While the White House has restored access to Associated Press photographers, it continues to exclude AP reporters from the presidential press pool.

"Letting the government control which journalists can cover the highest office in the land and setting rules about what those journalists can say or write is a direct attempt to undercut the First Amendment. It should worry all of us." apnews.com/article/asso...

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQxw...

Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced apnews.com/article/trum...

AP is taking a deep dive into autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune diseases don’t get a lot of public attention, and they’re difficult to diagnosis. For most lupus patients it's years before they get an answer. apnews.com/article/auto...

BREAKING: Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are among the 40 that will see flights cut due to the government shutdown.

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law. apnews.com/article/vacc...

Everyone but Fred Ramsdell seemed to know he had just won the Nobel Prize. Ramsdell was away on a backpacking trip Monday -- and kept his cellphone in airplane mode as he often does on family trips. apnews.com/article/nobe...

BREAKING: Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died.

Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way Naples, Florida, used to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.

The 66-year-old LSU freshman, is now the marching band’s oldest member ever and proof that it is never too late to chase your dream. apnews.com/article/lsu-...

An AP investigation finds that Silicon Valley companies sold surveillance technology to Chinese police and security contractors, ignoring warnings that the tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities.

State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as an “immoral” intrusion. apnews.com/article/flor...

A final token of love: a dinosaur. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/a...

Some New Yorkers have been seeing more fireflies this summer than usual. But these summertime bugs are still on the decline overall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hv...

scoop: @davejorgenson, one of the breakout stars of the Marty Baron era of The Post, is leaving to start his own company with two Post alums www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...

The meals contain chemical additives that make them impossible to recreate at home, said Marion Nestle, a nutritionist at NYU and food policy expert who reviewed the menu for The AP. She said many menu items are high in sodium, and some are high in sugar or saturated fats.

Many forget the damage done by diseases like whooping cough, measles and rubella. Not these families apnews.com/article/vacc...

New CDC advisers will skip some expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists apnews.com/article/acip...

Forecasting hail is difficult. A team of researchers chased hail across the Great Plains to better forecast an underappreciated hazard that causes about $10 billion a year in damage in the U.S. From @borenbears.bsky.social @brittanykpeters.bsky.social apnews.com/article/stor...

BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. names eight vaccine committee replacements, including a prominent critic of COVID-19 shots.

Helen Chu is one of the ousted #ACIP members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...

His family is "hoping fiercely that Dial lives long enough to see his beloved Pacers win an NBA title for the first time in history. Even if it is from a hospital bed."

BREAKING: RFK Jr. removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on vaccine use, pledging to replace them with his own picks.

Join AP and scientists as we drive into hailstorms. The underappreciated weather extreme costs $10 billion a year. @brittanykpeters.bsky.social apnews.com/article/hail...

"Newtok’s relocation was supposed to provide a model for dozens of Alaskan communities that will need to move in the coming decades."

CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years apnews.com/article/flu-...

The Associated Press has moved hundreds of news alerts since President Donald Trump took office for a second time. We used them to tell the often-dizzying story of what Trump did, how some people and courts pushed back and the world's reaction.

“You were the one on the plane who told me, ‘No, that’s not the way it is, Father,’” the pope told her

“The government offers no other plausible explanation for its treatment of the AP,” the judge wrote. “The Constitution forbids viewpoint discrimination, even in a nonpublic forum like the Oval Office.”

Today's HHS layoffs include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders, leaving the government without many of the key experts who have long guided U.S. decisions on medical research, drug approvals and other issues. #medsky #healthpolicysky apnews.com/article/heal...

NEW: The entire CDC #FOIA office — nearly two dozen people — received RIF notices. FOIA personnel at FDA and NIH were also dismissed. The CDC has seen a massive uptick in FOIA requests this year. It’s the second busiest year since Covid. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Imagine this dispute outside the U.S. context. If you discovered that the AP caved to a different government trying to control its speech, would you ever again trust anything the AP reported from that country—or for that matter, from anywhere?"  - Julie Pace in @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

“Before a Breath,” our documentary on America’s stillbirth crisis, is available to stream now. Join director @nadiasussman.bsky.social and reporter/producer @deldeib.bsky.social in the live chat of our YouTube premiere:

For one family this Alzheimer’s prevention trial 'is life.' Jake's father and brother died from Alzheimer's in their 40s and 50s--and he has the gene as well. After years in a prevention study, he hasn't had any symptoms. Funding for this study though is in jeopardy. apnews.com/article/alzh...

NASA’s Voyager Probes Lose One Instrument Each as Power Wanes "We’re pulling out all the stops, doing what we can to make sure Voyagers 1 and 2 continue their trailblazing for the maximum time possible.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

With the Trump administration’s crackdown on U.S. biomedical research, it’s not just about scientists losing their jobs or damaging the local economy their work indirectly supports — scientists around the country say it’s about patient health. apnews.com/article/trum...

The @apnews.com story with context on what happened in the Oval Office today and why it matters: apnews.com/article/zele...

For decades, fairness has been the guiding principle of the American organ transplant system. But today, nearly 20% of the time, officials ignore strict rules meant to ensure that donated organs are offered to the patients who need them most, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/3XlqVK1

Hundreds of the federal contracts canceled by DOGE, nearly 40% in all, are expected to produce no savings to taxpayers apnews.com/article/doge... Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

CDC to lose one-tenth of workforce under Trump administration probationary job cuts apnews.com/article/trum...

The Alaska House voted to adopt a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reconsider his executive order renaming Denali, the tallest peak in North America.

A major milestone in pig organ transplants: An Alabama woman is now the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant – healthy and full of energy with her new kidney for 61 days and counting. apnews.com/article/pig-...

Photos by LA Times staff here: (no paywall) www.latimes.com/california/s...

The LA Times photo desk, which is doing incredible work covering these brutal fires, has set up a Bluesky account that is among the newest ones we have verified. They are well worth following right now. @latimesphotos.bsky.social

Once upon a time, Kansas City Star photographers assigned to work a Chiefs game would focus entirely on what happened on the field. But that all changed when global superstar Taylor Swift first came to watch boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Chiefs play a game at Arrowhead Stadium.

After 8 years on dialysis Towana Looney said "to have a working kidney — and to feel it — is unbelievable” after her pig kidney transplant. apnews.com/article/pig-...

An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis

1/ Here’s a story about how journalism works. Spoiler Alert: This is how we decide *not* to publish. We were recently looking at Pete Hegseth’s different statements over the years about West Point, where he has said he was admitted. First stop: West Point.