The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from attending an event in the Oval Office after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ordered renamed to the Gulf of America.

At The Associated Press, election night is a massive undertaking, with thousands of people involved in counting the vote nationwide and calling winners and losers.

A veteran of the epic wire service rivalry between The Associated Press and United Press International has died.

A team of journalists from The Associated Press spent two days traveling by train with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is warning that his nation must win a drawn-out battle in a key eastern city.

The Associated Press is seeking answers from the Department of Homeland Security on its use of sensitive government databases for tracking international terrorists to investigate as many as 20 American journalists, including an acclaimed AP reporter.

Julie Pace, a longtime Washington journalist who managed coverage of the U.S. government during a period of historic tumult, has been named as the executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press.

But given what we saw at the Capitol, people are very concerned that this could go in a much different direction. We’re at one of these moments where you’re going to see a transfer of power from not just one man to the next but one party to another. You’re going to see a significant shift in priorities from one administration to another. You’re going to see a changeover on Capitol Hill. But there are already some real concerns about what the Trump administration will leave the Biden administration, and whether that will hamper them at the start.

___IT'S MORE THAN 10 DAYS AFTER ELECTION DAY, AND LOTS IS STILL GOING ON. We have seen some signs that Republicans are moving toward accepting the results and accepting that Joe Biden will be the president. The other things you want to watch for are some of the things that are happening in the states. WHAT ARE THE SIGNPOSTS OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS THAT MATTER THE MOST ON THE PATH TO INAUGURATION DAY? There are some things that Biden does not have access to yet that a president-elect would expect to at this point.

Nevertheless, counting votes accurately for an entire nation, in an election whose jurisdiction is divided up state by state, can be a cumbersome process. Here, Julie Pace, Washington bureau chief for The Associated Press, explains why patience is pivotal. EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY“One of the biggest things that I would encourage people to do today is to have patience,” says Pace, a longtime political and White House correspondent. "There’s no expectation that we would definitely call the race for the presidency on election night. The amount of votes cast in advance, paired with rules in some states that those votes can't be counted until Election Day, are part of what make 2020 different.