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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  RUSS BYNUM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Updated 2:18 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Immigration authorities said Friday they detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided the sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia…

By  MATT O’BRIEN Updated 2:24 PM CDT, September 5, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their…

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  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 12:38 PM CDT, September 3, 2025 Here is a look at the largest U.S. jackpots won and the places where the winning tickets were sold: 1. $2.04 billion, Powerball, Nov. 7, 2022. The winning ticket was…

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  STEVE KARNOWSKI Updated 11:38 AM CDT, September 3, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Vice President JD Vance planned to visit Minneapolis on Wednesday to meet with families and victims of a shooting at a Catholic church that killed two schoolchildren and…

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  PAUL WISEMAN Updated 9:38 AM CDT, September 3, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted 7.2 million job vacancies in July as the American labor market continues to cool. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that job openings fell from 7.4 million in…

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…