By STAN CHOE, YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT Updated 3:29 PM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes ended mixed on Wednesday after Nvidia, Palantir and other superstar stocks pared most of their steep losses from the morning. The S&P…
By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Updated 2:03 PM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge who presided over the sex trafficking case against financier Jeffrey Epstein has joined two other judges in rejecting the government’s request to unseal grand…
By KATE PAYNE Updated 9:47 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has posthumously awarded five notable Floridians with the Governor’s Medal of Freedom, one of the state’s highest honors. The awardees include the state’s last Democratic…
By MIKE STOBBE Updated 8:14 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — States are warning beachgoers about a summertime surge in infections from a frightening, flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters. Vibrio vulnificus are becoming an annual threat along…
By MATT O’BRIEN Updated 8:08 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The winged passenger ferry gliding over the surface of Narragansett Bay could be a new method of coastal transportation or a new kind of warship. Its…
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Updated 7:03 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Target is counting on a company veteran to revive its magic as it struggles to compete with rivals like Walmart. The Minneapolis-based retailer said Wednesday that Chief…
By SOPHIE BATES Updated 4:44 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Mississippi to redraw its Supreme Court electoral map, after finding the map dilutes the power of Black voters. U.S. District Judge Sharion…
By JONEL ALECCIA Updated 3:18 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 Walmart has recalled frozen, raw shrimp sold in 13 states because federal health officials say it could have potential radioactive contamination. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked Walmart to pull…
By ERIC TUCKER, AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW LEE Updated 3:40 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved Tuesday to revoke the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials in the latest act of retribution targeting public…
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Updated 3:04 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota on Tuesday joined a wave of states suing TikTok, alleging the social media giant preys on young people with addictive algorithms that trap them into becoming…
By MATT BROWN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRIS MEGERIAN Updated 4:31 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — National Guard members from West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana began arriving in Washington on Tuesday to assist in President Donald Trump’s federal crackdown on…
By LEA SKENE Updated 12:54 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused an explosion aboard a cargo ship laden with coal as it departed Baltimore’s harbor for East Africa. Officials said…
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and AAMER MADHANI Updated 11:10 AM CDT, August 19, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered his assurances that U.S. troops would not be sent to help defend Ukraine against Russia after seeming to leave open the possibility the…
By AUDREY McAVOY Updated 10:38 PM CDT, August 18, 2025 HONOLULU (AP) — Lava shoots high into the sky. Molten rock erupts from two vents simultaneously. The nighttime sky glows red and orange, reflecting the lava oozing across a summit crater. Scientists expect Kilauea volcano to…
By SOPHIE BATES Updated 11:15 AM CDT, August 19, 2025 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge blocked portions of Mississippi’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion practices in public schools from being enforced while a lawsuit against it is underway.…
By RYAN J. FOLEY and EDDIE PELLS Updated 8:05 AM CDT, August 19, 2025 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to…
By BEN FINLEY, JOHN SEEWER and HALLIE GOLDEN Updated 8:45 AM CDT, August 19, 2025 Holly Andrzejewski hadn’t yet welcomed her and her family’s first guests to the Atlantic Inn on Hatteras Island when she had to start rescheduling them, as Hurricane Erin neared North Carolina’s…
By MATT BROWN and MIKE PESOLI Updated 5:22 PM CDT, August 18, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Three more Republican governors authorized the deployment of national guard troops to Washington as part of President Donald Trump’s show of force meant to crack down on…
By ANDREW DALTON Updated 4:23 PM CDT, August 18, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman known as the “Ketamine Queen,” charged with selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty Monday. Jasveen Sangha becomes the fifth and final…
By ERIC TUCKER Updated 3:06 PM CDT, August 18, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, a key House lawmaker said Monday in announcing a move that appears…
This month is National Immunization Month in the U.S. Joining us in studio is Memorial Health System Nurse Practitioner Tony Tanner to give us more information about the many types of vaccines out…
By SYLVIE CORBET, SAMYA KULLAB, AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Updated 4:00 PM CDT, August 18, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday during talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders that a potential ceasefire and who gets Ukrainian territory seized…
By DEVI SHASTRI Updated 1:12 PM CDT, August 18, 2025 The Texas measles outbreak that sickened 762 people since late January is over, state health officials said Monday. It’s been more than 42 days since the last new case was confirmed, meeting the…
By STAN CHOE, ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT Updated 11:26 AM CDT, August 18, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is holding near its record heights on Monday, ahead of a week likely to be dominated by updates from the head of the Federal…