The governor of Utah struggled to find the right words to describe the question so many have been asking: What is happening in America? The silence lasted nearly 10 seconds. He looked down. He opened and closed his mouth. “Our nation is broken,” Spencer Cox finally said, hours after the public killing of Charlie Kirk. […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A gas mask dangled from Deidra Watts’s backpack as she joined dozens of others outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, just as she has many nights since July. The protesters toed a blue line painted across the building’s driveway. “GOVERNMENT PROPERTY DO NOT BLOCK,” read its white, […]
The book report is now a thing of the past. Take-home tests and essays are becoming obsolete. High school and college educators around the country say student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent that to assign writing outside of the classroom is like asking students to cheat. “The cheating is off the charts. […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Charlie Kirk’s casket arrived in his home state of Arizona aboard Air Force Two on Thursday as Vice President JD Vance honored the conservative activist with a final flight. Vance’s wife, Usha, stepped off the plane with Kirk’s widow, Erika. Both women wore black and sunglasses. The vice president was a few […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military strike on what the Trump administration says was a drug-carrying speedboat from Venezuela came after the vessel had turned around and was heading back to shore, raising fresh questions from members of Congress demanding more information about the provocative attack. National security officials acknowledged during a closed briefing this […]
BOSTON (AP) — Josh Kraft, the son of the New England Patriots’ owner, announced Thursday he is dropping his bid to unseat Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, days after advancing to the November ballot. He announced the move on WCVB-TV after Kraft and Wu bested two challengers to advance during a preliminary election Tuesday. Despite spending […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The United States Naval Academy in Maryland was on lockdown Thursday as law enforcement responded to reports of threats made to the military school, officials said. The academy in Annapolis was working with local law enforcement to respond to the reports of threats, Lt. Naweed Lemar, the spokesperson for the base […]
BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to block Medicaid fund to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue. A federal judge in July ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding as the nation’s largest abortion provider fights Trump’s administration over efforts […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The same scene played out at campuses across the country. Charlie Kirk would grab a microphone, take a seat under a canopy — often in busy campus hubs — and invite debate from anyone who came along. His prompt: “Prove me wrong.” Kirk’s open and engaging approach veered from the well-worn tracks […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is already in prison. His wife is headed there next. The onetime political power couple’s criminal prosecution culminated Thursday with a judge sentencing Nadine Menendez to 4½ years behind bars. Her punishment came three months after her husband, a New Jersey Democrat, started his 11-year prison […]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump was attending the New York Yankees game on Thursday night to mark the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, after honoring the memories of the victims at the Pentagon earlier in the day. Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Trump was even expected to stop by the locker […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The board overseeing Florida’s public universities on Thursday confirmed Dr. Donald W. Landry as the interim president of the University of Florida, after the board rejected another candidate following conservative criticism. Landry, a physician and chair emeritus of the Columbia University Department of Medicine, took the helm at the school this […]
CAPE MAY, N.J. (AP) — Humpty Dumpty took a big fall, and now police are hoping to crack the case. A playful, colorful statue of the nursery rhyme icon was forcibly removed from a structure at a miniature golf course in Cape May, New Jersey, on Sunday and dumped down the street. Local police say […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A series of reported threats toward historically Black colleges and universities across the U.S. on Thursday led to lockdown orders, canceled classes and heightened security. Authorities did not elaborate on the type of threats that were made and no injuries had been reported. Although lockdowns have since been lifted, in […]
Two people who were detained and later released following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk faced a number of threats and scrutiny even after police said they were not suspects, police said Thursday. “These individuals were not suspects. They were people of interest,” Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason said. “They don’t […]
School choice resurfaced Thursday as a hotly debated issue in Kentucky, where the state’s highest court heard arguments in a bitter dispute over the constitutionality of a measure to publicly fund charter schools. The measure, known as House Bill 9, was enacted by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature in 2022 over Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto. […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s top legislative leaders said Thursday that they are aiming to advance a package of proposed laws in part designed to tighten pretrial release rules following the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte commuter train that prompted national attention and calls for tougher-on-crime policies. More oversight of […]
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A former executive for a subsidiary of candymaker Mars Inc. pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud and tax charges in connection with his theft of $28 million from the company, federal prosecutors said. Paul Steed, 58, appeared in federal court in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He also agreed to pay $28.4 million in restitution […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has been protected by state troopers since he took office in 2019, and now he has a trooper in the family. Lucy Kemp, the middle of the governor’s three daughters, was one of 30 new troopers who joined the ranks of the Georgia State Patrol last week. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has asked an appeals court to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors by Monday, before the central bank’s next vote on interest rates. The request represents an extraordinary effort by the White House to shape the board before the Fed’s interest rate-setting committee meets next […]
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Domestic violence and theft charges have been dropped for former University of South Florida football coach Jim Leavitt, according to court documents. Leavitt, 68, was arrested last month after what police called an argument with an ex-girlfriend at a St. Petersburg apartment complex. He was charged with felony grand theft, […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Leaders of a Georgia-based church with congregations in five states have been charged by federal prosecutors with swindling millions of dollars in veterans benefits from parishioners serving in the military. An indictment unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Savannah charges House of Prayer Christian Churches of America founder Rony Denis […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Thursday issued a nationwide block on a Trump administration policy that cuts off Head Start for people in the United States illegally.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Facing those seeking to oust him from office, Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver warned Missouri lawmakers on Thursday that a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump is reopening decades-old racial divisions in Kansas City. Cleaver flew from the nation’s Capitol to Missouri’s statehouse in what he acknowledged was a […]
