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This is the first time the AP has set up a top stories poll for the general public since the news cooperative began its annual poll in 1936.

One year after the housing downturn triggered the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, The Associated Press will offer an ambitious series of stories over five weeks examining how the economic meltdown and the Great Recession have changed everything from Wall Street to Main Street.

The Associated Press is launching a pilot project to distribute watchdog and investigative journalism from nonprofit organizations to its 1,500 member newspapers, it was announced today at the 2009 Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference in Baltimore.

The Associated Press is taking a multimedia approach to its stock footage business, offering program makers in key international markets access to its vast still photos collection in tandem with its archives of film and video, via AP Archive

The Associated Press has announced that it is offering newspaper members free access to research and news about the digital transformation of the media from Outsell Inc., a leading research firm in the news and information industry.

A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood.

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday.