The Associated PressVerified account

@AP

News from The Associated Press, and a taste of the great journalism produced by AP members and customers.

Global
apnews.com
Joined June 2009
6,636 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @AP

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @AP

  1. 25 minutes ago

    Okinawa marks the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15, 1972, which ended 27 years of U.S. rule after one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. AP takes a look at the frustration that still lingers in Okinawa today.

    8 replies . 24 retweets 75 likes
    Undo
  2. 2 hours ago

    The search continues for a Texas inmate serving a life sentence for murder who escaped a transport bus after stabbing the driver. Texas corrections officials say a $22,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the capture of Gonzalo Lopez.

    26 replies . 56 retweets 62 likes
    Undo
  3. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    The St. Louis Blues eliminated the Minnesota Wild in the first round of the playoffs with a mid-series goalie change and an unconventional lineup. Now, the team heads to Colorado to face the top-seeded Avalanche.

    1 reply . 10 retweets 23 likes
    Undo
  4. 2 hours ago

    Public schools were closed and evacuation bags packed this week as a stubborn New Mexico wildfire crept toward the city of Los Alamos and its companion U.S. national security lab.

    14 replies . 38 retweets 103 likes
    Undo
  5. 3 hours ago

    A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer than usual thrills for stargazers across the Americas.

    Moon goes red this weekend: Eclipse for Americas
    11 replies . 118 retweets 270 likes
    Undo
  6. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    Top-ranked Novak Djokovic showed what's been missing in a 7-5, 7-6 (1) win over Felix-Auger-Aliassime to reach the Italian Open semifinals. by

    5 replies . 6 retweets 15 likes
    Undo
  7. 4 hours ago

    The events leading to Cedric “C.J.” Lofton's death, just a day short of his 18th birthday, would be captured on video. The result would be litigation, pleas for reform and cries that the system had failed yet another Black youth.

    From crisis to death: Teen's last, desperate hours
    20 replies . 30 retweets 82 likes
    Undo
  8. 4 hours ago

    North Korea says 21 people have died and 174,440 people were newly found with fever symptoms on Friday alone as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population. The country imposed nationwide lockdowns on Thursday.

    30 replies . 73 retweets 135 likes
    Undo
  9. 4 hours ago

    has learned that at least two people connected to a Tennessee execution that the governor abruptly halted last month knew the night before that the lethal injection drugs the state planned to use hadn't undergone some required testing.

    9 replies . 32 retweets 45 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  10. 4 hours ago

    A baby giraffe was born with an unusual disorder that caused her front limb to bend the wrong way. But now, she can run along like other giraffes after zoo staff reached out to experts who had created countless braces for humans, but never for animals.

    Baby giraffe gets braces to fix leg abnormality
    25 replies . 156 retweets 623 likes
    Undo
  11. 5 hours ago

    The world’s first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy was unveiled Thursday. It doesn’t portray a voracious cosmic destroyer but instead what astronomers called a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet.

    Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole
    18 replies . 79 retweets 278 likes
    Undo
  12. 5 hours ago

    In Alabama, emptiness claims a chair at a nurses station. It fills a teenager’s bedroom in Arizona, and floats over a wooded path in North Carolina. These are some of the spaces left behind in the U.S., where nearly 1 million people have died of COVID-19.

    23 replies . 84 retweets 176 likes
    Undo
  13. 6 hours ago

    Fred Ward, a veteran actor who brought a gruff tenderness to tough-guy roles in such films as “The Right Stuff,” “The Player” and “Tremors,” has died at the age of 79. Ward earned a Golden Globe for his performance in Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts."

    43 replies . 150 retweets 447 likes
    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    At 53½ feet high and 56½ feet wide, a mural of Giannis Antetokounmpo gives the two-time NBA MVP a larger-than-life presence over downtown Milwaukee. Full story by :

    Giant mural in downtown Milwaukee celebrates Antetokounmpo
    3 replies . 12 retweets 92 likes
    Undo
  15. 6 hours ago

    In Pennsylvania, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette is surging after top contenders David McCormick and Mehmet Oz spent months tearing each other down in negative campaign ads.

    Analysis: Barnette surge due to GOP self attacks
    20 replies . 31 retweets 126 likes
    Undo
  16. 6 hours ago

    BREAKING: Phil Mickelson withdrew from the PGA Championship, extending his hiatus from golf following his incendiary comments about a Saudi-funded rival league he supports and the PGA Tour he accused of greed. The defending champion did not give a reason.

    71 replies . 99 retweets 197 likes
    Undo
  17. 6 hours ago

    It’s been a wild week in crypto, even by crypto standards. Bitcoin tumbled, stablecoins were anything but stable and one of the crypto industry's highest-profile companies lost a third of its market value.

    44 replies . 44 retweets 92 likes
    Undo
  18. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    Claire Foy and Paul Bettany say they would check in with each other after the intense conflict scenes in "A Very British Scandal."

    Claire Foy and Paul Bettany on intense scenes in #AVeryBritishScandal
    1 reply . 6 retweets 29 likes
    Undo
  19. 7 hours ago

    A nationwide baby formula shortage has forced frenzied parents into online groups to swap and sell to each other to keep their babies fed.

    Panic as parents seek baby formula amid shortage
    20 replies . 34 retweets 103 likes
    Undo
  20. 7 hours ago

    "I want to thank all of you in this room. You have challenged me. You have pushed me. You have debated me. And at times we have disagreed. That is democracy in action," Jen Psaki said in an emotional farewell on her last day as White House press secretary.

    Psaki delivers an emotional WH briefing farewell
    88 replies . 150 retweets 1,179 likes
    Undo

@AP hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·