WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Bill Pulte started targeting President Donald Trump’s political enemies, he practiced on his own family. He accused his grandfather’s widow of insider trading. He was allegedly the driving force behind a website trashing an aunt as a “fake Christian.” And he publicly blasted another relative as “a fat slob,” “weirdo” and […]
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza started walking north Friday toward homes they were forced to flee — or what remains of them — after the Israeli military announced a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas had gone into effect. Eager for the killings, displacement […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues. Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on the social media site X that the “RIFs have […]
A search is underway after a powerful explosion ripped through an explosives manufacturing plant in rural Tennessee on Friday. The blast sent plumes of smoke into the air and shook homes miles away. Here is what to know as first responders search the rubble for missing people and try to determine what caused the explosion. […]
BAXLEY, Ga. (AP) — Authorities arrested a woman in southeast Georgia on Friday in connection with the death of an 86-year-old woman who was mauled by two dogs. Misty Ann Branch, 53, was taken into custody by the Appling County Sheriff’s Office two days after Maria D. Nunez was found dead outside her home in […]
National Guard troops started patrolling in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday, even after judges stalled President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy troops to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in other states. The troops, dressed in Guard fatigues and protective vests, with guns in their holsters, patrolled at a Bass Pro Shops store at the Pyramid, […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Two young Republican groups have challenged statistical methods used to produce the results of the 2020 census, four years after the numbers were released, as the GOP continues its growing attack on the numbers from the last U.S. head count. The legal challenge, filed in a Florida federal court, targets the […]
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A retired Army officer who worked as a civilian for the Air Force has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for conspiring to transmit classified information about Russia’s war with Ukraine on a foreign online dating platform. David Slater was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Lincoln to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding. MIT is among the first to express forceful views either in favor of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump says eight Ukrainian children have been reunited with their families after ongoing talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Melania Trump in August wrote a letter to Putin and had her husband hand-deliver it during his meeting with the Russian president in Alaska. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday “there seems to be no reason” to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during an upcoming Asia trip after China restricted rare earth exports.
McEWAN, Tenn. (AP) — A powerful blast ripped through a military explosives manufacturing plant in rural Tennessee on Friday morning, rattling homes miles away and bringing emergency responders to the scene, authorities and residents said. The explosion happened at Accurate Energetic Systems near the town of Bucksnort, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Nashville, […]
Here’s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, Eli B.: What happens if essential federal workers don’t show up for work? Here is where we need to get to know the Antideficiency Act, the federal law that lays out which government duties must continue even if Congress hasn’t appropriated funding for […]
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., sent a letter to Big Ten presidents Friday, warning that a move into private equity could have negative consequences, including impacting the schools’ tax-exempt status. “The primary goal of these companies is to make money for the firm, which is unlikely to align with the academic goals of your university or […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Johnson is the speaker of a House that is no longer in session. The Republican leader sent lawmakers home three weeks ago after the House approved a bill to fund the federal government. And they haven’t been back in working session since. In the intervening weeks, the government has shut down. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday despite jockeying from his fellow Republicans, various world leaders and — most vocally — himself. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it was honoring her “for her tireless work promoting […]
National Guard troops were expected Friday to begin patrolling in Memphis, a day after a federal judge in Illinois blocked the deployment of troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks. The on-again, off-again deployments are the result of a political and legal battle over President Donald Trump’s push to send the National […]
NEW YORK (AP) — With Halloween on the horizon, Chicago Costume is stuffed. Packaged costumes, including superheros and Japanese animation characters in both kid and adult sizes, dangle near colorful wigs and bottles of fake blood. Downstairs, vintage clothes from the 1970s beg for one more boogie night. The frightening possibilities mask the work that’s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is undergoing what he has described as a “semiannual physical” at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday. The visit, which the White House announced earlier this week, comes as Trump is preparing to travel to the Middle East on the heels of a ceasefire deal in the […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Federal judges in two states on Friday will consider challenges to the government’s treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador galvanized opposition to President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda. In Maryland, Abrego Garcia has challenged efforts to re-deport him to a third country […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are ramping up the pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who won a special election last month to succeed her late father. The delay has attracted mounting attention this week, with Johnson challenged by lawmakers, reporters and even C-SPAN viewers about why […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Prince Harry and Meghan Markle urged parents to stand against social media companies that they said prey upon children with exploitative algorithms as the “explosion of unregulated artificial intelligence” adds to their concerns that technologies’ benefits are inseparable from its dangers. To underscore that point, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two decades later, Congress is on the verge of writing a closing chapter to the war in Iraq. The Senate voted Thursday to repeal the resolution that authorized the 2003 U.S. invasion, following a House vote last month that would return the basic war power to Congress. The amendment by […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The day she was elected New York’s attorney general, Letitia James blasted President Donald Trump as a “con man” and “carnival barker” and pledged to scrutinize his public policies and personal business dealings. As James mounted a lawsuit claiming that Trump’s business persona was built partly on lies, he returned fire, […]
