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 […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� Apple shook off a thicket of tariffs and a botched entry into artificial intelligence to accelerate its revenue growth during its springtime quarter, but the trendsetting tech company still faces a bumpy road ahead that could lead to higher iPhone prices. The April-June results released Thursday came against a backdrop of […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� A researcher at Texas A&M University flying home from abroad was detained for more than a week by immigration authorities at the San Francisco International Airport, sleeping in a chair and living off food sold in the airport, his family and attorneys said Thursday. It was unclear why Tae Heung 鈥淲ill鈥� […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Jeffrey Clark, the former Justice Department official who aided President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, should be stripped of his law license, a Washington disciplinary panel ruled on Thursday. Clark, who is now overseeing a federal regulatory office, played a key role in Trump’s efforts to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Numerous countries around the world are facing the prospect of much higher duties on their exports to the United States on Friday, a potential blow to the global economy, because they haven’t yet reached a trade deal with the Trump administration. Some of the United States’ biggest trading partners have reached agreements, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The agency responsible for carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda says it has already made tentative job offers to more than 1,000 people as it ramps up hiring following the passage of legislation earlier this month giving the agency a massive infusion of cash. The agency’s spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin, said […]
Sean 鈥淒iddy鈥� Combs has asked a judge to throw out his guilty verdicts on prostitution-related counts or grant him a new trial, saying such convictions are without precedent. 鈥淭his conviction stands alone, but it shouldn’t stand at all,” the Wednesday filing said. Combs’ lawyers argue that his two felony convictions were a unique misapplication of […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Police lined the streets of New York City to pay their respects to fellow officer Didarul Islam, who was among the four victims of a gunman鈥檚 rampage Monday at a Manhattan office tower. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
In 2020, a disgruntled litigant posing as a deliveryman opened fire at the New Jersey home of District Judge Esther Salas, killing her 20-year-old son Daniel Anderl. Five years later, as President Donald Trump steps up hiscriticism of federal judges who have blocked some of his agenda, dozens of judges have had unsolicited pizzas delivered […]
DANVILLE, Va. (AP) 鈥� Police say a man who doused a Virginia city councilman in gasoline and set him on fire told investigators he wanted the attack to be fatal, according to charging documents available Thursday. Officials say the motive appears personal and unrelated to Lee Vogler鈥檚 work as a public official. After Wednesday’s attack, […]
A Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam that was hit by serious turbulence Wednesday, sending 25 people on board to hospitals and forcing the flight to divert to Minnesota, highlighted the dangers of flying through unstable air. Several turbulence-impacted flights have been reported this year. While turbulence-related fatalities are quite rare, […]
