A federal judge will hear arguments Wednesday about whether a spending law passed in July that ended Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood can remain in effect while legal challenges continue. President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cut bill targets organizations that both provide abortions and receive more than $800,000 a year in Medicaid reimbursements. Planned […]
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly gained in cautious trading Wednesday after most U.S. stocks rose, settling back to where they were before last week’s swoon over the future of artificial intelligence. U.S. futures edged higher while oil prices declined. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 added 0.4% to finish at 51,063.31. SoftBank Group’s shares fell 3.5%, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — John F. Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg is running for the U.S. House next year, announcing Tuesday that he’s seeking a key New York seat set to be vacated by longtime Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler. “This district should have a representative who can harness the creativity, energy and drive of this district […]
A little more than a year ago, Ryan Sprankle welcomed President Donald Trump to one of the three grocery stores his family owns near Pittsburgh. Trump was on the campaign trail; they talked about high grocery prices, and the Republican nominee picked up a bag of popcorn. But these days, Sprankle would have a different […]
BAILEYVILLE, Maine (AP) — Setting the thermostat at 60 degrees used to be no problem for Gerard Berry, even during harsh Maine winters. Then he got sick with stomach cancer and struggled to stay warm as he lost weight. “I used to tell the kids, ‘Put a sweatshirt on.’ But when I got sick, I […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide to two New York governors is set to go on trial Wednesday on charges she sold her influence to the Chinese government and illegally profited from the state’s bulk purchase of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Linda Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, were arrested last year […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in a jail cell, waiting for psychiatric treatment a court ordered he undergo after he’d been arrested for stealing cigarettes and some fruit from a gas station. He died while waiting for the treatment that never arrived, found unresponsive in his […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The longest government shutdown in history is coming to an end, with almost no one happy with the final result. Democrats didn’t get the health insurance provisions they demanded added to the spending deal. And Republicans, who control the levers of power in Washington, didn’t escape blame, according to polls and some […]
BOSTON (AP) — When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do something that to spoke to its world of spies and secret codes. The result was a 10-foot-tall, S-shaped copper screen called “Kryptos” that resembles a piece of paper coming out of a fax machine. One side […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — All 20 personnel on board a military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia were killed, Turkey’s defense minister announced on Wednesday. The C-130 plane had taken off from Ganja, Azerbaijan and was on its way back to Turkey when it crashed on Tuesday in Georgia’s Sighnaghi municipality, close to the Azerbaijani […]
Many Americans who rely on SNAP benefits to help buy groceries are approaching their third week without aid after President Donald Trump’s administration cut off the program amid the federal government shutdown. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday opted not to order the government to fully fund a program that serves about 1 in 8 […]
Chess’s international governing body said Tuesday that it filed a complaint against former World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik after he leveled unproven allegations of cheating against fellow players, including Daniel Naroditsky, who died last month at age 29. The complaint centers on harassment and “the insulting of an individual’s dignity,” said the International Chess Federation, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer led his caucus, and the country, into a record-breaking government shutdown and voted against reopening when a small group of his members defected. But there are still calls for him to step aside from Democrats who think he should have fought harder. It’s a now-familiar position for […]
CAMILLA, Texas (AP) — Two teenagers drowned in a Texas river after their kayak overturned and the father of one of the boys who jumped in to try to save them remained missing, authorities said Tuesday. The two teenagers were close to a boat ramp near the town of Camilla and south of Lake Livingston […]
Former NFL star Antonio Brown was returning Tuesday to Miami to face an attempted murder charge stemming from a May shooting, with his lawyer filing a not guilty plea on his behalf. Jail records in Essex County, New Jersey, show Brown was released late Tuesday morning for the transfer to Florida. The former All-Pro wide […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump boasts that his tariffs protect American industries, lure factories to the United States, raise money for the federal government and give him diplomatic leverage. Now, he’s claiming they can finance a windfall for American families, too: He’s promising a generous tariff dividend. The president proposed the idea on his […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — British political commentator Sami Hamdi is going to voluntarily leave the U.S. after spending more than two weeks in immigration detention over what his supporters say was his criticism of Israel. The Trump administration has accused him of cheering on Hamas. Hamdi, who is Muslim, was on a speaking tour in the […]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom, the paper’s editor said Tuesday. Marion County was among multiple defendants in five federal lawsuits […]
The U.S. celebrates Veterans Day on Nov. 11 while Canada, Great Britain and some European nations mark Armistice Day and Remembrance Day to commemorate the peace agreement between Germany and the Allies that ended World War I. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
Winter weather in the U.S. frequently includes storms and steeply declining temperatures. Those drastic weather changes can come with high winds, sometimes strong enough to capsize a boat, or send a rogue tree branch flying. Such conditions can translate into safety risks for people who go outside and hazardous situations that make it more dangerous […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — As the Kansas City Chiefs weigh whether to play future games in a renovated Arrowhead Stadium or a proposed dome in Kansas, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Tuesday floated a potential mixture of the two concepts aimed at keeping the team in his state. Kehoe, who has been in regular […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In Southern California, where police pursuits are common, this was one for the books. A suspect in an allegedly stolen minivan on Monday led authorities on a two-hour, 170-mile (274-kilometer) chase through four counties that ended with her escaping into Mexico, officials said. It began around 11 a.m. when deputies responded […]
LEBANON, Ind. (AP) — A decision on whether to file charges against an Indiana homeowner suspected of killing of a Guatemalan house cleaner after she mistakenly went to the wrong address may not come for days, prosecutors say. Investigators turned over their findings in Maria Florinda Rios Perez De Velasquez’s death to Boone County Prosecutor […]
A Virginia transportation security officer is accusing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of sex discrimination over a policy that bars transgender officers from performing security screening pat-downs, according to a federal lawsuit. The Transportation Security Administration, which operates under DHS, enacted the policy in February to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring […]
