TALLINN, Estonia (AP) 鈥� The discussions have taken place in an ornate Kremlin hall, on the polished marble of St. Peter鈥檚 Basilica and in a famously contentious session in the Oval Office of the White House. What鈥檚 emerged so far from the Washington-led effort to end the war in Ukraine suggests a deal that seems […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) 鈥� The Trump administration could gut research on the effectiveness of child welfare programs, with plans to terminate dozens of university grants studying improvements to Head Start and child care policy, according to a spreadsheet mistakenly made public this week. The document listed more than 150 research projects under consideration for […]
HONG KONG (AP) 鈥� Asian markets advanced Friday after China鈥檚 Commerce Ministry said Beijing is evaluating overtures from the U.S. regarding President Donald Trump鈥檚 tariffs. Futures and oil prices advanced. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng surged 1.7% to 22,493.96, while markets in Shanghai were closed for a public holiday. Taiwan’s benchmark jumped 2.2%. An unnamed Chinese […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to the National Museum of African American History and Culture may be returned, amid a potential review of the museum’s collections ordered by President Donald Trump. Rev. Amos C. Brown, pastor of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Most of President Donald Trump鈥檚 top nominees have sailed through the Senate with little resistance. His pick to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation鈥檚 capital could be an exception. Ed Martin Jr., a conservative activist with modest legal experience who has defended rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been thrown into two top national security jobs at once as President Donald Trump presses forward with his top-to-bottom revamp of U.S. foreign policy, upending not only longstanding policies that the former Florida senator once supported but also the configuration of the executive branch. Trump’s appointment […]
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) 鈥� An Illinois landlord found guilty of a vicious hate crime that left a 6-year-old Muslim boy dead and wounded his mother days after the start of the war in Gaza in 2023 was due in court Friday for sentencing. A jury convicted 73-year-old Joseph Czuba in February of murder and hate […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Nearly four months after wildfires reduced thousands of Los Angeles-area homes to rubble and ash, some residents are starting to rebuild. In the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, construction workers recently began placing wooden beams to frame a house on a lot where only a charred fireplace remains standing. In the seaside city […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� When the enigmatic street artist Banksy spray-painted a heart-shaped balloon covered with a Band-Aid on the wall of a Brooklyn warehouse, the nondescript brick building was instantly transformed into an art destination and the canvas of an unlikely graffiti battle. Almost as soon as Banksy revealed the piece back in 2013, […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 鈥� Cruella de Vil wanted to turn Dalmatian puppies into fur coats, Captain Hook tried to bomb Peter Pan and Maleficent issued a curse of early death for Aurora. But wait, maybe these Disney villains were just misunderstood? That’s the premise of a new musical show at Walt Disney World that has […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged 鈥渂ias鈥� in the broadcasters鈥� reporting. The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies 鈥渢o cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and further requires that that they […]
EL PASO, Texas (AP) 鈥� The Defense Department said Thursday that it has designated a second stretch on the U.S. border with Mexico as a military zone to enforce immigration laws. The newest area is in Texas and is attached to the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso. Like the first zone established last […]
Jill Sobule, the award-winning singer-songwriter whose witty and poignant writing first attracted widespread attention with the gay-themed song 鈥淚 Kissed a Girl,鈥� died in a house fire Thursday. She was 66. Her death was confirmed by her publicist, David Elkin, in an email Thursday afternoon. It was not immediately clear how the fire started. 鈥淛ill […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� A federal judge agreed Thursday to temporarily block the Trump administration from taking any more steps to dismantle an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the U.S. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that plaintiffs who sued to preserve the Institute of Museum and Library Services are likely to show that […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) 鈥� Authorities arrested a 34-year-old man Thursday in connection with the fatal shootings of three people in Minneapolis, and the city’s police chief said it’s likely another person was killed the next day in retaliation. Police have said that the four people killed and two others seriously wounded in the multiple shootings were […]
GROTON, Conn. (AP) 鈥� About 2,500 workers at Electric Boat shipyard in Connecticut plan to strike on May 18 if a tentative contract agreement is not reached with the submarine builder, the union president announced during a rally Thursday. About 300 union members cheered the announcement made by Bill Louis, president of the Marine Draftsmen鈥檚 […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Luigi Mangione鈥榮 lawyers urging a judge Thursday to throw out his state murder charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing that the New York case and a parallel federal death penalty prosecution amount to double jeopardy. If that doesn鈥檛 happen, they want terrorism charges dismissed and prosecutors barred […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians, The Associated Press has learned. The planning documents, obtained by the AP, are dated April 29 and […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) 鈥� Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to death in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a woman, has filed multiple death sentence appeals, the most recent of which was denied in October. […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) 鈥� The Trump administration told a federal judge Thursday that a Georgetown scholar鈥檚 lawsuit against deportation should be moved from Virginia, where it was filed, to Texas, where he鈥檚 jailed over allegations of 鈥渟preading Hamas propaganda.鈥� U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles seemed skeptical of the government鈥檚 request, which would involve her […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Army is planning a sweeping transformation that will merge or close headquarters, dump outdated vehicles and aircraft, slash as many as 1,000 headquarters staff in the Pentagon and shift personnel to units in the field, according to a new memo and U.S. officials familiar with the changes. In a memo released […]
The number of overdose deaths in Kentucky last year dropped by 30.2% 鈥� down to 1,410 lives lost 鈥� giving state leaders a surge of confidence that prevention and treatment efforts are making progress against an addiction epidemic they say is shattering families across the state. This was the third straight yearly decrease in drug […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 鈥� A Jordanian man living in central Florida accused of causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage at a solar power facility and vandalizing multiple private businesses over their perceived support for the state of Israel was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison. Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, 44, was sentenced […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) 鈥� Alabama legislators passed a bill on Thursday that would strip Birmingham of control over the state’s largest water board and transfer power to the governor and surrounding suburbs, reigniting a decades-long, polarizing debate. Proponents of the bill point to frequent rate hikes and say that the move will prevent catastrophic events […]
