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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Provisions of a Florida law restricting the state’s process for getting citizens’ initiatives on the ballot can go into effect, a federal appeals court has decided. The decision issued Tuesday overrules a lower court’s order that blocked portions of the law from being enforced while the legal challenge brought by grassroots […]
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in a state that has permissive gun laws and allows firearms to be concealed or openly carried without a permit in most instances, experts said. Investigators said a high-powered, bolt-action rifle that might have been used in the attack was found hidden in a towel in a wooded […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine principals’ group is fighting a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice that seeks the names of all students playing interscholastic sports in the state as the DOJ attempts to ban transgender athletes from participating. President Donald Trump’s administration sued Maine in April for not complying with an executive […]
The assassination of Charlie Kirk offers the latest example of how ordinary security measures can be defeated in an era of escalating political violence, when anyone associated with the political process is a potential target, including influencers. Kirk was in a familiar setting Wednesday before a large crowd at a university in Utah, a red […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The highest-ranking Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly said Thursday that he doesn’t want to “fortify” the state Capitol, which is one of the country’s most accessible statehouses, but that lawmakers are looking at ways to bolster safety in other areas such as at officeholders’ homes. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ comments came […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Immigrant detainees have started arriving at a former Tennessee prison that’s been turned into a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, the facility’s operator said. CoreCivic Inc. said late Wednesday that it has begun receiving detainees at the West Tennessee Detention Facility in the rural town of Mason, located about […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are taking the first steps to change the chamber’s rules on Thursday, moving to make it easier to confirm groups of President Donald Trump’s nominees after last minute negotiations with Democrats fell apart. Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s move is the latest salvo after a dozen years of gradual changes […]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A U.S. Cabinet official overseeing a planned expansion of natural gas exports to Europe said Thursday that Greece could play a key role through its pipeline system that extends across the region. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited a liquefied natural gas terminal outside Athens that is linked to a bidirectional pipeline […]
Political analyst Matthew Dowd is out of a job at MSNBC after his on-air comment following conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killing about “hateful words” leading to “hateful actions.” MSNBC said Thursday that Dowd, a paid political analyst, is “no longer with the network.” Both MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler and Dowd issued public apologies following his […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University says it has started receiving notices that many federal grants halted by the Trump administration will be reinstated after a federal judge ruled that the cuts were illegal. It’s an early signal that federal research funding could begin flowing to Harvard after months of deadlock with the White House, but […]
