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…
By MATT BROWN and MIKE PESOLI Updated 12:57 PM CDT, August 18, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Joining forces from three other Republican-led states, the Mississippi National Guard will deploy 200 troops to Washington as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing federal policing and…
By JIM MUSTIAN, JACK BROOK and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Updated 8:38 PM CDT, August 15, 2025 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to hide a romantic relationship with her bodyguard, who is…
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…