PHOENIX (AP) 鈥� Democrats are latching on to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, demanding records be released and trolling Republicans on social media, news shows and in the U.S. House as they revel in a rare fissure between President Donald Trump and his fiercely loyal base. Conspiracy theories over Epstein’s death in prison and potential evidence […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) 鈥� U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has moved to detain far more people than before by tapping a legal authority to jail anyone who entered the country illegally without allowing them a bond hearing. Todd Lyons, ICE’s acting director, wrote employees on July 8 that the agency was revisiting its 鈥渆xtraordinarily broad […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A carriage driver went on trial Tuesday over a horse’s collapse on a Manhattan street, in a criminal case that encapsulates years of modern-day strife over an old-timey tourist attraction. Prosecutors say Ian McKeever relentlessly kept driving the horse, Ryder, on an 84-degree (29-degree Celsius) day in August 2022, despite signs […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� An American Idol music supervisor and husband were both found dead in their Los Angeles home Monday afternoon. Officers were conducting a welfare check at a home in the Encino neighborhood when they found the bodies of a man and woman with gunshot wounds. An American Idol spokesperson confirmed the deaths […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� The Trump administration said Tuesday it is ending the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles. Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced the decision in a statement. Roughly 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines had been deployed. It wasn鈥檛 immediately clear how long the rest would stay in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Views of China and its leader, Xi Jinping, have improved in many countries worldwide, while those of the U.S. and President Donald Trump have deteriorated, according to a new survey of about two dozen countries by the Pew Research Center. Released Tuesday, the survey shows that international views of the two superpowers […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� House Republicans on Tuesday grilled the leaders of Georgetown University, the City University of New York and the University of California, Berkeley in the latest hearing on antisemitism in higher education, accusing the schools of failing to respond adequately to allegations of bias or discrimination. In their appearance before the House Committee […]
RESTON, Va. (AP) 鈥� Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced on Tuesday that Google will partner with his administration to provide free and low-cost artificial intelligence certification courses to Virginians as part of his office鈥檚 ongoing effort to connect citizens to new jobs amid changes to the state鈥檚 economy. The partnership, which he has described as […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed the possibility of sending Ukraine long-range weapons as Kyiv awaits an injection of U.S. weaponry that it hopes will help it beat back an intensifying Russian air offensive. Trump offered a more cautious tone on what to expect after he threatened Russia a day earlier with […]
BEAVER, Pa. (AP) 鈥� An off-duty police officer who struck a bystander in the chest and knocked him to the ground as the man tried to give police information about a shooting outside in Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the man鈥檚 death. John J. Hawk, 38, was sentenced Tuesday to five years […]
The federal agency responsible for enforcing laws against workplace discrimination will allow some complaints filed by transgender workers to move forward, shifting course from earlier guidance that indefinitely stalled all such cases, according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. The email was sent earlier this month to leaders of the U.S. Equal Employment […]
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) 鈥� Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested Tuesday that she has no plans to step down as she dodged questions about Jeffrey Epstein and her clash with a top FBI official, seeking to press ahead with a business-as-usual approach in the face of right-wing outrage that has plunged the Justice Department into turmoil. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump has gotten almost everything he has wanted from the Supreme Court that he reshaped during his first. The justices, three of whom were appointed by Trump, have cleared the way for stripping legal protections from more than 1 million immigrants, firing thousands of […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) 鈥� A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s decision to restrict abortion pill sales in West Virginia. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, affirmed a ruling by a U.S. district judge in 2023 despite federal regulators鈥� approval of the abortion pill […]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) 鈥� The National Park Service is defending its handling of a lightning-sparked wildfire that destroyed the nearly century-old Grand Canyon Lodge and dozens of historic cabins, saying containment lines had been built around the blaze and crews were prepared to conduct defensive firing operations. But then came a sudden […]
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) 鈥� Gabriel House had seen better days. The 100-unit assisted-living facility that burned Sunday night, killing nine people so far, opened in 1999. Some photos on its Facebook page show neat rooms but older-looking carpeting and furniture. Her granddaughter didn’t like the assisted-living center, but 86-year-old Eleanor Willett wanted something that […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is pushing Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional maps to create more House seats favorable to his party, part of a broader effort to help the GOP retain control of the chamber in next year鈥檚 midterm elections. The president鈥檚 directive signals part of the […]
An independent autopsy determined that a teenager who was killed by an Alabama police officer last month was shot in the back, attorneys for his family said Tuesday. Authorities have not released police body camera video of the June 23 encounter or disclosed the name of the officer who shot 18-year-old Jabari Peoples in the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Seventeen immigration court judges have been fired in recent days, according to the union that represents them, as the Trump administration pushes forward with its mass deportations of immigrants in the country. The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, which represents immigration court judges as well as other professionals, said in […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) 鈥� A federal grand jury indicted a Minnesota man Tuesday on charges that he fatally shot a prominent Minnesota state representative and her husband and seriously wounded a state senator and his wife while he was allegedly disguised as a police officer. The indictment handed up lists murder, stalking and firearms charges against […]
HAVERHILL, Mass. (AP) 鈥� Seven officers in the Boston suburb of Haverhill are on paid leave after a handcuffed 43-year-old man became unresponsive and died as police tried to restrain him outside a fish market. Officials are seeking video and photos from the public as they investigate the death Friday of Francis Gigliotti. who had […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The University of Michigan is under federal scrutiny after two Chinese scientists linked to the school were separately charged with smuggling biological materials into the United States. The Education Department on Tuesday opened an investigation into the university鈥檚 foreign funding, citing the pair of cases that were announced days apart in June. […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) 鈥� The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida is seeking to join a federal lawsuit aimed at halting the construction and operation of a new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, which tribal members consider their sacred ancestral homelands. Miccosukee leaders had already condemned the makeshift compound of trailers and tents that […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Tuesday’s special election for the Ward 8 seat on the D.C. Council will determine whether the council will turn the page on an awkward and embarrassing chapter or remain locked in an uncomfortable dynamic with a political figure whose popularity has rendered him almost impervious to scandal. Trayon White, the former Ward […]
