By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market fell from its records Friday and joined a worldwide drop for stocks after higher oil prices sent a shiver through the bond market. Stocks that had been caught up in the euphoria…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN Starbucks said Friday it’s laying off 300 corporate employees and closing some U.S. offices as part of its ongoing turnaround. No coffeehouse employees are affected, the company said. The cuts will impact employees in support functions like marketing, human resources…
By THOMAS PEIPERT An adolescent owl that was found stuck in a concrete mixer in southwestern Utah is finally on the mend, flying free and maybe a bit wiser from the ordeal. The great horned owl somehow made his way into the…
By KAITLYN HUAMANI Social media CEOs once again are being called to testify before the Senate in light of mounting legal and public pressure to protect young users on their platforms. The leaders of Meta, Alphabet, TikTok and Snap were invited to testify…
LAUREL, Miss. (AP) — A 20-year-old man wanted in connection to the shooting of Missouri football star Ahmad Hardy at an outdoor concert in Mississippi has been arrested. Rashodrick Harris of Wayne County, Mississippi, was taken into custody in Paducah, Kentucky, on…
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, EMMA BURROWS, BEN FINLEY and CLAUDIA CIOBANU WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is drawing down thousands of troops in Europe by canceling deployments to Poland and Germany as opposed to yanking forces already stationed there, U.S. officials say, as President Donald Trump…
By JOSHUA GOODMAN, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER MIAMI (AP) — The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday, as President Donald Trump threatens…
By STEVEN SLOAN WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to build an exhibit of statues featuring prominent Americans in a tightly regulated park along the Potomac River, potentially opening a new legal fight over whether his administration is ignoring the approvals process…
By JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein ’s rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked. While the former Hollywood mogul has been convicted of other sex crimes on two U.S. coasts and remains behind bars, the mistrial…
By PHILIP MARCELO NEW YORK (AP) — North America’s largest commuter rail system is facing a potential shutdown as a deadline nears to reach a deal with unionized workers to avert a strike. The Long Island Rail Road that serves New…
By ROB MAADDI The 2026 NFL season will kick off with a Super Bowl rematch. Mike Macdonald, Sam Darnold and the Seattle Seahawks will face off against Mike Vrabel, Drake Maye and the New England Patriots after raising their championship banner on Sept.…
By AAMER MADHANI, WILL WEISSERT and SIMINA MISTREANU BEIJING (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he has not made a decision on whether to move forward with a major arms package for Taiwan after hearing concerns about it from Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump’s…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market rose to more records Thursday after Cisco Systems joined the parade of U.S. companies reporting fatter profits for the start of 2026 than analysts expected. The S&P 500 climbed 0.8%…
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers tempered their spending in April as higher gas prices fueled by the Iran war meant less money left over for some nonessentials like clothing and furniture. But they’re still buying, thanks to more generous government tax refunds.…
By MATT OTT WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless aid rose last week but remains historically low despite the economic uncertainty caused by the war in Iran. U.S. applications for unemployment benefits for the the week ending…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of U.S. Border Patrol, the agency tasked with securing the nation’s frontiers and increasingly tapped by the Trump administration for immigration operations in American cities, announced his resignation Thursday. Michael Banks’ decision, announced in a…
By ALEX VEIGA The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate edged lower after rising the previous two weeks. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate fell to 6.36% from 6.37% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the…
By DAVID A. LIEB, JACK BROOK and JEFFREY COLLINS Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, state senators passed a plan Thursday that would eliminate a majority-Black district while giving Republicans a chance to win an additional seat in…
By SAVANNAH PETERS A small medical plane crashed outside Ruidoso, New Mexico, on Thursday morning, killing all four people aboard, officials say. The cause of the crash remains unknown, according to Lincoln County Manager Jason Burns. The flight departed from Roswell…
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid swings past Mars this week for a gravity boost, snapping thousands of pictures as practice for the main encounter in 2029. Named Psyche like the asteroid it’s after, the…
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators unanimously approved a resolution Thursday to withhold their pay during government shutdowns, an attempt to make federal closures financially painful for lawmakers after a string of record-breaking impasses in the past year. The…
By DAVID A. LIEB, JACK BROOK and JEFFREY COLLINS Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, state senators on Thursday are to consider a plan that would eliminate a majority-Black district while giving Republicans a chance to win an…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — A rebound for technology stocks led Wall Street to records Wednesday, even though the majority of U.S. stocks fell following another discouraging update on inflation. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% and topped its prior all-time high set…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN Americans paid more for their groceries last month, but high gasoline prices resulting from the Iran war were only one of the reasons why. Prices for food eaten at home rose 2.9% in April compared to the same month a…
