DALLAS (AP) — The man who was fatally shot when a gunman targeted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas last week has been identified as a 37-year-old detainee from El Salvador, federal officials said Monday. Norlan Guzman-Fuentes was killed…
By JOSH FUNK CSX railroad announced Monday that it had replaced its CEO less than two months after an investment fund urged it to either find another railroad to merge with to better compete with the proposed transcontinental Union Pacific railroad or fire outgoing…
NEW YORK (AP) — About 58 million pounds of corn dogs and other sausage-on-a-stick products are being recalled across the U.S. because pieces of wood may be embedded in the batter, with several consumers reporting injuries to date. According to a Saturday notice published…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Airplane maintenance workers at a North Carolina airport found the body of a suspected stowaway in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines flight that had recently arrived from Europe, police said. The body was found Sunday…
By DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas closed most schools Monday as Tropical Storm Imelda dropped heavy rain in the northern Caribbean, including over Cuba where landslides killed at least one man. The storm was…
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM PROVO, Utah (AP) — An attorney for the 22-year-old man charged with killing Charlie Kirk asked a judge Monday for more time to review the large amount of evidence in the case before deciding if the defense will seek…
By ISABELLA VOLMERT and MARK VANCLEAVE GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — In the chaotic moments after a former Marine smashed his pickup truck into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Michigan and began shooting, church members dragged others…
By LINDSEY BAHR and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are more likely to watch newly released movies from the comfort of their own homes instead of heading out to a theater, according to a new poll. About three-quarters of U.S. adults said…
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN NEW YORK (AP) — An undersea submersible has spotted crabs, worms and fish thriving on the surfaces of World War II explosives thought to be toxic to marine life. At a former weapons dump site in the Baltic Sea, scientists found more…
By JOHN SEEWER Puppets and props from Muppets creator Jim Henson’s extensive career will go up for auction this fall, including pieces from children’s shows such as “Fraggle Rock” and “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.” There are also calendars autographed by Miss…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Residents of a San Francisco Bay Area city are on the lookout for an aggressive squirrel that has sent at least two people to the emergency room for medical treatment. Joan Heblack told ABC affiliate KGO-TV that she…
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications and threaten astronauts in flight. The three satellites soared from Kennedy Space Center…
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur from Argentina with powerful claws, feasting on an ancient crocodile bone. The new find was possibly 23 feet (7 meters) long and hailed from a mysterious group of dinosaurs called megaraptorans. They prowled…
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA introduced its newest astronauts Monday, 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to help explore the moon and possibly Mars. For the first time, there were more women than…
By BARBARA ORTUTAY Despite years of congressional hearings, lawsuits, academic research, whistleblowers and testimony from parents and teenagers about the dangers of Instagram, Meta’s wildly popular app has failed to protect children from harm, with “woefully ineffective” safety measures, according to…
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A map drafted centuries ago as Spanish settlers solidified their presence in what is now Mexico and the southwestern United States has been returned to the Mexican government, marking the end of a…
By RONALD BLUM NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season. Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the major leagues in 2026. Human plate umpires will…
By DEVNA BOSE/Mississippi Today PETAL, Miss. (AP) — Preschoolers kneel on a kaleidoscope rug, their clumsy hands reaching for wooden blocks, little socked feet tucked underneath. Block by block, they build a tower that only teeters a little, and for a…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street stumbled to a third straight loss on Thursday as U.S. stocks gave back more of their big gains for the year so far. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% and marked its longest losing streak in more…
By BARBARA ORTUTAY SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots. U.S. District Judge William Alsup…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and REBECCA BOONE LOS ANGELES (AP) — An outside review of Los Angeles County’s response to January’s deadly wildfires found a lack of resources and outdated policies for sending emergency alerts led to delays in warning residents about the need to…
By JACK BROOK and SOPHIE BATES HOLLY RIDGE, La. (AP) — In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world’s largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a…
By ALEX VEIGA Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes remained sluggish in August, even as a late-summer slide in mortgage rates brought home loan borrowing costs to a 10-month low. Existing home sales slipped 0.2% last month from July to a…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN Starbucks said Thursday it’s closing hundreds of U.S. and Canadian stores and laying off 900 nonretail employees as it focuses more of its resources on a turnaround. The Seattle coffee giant said store closures would start immediately. The…
