By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate, once again, was working into the early morning hours Friday with its new majority leader, Republican John Thune, setting the pace. It wasn't until just after 2 a.m. that the last of the senators had straggled into the ...
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A political battle fit for the gridiron is underway in Ohio, where state Republican leaders are clashing over whether to single out the Cleveland Browns for help building a new suburban domed stadium or impose tax hikes to fund ...
By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — This "yo-yo" of a year continues for America's nutritional peanut paste manufacturers, nonprofits that have found their lifesaving food packets disrupted by the U.S. State Department's sudden pause in foreign assistance. Georgia-based ...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Boxing is ready for a reboot — "Boots" is more like it — in the welterweight division. Not only did Atlantic City get new life for its long storied, yet stagnant, big-fight history, Jaron Ennis cashed in as the undisputed best in the 147-pound division. Ennis ...
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and SARAH RAZA Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — With egg prices stubbornly high, the internet has offered up a host of alternatives, with crafters painting rocks and influencers dyeing everything from marshmallows to potatoes. "Finally a use for B sized ...
By STEPHANY MATAT and CURT ANDERSON Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Three people were killed and one was injured when a small plane crashed Friday morning in South Florida near a major interstate highway and pushed a car onto railroad tracks, officials said. Boca Raton Fire ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The cases of two men who allege they were sexually abused as children in Northern California by a now-deceased priest can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled. The decision Thursday by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali comes nearly two years after San Francisco's ...
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday hung a painting of President Donald Trump depicting a moment after an assassination attempt against him last summer — bumping the official portrait of one of his predecessors, Barack ...
By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In a surprise announcement Friday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said she will not seek a third term in office. Reynolds, a Republican, has held the position since 2017, when former Gov. Terry Branstad was appointed U.S. ambassador ...
By MICHAEL CASEY and ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Looking to cut pollution from its fleet of diesel-burning school buses, an Oklahoma school district last year doubled its electric vehicles. The Shawnee Public Schools, a 3,300-student district about 35 miles (56 ...
BOSTON (AP) — A commercial fishing boat hit ground and capsized, leading to the rescue of three people and a fuel spill in Boston Harbor. The 86-foot scallop fishing boat became stuck in shallow water and tilted over near Green Island with three people on board, Coast Guard officials said. ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday sided with the Trump administration in allowing immigration agents to conduct enforcement operations at houses of worship for now, despite a lawsuit filed by religious groups over the ...
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks jumped Friday in another manic day on Wall Street, while the falling value of the U.S. dollar and other swings in financial markets suggested fear is still high about escalations in President Donald Trump's trade war with ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus. It's a significant shift in policy for ...
By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that a convicted killer who was mistakenly released from a Georgia jail has been caught two weeks later in Florida — ending days of anxiety for the victim's family outside Orlando who feared he might ...
By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine officials said Friday the state will not comply with a ban on transgender athletes in high school sports in the wake of a Trump administration finding that the state violated antidiscrimination laws by allowing the students ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the struggling coal industry, a reliable but polluting energy source that's long been in decline. Under the four orders, Trump uses his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired ...
By CORA LEWIS and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to overturn a rule that would have limited bank overdraft fees to $5, following the Senate in moving to dismantle the regulation that the Biden administration had estimated would save ...
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California youth soccer coach charged with killing a 13-year-old boy last month has also been accused of assaulting at least two other teens in recent years, prosecutors said. Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino is charged with ...
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is having early discussions about a grand military parade in the nation's capital this summer, something that is a long-held dream of President Donald Trump. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ...