By FATIMA HUSSEIN Updated 3:22 PM CDT, August 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s whittled down his list of potential Federal Reserve chair candidates to four as he considers a successor to Jerome Powell — a choice…
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Updated 1:17 PM CDT, August 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s day began typically enough, with a television interview and a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Then it took an unexpected and unusual turn when he appeared on…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Violent crime in the United States fell 4.5% last year, according to a new FBI report, which also shows an 8% drop in property crime from the year before. The FBI statistics released Tuesday show murder and…
By JOSH FUNK Updated 10:18 AM CDT, August 5, 2025 A new federal rule proposed Tuesday would make it easier for companies to use drones over longer distances out of the operator’s sight without having to go through a cumbersome waiver…
By STEPHEN GROVES Updated 9:38 AM CDT, August 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department on Tuesday for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Updated 8:54 PM CDT, August 3, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. Actress Loni Anderson…
By RIO YAMAT Updated 11:06 PM CDT, August 3, 2025 LAS VEGAS (AP) — When Susana Pacheco accepted a housekeeping job at a casino on the Las Vegas Strip 16 years ago, she believed it was a step toward stability for…
By JEFF AMY Updated 9:52 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 ATLANTA (AP) — Former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley on Monday announced his 2026 Republican bid for the U.S. Senate in Georgia against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff. The 57-year-old Dooley…
By CHRISTINA LARSON Updated 10:00 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars –…
By CORA LEWIS and LINLEY SANDERS Updated 8:56 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The vast majority of U.S. adults are at least somewhat stressed about the cost of groceries, a new poll finds, as prices continue to rise and concerns about…
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Updated 9:41 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Several thousand workers at three Midwest manufacturing plants where Boeing develops military aircraft and weapons went on strike early Monday, potentially complicating the aerospace company’s progress in regaining its financial…
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ANDREW DEMILLO Updated 6:56 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Updated 2:10 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 A baby boy born last week to an Ohio couple developed from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years in what is believed to be the longest…
By JAMES POLLARD Updated 1:11 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Online creators from dozens of countries, led by MrBeast and popular science YouTuber Mark Rober, are launching a $40 million fundraiser to build water quality projects around the world. The…
By DAN GELSTON Updated 11:42 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The first 5K held in the memory of John and Matt Gaudreau helped raise more than $500,000, enough to break ground later this year on an accessible playground…
By LINDSEY BAHR Updated 9:29 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 The best of the internet’s cat videos are coming to the big screen this weekend. Cat Video Fest is a 73-minute, G-rated selection of all things feline —silly, cuddly, sentimental and comedic—that’s playing in more…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Updated 2:53 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Federal judge T.S. Ellis III, whose legal scholarship and commanding courtroom presence was evident in numerous high-profile trials, has died after a long illness. He was 85. Ellis…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Updated 2:01 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A stalemate over the pace of confirmations has delayed the Senate’s yearly August recess, for now, as President Donald Trump declares that his nominees “should NOT BE…
By ANDREW DEMILLO and SAFIYAH RIDDLE Updated 9:43 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A 28-year-old teacher who authorities say admitted to fatally stabbing a couple he didn’t know who were hiking with two of their children in an Arkansas state…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case generates renewed public attention. The federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday that…
By MARCIA DUNN Updated 11:20 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts sidelined for the past year by Boeing’s Starliner trouble blasted off to the International Space Station on Friday, getting a lift from SpaceX. The U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew of four rocketed…
By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Updated 9:38 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. hiring is slowing sharply as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyze businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy. The Labor…
By JOSH FUNK Updated 5:49 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday enters its third and final day of public testimony over the fatal midair crash between an Army helicopter and commercial jet in January. Two previous…
By ITZEL LUNA Updated 2:13 PM CDT, July 31, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Timberlake has been diagnosed with Lyme disease, the former NSYNC star said on Instagram Thursday. Timberlake shared the news in a post commemorating his Forget Tomorrow tour, which…
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Updated 2:49 PM CDT, July 31, 2025 The Trump administration is canceling plans to use large areas of federal waters for new offshore wind development, the latest step to suppress the industry in the United States. More than…
