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Because a) it's old news and b) it's technically incorrect. Apes and humans share a common ancestor but are not the same.
You're thinking of chimps, apes are any primates without tails.
It's not incorrect, if by "apes" you mean hominids (which is what it usually refers to), then we're part of that family and by extension we're what's colloquially known as apes.
We’re not modern apes, but we are apes, in the same way that birds are dinosaurs
I've personally not seen a single news story about it in my life or it obviously would've fully hit me sooner.
I've also never seen a news story about it, because it's so old news that I just learnt about it in biology class
Try to downplay it and cover it up all you like. I've just submitted it as a news tip to half a dozen newsrooms. We'll see who's right!