WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has agreed to a significant portion of a stringent ethics proposal that is part of a broader cryptocurrency bill headed for a key vote this week, according to a senior GOP official involved in the negotiations. The sweeping bill initially had a provision included that would bar all federally […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The venerable newsmagazine “60 Minutes” opened its 59th season on CBS-TV on Sunday night with no direct mention of the turmoil and departures that have unfolded behind the scenes in recent months. Hosts waited until the show’s end to acknowledge that anything different was going on. While speaking about the claim […]
A Pennsylvania woman has died from complications associated with measles, the third death in the state this year involving the virus. The 40-year-old woman died Saturday, Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong said in a Facebook post in which he called the death “measles-related.” The post did not identify the woman other than as a resident […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he will look into requests from families of Sept. 11 victims to release records that could shed light on Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in the attacks 25 years ago. Several families have long alleged that a group of extremist religious leaders in Saudi Arabia gained influence […]
WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — Flash flooding brought on by heavy rains prompted road closures, water rescues and commuter rail problems across the tristate area Sunday. The National Weather Service said the hardest-hit areas appeared to be northern New Jersey, parts of New York’s Westchester County and a swath of coastal Connecticut along Interstate 95. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $5,000 to every American adult if his Republican Party maintains control of the House and Senate in the November election needs congressional approval, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday, while pledging to try to make it happen. Trump made the unusual pitch at the party’s midterm […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Shelton was not even a year old the last time an American man won a Grand Slam tennis title. Now 23, Shelton is in the same position Alexander Zverev once was, playing for his first major championship in the U.S. Open final. When Zverev lost that night — after he […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Security researchers say rapid advances in artificial intelligence are making it more critical to address a flaw in Georgia’s voting equipment that can allow voters to be matched to their ballots after they have been cast. The system’s vulnerability has been drawing increased attention, with election security advocates criticizing state election officials […]
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A Republican congressman says he had to swim to safety after a plane he was traveling in made an emergency landing in a lake late Saturday. U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany says he was returning from the La Crosse County Lincoln Day Dinner when the light aircraft lost power as it approached […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ever since Democrat Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to Donald Trump two years ago, political strategist Khalil Thompson has been traveling the country to figure out why Black men inched toward a white Republican rather than a Black woman. Although Black men vote overwhelmingly Democratic, even small shifts in their support […]
Get ready for a new No. 1 team when The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll is released Sunday afternoon. No. 4 Texas staked its claim after wiping out a 20-point, fourth-quarter deficit to beat top-ranked Ohio State 24-23 on Saturday night in Austin. The comeback is the largest fourth-quarter rally ever for a […]
A trespasser was reported Friday night at former Vice President Kamala Harris’ home in Malibu, California, law enforcement officials and a Harris spokesperson said. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded to her home around 10:30 p.m. after her private security detail made a “suspicious person” call, the department said. When they arrived, they made contact […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a plan by the Trump administration to slash staffing at the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters by 50% was unlawful. The opinion issued late Friday marked a victory for labor groups who had sued the agency. The labor organization had argued that plans by […]
The US Open comes to a close at Flushing Meadows with singles and doubles finals, as players compete for titles at the year’s final Grand Slam tournament.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samo a after a state appeals court threw out felony charges against a woman who wrongly checked a box saying she was a U.S. citizen. The state’s Department of Law announced the decision Friday, after a […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former CIA official found with $40 million of gold bars in his home has reached a tentative plea agreement after being charged with theft for fraudulently inflating his salary, according to court records. A federal judge on Friday extended a deadline to formally indict defendant David J. Rush until Oct. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s childhood home has sold for nearly $2 million after a renovation transformed the New York City residence from a mold-ridden cat den to a modern abode. The president lived at the Tudor-style Queens estate until age 4. His father, developer Fred Trump, built the home in the affluent Jamaica […]
In a Sept. 12 story about the hanging death of Tasia Fortune, The Associated Press erroneously reported that her mother, Christy Spivey, said Fortune rarely saw two of her own children. Spivey said that she herself rarely saw two of her daughter’s four children. The AP also erroneously reported that Fortune had two sisters. She […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a swarm that could take over the entire internet, among other risks. Amodei […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Elena Rybakina won her first U.S. Open title and punctuated her climb to the top of women’s tennis by beating Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 on Saturday. Rybakina had already been guaranteed to replace Sabalenka at No. 1 in the rankings next week and for good measure took the U.S. Open […]
The Atlantic is quiet — record quiet — this hurricane season thanks to an enormous El Nino that crushes storms before they get going. No Atlantic hurricanes have formed yet this year and none are likely to form for at least another week, even though this would normally be the peak of the season, according […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada might seem an unlikely target for a U.S. trade war. No country on Earth buys as much from the United States as its northern neighbor. For American farmers, Canada is second only to Mexico as an export market. A North American trade pact — negotiated by President Donald Trump in his […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department failed to secure felony convictions against most of the 102 protesters arrested in four major cities last year on charges of assaulting federal authorities — a record far below the norm in federal assault prosecutions. All of the dozen cases that made it to trial, mostly in […]
READSTOWN, Wis. (AP) — The way Derrick Van Orden sees it, any Republicans in the U.S. House who distance themselves from President Donald Trump in this year’s midterm election aren’t just being foolish, they’re being disloyal. That’s why Van Orden, a two-term incumbent from western Wisconsin fighting to keep his seat in November in a […]