By ALEXA ST. JOHN Updated 1:38 PM CDT, July 31, 2025 The U.S. Department of Defense will now continue sharing key data collected by three weather satellites that help forecasters track hurricanes. Meteorologists and scientists had warned of risks to accurate…
By AMANDA SEITZ Updated 6:03 PM CDT, July 30, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced a plan for a new private health tracking system that will make it easier for patients to access their health records and monitor their wellness…
By MIKE STOBBE Updated 1:37 PM CDT, July 31, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Thursday. The fraction…
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Updated 2:03 PM CDT, July 31, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday announced that construction on a $200 million ballroom will begin in September and be ready for entertaining before President Donald Trump ‘s term ends in…
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan died of a heart attack last week, according to a Florida medical examiner’s report released Thursday. Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea, previously had leukemia and atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm, the…
By MATT OTT Updated 7:51 AM CDT, July 31, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits inched up modestly last week as business continue to retain staff despite economic uncertainty around U.S. trade policy. The Labor…
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Updated 9:56 AM CDT, July 31, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday plans to reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren. The program, which was created in 1966, had children run and perform…
By CODY JACKSON Updated 11:54 AM CDT, July 30, 2025 JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A large sea turtle that was found injured along the Florida coast in May following a boat strike was returned to the ocean on Wednesday. The…
By JEFFREY COLLINS Updated 12:39 PM CDT, July 30, 2025 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said…
BALTIMORE (AP) — Demolition crews are using giant saws, backhoes and other heavy equipment to remove large sections of the remaining pieces of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed last year after a container ship lost power and veered off…
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Updated 1:13 PM CDT, July 30, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve left its key short-term interest rate unchanged for the fifth time this year, brushing off repeated calls from President Donald Trump for a cut. The Fed’s decision…
By AMANDA SEITZ Updated 12:38 PM CDT, July 30, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is pushing an initiative for millions of Americans to upload personal health data and medical records on new apps and systems run by private tech companies, promising…
By JOSH BOAK and RAJESH ROY Updated 11:27 AM CDT, July 30, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will impose a 25% tariff on goods from India, plus an additional import tax because of India’s purchasing of Russian oil, President Donald Trump said…
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Updated 2:01 PM CDT, July 30, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris will not run for California governor next year, leaving open the possibility that she could mount a third run for the White House…
By JOSH FUNK Updated 9:08 AM CDT, July 29, 2025 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, and potentially trigger a final wave of rail mergers…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN Updated 3:23 PM CDT, July 29, 2025 Starbucks said Tuesday it’s confident that new products coming next year -- including a cold foam protein drink, coconut water-based beverages and improved baked goods -- will help turn around the company’s lagging…
By STEPHEN WADE Updated 9:15 AM CDT, July 29, 2025 SINGAPORE (AP) — Katie Ledecky has ceded a tiny bit of ground in other events, but she’s still unbeatable in the 1,500-meter freestyle. She won it again Tuesday in the swimming…
By PAUL WISEMAN Updated 10:01 AM CDT, July 29, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers posted 7.4 million job vacancies last month, a sign that the American job market continues to cool. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that job openings in June…
By PHILIP MARCELO, ERIC TUCKER and MIKE BALSAMO Updated 9:51 AM CDT, July 29, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building before killing himself claimed in a note to have a brain disease linked to contact sports…
By CHRISTINA LARSON Updated 8:56 AM CDT, July 25, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s almost time for summer’s meteor shower duet. The Southern Delta Aquariid and the Alpha Capricornid meteor showers peak at the same time — in the early morning of July 30.…
By KELVIN CHAN Updated 7:08 AM CDT, July 28, 2025 LONDON (AP) — Chinese online retailer Temu was accused by European Union watchdogs on Monday of failing to prevent the sale of illegal products on its platform. The preliminary findings follow…
By WILL WEISSERT Updated 11:20 PM CDT, July 27, 2025 EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — The United States and the European Union agreed on Sunday to a trade framework setting a 15% tariff on most goods, staving off — at least for now —…
By JUAN A. LOZANO Updated 2:11 PM CDT, July 28, 2025 HOUSTON (AP) — Leaders of the county where 19 students and two teachers were killed in the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, voted Monday to release records related…
By DAVID KLEPPER Updated 6:17 AM CDT, July 28, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The phone rings. It’s the secretary of state calling. Or is it? For Washington insiders, seeing and hearing is no longer believing, thanks to a spate of recent…
By PATRICK WHITTLE Updated 11:34 AM CDT, July 28, 2025 PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine congressman and several commercial fishing groups are getting behind a push to delay rules designed to protect a vanishing species of whale for 10 years.…
