TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge in Arizona on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting dozens of Guatemalan and Honduran children who came to the U.S. alone. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Márquez in Tucson granted a preliminary injunction, citing concerns about the steps the government had taken to prepare to […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Facing international isolation, accusations of war crimes and growing pressure to end a conflict he has continued to escalate, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets his chance to push back Friday on the international community’s biggest platform. Netanyahu’s annual speech to the U.N. General Assembly is always closely watched, often protested, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has dispatched a fleet of American warships into the waters off Venezuela, bragged about fatal strikes on alleged drug boats and claimed Venezuela will pay an “incalculable” price if it won’t accept more people deported from the U.S. The unusual naval buildup off South America has stoked fears of […]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump ‘s unprecedented retribution campaign against his perceived political enemies reached new heights Thursday as his Justice Department brought criminal charges against a longtime foe and he expanded his efforts to classify certain liberal groups as “domestic terrorist organizations.” Days after Trump publicly demanded action from his attorney general […]
The federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday it is canceling a collective bargaining agreement with its workers and stripping them of union rights, the latest move by the Trump administration to gut labor protections for federal employees. Director William K. Marshall III told the agency’s nearly 35,000 employees that the union, the Council of Prison […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey represents the first criminal case against a perceived adversary of President Donald Trump so far in this administration and comes on the heels of his public demands for Justice Department prosecutions of people he dislikes. The criminal case, legally speaking, centers on a false […]
President Donald Trump appears to be prodding his administration to seek criminal charges against more targets after a grand jury returned an indictment against foe and former FBI Director James Comey. “It’s not a list, but I think there’ll be others,” Trump told reporters on Friday as he departed the White House. He added: “It’s […]
Washington (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for the actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards in a video posted to social media Thursday evening. Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, ordered the review of the awards in […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — James Comey’s son-in-law resigned as a federal prosecutor minutes after the former FBI director was indicted Thursday. Troy Edwards quit his job “to uphold my oath to the Constitution and the country,” he wrote in a one-sentence resignation letter addressed to Lindsay Halligan, the newly appointed U.S. Attorney in Virginia’s Eastern […]
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 […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a $90 million settlement for nearly 200 civil rights violations involving a notorious former police sergeant who framed people for drug crimes they didn’t commit in one of the biggest police misconduct scandals in the city’s history. The groundbreaking deal closes out 176 lawsuits […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will put import taxes of 50% on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities, 30% on upholstered furniture and 25% on heavy trucks starting on Oct. 1. Trump said on his social media site that foreign manufacturers of furniture and cabinetry were flooding the United States with […]
WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) — The remains of a former soldier wanted in the deaths of his three young daughters more than three months ago were found in the mountains of Washington state, officials confirmed Thursday. Forensic tests verified that the remains were those of 32-year-old Travis Decker, a suspect in the killings of his daughters, […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Four men. Four corners of the globe. Four vastly different visions and experiences on climate change. At the United Nations this week, a quartet of leaders with distinct personal styles and decidedly different national agendas demonstrated why saving the planet isn’t simple, fast or something they can even agree on. U.S. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — James Comey was charged Thursday with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute the former FBI director and other perceived political enemies. The indictment makes Comey the first former senior government official to face prosecution […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday directed his administration to crack down on backers of what he dubbed “left-wing terrorism,” naming two top Democratic donors as he alleged without evidence a vast conspiracy to finance violent protests against the government. Trump’s directive put the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Taskforce in the lead and said the effort would […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Medicaid patients face a threat of reduced access to services — before separate changes approved within President Donald Trump’s spending-reduction law are implemented — as an impasse over state Medicaid funding extends further. Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, whose administration oversees Medicaid for 3.1 million people in the ninth-largest state, […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A boarded-up building in a small Chicago suburb has become the front line of a federal immigration crackdown, with growing accusations that the facility meant to process arrestees is a de facto detention center plagued by inhumane conditions. The Trump administration has targeted the Chicago area for its latest immigration enforcement surge […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. “There’s been enough,” Trump, apparently referring to Israel, told reporters in the Oval Office while signing executive orders unrelated to Middle East policy. He added, “It’s time to stop now.” ___
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that he says will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States in a way that meets national security concerns laid out by the law. President Joe Biden signed legislation last year calling for China’s ByteDance to sell TikTok’s assets to an American […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department sued six more states on Thursday, saying the states refused to turn over voter registration lists with complete information as the agency mounts a wide-ranging effort to get detailed voter data. It also accused the states of failing to respond sufficiently to questions about the procedures they […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration pitched several other countries Thursday on its view that the global system for seeking asylum, in effect since World War II, has been rampantly abused and urged them to join the United States in cracking down on such migration. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau led the discussion […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s program that provides health insurance to some low-income adults that document work or other activities has been extended for 15 months by President Donald Trump’s administration. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday that the federal government approved that the Pathways to Coverage program will continue as part of the state-federal Medicaid […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court on Thursday to preserve the Federal Reserve’s political independence and allow Lisa Cook to remain as a central bank governor for now. The justices are weighing an emergency appeal from the administration to remove Cook while her lawsuit challenging her firing by Republican President Donald Trump proceeds through the courts. […]
