Author: Associated Press

By  MARCIA DUNN Updated 10:41 AM CDT, September 5, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Thousands of newborn stars sparkle and dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope. Released this week, the picture provides a breathtaking view of a…

By  COLLEEN SLEVIN Updated 4:34 PM CDT, September 4, 2025 DENVER (AP) — Hikers who climbed a Colorado mountain got more than just a sweeping view at the top. A man in an ice cream cone costume unexpectedly was handing out…

CHICAGO (AP) — At a Catholic school in Pope Leo XIV’s hometown, fifth graders read comic books about Carlo Acutis’ life titled “Digital Disciple.” They draw pictures of what the teenage Italian computer whiz might have had as his cellphone…

By  MICHAEL CASEY Updated 3:19 PM CDT, September 4, 2025 HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire teenager on a deep-sea fishing trip this week hauled in a 177-pound (80 kilogram) Atlantic halibut, a fish so big that it weighed more…

By  MARCIA DUNN Updated 10:02 AM CDT, September 3, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists revealed Wednesday that Mars’ innermost core appears to be a solid hunk of metal just like Earth’s. The Chinese-led research team based their findings on seismic readings…

By  ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Updated 2:18 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is ending a program that allows members of its Prime membership subscription program to share their free shipping benefits with people who don’t have the same…

By  SAFIYAH RIDDLE and AUDREY McAVOY Updated 4:54 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 After Iowa gas station employee Timothy Schultz won a $29 million lottery jackpot in 1999, he decided to hold a press conference. Lottery officials told him it would help him…

By  STEVE KARNOWSKI Updated 4:15 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — There are “rays of hope” for a 12-year-old girl critically injured in last week’s deadly shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis, though her neurosurgeon cautioned Friday it is still…

By  MEG KINNARD Updated 3:12 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Federal officials on Friday said they are taking steps that will give state and federal prisons the right to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates, devices they…

By  KELVIN CHAN Updated 1:05 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth…

By  JANIE HAR Updated 3:20 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the…

By  PAUL WISEMAN Updated 9:56 AM CDT, September 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added just 22,000 jobs last month as the labor market continued to cool due to uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s economic policies. Hiring decelerated from 79,000 in July,…

By  STAN CHOE Updated 9:58 AM CDT, September 5, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are falling Friday as Wall Street questions whether the U.S. job market has slowed by just enough to convince the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates soon to help…

By  MATT BROWN and MIKE STOBBE Updated 7:06 PM CDT, September 4, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., facing pointed bipartisan questioning at a rancorous three-hour Senate committee hearing on Thursday, tried to defend his efforts to pull…

By  COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHAEL CASEY Updated 3:56 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday ordered the reversal of the Trump administration’s cuts to more than $2.6 billion in funding research grants for Harvard University. U.S. District…

By  WILL WEISSERT Updated 1:19 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard to fight crime, potentially expanding the number of cities around the nation…

By  CURT ANDERSON Updated 12:10 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other…

By  STAN CHOE Updated 10:49 AM CDT, September 3, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is steadying on Wednesday as Alphabet and other technology stocks rise. The S&P 500 added 0.3% and was on track to break its two-day losing streak since…

By  MICHAEL LIEDTKE Updated 9:42 AM CDT, September 3, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google’s search engine in an attempt to curb the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the…

By  DEE-ANN DURBIN Updated 12:07 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 McDonald’s is cutting prices on some combo meals to woo back customers who’ve been turned off by the rising costs of grabbing a fast food meal. The price drop may induce its rivals,…

By  STAN CHOE Updated 3:16 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street sank on Tuesday as rising pressure from the bond market pulled U.S. stocks further from their records. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% for its worst…

By  OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Updated 3:26 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration “willfully” broke federal law by sending National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area in early June after…

By  JUAN A. LOZANO Updated 1:52 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 HOUSTON (AP) — Police have charged a Houston man with murder in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy who rang the doorbell of a home and ran away as a prank,…