By PAUL WISEMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale inflation came in hot last month. Producer prices rose 6% from a year earlier, the highest point in more than three years, as the Iran war pushes up energy prices and intensifies pressure on companies…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak says he’s the lone American isolated at a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska. Dr. Stephen Kornfeld of Bend, Oregon, says he volunteered to help care…
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — The remains of the second U.S. Army soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered, the Army said Wednesday, ending a multinational search operation that deployed air, naval and artificial intelligence assets.…
By SEUNG MIN KIM and MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is suspending a requirement that foreign visitors from certain countries pay as much as $15,000 in bonds if they are confirmed World Cup ticket holders, the State Department told The…
JACKSON, Miss. (WXXV)- The special legislative session that was set to begin next week to discuss the redrawing of state Supreme Court districts has been called off. The cancellation comes after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday vacated the…
By ALI SWENSON and MICHELLE L. PRICE WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday pursued new efforts in a sweeping initiative to root out fraud in federal health programs, including announcing a nationwide six-month freeze on some new Medicare enrollments and warning…
By DAVE SKRETTA All-American running back Ahmad Hardy has been discharged from a Mississippi hospital following a shooting over the weekend, and the Missouri standout is returning to Columbia to begin the recovery effort in the hopes of playing this season.…
By JACK BROOK and DAVID A. LIEB BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican senators in Louisiana advanced a plan Wednesday to eliminate one of two majority-Black, Democratic-held congressional seats following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the state’s U.S. House map as an…
By JEFFREY COLLINS COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Prosecutors said they plan to retry disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh on murder charges in the shooting deaths of his wife and younger son after the state Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned his conviction and life sentence.…
By STAN CHOE A sudden halt for technology stocks put the brakes on Wall Street’s record-setting run Tuesday. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% from its all-time high set the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 56 points, or 0.1%, while the…
By PAUL WISEMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer prices climbed sharply again last month as the 10-week war with Iran delivered higher gasoline prices and more pain for Americans. The Labor Department’s consumer price index rose 3.8% from April 2025, the biggest jump…
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS NEW YORK (AP) — As steep fuel prices strain household budgets during the war with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump wants to suspend his government’s tax on gasoline. It’s a move Trump can’t do on his own — and the…
By LAURA UNGAR A hormonal condition affecting 1 in 8 women around the world just got a new name in hopes of improving care. It Is now called polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome instead of polycystic ovary syndrome. Researchers and supporters of…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke has died, the team, his agency and the NBA said Tuesday. He was 29. Neither the Grizzlies nor Clarke’s agency, Priority Sports, immediately provided any details about when, where or how Clarke died. “We are heartbroken…
By THOMAS ADAMSON and RUSS BYNUM PARIS (AP) — A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday.…
ATLANTA (AP) — A man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to an auto break-in last year in Atlanta that police say resulted in the theft of unreleased music by Beyoncé. Kelvin Evans, 41, entered guilty pleas in Fulton County Superior Court to…
By KELVIN CHAN The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle of finals. Instructure, the parent…
By COLLIN BINKLEY WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is scheduled to see doctors for a medical and dental checkup this month — his fourth publicized visit to medical experts since returning to office — in what the White House describes as an…
By MIKE CORDER and RUSS BYNUM THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Spanish passenger evacuated from the cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus, Spain’s health ministry announced Tuesday. The outbreak has now reached 11 total…
By DAVID A. LIEB, JEFFREY COLLINS, JACK BROOK and KIM CHANDLER Missouri’s top court is hearing an important legal challenge Tuesday to one of President Donald Trump’s earliest redistricting successes while lawmakers in Louisiana and South Carolina weigh whether to become the most recent Republican…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices rose Monday as the war with Iran threatens to drag on for longer, but the U.S. stock market nevertheless inched toward more records. The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil climbed 2.9% to settle…
By ALEX VEIGA Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes were essentially flat in April, another lackluster showing for the housing market during what’s traditionally its busiest time of the year. Existing home sales edged up 0.2% last month from March to a seasonally…
By DAVID A. LIEB, KIM CHANDLER and MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to get rid of one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year’s midterm elections, creating an opening for Republicans…
By JESSE BEDAYN President Donald Trump on Monday nominated David Cummins to head the Transportation Security Administration — which has had a rocky few months as employees went without paychecks and security lines grew long at airports across the country. Cummins, who worked…
By JOHN RABY Faith leaders and politicians paid tribute at a funeral Saturday to eight children who were killed in a mass shooting last month in Louisiana. The victims of the April 19 shooting in Shreveport included seven siblings who were shot by their father…
By AKRAM OUBACHIR CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — The remains of a U.S. soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco a week ago were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean, the army said Sunday. Military teams were still searching for a second missing soldier. The…