for an all-formats package that broke news about how Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Donald Trump has quietly converted a network of rural prisons in Louisiana into a major hub of migrant detention.https://bit.ly/35r23Ehhttps://bit.ly/2IVaTk3https://bit.ly/2nUX4ux
for revealing the pain of people whose relatives were killed in actual lynchings, as a debate raged among politicians and pundits over President Donald Trump’s use of the word “lynching” to describe the impeachment inquiry.
for their newsbreak that the Russian ambassador to the UN had intervened with Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Donald Trump's behalf after the UN’s human rights chief criticized the GOP nominee. http://bit.ly/2dzAVHE
for providing quick, comprehensive coverage of a Seattle federal judge's ruling which blocked enforcement of President Trump's immigration travel ban. The highlight was a profile of the judge who issued the ruling, a George W. Bush appointee known for his conservatism and work with disadvantaged children. https://yhoo.it/2lrGZX9
for an exclusive AP analysis of deleted tweets that revealed that disguised Russian agents worked to deflect scandalous news about Donald Trump while refocusing online criticism toward Hillary Clinton during last year’s U.S. presidential campaign.http://bit.ly/2zJMDhKhttp://bit.ly/2zJAGbChttp://bit.ly/2hx1ssO
revealed that former President Donald Trump’s social media posts have regularly amplified QAnon, a platform for baseless conspiracy theories.New York-based Swenson had noticed a pattern of Trump referencing QAnon in his online posts. She and Klepper, both of whom report on disinformation, then began monitoring the activity; they found that far from distancing himself from a false narrative, Trump embraced it, publishing dozens of recent QAnon-related posts and evoking the movement at rallies.Read more
for revealing that despite its denials, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is secretly working with former employees of disgraced political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, at a new, small data company with direct financial ties to Trump’s campaign manager. https://abcn.ws/2thovON
for an enterprise project that accurately anticipated a major change in the nation's school choice movement; two weeks later, it happened after President Donald Trump released his federal budget proposal. http://apne.ws/2rRCEzH http://bit.ly/2qyGYmi
prior to former President Donald Trump’s felony arraignment for allegedly falsifying business records, captured in a crackerjack of a story Trump’s love of the Empire State, from childhood to indictment, with humor and wit.Read more.
for capturing how President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and rhetoric are leaving some Mexican-Americans and immigrants feeling at odds with a holiday they already thought was appropriated by liquor companies, event promoters and bars. http://apne.ws/2pE3Xyh
teamed up to provide the fastest, most complete coverage of the Trump administration’s announcement that it would resettle no more than 15,000 refugees in 2021, another record low.Their work began days before the Sept. 30 deadline for a decision. Lee worked sources on his State Department beat, while Watson drew on her long experience covering refugees, speaking with advocates and with an Eritrean refugee in the U.S. whose dream of reuniting with his family became more remote as a result of Trump’s decision. At 11:26 p.m. on the evening of the deadline, Lee received confirmation of the 15,000 cap from the State Department. Watson rushed it to wire, delivering a 700-word story by 12:04 a.m., including a quote of Trump vilifying refugees at a campaign rally that night in Minnesota. A major competitor moved its story at 2:37 a.m., and no one else had a story for hours. https://bit.ly/2Gr9NyA
for following up on a relatively obscure blog entry that mentioned the use of stock video footage by President Donald Trump’s campaign. Condon reported that the campaign was using stock video models to portray actual supporters in Facebook ads, and the models were not even in the United States but in France, Turkey and Brazil. Condon's story was one of AP’s most widely read of the past week.
for reporting exclusively that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had halted enforcement actions in the months since the Trump administration took control of the agency. https://bit.ly/2H80X70
for uncovering a secret $30,000 agreement – with a $1 million penalty – negotiated by the parent company of the National Enquirer to prevent other news organizations from investigating a salacious tip about Donald Trump's sex life until after the 2016 presidential election. https://bit.ly/2IND95x
Around last November’s election, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, resurfaced as a priority for the AP’s Washington investigative team when it became clear he was a leading focus of the government’s inquiry into whether Trump’s campaign had coordinated with Russians to meddle in the presidential election.
Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day, along with AP colleagues in Washington and elsewhere, dove in and after weeks of reporting, learned that Manafort had worked for a Russian billionaire a decade ago and had proposed to him a plan to greatly benefit President Vladimir Putin’s government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under then-President George W. Bush grew worse.
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for repeatedly breaking news while covering the ill-fated effort to repeal Obamacare, including Trump’s ultimatum to Republicans demanding a make-or-break vote. http://trib.in/2nN46j7
for reporting based on the ironic twist behind President Donald Trump’s tweets that criticized Baltimore as a “rat and rodent infested mess” – some of those rodents are in apartments owned by his own son-in-law, Jared Kushner.Other news organizations had pointed out that some of the Kushner-owned properties in the Baltimore area had been cited for rodents, as well as mold, bedbugs, leaks and other problems. But AP's team wanted to put a human face to the story, getting Kushner’s tenants to talk about their experiences and what they thought of Trump’s tweets. New York’s Condon, who has previously reported on Kushner’s background as a landlord, and the Baltimore team found tenants who were willing to tell their stories, show the holes where the rodents crept in, and give their opinions on both Trump and Kushner. The story got huge play, even cracking the homepage of the hometown Baltimore Sun. https://bit.ly/2YuMCuV
for landing the scoop that China had granted preliminary approval for 38 new Trump trademarks, paving the way for the president’s family to potentially develop a host of branded businesses in the country. http://apne.ws/2mxjueE
for breaking the story that President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was quietly acknowledging to the Justice Department that he had been paid $530,000 for lobbying up to Election Day on behalf of Turkey's government.
for exclusively obtaining Customs and Border Protection memos that showed how the Trump administration was carrying out a program that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases play out, including the instruction that border agents explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America. https://bit.ly/2HvWomX