A day after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, the case escalated sharply Thursday when federal authorities blocked state investigators from accessing evidence and declared that Minnesota has no jurisdiction to investigate the killing. Legal experts said the dispute highlights a central question raised repeatedly as federal agents are deployed into […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is forecasting that the global economy will grow by 2.7% this year, slightly lower than last year’s estimate, citing the impact of higher U.S. tariffs, economic uncertainties and geopolitical tensions. U.N. economists predicted that growth would edge up to 2.9% in 2027. That’s still well below the average […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, authorities said. The FBI’s Portland office said it was investigating an “agent involved shooting” that happened around 2:15 p.m. “involving Customs and Border Patrol Agents in which 2 individuals were wounded.” The Portland Police Bureau said its officers […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Police shot a man wielding a sharp object in a hospital in Brooklyn on Thursday. New York City police say the incident happened around 5:30 p.m. at the NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Officers responded to a report of a man armed with a sharp object inside the facility in Brooklyn’s Park […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the entire United Nations climate-fighting apparatus takes America’s environmental isolation to another level and is likely to damage both the United States and the world as the planet flirts with ecological tipping points, experts say. Leaders from around the world say the United States will be left […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest private investment in the state’s history. The data center, called MACROHARDRR, is being built in Mississippi’s DeSoto County near Memphis, Tennessee. It […]
North Carolina could lose nearly $50 million in federal funding if the state doesn’t revoke commercial driver’s licenses from immigrants who aren’t qualified to hold them after an audit uncovered problems, the U.S. Transportation Department said Thursday. North Carolina is the ninth state to be targeted since Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy launched the nationwide review […]
Bones and skulls visible in the back seat of a car near an abandoned cemetery on Philadelphia’s outskirts led police to a basement filled with body parts, which authorities say were horded by a man now accused of stealing about 100 sets of human remains. Officers say a Tuesday night arrest culminated a monthslong investigation […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Protesters confronted federal officers in Minneapolis on Thursday, a day after 37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. The shooting intensified tensions amid the Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of officers to Minnesota for an immigration crackdown. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has agreed to display a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, rebuffing House Speaker Mike Johnson who has said the commemorative memorial does not comply with the law. The action happened swiftly, with brief debate, in floor action Thursday. Republican Sen. Thom […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed as protests related to her death expanded to cities across the country. The vice president, who made his critiques in a […]
Misrepresented and fabricated images spread widely on social media in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman, Renee Good, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday. Soon after the shooting, photos emerged erroneously identified as showing the victim, a 37-year-old mother of three. Others were fabricated to falsely show the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring likely remained subdued last month as many companies have sought to avoid expanding their workforces, though the job gains may be enough to bring down the unemployment rate. December’s jobs report, to be released Friday, is likely to show that employers added a modest 55,000 jobs, economists forecast. That figure would […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Kennedy Center in Washington. She had been scheduled to give two concerts for young people on Feb. 7, followed by a “creative conversation” with the audience. De Los Santos, a Mexican American whose 2018 release “¡Alegría!” received a Latin Grammy nomination for best children’s album, cited her background as […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said on social media Thursday that he is directing the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a move he said would help reduce mortgage rates at a time when Americans are worried about home prices. Trump and the White House have been trying to show they […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Austin Peay State University has reinstated a professor who was fired for his social media post after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The Tennessee school is also paying the teacher $500,000 in the settlement. Austin Peay spokesperson Brian Dunn said Darren Michael returned to his position as a tenured […]
LAKEWOOD, Ohio (AP) — Washington Commanders cornerback Marshon Lattimore was arrested outside his hometown of Cleveland on Wednesday shortly after a car in which he was a passenger was pulled over in a traffic stop. Police in Lakewood, a suburb west of the city, reported that they arrested the NFL cornerback at around 6:15 p.m. […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Federal and state officials withheld evidence that the Department of Homeland Security had agreed to reimburse Florida for some of the costs of constructing an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” according to environmental groups suing to shut down the facility. The Everglades facility remains open, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a bipartisan package of three spending bills on Thursday that would fund parts of the federal government through September, demonstrating the eagerness of lawmakers to avoid another government shutdown near the end of the month. Congress has so far passed only three of the 12 annual spending bills that […]
Colorado’s attorney general accused the Trump administration on Thursday of waging a “revenge campaign” by choking off funds and ending federal programs over the state’s refusal to accede to the Republican president’s demands to free an imprisoned elections clerk. President Donald Trump has pushed unsuccessfully for Colorado to release former Mesa County elections clerk Tina […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer struck by a car last month while helping a stranded motorist has died from his injuries, the department announced Thursday. Terry Bennett, 32, had been hospitalized since December 23 when he was struck by a passing vehicle as he helped a motorist who ran out of […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords returned to the House floor Thursday on the 15th anniversary of the assassination attempt that cut short her promising political career and shocked a nation that has only seen political violence worsen in the years since. Giffords held hands with her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly, as House […]
