Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Bathrooms Statehouses Women

On Monday, July 21, 2025, Colorado House Majority Leader Monica Duran, D-Wheat Ridge, holds a photo of Rep. Arie Taylor, the state's first Black woman legislator, who was instrumental in creating the first women's restroom at the state Capitol in Denver. (AP Photo/Rachel Woolf)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

Women in legislatures across the U.S. fight for ‘potty parity’

AUG. 1, 2025

US Petroglyphs Hawaii

Cultural practitioner Glen Kila walks around the petroglyphs carved into the rock at Pokai Bay during low tide, July 22, 2025, in Waianae, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP joy and wonder video on Hawaii petroglyphs earns widespread customer use and hundreds of thousands of online views

AUG. 1, 2025

Trump-Immigration-Health

With posters illustrating stages of pregnancy behind them, people attend a health clinic about diabetes held by Holy Family Services, a birth center and women's clinic in the Rio Grande Valley, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Weslaco, Texas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP journalists document the impact of immigration policies on public health

AUG. 1, 2025

Climate Heat Death Valley Ultramarathon

Danny Westergaard, left, runs with pacing help from daughter Madison Westergaard as the sun rises during the Badwater 135 Ultramarathon, Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

All-formats team brings readers to 48-hour race in inhospitably hot environment

JULY 25, 2025

Trump

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks as she holds up a letter from President Donald Trump to South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP breaks down Trump’s letters on tariffs to other nations’ leaders, helping readers understand what’s unusual about them

JULY 25, 2025

Liberia US Aid Cuts Photo Gallery

Gbango Kemu, 36, who got pregnant after failing to get access to contraceptives, sits with her daughter Garmah at their house in Bong County, Liberia, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Annie Risemberg)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP documents the difficulties that have followed U.S. aid cuts in Liberia

JULY 18, 2025

APTOPIX Britain Wimbledon Tennis

Italy's Jannik Sinner celebrates with the trophy after beating Carlos Alcaraz of Spain to win the men's singles final at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP brings Wimbledon to life with sharp, engaging coverage of serious themes and viral moments

JULY 18, 2025

China Visa Free

Tourists wait to take a half-day tour to the tourism destination which was offered by a travel agency Trip.com Group, at the Beijing Capital International Airport, in Beijing on June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP team leverages digital tools including interactive map and visuals to illustrate China’s expanding visa-free policy

JULY 18, 2025

Grand Canyon Fire

The Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim of Grand Canyon, Ariz., in June 2019. (AP Photo/Ryan Pearson)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP first to confirm historic Grand Canyon Lodge destroyed by wildfire

JULY 18, 2025

Mideast Wars Gaza Children

Old photos of 3-year-old Amr al-Hams are displayed on a phone as he lies in a bed with brain damage caused by an Israeli army strike on his family's tent in April, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, July 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP tells the heartbreaking story of Amr, a 3-year-old boy in Gaza, fighting for his life after surviving a strike that killed his mother

JULY 11, 2025

Democrats Trump

A local resident listen to a speech during an Iowa Democratic Party rally, Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Windsor Heights, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP team captures notable images of the passage of President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

JULY 11, 2025

France China Warplanes

FILE - A French-made Rafale fighter jet takes off on the inaugural day of the Aero India 2021 at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

AP investigation obtains exclusive intelligence findings showing Chinese efforts to undermine France’s flagship fighter jet

JULY 11, 2025

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