By  WILL WEISSERT Updated 3:18 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to combat crime in Chicago and Baltimore, despite staunch opposition from state and local officials in both…

By  AAMER MADHANI and REGINA GARCIA CANO Updated 3:39 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela. The president offered scant…

By  STEVE KARNOWSKI Updated 12:38 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz plans to call a special legislative session to consider tougher gun laws following a shooting last week at a Catholic school in Minneapolis that left two children…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot rose to an estimated $1.3 billion Monday night after the winning numbers failed to appear. The numbers drawn were 8, 23, 25, 40, 53 with the Powerball 5. No one has matched…

By  DEE-ANN DURBIN and MICHELLE CHAPMAN Updated 10:11 AM CDT, September 2, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Kraft Heinz is splitting into two companies a decade after a merger of the brands created one of the biggest food manufacturers on the planet. One of the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will award former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, two days after his longtime political ally was seriously injured in a car crash.…

By  SEUNG MIN KIM and KIM CHANDLER Updated 3:06 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.…

By  STEVE KARNOWSKI, JOHN SEEWER and SAFIYAH RIDDLE Updated 2:43 PM CDT, August 29, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Moments after rifle blasts reverberated inside a Minneapolis church, Catholic school children wearing plaid jumpers and green polo shirts ducked into pews, some jumping atop friends to…

By  JAMIE STENGLE Updated 10:30 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 DALLAS (AP) — From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways…

By  CURT ANDERSON and CODY JACKSON Updated 11:06 PM CDT, August 27, 2025 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies…

By  JOE REEDY Updated 10:33 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Retired NFL star and current coach Eddie George has some competition when it comes to being the most popular figure on Bowling Green’s football team. Pudge The Cat…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes that was experiencing engine trouble dumped its fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods near Los…

By  DAVID A. LIEB and ANDREW DEMILLO Updated 4:32 PM CDT, August 29, 2025 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts as part of a growing…

By  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 4:34 PM CDT, August 29, 2025 Budget carrier Spirit Airlines said Friday that it has filed for fresh bankruptcy protection months after emerging from a Chapter 11 reorganization. The no-frills airline said it intends to conduct business…

By  JONEL ALECCIA Updated 12:12 PM CDT, August 29, 2025 More companies are recalling tens of thousands of packages of imported shrimp sold at Walmart, Kroger and other U.S. stores because they may contain radioactive contamination, according to federal notices. AquaStar USA Corp.…

By  JANIE HAR Updated 11:42 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans gain more seats in the 2026 midterm elections, delivering a win for President Donald Trump and his desire to hold onto…

By  SEUNG MIN KIM and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Updated 11:17 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has revoked former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection that otherwise would have ended next summer, senior Trump administration officials said Friday. Former vice…

By  STEVE KARNOWSKI, MARK VANCLEAVE and CLAUDIA LAUER Updated 3:37 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen youngsters sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the same…

By  ALEX VEIGA Updated 3:31 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 Wall Street notched more milestones Thursday after gains in technology stocks helped push the market to another all-time high. The S&P 500 rose 0.3%, lifting the benchmark index to its second…

By  LARRY NEUMEISTER Updated 3:35 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say Luigi Mangione, accused of killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on a Manhattan sidewalk, has inspired others to embrace violence over reasoned debate. As evidence of Mangione’s growing influence,…

By  LEAH WILLINGHAM Updated 3:19 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 People from all over the world are expected to pay tribute to Frank Caprio, a retired municipal judge who found online fame as an empathetic jurist and host of “ Caught in…

By  ANDREW DEMILLO Updated 2:47 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 Former Major League Baseball star Mark Teixeira announced Thursday that he’s running for the Republican nomination for a House seat in Texas. The former slugger for the Texas Rangers and New…

By  MIKE SCHNEIDER and KATE PAYNE Updated 9:27 AM CDT, August 28, 2025 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” must keep moving toward shutting down operations by late October, a judge has ruled, even as…