NEW YORK (AP) — The pain Americans are facing at airports across the country is expected to get worse this week if Congress is unable to reach a deal to reopen the federal government. U.S. airlines canceled more than 1,500 flights Saturday and more than 2,900 Sunday to comply with an FAA order to reduce […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares advanced on Monday, lifted by technology shares as they rebounded from last week’s jitters over the run up in stocks related to artificial intelligence. South Korea’s Kospi led the gains, jumping 3.5%. Computer chip maker SK Hynix, which is cooperating with Nvidia on artificial intelligence, surged 5.5%. Its bigger rival, […]
NASHVILLE (AP) — Richard Casper shakes his head as he touches one of the boarded-up windows in the once-abandoned church he plans to transform into a new 24-hour arts center for veterans. The U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Purple Heart recipient said he was an arm’s length away from military officials, including Defense Secretary Pete […]
NASHVILLE (AP) — In a life filled with milestones, Irving Locker celebrated a new, unexpected one last week: He became a published songwriter. One day before his 101st birthday, “If Freedom Was Free” was released by Big Machine Label Group and CreatiVets, the Nashville-based nonprofit that helps veterans work through their traumas by building something […]
A court in West Virginia is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging the deployment of the state National Guard to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s push to send the military into Democratic-run cities. The hearing Monday afternoon is the third in the past three weeks in […]
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — U.N. climate negotiations were expected to begin Monday at a meeting on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, with leaders pushing for urgency, cooperation and acceleration after more than 30 years fighting to curb global warming by drastically reducing the carbon pollution that causes it. André Corrêa do Lago, president of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is hosting Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, welcoming the once-pariah state into a U.S-led global coalition to fight the Islamic State group. It’s the first visit to the White House by a Syrian head of state since the Middle Eastern country gained independence from […]
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 21-year-old man shot and killed three co-workers at a San Antonio, Texas, landscape supply company and then died after shooting himself, authorities said Sunday. Two men and a woman died in the shooting Saturday at the business on the city’s north side, according to the San Antonio Police Department. Other […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police were investigating on Sunday after five people were wounded, one seriously, in a weekend shooting outside a supermarket in San Francisco, authorities said. Officers responding to reports of gunfire around 9 p.m. Saturday found multiple victims near a Safeway in the Outer Richmond neighborhood, according to the city’s police department. […]
DRENNEN, W.Va. (AP) — Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said. A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of water Saturday about three-quarters of a mile into the Rolling Thunder mine near Drennen, about 50 miles (80 […]
ByHeart, which makes organic infant formula, recalled all of its products sold throughout the U.S. on Tuesday amid a growing outbreak of infant botulism. At least 15 babies in 12 states have been sickened in the outbreak tied to ByHeart formula, state and federal health officials said. That’s an increase from 13 cases in 10 […]
NEW YORK (AP) — “Predator: Badlands” led all films in North American theaters with a debut of $40 million, according to studio estimates Sunday, a better-than-expected result that slightly lifted the box office from its autumn doldrums. On the heels of the worst box office weekend of 2025, “Predator: Badlands” faced little competition from new […]
LONDON (AP) — The head of the BBC resigned Sunday after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The BBC said that Director-General Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness both announced their resignations on Sunday. Britain’s public broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Large swaths of the U.S. awaited one of the season’s first blasts of wintry weather Sunday as temperatures dipped and snow fell in the Northern Plains, snowstorms developed eastward across the Great Lakes and the South prepared for a big chill. Flurries fell Sunday morning across parts of the Chicago area, a […]
President Donald Trump’s administration is demanding states “undo” full SNAP benefits paid out under judges’ orders last week, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed those rulings, marking the latest swing in a seesawing legal battle over the anti-hunger program used by 42 million Americans. The demand from the U.S. Department of Agriculture came […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City firefighter died Saturday after suffering a medical episode while battling a five-alarm fire at a Brooklyn apartment building, authorities said. Patrick D. Brady, 42, went into cardiac arrest while working on the roof of the six-story building in the borough’s East Flatbush neighborhood, the fire department said. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Air traffic in the U.S. could “slow to a trickle” if the federal government shutdown lingers into the busy Thanksgiving travel holiday season, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Sunday. The Federal Aviation Administration last week ordered flight cuts at the nation’s busiest airports as some air traffic controllers, who have gone unpaid […]
A month before the playoff matchups are set, the AP Top 25 college football poll shuffled in a big way: 19 teams are in new spots, including Texas at No. 10. The top five — No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Indiana, No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 4 Alabama and No. 5 Georgia — were […]
LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — A medical helicopter crashed Saturday east of Nashville, Tennessee, killing one crew member and critically injuring two other crew members, authorities said. No patients were on board. The Vanderbilt LifeFlight helicopter went down around 1:45 p.m. in a field east of Nashville, between Lebanon and Gallatin, about 22 miles (35 kilometers) […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, “when the gales of November came early.” But his news coverage the following day of the infamous wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald helped shape its legacy. Atkins, now 86, was a news reporter in Detroit when he […]
In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas two years ago, high school teacher Josh Hirsch posted comments on social media in support of Israel. It was unrealistic for Hamas to expect a ceasefire, he wrote, as long as they were holding hostages. Soon afterward, a former student called for his […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown stretched into its 40th day Sunday even as senators stayed in Washington for a grueling weekend session hoping to find an end to the funding fight that has disrupted flights nationwide, threatened food assistance for millions of Americans and left federal workers without pay. The Senate has so far […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The number of victims of a UPS cargo plane crash stood at 14 with nobody believed to be still unaccounted for among the missing, the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, said Saturday. The 13 victims located at the crash site matched the total number of missing people reported to police, Mayor Craig […]
Federal and state health officials are investigating 13 cases in 10 states of infant botulism linked to baby formula that was being recalled, authorities said Saturday. ByHeart Inc. agreed to begin recalling two lots of the company’s Whole Nutrition Infant Formula, the Food and Drug Administration said in a statement. All 13 infants were hospitalized […]
