By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people's mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide. For the ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Below Cleveland, in a subterranean world many surface dwellers don't know exists, miners extract a crucial winter mineral — salt. The Whiskey Island salt mine, owned by food giant Cargill, helps supply road salt across the Northeast and Great Lakes, where a colder, ...
By LINLEY SANDERS and MICHAEL CATALINI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans believe recent U.S. military action against Iran has gone too far, and many are worried about affording gasoline, according to a new AP-NORC poll. As the war launched by the U.S. and Israel ...
By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING, MUNIR AHMED and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has received an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East, officials said Wednesday — a proposal sent even as Washington deploys paratroopers and more Marines ...
By JON GAMBRELL, LEE KEATH and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump's surprising claim this week that talks with Iran were yielding great progress has only raised more confusion over a war whose goals were already unclear. The most ...
By AAMER MADHANI, JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Trump administration offered a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran, a person briefed on the contours of the proposal said late Tuesday, even as the U.S. military prepared to ...
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is preparing to deploy at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East in the coming days, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. The unit is considered ...
By MIKE CATALINI and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press It's costing more and more to gas up the hot rods that Donnie Beson has spent a lifetime tinkering with. He's not questioning his support for President Donald Trump, but he feels as though the war in Iran has distracted the Republican ...
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is preparing to deploy at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East in the coming days, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. The unit is considered ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortion clinic doctor sentenced to life for killing three babies who had been delivered alive, died earlier this month at a Pennsylvania hospital, prison officials said Monday. Gosnell's grimy West Philadelphia clinic became known as the "house of ...
FAIRFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Although President Donald Trump is the top Democratic nemesis, some of the party's most ambitious leaders are increasingly looking past him and at Vice President JD Vance. In the latest example, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear traveled to Vance's home county in Ohio, where ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A year ago, federal environmental regulators told West Virginia officials that their plan to clear sulfur and smog from skies over the state's national wilderness areas wasn't good enough because a dozen coal plants didn't analyze whether they needed better pollution ...
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is on track to confirm Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary, President Donald Trump's nominee to take over the embattled department after firing Kristi Noem amid a public backlash over the administration's ...
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Closing arguments are scheduled Monday in a landmark trial in New Mexico where social media conglomerate Meta is accused of misleading its users about how safe its platforms are for children. Jurors will take up the case after the ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two people were killed and several others badly hurt when an Air Canada regional jet struck a fire truck on a runway while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport, officials said. The pilot and copilot were killed in ...
By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rahm Emanuel, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, is proposing a far-reaching ban on betting in prediction markets by federal employees and their families as part of an effort to call attention to what he says is a ...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in a case from Mississippi over whether states can count late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President Donald Trump. The outcome of the case could affect voters in 14 states and the ...
By JESSICA HILL Associated Press More than 2,000 people remained without power Sunday afternoon after Hawaii suffered its worst flooding in more than 20 years when heavy rains fell across the islands. Heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago. ...
By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The federal trial of a former Miami congressman accused of secretly lobbying for Venezuela's government during the first Trump administration begins Monday with Secretary of State Marco Rubio set to testify over his interactions with his ...
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A statue of Christopher Columbus has been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, the latest effort by President Donald Trump's administration to recognize the controversial ...