for exclusively reporting the latest updates in the military's investigation into the nude photo-sharing scandal at a rare visit to the base at Quantico. http://apne.ws/2q4aaUG
for revealing the curious tale of a former Iranian-born CIA gunrunner and his business interests around the globe. They shed a light on the relationship between a prominent journalist and the mysterious figure he had cultivated as a secret source. http://apne.ws/2sla51H
for revealing the list of demands by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries on Qatar to resolve a major diplomatic crisis. http://apne.ws/2sxygIL
for two news breaks on the same day regarding special counsel Robert Mueller: He’s taken over a criminal probe involving Paul Manafort, and he may investigate the roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the firing of FBI Director James Comey. http://strib.mn/2qX7XZb
for an exclusive story showing that the problem of theft at VA hospitals is worse than at private hospitals and that the number of criminal cases continues to grow. http://apne.ws/2r6qCkF
for getting an exclusive heads-up that the United States would conduct its first-ever test effort to shoot down an intercontinental ballistic missile. http://www.time.com/4796334/pentagon-us-north-kore...
for breaking his stride during the annual Capitol Challenge road race to cover the collapse of Sen. Thom Tillis. Ohlemacher noticed the runner unconscious and being helped on the side of the road, borrowed a congressman’s phone and dictated an APNewsAlert and an APNewsNow before finishing the race. http://apne.ws/2qcYCA9
for putting AP ahead by reporting the specific wording of the U.S. Department of Justice's rollback of guidelines that originally were aimed at reducing the imprisonment of nonviolent offenders. https://apnews.com/e72e3fe1fc2d4108a249710e8f9097c...
for reporting exclusively that Homeland Security officials deciding whether 50,000 Haitians should be allowed to remain in the U.S. searched for evidence of criminal conduct and other misdeeds. The decision is supposed to be based on living conditions in their home country. https://apnews.com/740ed5b40ce84bb398c82c48884be61...
for breaking the news that a deal was in the works to revive the Republican health care bill in the House that lawmakers would pass by a razor-thin margin two days later. http://on.freep.com/2qsRFur
for reporting that U.S. officials expected North Korea to conduct a missile launch from the eastern city of Wonsan. The launch occurred hours later. http://apne.ws/2nzKL2d
for their joint analysis with the media analytics company Cortico that showed declining engagement with President Donald Trump’s tweets across ages, genders and political affiliations. http://apne.ws/2pKNM2K
for revealing that Dow Chemical pushed the federal government to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species. https://www.apnews.com/a29073ecef9b4841b2e6cca0720...
for breaking the news that a firm headed by Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, received more than $1.2 million in payments that match a Ukrainian ledger that investigators say reflect off-the-books payments from a pro-Russia political party. They also broke the news that Manafort will register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for lobbying work he did years ago on behalf of political interests in Ukraine. http://abcn.ws/2otpOWd
for breaking the result of the Trump administration's two-month review on North Korea, which established the new U.S. policy of "maximum pressure and engagement." http://apne.ws/2oxebNm
for getting word of a highly classified and highly sensitive U.S. intelligence conclusion that Russia had foreknowledge of Syria's chemical weapons attack. http://apne.ws/2o1Cjs3
for confirming a source’s tip that after several attacks involving suspects known to the FBI, the bureau is reviewing the handling of tens of thousands of terrorism tips. http://apne.ws/2opAje5
for an exclusive report about the NHL investing in China and for breaking the news that the U.S. women's hockey team had ended a boycott launched over a wage dispute. http://apne.ws/2nd1wTV
for revealing that the U.S. government’s investigation of Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, extended to the island nation of Cyprus. https://yhoo.it/2ocLXvk
Around last November’s election, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, resurfaced as a priority for the AP’s Washington investigative team when it became clear he was a leading focus of the government’s inquiry into whether Trump’s campaign had coordinated with Russians to meddle in the presidential election.
Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day, along with AP colleagues in Washington and elsewhere, dove in and after weeks of reporting, learned that Manafort had worked for a Russian billionaire a decade ago and had proposed to him a plan to greatly benefit President Vladimir Putin’s government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under then-President George W. Bush grew worse.
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