AP Investigations

The shadows of police investigators are reflected on a wall as they check an unidentified body of an alleged drug lord after it was dumped along a dark alley in Manila, Philippines, Sept. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

AP WAS THERE: In Philippine drug war, family struggles to stay safe from Duterte’s brutal crackdown

Nearly a decade ago, the Philippine drug war raged, and desperate people tried to avoid former President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly crackdown.
 
People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released from the centers in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanaphon Wuttison)

Takeaways from the AP’s reporting into what people face in Myanmar after release from forced labor

 
This image from Israeli Defense Forces drone video shows a car in crosshairs, moments before it was destroyed in the town of Ainata, southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (IDF via AP)

As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies

 
An Israeli flag is draped over the Microsoft offices in a building in the Gav Yam technology park in Beersheba, Israel, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech’s role in warfare

 
This image from Israeli Defense Forces drone video shows a car in crosshairs, moments before it was destroyed in the town of Ainata, southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (IDF via AP)

As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies

 
Widow Sharline Volcy holds a picture of her deceased husband, Roland Donat, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Orange, N.J. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Takeaways from AP’s investigation into dozens of deaths of police recruits

 
This combination of images shows, top row, from left, Christopher David Murray, Cody Olafson, Cornelius Anderson, Timothy Guyer, Edgar Ordonez, Kevin Reaux, Thomas Coulter, second row, Marcus Zeigler, Mulwa Sumbi, Patrick Dupree, Ronald Donat, William "Tex" Bailey, Wisbens Antoine, Spencer Englett, bottom row, Asson Hacker, Donald Fredenburg Jr., Enrique Delgado-Garcia, Michelle Strube, Marquis Kennedy, Vincent Parks and Andrew Sockwell. (Frisco Police Department, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Harris County Sheriff's Office, Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, New York City Police Department, Bexar County Sheriff's Office, Daytona Beach Police Department, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, Law Enforcement Candidates Scholars' Program, Georgia State Patrol, Sharline Volcy, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, Knoxville Police Department, Forsyth County Sheriff's Department, Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office, U.S. Marine Corps, Massachusetts State Police, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Cassidy Hill, Jonesboro Police Department, City of Plano via AP)

Dying to serve: Dozens of recruits have died nationwide while training to become police officers

 
Teresa Youngblut, bottom, who is charged by the FBI in connection to the shooting death of US Border Patrol Agent David Maland, and Felix Bauckholt, top who were traveling with Youngblut, are seen in the office at the Newport City Inn on Jan. 14, 2025 in Newport, Vermont, in this still frame photograph from surveillance video released by the inn, who confirmed her identity. (Newport City Inn surveillance video image via AP)

A Vermont border agent’s death was the latest violence linked to the cultlike Zizian group

 
This June 13, 2016, file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Florida. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File

Prominent Miami defense lawyer charged in DEA bribery scheme

 
In this photo provided by Zhang Yazhou, she sits on the roof of her damaged Tesla Model 3 with a bullhorn outside a Tesla dealership in Zhengzhou, the capital of central China’s Henan province, on March, 9, 2021. Banner reads, “Tesla brake failure.” (Courtesy Zhang Yazhou via AP)

Takeaways: Tesla has sued Chinese customers and journalists — and won almost every time

 
This photo provided by Zhang Yazhou shows her damaged Tesla Model 3, left, which her father was driving when it hit two other cars before crashing to a halt against a concrete barrier in Anyang, a city in central China’s Henan province, on Feb. 21, 2021. Zhang was in the passenger seat. Her mother and her one-year-old niece were at the back. (Zhang Yazhou via AP)

Her parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages

 
Elon Musk speaks as part of a campaign town hall in support of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump in Folsom, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

How Elon Musk’s crusade against government could benefit Tesla