BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) 鈥� Three current or former Louisiana police chiefs were arrested following a federal investigation into an alleged scheme that involved false police reports being sold to immigrants lacking permanent legal status and used to try to secure a visa, authorities said Tuesday. The forged police reports would indicate that the immigrant […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 鈥� At least two people have been wrongly charged under a Florida law that outlaws people living in the U.S. illegally from entering the state since a federal judge halted its enforcement, according to a report Florida’s attorney general is required to file as punishment for defying the judge’s ruling. Both men […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) 鈥� An item in Republicans’ sweeping policy and tax bill intended to block Medicaid dollars from flowing to Planned Parenthood, the nation鈥檚 biggest abortion provider, is also hitting a major medical provider in Maine. Maine Family Planning filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday seeking to restore the reimbursements. Accessing health […]
President Donald Trump will welcome Bahrain Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa to the White House on Wednesday. It鈥檚 the latest example of how the president has courted Arab leaders from the Gulf, where Trump recently visited. The United States and Bahrain have signed an agreement that will pave the way for the two […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration’s handling of much-hyped records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, which Trump now calls a 鈥淗oax.鈥� 鈥淭heir new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, […]
A $8 billion-dollar class action investors鈥� lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders 鈥� current and former 鈥� begins Wednesday, with claims stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm. Investors allege in their lawsuit that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users鈥� personal information would […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) 鈥� The trial for the Florida State University student accused of killing two people and wounding six others in a mass shooting on campus in April is set to go to trial this November. At a case management conference in a Tallahassee courthouse on Wednesday, Second Judicial Circuit Judge Lance Neff set […]
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump is not getting a British Open to the Turnberry course he owns in the near future, an issue the R&A’s new chief executive said Wednesday was more about transportation than politics. Turnberry is regarded as the most beautiful of the links on the Open rotation, set along […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� For decades, proponents of psychedelic drugs have come to Washington with a provocative message: Illegal, mind-altering substances like LSD and ecstasy should be approved for Americans grappling with depression, trauma and other hard-to-treat conditions. A presidential administration finally seems to agree. 鈥淭his line of therapeutics has tremendous advantage if given in a […]
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) 鈥� Near signs that warn of radioactive risk at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a half-dozen workers from the nuclear power company X-energy are making what appear to be gray billiard balls. Inside, they’re packed with thousands of tiny black spheres that each contain a speck of uranium enriched beyond what today鈥檚 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� U.S. wholesale inflation cooled last month, despite worries that President Donald Trump鈥檚 tariffs would push prices higher for goods before they reach consumers. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its producer price index 鈥� which tracks inflation before it hits consumers 鈥� was unchanged last month from May and up 2.3% from […]
Two Republican senators and a broad bipartisan coalition of funders and nonprofits prevented a 600% increase in taxes levied on the endowments of the largest private foundations as part of President Donald Trump鈥檚 the tax and spending legislation. Thanks to their support, when Trump signed the bill into law on July 4, taxes went up […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) 鈥� The U.S. Navy will construct two facilities for the repair and maintenance of Philippine military boats in a province facing the South China Sea, where confrontations between the Philippine and Chinese coast guards have flared. The U.S. Embassy said Wednesday the project that will take place at Oyster Bay and Quezon […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) 鈥� The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. The U.S. has already deported eight men to another African nation, South Sudan, after the Supreme Court […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� Shares in Asia traded mixed on Wednesday after an update on inflation pulled most U.S. stocks lower, though gains for Nvidia pushed the Nasdaq to another record. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 gained 0.6% to 39,895.84 as the U.S. dollar rose against the Japanese yen, trading near 149 yen. Investors are focused on the […]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) 鈥� Dozens of Native American radio stations across the country vital to tribal communities will be at risk of going off the air if Congress cuts more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to industry leaders. The U.S. Senate is set to vote this week on whether to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump says he has finally found a way to achieve his goal of removing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, accusing him of mismanaging the U.S. central bank鈥檚 $2.5 billion renovation project. The push comes after a monthslong campaign by Trump to try to rid himself of the politically independent central […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Two milestones revealed this week illustrate the diminishing power of broadcast television in the media world 鈥� one fueled by the habits of young people and the other by their elders. During June, viewers spent more time watching streaming services than they did for broadcast and cable television combined. That happened […]
Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday will head to the swing political turf of northeastern Pennsylvania to begin selling President Donald Trump鈥檚 sweeping budget-and-policy package in a working-class district that could see a ferocious congressional campaign next year. Vance, whose tiebreaking vote got the bill through the Senate, has promoted the bill鈥檚 passage as another […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) 鈥� The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday authorized continued reporting on attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen鈥檚 Houthi rebels, who have defied its previous demands to immediately halt all such attacks. The vote in the 15-member council was 12-0 with Russia, China and Algeria abstaining because of attacks against […]
A former U.S. Marine Corps reservist has been arrested and charged with attempted murder in connection with an attack at a Texas immigration detention center in which a police officer was shot in the neck, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Benjamin Hanil Song, 32, is the latest person charged in the Fourth of July assault in […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) 鈥� The United Kingdom, France and Germany have agreed to restore tough U.N. sanctions on Iran by the end of August if there has been no concrete progress on a nuclear deal, two European diplomats said Tuesday. The three countries’ ambassadors to the United Nations met Tuesday at Germany鈥檚 U.N. Mission to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� A trio of cryptocurrency bills that had been expected to pass the House this week stalled on Tuesday after a bloc of Republicans unexpectedly joined with Democrats to prevent the legislation from coming up for debate and votes. The procedural snafu brought the House鈥檚 so-called 鈥渃rypto week鈥� to a standstill 鈥� and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he plans to place tariffs of over 10% on smaller countries, including nations in Africa and the Caribbean. 鈥淲e鈥檒l probably set one tariff for all of them,鈥� Trump said, adding that it could be 鈥渁 little over 10% tariff鈥� on goods from at least 100 […]
