WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used his first major address since launching his war in Iran to assure Americans that all of his military objectives will be completed “shortly” and urge an increasingly skeptical electorate to give him a little bit more time. Trump in his Wednesday evening speech dialed back the bluster that’s […]
AI-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, particularly when it comes to breaking news. Look no further than the Iran war. Since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, researchers have identified an unprecedented number of false and misleading images that were generated using artificial […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Two-year-old Bain Brandon has Type 1 diabetes and needs insulin to live. But even with health insurance, the price tag isn’t cheap. A one-month supply of insulin vials and a three-month supply of backup pens for the Mississippi toddler cost his parents $194 last week, according to his mom, 29-year-old Marlee […]
President Donald Trump said U.S. forces will keep hitting Iran “extremely hard over the next two or three weeks” and bring the country “back to the Stone Ages,” even though he argued that all of his administration’s military objectives have been met or exceeded. Trump didn’t say anything in his Wednesday night address about negotiations […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The funding lapse for the Department of Homeland Security will likely stretch into next week as the House contemplates passing a Senate plan it had previously rejected to fund the bulk of the agency, but not its immigration enforcement operations. There was no resolution Thursday to the standoff, now in its 48th […]
HONOLULU (AP) — Kaʻiulani Murphy is quick to spot white terns flapping their wings when she’s guiding Polynesian voyaging canoes across the Pacific. The birds hunt for food at sea and lay eggs on land. So traditional navigators like her, who look to the stars, waves and other elements in nature to pilot across the […]
The Afghan man had fled the Taliban for refuge in upstate New York when U.S. immigration authorities ordered him deported to Uganda. The Cuban woman was working at a Texas Chick-fil-A when she arrested after a minor traffic accident and told she was being sent to Ecuador. There’s the Mauritanian man living in Michigan told […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump mischaracterized core elements of the U.S. economy and stretched the facts in claiming to have toppled Iran’s government as he addressed the nation Wednesday night in a time of soaring gas prices and persistent inflation. Here’s a look at some of his statements: CLAIM: “We were a dead and […]
Democrats sued Wednesday to block President Donald Trump’s latest executive order restricting mail voting, arguing that the U.S. Constitution empowers states and Congress, not the president, to determine who is eligible to vote by mail. The lawsuit marks the second round of battles over the president’s power to control elections. Trump’s opponents handily won the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s address to the nation on the war against Iran, delivered Wednesday, April 1, 2026, as transcribed by The Associated Press: ___ My fellow Americans, good evening. Let me begin by congratulating the team at NASA and our brave astronauts on the successful launch of Artemis II, it was quite […]
U.S. egg prices have fallen 60% from last year’s record highs, making it easier for consumers to fill their Easter baskets and Passover Seder plates. Bird flu was to blame for elevated retail prices during the first five months of 2025, and the course of the highly contagious disease is a big reason why prices […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged in the 2024 shooting death of a New York City police officer has been convicted of aggravated manslaughter but acquitted of murder. A Queens jury delivered its verdict Wednesday in the case of Guy Rivera, who was charged with killing Officer Jonathan Diller during a traffic stop. The […]
The Artemis II astronauts are back on Earth. The three Americans and one Canadian returned with a dramatic splashdown Friday evening, as their capsule parachuted into the Pacific to close out a nearly 10-day trip to the moon and back. The crew was the first to visit the moon since NASA’s Apollo era more than […]
A lawyer sued an upstate New York airport after it rejected a small ad for her sexual harassment law firm. Now she has a massive sign there. Megan Thomas signed a contract last summer for the ad at Syracuse Hancock International Airport. She wanted it to read: “When HR called it harmless flirting … we […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a man allegedly connected to some of the deaths linked to the “Texas Killing Fields,” an area near Houston where the bodies of dozens of women were found beginning in the 1970s, saying they have solved a piece of a tragic mystery that has inspired books, movies and a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday rescinded a rule that DHS expenditures over $100,000 be personally approved by his office, ending a widely criticized policy implemented by his predecessor Kristi Noem that critics said put a particular burden on the Federal Emergency Management Agency ’s work aiding disaster response and recovery. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A 7-month-old baby in a stroller was killed by a stray bullet Wednesday afternoon when a man on a moped shot at a group of people on a Brooklyn sidewalk, authorities said. The shooting was believed to be gang-related and the child an unintended victim, police said. “There are no words […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal government’s disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week posted a list of more than two dozen types of testing that have become unavailable. This is not the first time the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to address the nation Wednesday evening about the war against Iran, a pivotal moment at home and abroad as he seeks to amass extraordinary power to prosecute the military operation and his second-term agenda. Trump started the day as the first sitting president to show up for […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A state investigation has found that the deaths of three Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in a grenade explosion last year involved “willful” and serious safety violations in the department, including failure to provide effective training and leaving explosives unattended. California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued eight citations resulting […]
MIAMI (AP) — A top Washington lobbyist who is closely allied with President Donald Trump testified in federal court that he immediately cut ties with former Congressman David Rivera when he learned in 2020 that Venezuela’s government had awarded the Miami Republican a $50 million contract, shattering his belief that they were both working to […]
