The wire service’s journalists have been banned from White House events since Feb. 11 over the organization’s use of the name Gulf of Mexico.

We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office, and you all have the credentials to be here, including the Associated Press, who is in this briefing room today'

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended a decision by the White House on Tuesday to keep The Associated Press out of the pool of reporters allowed inside the Oval Office to cover an