WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands on health care as unserious but says a government shutdown is still "avoidable" despite sharp divisions ahead of Wednesday's funding deadline. "I'm a big believer that there's always a way out," the South ...

Today is Saturday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2025. There are 95 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1996, the Taliban, the extremist Islamic movement in Afghanistan, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, the capital, and executed former President ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Speaking over video after the United States denied his visa, the Palestinian leader told world leaders Thursday that his people reject the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and pledged that the militant group would have no role in governing the Gaza Strip after war ends and ...

Today is Friday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2025. There are 96 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1960, the first nationally televised debate between presidential candidates took place as Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon faced off in Chicago. Also on this ...

A 99-year-old woman died yesterday. Though I'd never met her, I cried as I read her obituary. Her name was Marilyn Hagerty, and even as a nonagenarian, she was still writing the same gentle restaurant reviews that had made her briefly but brilliantly famous. She wasn't famous in the new way ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's second-term strengths look different from his first, according to recent polling. Once strengthened by economic issues, Trump's approval is now relatively low on the economy and he's leaning on his stronger issues of crime, border security and ...