FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) 鈥� Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is slated to meet with city officials and update the public Tuesday about the response to a fire at an assisted-living facility in Fall River that killed 10 people. The July 13 fire at Gabriel House in the city about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter isn’t hiding his feelings about actor and Democratic Party donor George Clooney’s decision to call on the elder Biden to abandon his 2024 reelection bid. In a rare online interview, Hunter Biden used a string of expletives to describe Clooney when discussing the actor with Andrew […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The global switch to renewable energy has passed a 鈥減ositive tipping point鈥� where solar and wind power will become even cheaper and more widespread, according to two United Nations reports released Tuesday, describing a bright spot amid otherwise gloomy progress to curb climate change. Last year, 74% of the growth in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Department of Justice wants to interview Jeffrey Epstein鈥檚 former girlfriend, who was convicted of helping the financier sexually abuse underage girls and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence, a senior official said Tuesday. If Ghislaine Maxwell 鈥渉as information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims, the FBI and the […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday deflected questions over the Justice Department鈥檚 decision to interview Jeffrey Epstein鈥檚 former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the financier sexually abuse underage girls and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence. Trump instead lashed out at old grievances following a new report from his intelligence director aimed […]
TUNBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) 鈥� An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn鈥檛 until he found himself living in rural Vermont that he realized his penchant for repairing old pay phones could provide a public service. 鈥淚 realized, wow, there鈥檚 no cell service for […]
Coca-Cola reported better-than-expected earnings in the second quarter as higher prices offset weaker sales volumes. Case volumes fell 1% globally and 1% in North America, but Coke said Tuesday that pricing rose 6% for the April-June period. Revenue for the Atlanta company rose 1% to $12.5 billion. Adjusted for one-time items, quarterly revenue was $12.6 […]
PARIS (AP) 鈥� The United States announced Tuesday it will again pull out of the U.N.鈥檚 educational, scientific and cultural agency because of what Washington sees as its anti-Israel bias, only two years after rejoining. This will be the third time that the United States leaves UNESCO, which is based in Paris, and the second […]
General Motors鈥� profit and revenue declined in its second-quarter but the automaker easily topped expectations and the company stuck by its full-year financial outlook that it lowered in May. For the three months ended June 30, GM earned $1.89 billion, or $1.91 per share. A year earlier the company earned $2.93 billion, or $2.55 per […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� On a sweltering summer day, children leap between rocks along the Bronx River while cyclists pedal on newly paved paths. Kayaks rest on what was once an industrial dumping ground, now transformed into a bustling promenade along the city鈥檚 only freshwater river. The Bronx River Greenway, a series of stitched-together waterfront […]
For nonprofits in McDowell County, West Virginia, the federal cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act threaten a lifeline. Many of McDowell鈥檚 17,000 residents rely on federal programs and the nonprofits they fund to get by. The county鈥檚 tax base and population have significantly declined since 1950, when McDowell was the top coal-producing county […]
President Donald Trump’s policies are poised to upend decades of partnerships the federal government has built with nonprofits to help people in their communities. Since the 1960s, presidential administrations from both parties have used taxpayer dollars to fund nonprofits to take on social problems and deliver services. A vast and interconnected set of federal grants […]
Dawn Price signs rent checks worth about $160,000 every month for 79 people that her nonprofit helps house in Laguna Beach, California. Usually, she logs into an online portal to withdraw enough from an account funded by a grant from the federal housing agency. But in February, she couldn’t. Access had been temporarily cut off […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday after U.S. stock indexes inched to more records at the start of a week of profit updates from big U.S. companies. Japan鈥檚 benchmark surged and then fell back as it reopened from a holiday Monday following the ruling coalition’s loss of its upper house majority in […]
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) 鈥� A mountain lion bit a 4-year-old who was walking with their family over the weekend on a popular trail in Olympic National Park in Washington state, park officials said Monday. The child was injured during Sunday’s attack and flown to a trauma center in Seattle for treatment, according to a […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� San Francisco is set to ban homeless people from living in RVs by adopting strict new parking limits the mayor says are necessary to keep sidewalks clear and prevent trash build-up. The policy, up for final approval by San Francisco supervisors Tuesday, targets at least 400 recreational vehicles in the city […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump plans to host Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday at the White House, as the two countries are seeking closer security and economic ties in the face of shifting geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region. Marcos, who met Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� There are thousands of illegal marijuana farms around the country. But when the federal government decided to stage one of its largest raids since President Donald Trump took office in January, it picked the biggest legal grower in California. Nearly two weeks later, the reason for the federal raid at two […]
DALLAS (AP) 鈥� Texas officials labored to account for more than 160 people originally reported missing along the Guadalupe River after the deadly July Fourth floods before ultimately concluding that most were safe and only three individuals still haven’t been found, the top executive in the hardest-hit county said Monday. 鈥淢ost of them were tourists […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A man with a history of arrests at pro-Palestinian protests was charged Monday with setting fire to 11 New York City police vehicles last month. Jakhi McCray, 21, of Brooklyn pleaded not guilty to arson in U.S. District Court. A criminal complaint unsealed Monday said McCray was recorded on surveillance video […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� U.S. immigration authorities on Monday denied reports that they detained or deported a Chilean man living in the country on a green card. The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania, reported that Luis Leon, 82, ended up in Guatemala after being handcuffed in a Philadelphia immigration office, where he went to replace his […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) 鈥� Authorities on Monday asked for members of the public to provide surveillance footage and details from eyewitnesses as they investigate the fatal shooting of an Ole Miss freshman football player in a Memphis neighborhood after a pool party. Corey Adams, an 18-year-old defensive lineman from New Orleans, was found with a […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 鈥渙bsolete鈥� workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances. If approved, the wide-ranging changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions […]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) 鈥� Texas Democrats showed up Monday for a special session but left open the possibility of walking out as a means to derail an unusual summer redrawing of U.S. House maps that would help protect Republicans鈥� slim majority in the 2026 elections. President Donald Trump wants Republicans in the coming weeks to […]
