SENECA, S.C. (AP) 鈥� The first presidential primary votes won’t be cast for another two and a half years. And yet, over the span of 10 days in July, three Democratic presidential prospects are scheduled to campaign in South Carolina. Nearly a half dozen others have made recent pilgrimages to South Carolina, New Hampshire and […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) 鈥� The largest-ever warfighting drills in Australia, Exercise Talisman Sabre, is underway and expected to attract the attention of Chinese spy ships. Talisman Sabre began in 2005 as a biennial joint exercise between the United States and Australia. This year, more than 35,000 military personnel from 19 nations, including Canada, Fiji, France, […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) 鈥� Kentucky State Police say multiple people were injured in a shooting at a church and that the suspect is dead. A trooper was receiving medical attention after being shot, according to Gov. Andy Beshear.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) 鈥� A historic lodge on the Grand Canyon鈥檚 North Rim has been destroyed by a wildfire, the park confirmed Sunday. Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Ed Keeble told park residents and staff that the Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames. […]
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) 鈥� Emergency crews suspended their search for victims of catastrophic flooding in central Texas on Sunday morning amid new warnings that additional rain would again cause waterways to surge. It was the first time a new round of severe weather has paused the search since the flooding earlier this month. Ingram Fire […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Democrats and Republicans don鈥檛 agree on much, but they share a conviction that the government should help American manufacturers, one way or another. Democratic President Joe Biden handed out subsidies to chipmakers and electric vehicle manufacturers. Republican President Donald Trump is building a wall of import taxes 鈥� tariffs 鈥� around the […]
BRUSSELS (AP) 鈥� The EU will suspend retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods scheduled to take effect Monday in hopes of reaching a trade deal with the Trump administration by the end of the month. 鈥砊his is now the time for negotiations,鈥� European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels on Sunday, after […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Debate over President Donald Trump鈥檚 sweeping budget-and-policy package is over on Capitol Hill. Now the argument goes national. From the Central Valley of California to Midwestern battlegrounds and suburban districts of the northeast, the new law already is shaping the 2026 midterm battle for control of the House of Representatives. The outcome […]
PRAIRIE ISLAND INDIAN COMMUNITY, Minn. (AP) 鈥� Some Native Americans traditionally bestow bald eagle feathers at ceremonies to mark achievements, such as graduations, and as a form of reverence for the bird they hold sacred as a messenger to the Creator. This year, many are doing so with elevated pride and hope. The bald eagle […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump on Sunday will attend the FIFA Club World Cup final, a match that will offer Trump a preview of the globe鈥檚 premier soccer tournament that North America will host next year. Trump and first lady Melania Trump will travel from their golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to East […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump prides himself on being a dealmaker, but his negotiating style is more ultimatum than compromise. In the last week, Trump has slapped trading partnerswith tariffs rather than slog through prolonged talks to reach agreements. He ratcheted up the pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. And his […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� In many ways, the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign stop was a perfect storm of failings coming together that allowed 20-year-old Michael Thomas Crooks to climb on top of a nearby building and take eight shots at the once and future president. One attendee was killed, two others […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) 鈥� Ukraine’s security agency said Sunday it tracked down and killed Russian agents suspected of shooting one of its senior officers to death in the Ukrainian capital. The Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, said in a statement that the suspected Russian agents were killed in the Kyiv region after they offered […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth. Sotheby’s in New York will be auctioning what’s known as NWA 16788 on Wednesday as part of a natural history-themed sale that also includes […]
Millions of people receive a federal tax deduction for the interest they pay on home loans. Under President Donald Trump鈥檚 new tax-cut law, many people for the first time also could claim a tax deduction for interest on their vehicle loans. The new tax break will be available even to people who don’t itemize deductions. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Justice Department has fired additional lawyers and support staff who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutions of President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter. The overall number of terminations was not immediately clear but they cut across both the classified documents and election interference prosecutions brought […]
The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on the social media platform X that charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, of Midvale, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump says he is considering 鈥渢aking away鈥� the U.S. citizenship of a longtime rival, actress and comedian Rosie O鈥橠onnell, despite a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits such an action by the government. 鈥淏ecause of the fact that Rosie O鈥橠onnell is not in the best interests of our Great […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The United States’ long legal case against accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed remains in limbo after an appeals court this week scrapped a plea deal that the government had negotiated but had later withdrawn. Essentially, the ruling leaves the case on track for trial before a military commission. It […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) 鈥� Much of the Upper Midwest on Saturday was dealing with swaths of unhealthy air due to drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires, covering the northern region of the U.S. at a time when people want to be enjoying lakes, trails and the great outdoors. Most of Minnesota and parts of Montana, North […]
OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) 鈥� Florida lawmakers took a state-arranged tour of the new Everglades immigration detention center on Saturday after some were blocked earlier from viewing the remote facility that officials have dubbed 鈥� Alligator Alcatraz.” Democratic and Republican state legislators and members of Congress were heading into the facility Saturday morning. So many politicians […]
President Donald Trump He frequently speaks at largest deportation program in American history to protect law-abiding citizens from the violent threats he says they pose. But government data around ongoing detentions tells a different story. There has been an reports of raids across the country. Yet the majority of people currently detained by ICE have […]
Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths due partly to geography that can funnel rainwater into deadly deluges, according to a study spanning decades. From 1959 to 2019, 1,069 people died in Texas in flooding, which is nearly one-fifth […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump was on stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds earlier this month, kicking off the country’s 250th anniversary celebration, when he heard what sounded like fireworks in the distance. 鈥淒id I hear what I think I heard?鈥� Trump remarked as he spoke from behind a wall of thick, bulletproof glass. […]
