MOSCOW (AP) 鈥 Russia鈥檚 space chief has visited the United States to discuss plans for continued cooperation between Moscow and Washington on the International Space Station and lunar research with NASA鈥檚 acting chief, the first such face-to-face meeting in more than seven years. Dmitry Bakanov, the director of the state space corporation Roscosmos, met Thursday […]
MOUNT AIRY, Md. (AP) 鈥 A 13-year-old boy died after he was trapped in a storm drain in Maryland during heavy rainfall and flooding on the East Coast, officials said. Kids were playing in the rain Thursday in a common area between apartment buildings in Mount Airy, a town of about 10,000 people about 30 […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday placing tariffs on many U.S. trade partners 鈥 the next step in his trade agenda that will test the global economy and alliances. They are set to go into effect in seven days, and not the Friday deadline that the president initially set. The extension reflects the […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Democrats are launching a nationwide summer blitz designed to force vulnerable Republicans to defend President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill 鈥 especially Medicaid cuts that will leave millions of Americans without health care coverage. Republican leaders in Washington, meanwhile, have encouraged their members to promote more popular […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥 A federal appeals court has upheld a jury verdict condemning Google’s Android app store as an illegal monopoly, clearing the way for a federal judge to enforce a potentially disruptive shakeup that’s designed to give consumers more choices. The unanimous ruling issued Thursday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivers […]
BRUSSELS (AP) 鈥 President Donald Trump’s administration says it is weighing what to do with family planning supplies stockpiled in Europe that campaigners and two U.S. senators are fighting to save from destruction. Concerns that the Trump administration plans to incinerate the stockpile have angered family planning advocates on both sides of the Atlantic. Campaigners […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 President Donald Trump on Friday called for the Federal Reserve’s board of governors to usurp the power of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, criticizing the head of the U.S. central bank for not cutting short-term interest rates. Posting on his Truth Social platform, Trump called Powell 鈥渟tubborn.” The Fed chair has been subjected […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥 U.S. President Donald Trump鈥檚 new tariff rates of up to 41% on U.S. imports from dozens of countries drew expressions of relief Friday from some countries that negotiated a deal or managed to whittle them down from rates announced in April. Others expressed disappointment or frustration over running out of time after […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Prosecutors are urging a judge to reject this week’s renewed request for bail for hip-hop mogul Sean 鈥淒iddy鈥 Combs, saying nothing has changed since his conviction last month on prostitution-related charges to warrant a fresh look. They also said their initial calculations that federal sentencing guidelines would call for a prison […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 U.S. President Donald Trump has raised the tariff rate on U.S. imports from Canada to 35% from 25%, effective Friday. The announcement from the White House late Thursday said Canada had failed to 鈥渄o more to arrest, seize, traffickers, criminals at large, and illicit drugs.鈥 Trump earlier had threatened to impose the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) 鈥 Asian shares retreated Friday following choppy trading on Wall Street that saw more losses as investors assess President Donald Trump’s order imposing new tariffs on 68 countries and the European Union starting in seven days. Trump鈥檚 order, which pushed back the tariff deadline earlier set on Aug. 1, has injected a […]
U.S. trade partners reacted Friday to President Donald Trump’s executive order that would introduce new tariffs on many of them in seven days, as the global economy and alliances face another test from the president’s trade agenda. Trump’s order issued Thursday night came after a flurry of tariff-related activity in recent days as the White […]
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) 鈥 Former Nike CEO John Donahoe has been hired as athletic director at Stanford. A person familiar with the decision said Donahoe will become the school’s eighth athletic director and replace Bernard Muir, who stepped down this year. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the hiring hadn鈥檛 been announced. ESPN […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) 鈥 A teacher who authorities say admitted to fatally stabbing a couple he didn鈥檛 know who were hiking with two of their children in an Arkansas state park is expected to have his first court appearance Friday. Andrew James McGann, 28, has been charged with two counts of capital murder in […]
The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday enters its third and final day of public testimony over the fatal midair crash between an Army helicopter and commercial jet in January. Two previous days of testimony underscored a number of factors that likely contributed to the collision that left all 67 people aboard both aircrafts dead, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 For weeks, President Donald Trump was promising the world economy would change on Friday with his new tariffs in place. It was an ironclad deadline, administration officials assured the public. But when Trump signed the order Thursday night imposing new tariffs on 68 countries and the European Union, the start date of […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥 A federal judge in California extended on Thursday protected status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia that was ended by the Trump administration. The order affects about 7,000 people from Nepal along with 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans. The order came as the people from Nepal鈥檚 protection was set […]
HOUSTON (AP) 鈥 The brother of an Afghan refugee who helped U.S. forces defuse bombs during the war in Afghanistan expressed frustration Thursday that it took more than three months for the Texas man accused of fatally shooting his sibling over a parking dispute to be indicted in the case. When Abdul Rahman Waziri, 31, […]
DENVER (AP) 鈥 Two Colorado deputies have been disciplined for violating state law by helping federal agents make immigration arrests, and their sheriff says officers from other agencies have done the same. One of the deputies, Alexander Zwinck, was sued by Colorado’s attorney general last week, after his cooperation with federal immigration agents on a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) 鈥 Two wildfires burning in the western United States 鈥 including one that has become a 鈥渕egafire鈥 on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon 鈥 are so hot that they鈥檙e spurring the formation of 鈥渇ire clouds鈥 that can create their own erratic weather systems. In Arizona, the wind-whipped wildfire that […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 After months of uncertainty, the race to become California’s next governor started Thursday. Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision Wednesday to bypass the 2026 contest pushed the campaign into a new phase, lacking its biggest potential star and the presumptive early favorite. Harris’ formal exit opens the door for additional candidates […]
CHICAGO (AP) 鈥 A Peruvian survivor of clergy sex abuse brought her public campaign for reforms to the American hometown of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, saying he failed in investigating her case when he was a bishop in her home country and needs to step up now as leader of the world鈥檚 Catholics. 鈥淚鈥檝e […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) 鈥 A federal immigration judge in Miami ordered on Thursday that wealthy Haitian businessman and one-time presidential hopeful Pierre R茅ginald Boulos remain in custody in the United States, where he is held over accusations of supporting violent gangs in Haiti. Boulos was arrested at his home in South Florida earlier […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥 A federal court on Thursday denied a request by attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over his death sentence. The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the argument made by Tsarnaev鈥檚 lawyers that U.S. District Court Judge George O鈥橳oole should be […]