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Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., speaks to campaign workers, June 5, 1968, as his wife Ethel, left, and California campaign manager and speaker of the California Assembly, Jesse Unruh, look on, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination are released, on Trump’s order
About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy have been released, including handwritten notes by the gunman, who said the Democratic presidential candidate “must be disposed of.”
 
Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of NYU Langone's transplant institute, prepares a pig kidney for transplant into a brain-dead man in New York, July 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum, File)
Behind the story of the decades-long journey of xenotransplantation
In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or xenotransplants, over the last few years.
 
This image made from video by NASA shows Russian astronaut Alexei Ovchinin, left, Butch Wilmore, center, and Suni Williams wait to greet newly arrived astronauts after the SpaceX capsule docked with the International Space Station, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (NASA via AP)
Behind the story of the return of stuck NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams
On an episode of “The Story Behind the AP Story,” Associated Press space writer Marcia Dunn discusses the space odyssey of NASA’s two stuck astronauts.
 
President Donald Trump throws pens used to sign executive orders to the crowd during an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Details about Trump’s executive orders around DEI are causing confusion
The Trump administration’s executive orders around diversity, equity and inclusion programs, in both public and private sectors, have confusing details.
 
The sun rises as a rehearsal begins for President-elect Donald Trump's upcoming inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
The pomp, pageantry and circumstance of presidential inaugurations in the words of AP reporters
Presidential inaugurations are deeply rooted in American history. The customs and festivities bring spectacle to the nation’s capital. But the date and oath of office are prescribed in the Constitution.
 
The Associated Press’ role in calling races and polling voters
 
How The Associated Press covers elections in an unprecedented political climate
While the 2024 election cycle has appeared different to most, The Associated Press’ mission around elections has remained consistent.
 
FILE - A police vehicle flashes its lights in Philadelphia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Tyreek Hill’s traffic stop can be a reminder of drivers’ constitutional rights
The question of one’s responsibility to comply with all instructions given by a law enforcement officer recently came up following a traffic stop involving Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill.
 
FILE - In this May 28, 2020, file photo, a protester carries a American flag upside down, a sign of distress, next to a burning building in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
From Ferguson to Minneapolis, AP reporters recall flashpoints of the Black Lives Matter movement
In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, three AP staff members, Julio Cortez, Steve Karnowski and Aaron Morrison, recall their time covering the Black Lives Matter movement after the deaths of Michael Brown and George Floyd.