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 […]
President Donald Trump on Monday followed up his lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over last week’s Jeffrey Epstein story by banishing one of the newspaper’s reporters from Air Force One for an upcoming Scotland trip. The moves reflect Trump’s aggressiveness toward media who displease him 鈥� even a media magnate, Rupert Murdoch, with outlets […]
MIAMI (AP) 鈥� Elon Musk fought court cases on opposite coasts Monday, raising a question about the billionaire that could either speed his plan to put self-driving Teslas on U.S. roads or throw up a major roadblock: Can this wildly successful man who tends to exaggerate really be trusted? In Miami, a Tesla driver who […]
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) 鈥� Search teams located the site of an airplane crash that killed three people near Yellowstone National Park using the last known location of the smart watch from one of the victims, authorities said Monday. The single-engine Piper PA-28 aircraft left Montana’s West Yellowstone Airport just before midnight on Thursday, according […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, a slight increase in the projection that takes into account the final tweaks that Republicans made before getting the legislation over the finish line. More than 10 million people will […]
It took 40 years, but Pee-wee’s bike is now at the Alamo. Just not the basement. The Alamo announced last week it had acquired and would display the iconic bike from the 1985 Tim Burton film, 鈥淧ee-wee’s Big Adventure.鈥� The San Antonio landmark plays a key role in the film chronicling Pee-wee Herman’s search for […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A horse carriage driver was acquitted Monday of animal cruelty in a modern trial about the old-fashioned coaches that meander through New York’s Central Park. A six-person jury found Ian McKeever not guilty of overworking a horse called Ryder, who collapsed en route back to his stable on an 84-degree Fahrenheit […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Police investigating a crash outside a Los Angeles nightclub that injured at least 36 people asked for help Monday to find the man they suspect of shooting the driver. A vehicle rammed into a crowd of people outside the Vermont Hollywood venue early Saturday along a busy boulevard in East Hollywood, […]
DENVER (AP) 鈥� The parents of a man who died alone in a Colorado jail cell after an ulcer burned a hole in his digestive tract and left him in what they said was excruciating pain for about 15 hours filed a federal lawsuit Monday, accusing the jail’s nurses and sheriff’s deputes of ignoring his […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Authorities are looking into whether grenades recovered from a Santa Monica apartment complex caused an explosion last week at a Los Angeles County Sheriff鈥檚 Department training facility that killed three members of its arson and explosives unit. Investigators served a search warrant Monday morning at an address in the Marina del […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) 鈥� Federal agents in Miami have arrested Pierre R茅ginald Boulos, a well-known Haitian businessman, doctor and former presidential hopeful. The arrest occurred at Boulos’ home in South Florida late last week, a person familiar with the arrest said Monday. Boulos was born in the United States but renounced his citizenship […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz helped catalyze a national missing-children鈥檚 movement. The 6-year-old was one of the first children whose disappearance was publicized in what became a high-profile way: on milk cartons. His case also ushered in an age of parental anxiety. After a decades-long investigation, a former New York […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Seven hundred Marines sent to Los Angeles will leave the city, the Pentagon said Monday. The Marines were sent to the city in June alongside 4,000 National Guard soldiers in response to protests over the Trump administration鈥檚 ongoing immigration raids around the city. They primarily guarded federal buildings. Last week, the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Trump administration has released records of the FBI鈥檚 surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate鈥檚 family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. The release involves an estimated 200,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since […]
Rescuers in central Oregon continued to search Monday for two people who are presumed dead two days after going missing in a fatal waterfall accident, authorities said. The accident happened Saturday afternoon when a group was swept over Dillon Falls on the Deschutes River, about 10 miles from Bend. One person died at the scene […]
The head of a violent Ecuadorian gang accused of smuggling cocaine and firearms between South America and the U.S. pleaded not guilty to drug and gun charges Monday in New York. Jos茅 Adolfo Mac铆as Villamar, whose nickname is 鈥淔ito,鈥� appeared in federal court in Brooklyn a day after Ecuador extradited him to the U.S. A […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) 鈥� Jimmy Buffett 鈥檚 widow has accused her late husband鈥檚 financial adviser of failing to administer the singer鈥檚 multimillion-dollar trust in good faith and ignoring what she believed were her best interests for the $275 million estate. Jane Buffett on Monday asked a judge in West Palm Beach, Florida, to stop […]
A Minnesota state senator convicted of burglary for breaking into her estranged stepmother鈥檚 house plans to resign by early August, her lawyer said Monday. Democratic state Sen. Nicole Mitchell has faced calls from fellow Minnesota lawmakers for her immediate resignation since her conviction on Friday. The jury deliberated for three hours before finding her guilty […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) 鈥� A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 deadly Breonna Taylor raid, declining a U.S. Department of Justice recommendation that he be given no prison time. Brett Hankison, who fired 10 shots during the raid […]
The death of an unarmed 52-year-old man who died after an Alabama police officer kneeled on his neck was ruled a homicide by a county coroner, according to an official autopsy reviewed by The Associated Press. The finding led lawyers representing Phillip Reeder’s family on Monday to compare his death to that of George Floyd […]
President Donald Trump鈥檚 social media posts calling for the NFL鈥檚 Washington Commanders and Major League Baseball鈥檚 Cleveland Guardians to revert to their old names has revived the conversation about Native American imagery in sports. Each team has indicated it has no plans to go back to names that were abandoned years ago in the aftermath […]
