DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) 鈥� Iowa鈥檚 attorney general on Friday said she will withdraw her lawsuit accusing a sheriff of discouraging compliance with federal immigration law, ending a monthslong public dispute between the two Republicans days after the sheriff’s northeast Iowa constituents rallied in his defense. Attorney General Brenna Bird sued Winneshiek County Dan Marx […]
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� The family of a homeless man who died after a bulldozer crushed his tent during an encampment sweep sued the city of Atlanta on Friday over his death, calling it 鈥渢ragic and preventable.鈥� The lawsuit filed by Cornelius Taylor鈥檚 sister and son alleges that city employees failed to look to see if […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A federal judge on Friday modified part of a previous ruling that blocked much of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to overhaul elections in the U.S. The minor change affects just one aspect of a preliminary injunction that U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper granted on June 13 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Justice Department asked a federal court on Friday to unseal grand jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein鈥檚 case amid a firestorm over the Trump administration鈥檚 handling of records related to the wealthy financier. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche filed a motion urging the court to release the transcripts a day after President […]
CBS says its decision to end Stephen Colbert鈥檚 late-night comedy show is financial, not political. Yet even with the ample skepticism about that explanation, there’s no denying the economics were not working in Colbert’s favor. The network鈥檚 bombshell announcement late Thursday that the 鈥淟ate Show鈥� will end next May takes away President Donald Trump鈥檚 most […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� A lawyer for the maker of the video game Call of Duty argued Friday that a judge should dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the Robb Elementary School attack in Uvalde, Texas, saying the contents of the war game are protected by the First Amendment. The families […]
A Minnesota state senator was convicted of burglary Friday for breaking into her estranged stepmother鈥檚 home, allegedly in search of her father鈥檚 ashes and other mementos. The jury found Nicole Mitchell, 51, guilty of first-degree burglary and possession of burglary tools. The Democrat from the St. Paul suburb of Woodbury has maintained her innocence and […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A New York City man who stabbed two teenage tourists from Paraguay at Grand Central Terminal on Christmas Day 2023 was sentenced Friday to more than 26 years in prison. Esteban Esono-Asue, 38, also known as Steven Hutcherson, appeared for sentencing in state court in Manhattan, where a jury convicted him […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) 鈥� The owner of a factory where six workers died last year in flooding from Hurricane Helene won’t face charges after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation found no criminal wrongdoing. First Judicial District Attorney General Steven Finney announced the decision to close the case on Friday, saying no further action will be […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) 鈥� Venezuela released 10 jailed Americans Friday in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The resolution represents a diplomatic achievement for Venezuelan President Nicol谩s Maduro, helps President Donald Trump in his goal of bringing home […]
WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) 鈥� A man was hospitalized in New York after he was pulled into an MRI machine because he walked into the exam room wearing a large chain necklace, police said. The man, 61, had entered an MRI room while a scan was underway Wednesday afternoon at Nassau Open MRI. The machine’s strong […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A former chief executive of two clothing technology companies who was once portrayed as an on-the-rise fashion entrepreneur has surrendered to face charges in an indictment unsealed Friday alleging that she cheated investors of over $300 million over the last six years. Christine Hunsicker, 48, of Lafayette, New Jersey, was charged […]
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) 鈥� A regional airline flight heading to Detroit had to make an emergency landing in eastern Iowa after a passenger fought with a flight attendant and tried to open an exit door midair, according to the pilot’s communication with air traffic controllers. The pilot of the SkyWest Airlines Flight 3612 contacted […]
The 鈥� Good Trouble Lives On 鈥� national day of action took place around the United States to protest President Donald Trump鈥檚 controversial policies such as mass deportations and Medicaid cuts. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) 鈥� A Virginia man pleaded guilty Friday in a federal case that accused him of stockpiling the largest number of finished explosives in FBI history and of using then-President Joe Biden鈥檚 photo for target practice. Brad Spafford pleaded guilty in federal court in Norfolk to possession of an unregistered short barrel rifle […]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) 鈥� A speeding stolen car smashed into a bus on an interstate in San Antonio on Thursday, causing a multi-vehicle crash that left four people dead and more than a dozen injured, police said. Two people traveling on the bus were pronounced dead at the scene on Interstate 35 and two died […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Under intense pressure from President Donald Trump’s own supporters, his administration now says it will push a court to unseal secret documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case in an effort to put to rest for good a political crisis largely of its own making. But even if those records become public, it’s […]
More than a dozen people protesting the detainment of a Muslim chaplain were arrested Thursday night in Cincinnati. Video from the demonstration shows some protesters blocking the Roebling Bridge that carries traffic between Ohio and Kentucky, as well as one officer punching a protester while others wrestle him to the ground. At least 13 people […]
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) 鈥� The final detainee who escaped in June from a New Jersey federal immigration detention center has been found in California. Andres Felipe Pineda Mogollon, originally from Colombia, was arrested following a traffic stop in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake, the FBI’s Los Angeles division said in a social media […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship for the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally will remain blocked as an order from one judge went into effect Friday and another seemed inclined to follow suit. U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante in New Hampshire had paused his own decision […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥� Attorneys for Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide argued in federal court Friday that cutting off Medicaid funding to its abortion providers would hurt vulnerable patients who already have limited health care options. Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates in Massachusetts and Utah are fighting to block part of President Donald Trump’s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Education Department will release some previously withheld grant money for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a letter imploring the Office of Management and Budget to allow the funds to be sent to states. President Donald Trump鈥檚 administration on July 1 withheld more than $6 billion in federal grants […]
DARIEN, Ga. (AP) 鈥� Black landowners from a tiny island community returned to a Georgia courtroom Friday urging a judge to let them move forward with a lawsuit that accuses local officials of illegally weakening protections for one of the South鈥檚 last Gullah-Geechee communities founded by freed slaves. Residents and landowners of Hogg Hummock on […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) 鈥� Authorities in Maine said Friday they have charged a 17-year-old with murder in the death of a paddleboarder who went missing on a rural pond. The body of Sunshine Stewart, 48, of Tenants Harbor, was found this month on Crawford Pond in Union, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Portland. […]
