CATO, N.Y. (AP) — Federal law enforcement officers forced open the doors of a snack bar manufacturer and took away dozens of workers in a surprise enforcement action that the plant’s owner on Friday called “terrifying.” “There’s got to be a better way to do it,” Lenny Schmidt said at Nutrition Bar Confectioners, a day […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge on Friday sided with Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and blocked a policy that prevented school voucher recipients from playing on sports teams this fall. Montgomery Circuit Judge J.R. Gaines issued a temporary restraining order barring the Alabama High School Athletic Association from enforcing a policy that says the voucher […]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning to attend the men’s singles final at the U.S. Open on Sunday as a client guest and will watch the match from a suite, a spokesperson for the U.S. Tennis Association said Friday. It’s set to be Trump’s first appearance at the Grand Slam tournament in […]
After Iowa gas station employee Timothy Schultz won a $29 million lottery jackpot in 1999, he decided to hold a press conference. Lottery officials told him it would help him avoid being “hounded by media” since state law required his name to be disclosed anyway. But the then-21-year-old soon felt the consequences of his overnight […]
The Trump administration is fighting Kilmar Abrego Garcia ‘s bid to apply for asylum in the United States, arguing that he’s ineligible as a member of the MS-13 gang. The Department of Homeland Security on Friday released immigration court documents that outline its arguments against Abrego Garcia applying for asylum or receiving it. A primary […]
BOSTON (AP) — A former Boston city councilor, who was the first African immigrant and Muslim American elected to the body, was sentenced Friday to a month in prison after she plead guilty to federal corruption charges. Tania Fernandes Anderson pleaded guilty in May to one count each of wire fraud and theft concerning a […]
GARFIELD, N.J. (AP) — Democrats and Republicans are testing dueling playbooks in fall elections that will decide the leadership of Virginia and New Jersey — and perhaps a new direction for the parties heading into next year’s midterms. In both states, Democratic candidates for governor are distancing themselves from their party’s far-left wing — and […]
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — The death of a Massachusetts man this summer outside a fish market was attributed to an abnormal heartbeat caused by cocaine and alcohol intoxication and efforts by police to restrain him, the prosecutor’s office said Friday. The July 11 death of Francis Gigliotti was deemed to be a matter of homicide […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that would let the U.S. designate nations as state sponsors of wrongful detention, using the threat of associated sanctions to deter Americans from being detained abroad or taken hostage. The designation, similar to the state sponsors of terrorism designation that the U.S. already […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. will host next year’s Group of 20 summit at his golf club in southern Florida. In his first term, Trump tried to host a separate global summit at the club, located in Doral, but backed down after criticism from his own party about the […]
ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Department of Defense goes beyond subjective word choices about whether to change a name that’s been in place since 1949. On one hand is Trump’s argument that the historical name – War Department – more plainly reflects the bottom-line mission. Yet the idea, which still […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — There are “rays of hope” for a 12-year-old girl critically injured in last week’s deadly shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis, though her neurosurgeon cautioned Friday it is still hard to predict whether she will survive. Sophia Forchas was the most seriously wounded child among those who survived after a shooter […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department prosecutors are dropping their federal case against a woman who was charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump — the latest in a string of self-inflicted setbacks for prosecutors during President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. A grand jury refused to indict Nathalie Rose Jones before […]
NEW YORK (AP) — This gallery, curated by AP photo editors, showcases quarterfinal and semifinal tennis matches at the U.S. Open. ___ AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is set to give an African leader accused of pilfering his impoverished country’s resources to feed a lifestyle of luxury cars, mansions and superyachts a temporary pass on U.S. corruption sanctions to travel to a high-level U.N. gathering in New York and visit other American cities. Two U.S. officials […]
Days after complaints over the handling of an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on “Face the Nation,” CBS News said Friday it would no longer allow editing of its guests’ words on the Sunday morning public affairs show. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of controversies […]
McDonald’s is criticizing the restaurant industry for allowing tipped wages, which let managers pay servers less than the minimum wage as long as customer tips make up the difference. McDonald’s Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski said in an interview on CNBC Tuesday that he supports President Donald Trump’s efforts to eliminate federal taxes on tips. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of European officials, led by EU sanctions envoy David O’Sullivan, will visit the U.S. Treasury on Monday to discuss various forms of economic pressure to exert on Russia, including new sanctions, a person familiar with the meeting told The Associated Press. The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity […]
CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Federal officials on Friday said they are taking steps that will give state and federal prisons the right to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates, devices they argue allow prisoners to plot violence and carry out crimes. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said Friday during a news conference in Arkansas […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco for the plaintiffs […]
Now that Florida is taking steps to be the first state to get rid of school vaccine mandates, some states are looking at following its lead while others are promising to protect vaccines for children and adults. Florida’s announcement on Wednesday along with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s attempts to advance anti-vaccine policies have […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. The landmark settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in legal […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is drawing swift condemnation from gun rights groups and LGBTQ advocates alike after floating that it was considering restricting transgender people from owning guns — a move that would all but certainly face immediate constitutional challenges if ever implemented. The discussions come in the wake of the shooting at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two teenagers were arrested Friday on murder charges in the killing of a congressional intern who was struck by stray bullets during a shooting in the nation’s capital — a crime that President Donald Trump cited in announcing a law-enforcement surge in Washington. Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, of Granby, Massachusetts, was fatally shot […]
