A New York businesswoman has pleaded guilty in connection with a financial scheme that ripped off more than $30 million from foreign investors and funneled some of the stolen money into U.S. political campaigns, including a 2017 fundraiser for President Donald Trump during his first term. Sherry Xue Li, 48, of Oyster Bay, pleaded guilty […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) 鈥� A Tennessee death row inmate can be executed without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, the state’s high court ruled on Thursday. The ruling overturns a lower court’s order and paves the way for Byron Black to be executed on Tuesday morning, as scheduled.
CHICAGO (AP) 鈥� U.S. Rep. Danny Davis announced Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year after 15 terms in office, making him the latest longtime Illinois Democrat to announce their retirement from Congress. Davis, 83, sits on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means. First elected in 1996, he represents a solidly Democratic […]
BEIRUT (AP) 鈥� The UN refugee agency’s representative in Lebanon said Thursday he hopes that at least 200,000 Syrian refugees return from Lebanon by the end of the year under a new government-backed return plan. Before former President Bashar Assad was ousted in a lightning insurgent offensive in December, only about 1% of the Syrian […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a 90-day negotiating period with Mexico after a call with its leader as 25% tariff rates stay in place.
The family of Virginia Giuffre, who was among Jeffrey Epstein鈥檚 most well-known sex trafficking accusers, said that it was shocking to hear President Donald Trump say the disgraced financier 鈥渟tole鈥� Giuffre from him and urged that Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell remain in prison. Giuffre, who had accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump on Thursday plans to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren. The program, which was created in 1966, had children run and perform situps, pullups or pushups and a sit-and-reach test. It changed in 2012 during the Obama administration to focus more on individual health than athletic feats. […]
BRUSSELS (AP) 鈥� The European Union is working on the assumption that the United States will impose a 15% tariff on most EU exports from Friday, even though the two sides have yet to complete a key document clarifying how the agreement will operate. Last weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula […]
A key U.S. inflation gauge rose 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 on Thursday, up from an annual pace of 2.4% in May. Excluding the volatile food and […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) 鈥� Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is traveling next week on a trade mission to Israel, her first visit since her father Mike Huckabee was named U.S. ambassador there. Sanders, widely considered a potential Republican candidate for president in 2028, is also traveling to the United Arab Emirates on the trip, […]
The new agency vetting name, image and likeness deals in college sports reached an agreement Thursday that relaxes standards on player agreements with third-party collectives and avoids taking the issue back to court after years of legal wrangling. The College Sports Commission said it will now consider a third-party company that seeks to pay a […]
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 […]
