set out to show the impact of attacks by ransomware criminals by sleuthing of their own to find documents dumped on the internet and the dark web when schools refused to pay ransoms.
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AP obtained exclusive body-cam video showing an elite federal prosecutor offering his Justice Department card in a DUI crash arrest. Read more
AP got rare access to see how the U.S. government and contractors maintain the highly classified U.S. nuclear arsenal.Read more
Longtime cultivation of a source paid off with the AP getting exclusive access to an important new study that provided insight into how the federal justice system handles terrorism cases.Read more
AP spent months sifting through over 1,000 lawsuits to understand how many victims of alleged physical and sexual abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center were eligible to have their cases criminally prosecuted, while the state had only taken action on a few.Read more
Using data analysis, records research and extensive interviews, an Associated Press team found dramatic disparities in U.S. government spending for various types of imperiled species 50 years after passage of the Endangered Species Act.Read more
AP’s exclusive, deep-dive analysis of Donald Trump’s civil fraud case in New York found that if the judge carries through with his sentence to “dissolve” the former president’s business empire, it would stand apart in nearly 70 years of the state’s powerful anti-fraud law. Read more
AP exclusively obtained a secret memo detailing a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership — a plan the U.S. acknowledged was arguably a violation of international law. Read more
AP turned what would’ve been a mundane story into a riveting tale of a family’s longing to have something — anything — to bury of their deceased loved one.Read more
Through thousands of pages of legal documents and dozens of interviews over a year and a half of reporting, the AP exclusively reported that a medical settlement and litigation from the 2010 BP Gulf oil spill left many workers with nearly nothing for illnesses attributed to cleaning up the disaster.Read more
Strong source reporting and collaboration put AP’s White House team out front with the highly competitive news that President Joe Biden was holding up delivery of heavy bombs to Israel over concerns that it was preparing to launch a full-scale invasion of Rafah.Read more
