By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A sweeping 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive U.S. manufacturing of semiconductors and reduce the country's reliance on foreign-made computer chips, will "sharply increase production'' of semiconductors in the ...

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press In January 1981, Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan as the new Republican president thanked the Democrat for his administration's help after Reagan resoundingly defeated Carter the previous November. Twenty years earlier, after a much ...

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 260,000 former students of the now-defunct for-profit Ashford University are getting their student loans erased as the Biden administration presses ahead with debt forgiveness in its final days. Ashford was once one of the ...

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government clawed back more than $31 million in Social Security payments that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that one official said Wednesday was "just the tip of the iceberg." The money was reclaimed as part of a ...

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Ethics Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to fine two advocacy groups that were founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams and led by Raphael Warnock before voters elected him to the U.S. Senate. The commission found that the New ...

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the CIA told senators during his confirmation hearing Wednesday that the nation's premier spy agency must do a better job of staying ahead of global threats posed by Russia, China and other ...

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In an announcement postponed by the Los Angeles wildfires, President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two sites in California as national monuments that will honor Native American tribes while shielding picturesque mountains and deserts ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's police department is curbing its use of high-speed chases after finding that about one-quarter of more than 2,200 initiated by officers last year led to a collision, property damage, physical harm or death. A new policy effective Feb. 1 will limit vehicle ...

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing a 30-day flag-lowering order following the death of former President Jimmy Carter. The Republican leader's decision ...

By DANA BELTAJI and ISABELLA O'MALLEY Associated Press Fire danger remains high in parts of Los Angeles that have been ablaze for days, but there is hope that better weather over the weekend will give firefighters battling the flames some much-needed relief. After calmer weather on ...

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The Congressional Budget Office has shrunk its projections for the U.S. population in 30 years to 372 million residents, a 2.8% drop from last year, citing declining birth rates and less expected immigration. The budget office last year projected 383 ...

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Stressing his own organization's ability to pay out $1.2 billion over 10 years to help settle an industry-changing lawsuit, NCAA President Charlie Baker also urged Congress to pass legislation that could put college sports on a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — One day after Michael Thomas Lewis was charged with felony stalking of Indiana Fever star and WNBA rookie of the year Caitlin Clark, the 55-year-old Texas man shouted "guilty as charged" as soon as he sat down in a courtroom Tuesday. Lewis is accused of repeated and ...

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — House Democrats boycotted the opening day of Minnesota's 2025 legislative session Tuesday in an effort to stop Republicans from exploiting a temporary one-seat majority to remove one of their members. But GOP representatives ...

By LISA MASCARO, TARA COPP and MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump's choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, vowed Tuesday to foster a "warrior culture" at the Pentagon and confronted allegations of sexual assault and excessive drinking and ...

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer Government inspectors documented unsanitary conditions at several Boar's Head deli meat plants, not just the factory that was shut down last year after a deadly outbreak of listeria poisoning, federal records show. Newly released reports from Boar's Head ...

Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Thomas E. McHugh died Tuesday, the court announced in a news release. He was 88. McHugh was once quoted as saying he "retired twice" from the court, having served two distinct tenures as a ...

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A witness broke down in tears as she described children carrying heavy objects on hilly terrain at the home of a West Virginia couple who were later arrested after two of their five adopted children were found locked in an ...

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pardoning rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol four years ago can't erase the truth about what happened that day, the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., said Tuesday as he prepares to leave office. "There is no undoing ...

By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is cohosting a reception with billionaire Republican donors next week for Donald Trump's inauguration, the latest sign of the Facebook founder's embrace of the president-elect. The reception ...