By JAMIE STENGLE and JACK BROOK DALLAS (AP) — For the second time in two weeks, a shooter on a rooftop inflicted death on the ground, this time at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, where a detainee was killed and…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes drifted lower on Wednesday as a seemingly relentless rally on Wall Street takes at least a pause. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% for a second straight, modest loss. The Dow Jones Industrial…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have announced the birth of their third child, a girl. Rihanna announced the birth of Rocki Irish Mayers in an Instagram post Wednesday. The post featured one photo of the multihyphenate, 37, with the baby and…
By SARAH RAZA SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers have agreed to replace one of the nation’s oldest prisons, a lockup that predates the state itself. Legislators narrowly passed a bill Tuesday night in a special session to spend…
By BYRON TAU, GARANCE BURKE and DAKE KANG WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers and activists across the political spectrum called on American tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police and for Congress to examine the issue after The Associated Press reported that…
By SETH BORENSTEIN and MELINA WALLING UNITED NATIONS (AP) — With China leading the way by announcing its first emission cuts, world leaders said Wednesday they are getting more serious about fighting climate change and the deadly extreme weather that comes with it.…
By MIKE SCHNEIDER ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for the family of a man who died last week after riding a roller coaster at Universal Orlando Resort’s newest theme park said Monday that they believe he smacked his head on a restraint…
By SOPHIE BATES JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former Omega Psi Phi pledge who alleges he was so severely beaten during the Nu Eta chapter’s “Hell Night” that he had to relearn how to walk is now suing the fraternity, the…
By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK NEW YORK (AP) — At least two senior Justice Department officials likely broke court rules governing the conduct of prosecutors by reposting comments President Donald Trump made about Luigi Mangione, the man accused of assassinating the…
By JOSH FUNK The family of one of the 67 people killed when an airliner collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., on Wednesday sued the government and the airlines involved. Other families are expected to join this first lawsuit that…
By GARY D. ROBERTSON RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte’s light rail system, the North Carolina legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a criminal justice package that limits bail and seeks to…
By HALLIE GOLDEN The owners of Camp Mystic say they plan to partially reopen next summer the all-girls camp where 27 campers and counselors were killed during catastrophic floods that swept through the Texas Hill Country in July. The area of the…
A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing one detainee and wounding two before taking his own life, authorities said. The exact motivation of the attack…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes slipped on Tuesday as Wall Street took a pause from its relentless rally. The S&P 500 dipped 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 88 points, or 0.2%, and the Nasdaq…
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and RYAN J. FOLEY MIAMI (AP) — Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work. The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces —…
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday signaled a cautious approach to future interest rate cuts, in sharp contrast with other Fed officials this week who have called for a more urgent approach. In remarks…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco granted a…
By ADRIAN SAINZ MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Missouri woman was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in federal prison for scheming to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland home and property before a judge…
By DAVID FISCHER FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — The man who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen shortly after being found guilty of all…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A 12-year-old girl shot in the head during the deadly attack at a Catholic church in Minneapolis less than a month ago is making “miraculous” progress, her family said in a statement. Sophia Forchas, who was the most seriously…
By LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has abruptly canceled this week’s planned meeting with congressional Democratic leaders, refusing to negotiate over their demands to shore up health care funds as part of a deal to prevent a potential looming federal government shutdown.…
By MIKE BALSAMO NEW YORK (AP) — While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area —…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — The seemingly relentless rally on Wall Street drove U.S. stocks to more records on Monday. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% after erasing a modest loss from the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 66…
By GERALD IMRAY and ALFONSO NQUNJANA DINOKENG GAME RESERVE, South Africa (AP) — The Dinokeng Game Reserve in South Africa has a thriving rhino population, but their exact numbers and the details of the security operation that keeps them safe from poaching are closely guarded secrets.…
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that a nearly complete offshore wind project halted by the administration can resume, dealing President Donald Trump a setback in his ongoing effort to restrict the fledgling industry. Work…
By MARK SCOLFORO A western Pennsylvania woman has been charged with criminal homicide, involuntary manslaughter and multiple counts of abuse of a corpse after the remains of her four infants were found in a home she had been evicted from last…
