WASHINGTON (AP) — The top federal prosecutor in Seattle who was fired last week less than an hour after being sworn in sued over his termination Tuesday, teeing up a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s efforts to install its own picks in the powerful Justice Department posts. Roger Rogoff is the latest in a […]
MIAMI (AP) — A Mexican man who was struck and killed by a tractor trailer in Florida after running from federal immigration officers was vacationing in the U.S. and had a tourist visa, according to a Mexico official and a group assisting his wife. Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, 28, died July 14 after authorities said […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A two-armed space robot blasted off on a private salvage operation Tuesday afternoon to slap life-extending jetpacks on old satellites running low on fuel thousands of miles up. It’s the second satellite-saving mission to launch this month, all part of a growing, money-saving effort to keep old spacecraft running as […]
NEW YORK (AP) — An arson charge was lodged Tuesday against a former Army soldier accused of going to a federal building in Manhattan that houses immigration court proceedings and setting a sidewalk fire, igniting fireworks and firing a pellet gun. Andrew Arrabaca, 43, was charged in Manhattan federal court a day after the attack […]
CHICAGO (AP) — An active-duty soldier who was hit by a stray bullet during a shooting outside the White House announced on Tuesday that he plans to sue the Secret Service over his life-threatening injuries. Pfc. Benjamin Del Real Jr., 25, was visiting the capital on May 23 and hoping to snap pictures with his […]
TROY, Mich. (AP) — The safety manager at a suburban Detroit specialty clinic pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was inside an oxygen chamber that exploded. The agreement with Jeffrey Mosteller calls for a minimum prison sentence of 19 months, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A chaotic Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor that has seen numerous candidates drop out and re-enter the race has threatened to leave thousands of voters who have already returned their ballots with worthless votes for the state’s top office. That possibility prompted the state Democratic Party on Tuesday to make a […]
MIAMI (AP) — A Cuba-bound cargo plane carrying food and hygiene kits left Miami on Tuesday under U.S. efforts to give direct assistance to the island’s residents while continuing to pressure their government. The flight carrying 700 packages is meant to bypass the Cuban government, with the items distributed directly to the Cuban people by […]
Bison that appear to be grazing peacefully are able to accelerate into a terrifying pace, making them among the most dangerous animals in Yellowstone, where one of the giant bovines recently charged at and tossed a grandfather. Carl McDaniel, 65, suffered multiple bone fractures in the July 10 attack at the national park but lived […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans will aim to head-off a potential government shutdown before this fall’s critical midterm elections with a vote Tuesday to fund the federal government through Dec. 4. The deadline for action is more than two months away, but House GOP leaders are not leaving to chance that a possible shutdown sours […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has reached back to the Great Depression for an obscure trade weapon he can use to wallop Canada again. Trump on Monday announced 50% tariffs on some Canadian products, ratcheting up tensions with one of the closest U.S. allies. The move threatens to push prices higher at a time […]
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it was deferring more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to Minnesota and California because of “suspected fraud and noncompliance,” the latest in a series of punitive steps it has linked to allegations of fraud in mostly Democratic-led states. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the new actions […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are preparing to grill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Tuesday over the U.S. war against Iran, as Republicans push a $95 billion budget package to fund the military, along with aid to farmers and voting law changes that are top White House priorities. Hegseth, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs […]
About 6,600 people who indicated they were noncitizens while obtaining New Jersey driver’s licenses and other state IDs were improperly registered to vote in 2023 and 2024, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said on Tuesday. The Democratic governor, who took office this year, blamed a Motor Vehicle Commission system software error but said a preliminary analysis showed […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The bagel in America is an immigrant story with a hole in the middle. It came to America with Eastern European Jews escaping poverty and antisemitism. It landed in New York street carts and neighborhood bakeries. Later, it made its way to supermarket freezer aisles and into the breakfast order of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld White House adviser Peter Navarro’s convictions for defying a subpoena for records from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters. Navarro couldn’t prove Trump had shielded him from the subpoena’s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has informed Congress that it plans to move ahead with the potential reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Libya, proposing to allocate nearly $41 million to restore America’s formal diplomatic presence in the North African nation after a near 14-year absence. The department told lawmakers on Monday that the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest-paid roles at those companies? The Trump administration is making it harder for the public to know, moving to toss aside a […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals panel has reversed a lower court decision ordering the release of pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, opening the door to the re-arrest of a student protest organizer whom the Trump administration has spent more than a year trying to deport. Tuesday’s ruling from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates and the staff of his charitable foundation met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than two dozen times even as employees expressed concerns about the reputational risk of working with him, an external review commissioned by the Gates Foundation found. The conversations appeared to focus on a public […]
ESPN is undergoing a significant round of layoffs for the first time in three years after taking over NFL Network in April. Chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in a memo to employees Tuesday morning, obtained by The Associated Press, that most moves are the result of ESPN’s acquisition of NFL Network and other league digital assets […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The progressive movement may already have hit its high point in the 2026 midterms. Or this may be the beginning of a much more powerful shift as voters, eager for change, decide to embrace far-left populism on a national scale. It depends upon who you ask within a Democratic Party that […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — One is a tech-savvy drone innovator with no military experience who became Ukraine’s youngest defense minister six months ago and was credited with contributing to successes in defending against Russia’s 4-year-old invasion. The other is a seasoned, Soviet-trained general more at home with traditional top-down command culture who led Ukraine’s armed […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History pushed back on Tuesday against a recent White House report that branded the institution’s leadership as radical activists who cannot be trusted. “As we continue to fact check the report, we unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the […]
