rains, in El Penol, Bolivia, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
AP Week in Pictures: Global
Feb. 23-March 1, 2024 From rains in Bolivia to voting in South Carolina to the Screen Actors Guild Awards, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world … more
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A Hindu devotee performs rituals at Sangam, the confluence of rivers the Ganges and the Yamuna during Maghi Purnima or the full-moon day at the annual traditional fair in Prayagraj, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims take dips here hoping to wash away sins during a month-long festival called Magh Mela. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
AP Week in Pictures: Asia
Feb. 23-29, 2024 A Hindu devotee performed rituals during Maghi Purnima in Prayagraj, India. South Korean doctors protested the government’s medical policy near the presidential office in … more
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Part of a telephone pole is suspended as it burns from the Smokehouse Creek Fire, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Canadian, Texas. (AP Photo/David Erickson)
AP Week in Pictures: North America
Feb. 23 - 29, 2024 Wildfires burn in the panhandle of Texas, participants embrace each other during a winter swimming event in a frozen lake in Vermont and a baseball player dives for a ball … more
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A cyclist travels around Lake Michigan near the Adler Planetarium Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, in Chicago. A warm front is sweeping spring-like weather across a large swath of the country in what is usually one of the coldest months of the year. The rare warmup is sending people out of their homes to enjoy the winter respite but also bringing increased wildfire danger. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Why so much of the US is unseasonably hot
As a powerful winter storm dumped deep snow in parts of the West on Monday, much of the central United States was unseasonably warm. In Wisconsin, where temperatures this time of year are generally … more
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FILE Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks to the media in front of security officers standing guard at the Foundation for Fighting Corruption office in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. The sudden death of Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, has left Russian opposition with an open wound. Navalny, 47, was the most well-known Kremlin critic at home and abroad, and had arguably the biggest following. (AP Photo, File)
Who are other Russian dissidents besides the late Alexei Navalny?
The sudden death of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable antagonist has left an open wound in Russia’s political opposition. Alexei Navalny was the Kremlin’s best-known critic at … more
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A woman walks down a street in the village of Callac, on Dec.15, 2023. The far right cried victory in January 2023, when mayor Jean-Yves Rolland of Callac gave up his plan to house seven to 10 refugee families. (AP Photo/Mathieu Pattier)
French mayors face violence and intimidation from xenophobic far-right groups
Mayors have long been highly appreciated among elected officials in France. But they are under attack as never before from far-right political groups. The groups' opposition to immigration is the … more
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Police officers detain a man laying flowers to Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo)
Tributes to Alexei Navalny, Putin's greatest foe, removed from Russian cities as police look on
Floral tributes to Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe who died in a Russian penal colony, were removed overnight by groups of unknown people while police watched. According to … more
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F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet takes off from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, also known as the 'IKE', in the south Red Sea, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
On the USS Eisenhower, 4 months of combat at sea facing Houthi missiles and a new sea threat
Sailors aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying warships have spent four months straight at sea defending against ballistic missiles and flying attack drones fired … more
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A Ukrainian officer Maksym listens to Russian chatter in a shelter near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Ukrainian forces are increasingly resorting to an age-old tactic — intelligence gleaned from radio intercepts — in a desperate effort to preserve their most vital resources. The painstaking work of eavesdropping is part of a larger effort to beef up and refine electronic warfare capabilities so that soldiers can be warned earlier of impending attacks, while having the battlefield intelligence needed to make their own strikes more deadly. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Detecting Russian 'carrots' and 'tea bags': Ukraine decodes enemy chatter to save lives
Ukrainian forces are increasingly resorting to an age-old tactic — intelligence gleaned from radio intercepts — in a desperate effort to preserve their most vital resources. After two years of … more
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A view of the bank of the Drina River near the village of Amajlije, eastern Bosnia, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. In several cities along this river between Bosnia and Serbia, simple, durable gravestones now mark the final resting places of dozens of refugees and migrants who drowned in the area while trying to reach Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Migrants from Africa and Mideast who died in Bosnia get marble headstones and a memorial
In cities along a section of the Drina River that forms a natural border between Bosnia and Serbia, simple, durable gravestones mark the final resting places of dozens of migrants who drowned in … more
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FILE - Residents evacuate on a motorcycle amid wildfires into Vina del Mar, Chile, Feb. 3, 2024. Scientists say climate change creates conditions that make the drought and wildfires now hitting South America more likely. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)
How climate change contributes to wildfires like Chile's
At least 123 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile. They have come amid a heat wave that pushed temperatures in the capital city of Santiago to about 37 degrees Celsius (nearly 100 … more
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FILE - In this photo taken from video released by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry Telegram channel on Dec. 30, 2023, firefighters extinguish burning cars after shelling in Belgorod, Russia. The attack in the city near the border with Ukraine killed 25 people and injured 109, dealing a heavy blow to President Vladimir Putin's attempts to reassure his countrymen that their lives have been largely unchanged by the nearly two-year military operation. (Russia Emergency Situations Ministry Telegram channel via AP, File)
Ukraine's strikes on targets inside Russia hurt Putin's efforts to show the war isn't hitting home
Ukrainian strikes on a Russian border city, as well as attacks elsewhere on fuel facilities and arms producers, have damaged President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to reassure his countrymen that … more
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