NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press will have thousands of people on hand this week to count votes and declare winners and losers in the U.S. election, continuing a tradition that began in 1848 ...

In 2020, news outlets declared Joe Biden the winner over Trump on Saturday after election day. The AP expects to make calls this year in 6,832 individual races, from the president down to local ...

Yet between the spread of misinformation and opinion polls that show a growing mistrust of the media, the AP — and other news outlets — have learned that it's important to show your work.