Spotlight

Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened

Mexico City’s chinampas, artificial islands first built by the Aztecs hundreds of years ago, are under threat from encroaching urbanization.

A Quaker who helps migrants says US presidential election will make no difference at the border

Then & Now: How immigration reshaped the look of a Minnesota farm town

North Korean troops sent to Russia may be pleased to be there, even as they face ferocious fighting

Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US

AP Investigations

US prisoners are being assigned dangerous jobs. But what happens if they are hurt or killed?

‘They tortured us': Rohingya survivors of fatal capsize say captain raped girls, purposely sank boat

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

Russian soldiers who quit Putin’s war get no hero’s welcome abroad as asylum claims surge

The true toll of the war in Ukraine is measured in bodies. This man brings them home, one at a time

AP finds grueling conditions in Indian shrimp industry that report calls ‘dangerous and abusive’

Russia forces Ukrainians in occupied territories to take its passports – and fight in its army

Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges

Behind the doors of a Chinese hacking company, a sordid culture fueled by influence, alcohol and sex

Red flags, missed clues: How accused US diplomat-turned-Cuban spy avoided scrutiny for decades

A hidden web links hundreds of popular food brands to work done by US prisoners

Exclusive: A secret US program spied on top Venezuelan officials to build drug cases

Dissolving Trump’s business empire would stand apart in history of NY fraud law

Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea

A serial killer set Detroit on edge. Police missteps over 15 years allowed him to roam free

U.S.-funded infrastructure in Gaza largely unscathed as death toll soars

Young Rohingya girls fleeing violence, starvation find new horrors in arranged marriages in Malaysia

Recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims

China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse

RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite. It’s one of many inconsistencies

Gun violence

As guns in the U.S. outnumber people, AP examines a nation trapped in its cycle of gun violence

Americans have fundamental freedoms – to life, liberty, happiness. Do gun rights overshadow them all?

In the shadow of loss, a mother’s long search for happiness

Some states take abusers’ guns. Will the Supreme Court stop them?

Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

In 2021, at least seven boats appearing to be from northwest Africa washed up in the Caribbean and in Brazil. All carried dead bodies. For nearly two years, The AP worked to uncover the story of one of those doomed boats.

From Birth to Death: Black Americans and a lifetime of disparities

From birth to death, Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared to their white counterparts.

Congo wants UN peacekeepers gone. But endless war around minerals is complicating that

The end of one of the world’s deadliest and yet most shadowy wars is as difficult to predict as the end of the large peacekeeping force meant to contain it.

A civil rights icon’s childhood home will not be a museum after opposition from her descendants

The New Orleans City Council has rejected plans to turn a historic home connected with the life of civil rights movement leader Oretha Castle Haley into a museum.

A melodic greeting between women in Burundi is at risk of being lost

A traditional form of musical greeting known to Burundians as akazehe is performed exclusively by women.

As coal plants shut in Romania, some miners transition to green energy while others are reluctant

As Romania prepares to phase out coal by 2032, some miners are retraining for jobs in renewable energies.