By ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 10:01 AM CDT, August 16, 2025 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Greg Iles, the Mississippi author of the “Natchez Burning” trilogy and other works, has died. He was 65. Iles died Friday after a decades-long battle with the…
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Erin began pelting part of the Caribbean with rain and wind Monday before it’s expected to churn up dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast this week. Evacuations were being ordered on a few islands…
By ED WHITE and MARK VANCLEAVE Updated 4:31 PM CDT, August 14, 2025 PETERSBURG, Mich. (AP) — A retired Michigan autoworker looked at a Facebook message after midnight from a stranger: Did you lose your wallet years ago? “If so,” a Minnesota man…
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Updated 7:35 AM CDT, August 12, 2025 YouTube on Wednesday will begin testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. that relies on artificial intelligence to differentiate between adults and minors, based on the kinds of videos that…
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labeled “plastic animal toys.” Wei Qiang Lin,…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have pledged to donate $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute, the school announced Thursday, describing it as the largest single gift to a U.S.…
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Updated 2:45 PM CDT, August 14, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — WK Kellogg Co. plans to remove artificial dyes from its breakfast cereals in the next two and a half years, according to the company and the attorney general of…
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Updated 2:14 AM CDT, August 14, 2025 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Supreme Court rejected a 30 million won ($21,600) damage claim Thursday by an American composer who accused a South Korean kids content company of…
By KATE PAYNE Updated 2:44 PM CDT, August 14, 2025 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida wildlife officials have given preliminary approval to a plan to reopen Apalachicola Bay for oyster harvesting, five years after the waters were closed due to dwindling…
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Updated 4:36 PM CDT, August 14, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — One major question will be front and center for Federal Reserve policymakers as they prepare for an annual conference in Jackson, Wyoming next week and a crucial policy meeting in…
By MARIA SHERMAN Updated 2:25 AM CDT, August 14, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Look what you made her do — Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” It will arrive October 3, she revealed Wednesday. Swift,…
By STAN CHOE, TERESA CEROJANO and MATT OTT Updated 3:20 PM CDT, August 14, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Most stocks fell on Wall Street Thursday after a disappointing report said inflation was worse last month at the U.S. wholesale level than economists expected. But gains…
By ALEX VEIGA Updated 1:40 PM CDT, August 14, 2025 The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell this week to its lowest level in nearly 10 months, giving prospective homebuyers a sorely needed boost in purchasing power that could…
By MARK SHERMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Updated 1:25 PM CDT, August 14, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children, an issue…
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 100,000 Drinkmate carbonation bottles are being recalled across the U.S. and Canada because they can explode during use, with several consumers reporting cuts and other impact injuries. According to a Thursday notice from the U.S. Consumer…
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The teacher who authorities say admitted to fatally stabbing two hikers at Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas last month pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder charges. Andrew James McGann entered the plea during a brief hearing before…
By PAUL WISEMAN Updated 9:10 AM CDT, August 14, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale inflation surged unexpectedly last month, signaling that President Donald Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports are pushing costs up and that higher prices for consumers may be on the…
By MATT OTT Updated 8:58 AM CDT, August 14, 2025 The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly last week, remaining in the historically low range since the U.S. economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. Applications for unemployment benefits…
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN Updated 8:12 AM CDT, August 14, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Six planets are hanging out in the sky this month in what’s known as a planetary parade. Catch the spectacle while you can because it’s the last one…
CHINO, Calif. (AP) — A police department in Southern California recovered about $30,000 worth of Labubu dolls that were stolen from a warehouse, the agency announced this week. The collectible items have recently surged in popularity. The Labubus were stolen in a…
By STAN CHOE, ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT Updated 4:24 PM CDT, August 13, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks ticked higher on Wednesday after a rally spurred by hopes for lower U.S. interest rates wrapped around the world. The S&P 500 rose 0.3%, coming…
By DAN GREENSPAN Updated 3:05 PM CDT, August 13, 2025 OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones credited an experimental trial drug for successfully treating advanced melanoma as he disclosed his cancer diagnosis publicly for the first time. Jones…
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ASHRAF KHALIL Updated 2:34 PM CDT, August 13, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — As a wary Washington waited, the White House promised a ramp-up of National Guard troops and federal officers on the streets of the nation’s capital around the clock starting…
By TAYLOR VANCE/Mississippi Today Updated 1:13 PM CDT, August 13, 2025 President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his nomination of James Maxwell and Robert Chamberlin, two Mississippi Supreme Court justices, to vacant federal judicial seats in northern Mississippi. Pending Senate confirmation…