By JOHN ANTCZAK and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press
Lightning strikes have sparked fast-moving wildfires in Idaho, prompting the evacuation of multiple communities, including one in which a man drove past a building and trees engulfed in flames as a tunnel of smoke rose over the ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gabrielle Giffords, the former Democratic congresswoman who was grievously wounded in a 2011 shooting in her Arizona district, took to the campaign trail Thursday for Vice President Kamala Harris, as Harris' nascent presidential campaign ...
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are moving quickly to emphasize Vice President Kamala Harris's role in the Biden administration's handling of the U.S. border with Mexico, passing a resolution Thursday that condemns her performance in the job.
The ...
By JOSH BOAK and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters on Thursday that she's "ready to debate Donald Trump."
She accused him of "backpedaling" away from a previous agreement for a debate hosted by ABC News on Sept. 10.
"I think the ...
By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered state agencies Thursday to start removing homeless encampments on state land in his boldest action yet following a Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review rulings that found the state's refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, Republican Attorney ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are urging a judge to uphold Donald Trump's historic hush money conviction, arguing in court papers made public Thursday that the verdict should stand despite the Supreme Court's recent ruling on ...
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CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. (AP) — Thousands of people gathered in Virginia to watch the Chincoteague wild ponies make their annual swim across the Assateague Channel, the 99th year of the popular tradition.
The ponies made the short swim across the channel Wednesday as the crowd ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
Already more than a month late getting back, two NASA astronauts will remain at the International Space Station until engineers finish working on problems plaguing their Boeing capsule, officials said Thursday.
Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ...
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The 2024 White House campaign has thrust a handful of governors and senators into the mix for vice president, and that has drawn attention to rules of succession in the contenders' home states should they win.
Each state has its own rules for naming replacements ...
By CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press/Report for America
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia sun scorched the slab of concrete beneath Juan Carlos Ramirez Bibiano's body when nurses found him in a puddle of his own excrement, vomiting, according to a complaint.
Officers left Ramirez in an ...
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press
Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his ...
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a sweeping gun bill Thursday that supporters say builds on the state's existing gun laws, including a crackdown on hard to trace "ghost guns," while safeguarding the rights of gun owners.
The law is ...
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — The first change that stands out is the music, with President Joe Biden's rock and Motown fading from the playlist in favor of more pop and hip hop.
Then comes Vice President Kamala Harris' stump speech, devoid of ...
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — New federal court rulings are narrowing the Biden administration's enforcement of a rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination and allowing critics to limit it even further school by school.
A federal judge in Missouri ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Thursday to direct state agencies on how to remove homeless encampments, a month after a Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in public spaces.
Newsom's order is aimed at the ...
MILAN (AP) — Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares pledged action to tackle problems in North America and elsewhere Thursday after reporting a plunge in first-half earnings.
U.S.-European automaker Stellantis reported net profits down by half in the first half of the year due largely to lower sales ...
LINCOLN, N.Y. (AP) — A woman was killed and a man was injured when their upstate New York house exploded, authorities said.
The house exploded just after 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the town of Lincoln in Madison County.
Crews from several police and fire departments arrived at the scene and ...
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer
DALLAS (AP) — Goodbye, cattle call.
Southwest Airlines said Thursday that it plans to drop the open-boarding system it has used for more than 50 years and will start assigning passengers to seats, just like all the other big airlines.
The airline said ...
By NADIA LATHAN and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer who was part of the slow law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School pleaded not guilty during a court appearance Thursday.
Adrian Gonzales ...