This week AP announced eight key leadership positions, including the US News leadership team and a new director of global text.

In a memo to staff on Tuesday, Global Business Editor Noreen Gillespie announced three new roles on the Business News team:

As the Taliban advanced across Afghanistan over the weekend, an AP photo of a U.S. Chinook helicopter flying over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Sunday was featured on numerous front pages around the world.

Nearly a year after taking the Pulitzer-winning picture, AP photographer Emilio Morenatti reconnected with the elderly couple whom he photographed kissing through a plastic sheet during the global pandemic, recounting what he felt at the time.