The Trump administration is canceling plans to use large areas of federal waters for new offshore wind development, the latest step to suppress the industry in the United States. More than 3.5 million acres had been designated wind energy areas, the offshore locations deemed most suitable for wind energy development. The Bureau of Ocean Energy […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Former Vice President Kamala Harris will have a memoir out in September on her historic presidential run. The book is called 鈥�107 Days,鈥� the length of her abbreviated campaign, and will be published by Simon & Schuster on Sept. 23. 鈥淛ust over a year ago, I launched my campaign for President […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Federal Reserve鈥檚 preferred inflation gauge ticked higher last month in a sign that President Donald Trump鈥檚 broad-based tariffs are starting to lift prices for many goods. Prices rose 2.6% in June compared with a year ago, the Commerce Department said Thursday, up from an annual pace of 2.4% in May. Excluding […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump said Canada’s announcement it will recognize a Palestinian state 鈥渨ill make it very hard鈥� for the U.S. to reach a trade agreement with its northern neighbor. Trump’s threat, posted in the early hours Thursday on his social media network, is the latest way he has sought to use his […]
LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) 鈥� A pilot was safe after an F-35C fighter jet crashed near a central California naval installation on Wednesday, officials said. Authorities received a report that a military jet had crashed and was engulfed in flames around 6:40 p.m., the Fresno County Sheriff鈥檚 Office said in a social media post. Responding deputies, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face 鈥渁 great deal鈥� or 鈥渜uite a bit鈥� of discrimination in the United States, according to a new poll. That’s a decline from the solid majority, 60%, who thought Black Americans faced high levels of discrimination in the spring of 2021, […]
FLINT, Mich. (AP) 鈥� A procession of mothers wearing red sashes, pushing strollers and tending to toddlers made their way Friday to a little festival in Flint, Michigan, where families received diapers and kids played. It was called a 鈥渂aby parade.鈥� The sashes indicated the women were participants of a growing program in Michigan that […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Imagine getting the day off work for Donald Trump’s birthday. Receiving a $100 bill with Trump’s portrait on it. Touching down at Donald J. Trump International Airport near the nation’s capital. And taking in a show at the Donald J. Trump Center for Performing Arts. All would be possible under a flurry […]
For most Jewish Americans, whatever their political persuasion, support for Israel has been a bedrock principle. Thus it鈥檚 notable that a broad swath of U.S. Jews 鈥� reacting to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza 鈥� have been urging the Israeli government to do more to ensure the delivery of food and medicine. There is no […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) 鈥� The United States and Pakistan reached a trade agreement expected to allow Washington to help develop Pakistan鈥檚 largely untapped oil reserves and lower tariffs for the South Asian country, officials from both nations said Thursday. Officials did not specify where the exploration would take place, but most of Pakistan鈥檚 reserves are believed […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) 鈥� Arkansas police charged a 28-year-old school teacher in the killing of a married couple who were hiking with their children at Devil鈥檚 Den State Park, finding him in a nearby city after a five-day search and public pleas for trailgoers to look through their photos. State Police arrested Andrew James […]
A flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam was hit by serious turbulence Wednesday night, injuring passengers and forcing the flight to divert to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, according to Delta. The airline said that medical staff met the flight and 25 passengers were taken to local hospitals for evaluation and treatment. Serious injuries from […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) 鈥� Asian shares were mixed on Thursday after most U.S. stocks slipped, as doubts rose on Wall Street about whether the Federal Reserve will deliver economy-juicing cuts to interest rates by September. Japan鈥檚 Nikkei 225 rose 0.9% to 41,020.91 after the Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady at 0.5% and raised […]
STARKE, Fla. (AP) 鈥� A man convicted of the 1994 machete killings of his wife and two children was set to be put to death Thursday evening in what would be a record ninth execution in Florida this year and its highest single-year total since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976. Edward […]
The National Transportation Safety Board enters a second day of public hearings Thursday on the January midair collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger plane that killed all 67 people aboard the aircrafts. The focus will be on air traffic control. On the first day, investigators highlighted a number of factors that […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A New York City police officer who was among the four people shot and killed by a gunman during a rampage at a Manhattan office tower will be laid to rest Thursday. Officer Didarul Islam, 36, was fatally shot Monday in a midtown building that houses the National Football League鈥檚 headquarters. […]
HONOLULU (AP) 鈥� David Sun-Miyashiro was at home on the 31st floor of a Honolulu apartment building, high above danger, when his phone alerted him to a possible tsunami from a massive earthquake far across the Pacific Ocean. With plenty of time to spare before any surging waters might possibly reach Hawaii, he did something […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) 鈥� In a period when retail beef prices are at an all-time high and consumers are still willing to pay, South Dakota rancher Calli Williams would love to cash in. But it’s not so simple. Williams and her husband, Tate, raise about 70 cow-calf pairs near Letcher in southeastern South Dakota, roughly 18 […]
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) 鈥� Texas lawmakers will take their search for answers following the deadly July 4 floods to the heart of the devastation in Kerr County, where local officials were expected to face questions over their response to the disaster that swept away homes and campers along the Guadalupe River. The hearing Thursday is […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Senate rejected an effort Wednesday from Sen. Bernie Sanders to block the sale of U.S. bombs and firearms to Israel, though the vote showed a growing number of Democrats opposed to the arms sales amid widespread hunger and suffering in Gaza. Sanders, an independent from Vermont, has repeatedly tried to block […]
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� Georgia’s Ethics Commission says a political action committee linked to what federal investigators have called a Ponzi scheme illegally sought to influence elections. The complaint, filed Wednesday, says the spending came from the now-dissolved Georgia Republican Assembly PAC between 2021 and 2024. The committee was headed by Edwin Brant Frost V, the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Josh Hawley on Wednesday after the Republican’s proposal to ban stock trading by members of Congress 鈥� and the president and vice president 鈥� won bipartisan approval to advance in a committee vote. It鈥檚 the second time in as many days that Trump laid into […]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) 鈥� A New Mexico judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by actor Alec Baldwin for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the 2021 fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie 鈥淩ust.鈥� The judge in a ruling made public Wednesday dismissed the case without prejudice for […]
OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (AP) 鈥� The police officer arrested by immigration authorities in a Maine town was a trusted member of the force who is missed by his colleagues, officials said Wednesday, expressing frustration with the lack of information about the case from the federal government. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Old Orchard […]
