EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Authorities on Monday were trying to determine why a man opened fire in the parking lot of a casino in a Texas border city over the weekend, killing two people and wounding at least five others. Keryan Rashad Jones, 34, was arrested during a traffic stop several hours after the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Monday to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, the government-funded broadcaster founded to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ruled that the U.S. Agency for Global […]
DETROIT (AP) — The man who shot up a Michigan church and set a fire that killed four people was a former U.S. Marine who expressed animosity about the Mormon faith to a city council candidate knocking on doors just days before the attack. Thomas Sanford, who was known as Jake, drove a pickup truck […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hardly a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed his “Global Governance Initiative,” Beijing made its intent clear at the most global of forums — that it should, and is qualified to, help shape the world order even as the United States tips more inward under Donald Trump. In a seemingly jargon-filled […]
Journalists who cover the Pentagon and the Trump admnistration are in a standoff about new rules that limit the access of the media to most areas within the Pentagon and appear to condition overall entry to the building on an agreement to restrictions in reporting. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s team characterizes the changes as an […]
QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — The Army, Navy and Air Force, with encouragement from the Trump administration, all announced this summer that they had met their recruiting goals months ahead of schedule. That is a major shift from the past several years when the military has failed to meet its recruiting goals because of complications from […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The sight of armed, camouflaged and masked Border Patrol agents making arrests near famous downtown Chicago landmarks has amplified concerns about the Trump administration’s growing federal intervention across U.S. cities. As Memphis, Tennessee, and Portland, Oregon, brace for a federal law enforcement surge, residents in the nation’s third-largest city met a brazen […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A firearms industry trade and lobbying organization secretly built a database containing the personal information of millions of gun owners and used the data to target gun rights supporters with political ads dating back to the 2000 elections, according to a new lawsuit. The suit against the National Shooting Sports Foundation, […]
The race to be the next mayor of New York City is down to three main candidates after incumbent Eric Adams dropped his reelection bid over the weekend. Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa are already looking to capitalize on Adams’ exit, as the contest heads into its final […]
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not polite, as a general rule, to visit your hosts and criticize the way they do things. Unless, that is, you’re helping to pay the rent. World leaders have spent the past week at the United Nations doing just that, convening at its grandiloquent headquarters to tell each other — […]
President Donald Trump bolstered a years-old conspiracy theory over the weekend, claiming that 50 pages of alleged FBI documents recently made public prove that 274 FBI agents at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were there to incite the attack. The documents first appeared in an article published Thursday by the conservative site Just […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has released President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he supported the plan following a meeting with Trump at the White House on Monday, but it’s unclear if Hamas will accept these terms. Here is Trump’s proposal, verbatim: 1. […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year. And each year, certain voices dominate. Here, The Associated Press takes the opposite approach and spotlights some thoughts from leaders who might have […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to Donald Trump continues his efforts to reverse the year-long decline in the U.S. coal industry. Actions by the Energy and Interior departments and the Environmental Protection Agency follow executive orders […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three activists opposed to President Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Los Angeles have been indicted on charges of illegally “ doxing ” a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, federal prosecutors said. Investigators said the women followed the agent home, livestreamed their pursuit and then posted the agent’s address online, according […]
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister walked a fine line at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, pushing back at President Donald Trump’s assertions of unfettered U.S. power while trying to avoid provoking her country’s biggest trade partner. Trump famously said at his inauguration that “during every single day of the Trump administration, I […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior North Korean diplomat reiterated at the U.N. Monday that his country won’t give up its nuclear weapons despite numerous demands to do so, calling them crucial to keeping a “balance of power” with South Korea. “We will never talk away from this position,” he said. Under the spotlight of […]
President Donald Trump says he will slap a 100% tax on movies made outside the United States — a vague directive aimed at protecting a business that America already dominates. Claiming that movie production “has been stolen’’ from Hollywood and the U.S., Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that “I will be imposing a […]
New Mexico lawmakers are to open a special session Wednesday to boost funding for food assistance and rural health care — actions the Democratic governor contends are needed to “minimize the damage from President Trump’s disastrous bill” cutting federal taxes and spending. The special session follows one in Colorado, where the Democratic governor asserted Trump’s […]
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — They had a lot to say about global affairs. But complicated things happening closer to home? Not so much. Like their counterparts from other continents, African leaders took to the United Nations podium over the past week to address the U.N. General Assembly on pressing global issues, including climate change, inequality […]
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The United States will grant $675,000 for crucial demining programs in Cambodia, the U.S. Embassy said Monday, after a freeze on foreign assistance raised doubts about the future support for mine clearance in the Southeast Asian nation. An estimated 4 million to 6 million land mines and other unexploded munitions […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here he is, depicted at six months in office, chiseled and brawny, as mighty as the very nation. Here he is as a Star Wars Jedi wielding a patriot-red lightsaber, rescuing our galaxy from the forces of evil. Here he is taking over Gaza, transforming the strip into a luxury resort complete […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Party leaders in Congress have long criticized government shutdowns as toxic and destructive. “Always a bad idea,” former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said of shutdowns in 2024. A potential “disaster,” Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said of the shutdown the country narrowly avoided when he voted with Republicans […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state House member who advocated for Palestinians at the 2024 Democratic National Convention is entering the state’s race for governor. Ruwa Romman announced her 2026 bid for governor on Monday, saying Democrats need a clearer vision and greater focus on organizing voters. She’s at least the eighth Democrat to seek […]
