By TY ONEIL and JAIMIE DING Associated Press WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Powerful winter storms brought the wettest Christmas season to Southern California in years, sending mud and debris sliding and half-filling homes with mud. There was still a risk of more flash flooding and mudslides ...
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Christmas came early for someone who purchased a Powerball ticket at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, worth more than $1.8 billion. The lone winner in Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing matched all five winning numbers and the Powerball to ...
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said the United States launched a "powerful and deadly" strike against forces of the Islamic State group in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country's government of failing to ...
By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died. He was 65. The band made the announcement on their official website on Friday. "It is with enormous sadness that we confirm the ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Cuban immigrant who had built a new life working at a Kentucky scrapyard died on Christmas Day from severe burns suffered in last month's UPS cargo plane crash, raising the death toll to 15, officials said. Alain Rodriguez Colina was on the ground when the plane, ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two sisters testified at Harvey Weinstein's most recent criminal trial. Kaja Sokola accused the disgraced movie mogul of sexual assault. Ewa Sokola was called as a witness to boost her claims, but ultimately ended ...
By MADDY FRANKLIN/Pittsburgh's Public Source Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump disrupted the country's research landscape with a series of executive orders and administrative actions aimed at slashing key funding sources and limiting the subjects of federally backed ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A grand jury has declined to indict the father of two Kentucky State University students who was charged with murder in an on-campus shooting that killed one student and critically injured another. In a social media post after the Tuesday hearing, defense attorney Scott ...
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy. His double-digit taxes on imports ...
By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press After the crystal ball drops on New Year's Eve in New York City, it will rise again, sparkling in red, white and blue to usher in 2026 and kick off months of celebrations for the nation's upcoming 250th birthday. The patriotic touches at this year's Times ...
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The developers of a Virginia offshore wind project are asking a federal judge to block a Trump administration order that halted construction of their project, along with four others, over national security concerns. Dominion Energy Virginia said in its lawsuit filed late ...
By MINGSON LAU, MARC LEVY AND MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — Rescuers braved shooting flames, falling debris and the threat of more explosions to evacuate dozens of nursing home residents after a blast ripped through a Pennsylvania facility, killing a resident and an ...
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press A Delaware state trooper who was shot to death at a DMV office was described Thursday as dependable and professional on the job and steady and kind at home. Cpl. Matthew "Ty" Snook, 34, of Hockessin, Delaware, was working an overtime assignment at a DMV ...
The Associated Press GLEN BURNIE, Md. (AP) — Federal immigration agents shot at a moving vehicle on Wednesday morning during an enforcement and removal action, striking one person and injuring another, officials said. A spokesperson for the Anne Arundel County Police Department said ...
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Telluride, one of the best-known ski resorts in the Western U.S., plans to close in the coming days due to a labor dispute between its owner and the ski patrol union. The Telluride Professional Ski Patrol Association voted ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A federal judge's ruling has cleared the way for Hawaii to include cruise ship passengers in a new tourist tax to help cope with climate change, a levy set to go into effect at the start of 2026. U.S. District Judge Jill A. Otake ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose ...
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump marked Christmas Eve by quizzing children calling in about what presents they were excited about receiving, while promising to not let a "bad Santa" infiltrate the country and even suggesting that a ...
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — Like many retirement communities, The Terraces serves as a tranquil refuge for a nucleus of older people who no longer can travel to faraway places or engage in bold adventures. But they can still be thrust back to their ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and MENGSHIN LIN Associated Press KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Throngs of feral cats emerge from the shade of parked trucks and bushes as soon as the familiar Subaru Forester pulls into a dump on Hawaii's Big Island. They run after the vehicle to a certain meal ...