By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has seized survivors after a military strike Thursday on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region last month, a defense official…
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN Ford is recalling more than 290,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the rearview camera system may not display images properly in certain lighting conditions, which could increase the risk of a crash. The recall includes certain 2020-2022 F-250…
By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Updated 2:20 PM CDT, October 17, 2025 GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — John Bolton pleaded not guilty Friday to charges accusing the former President Donald Trump national security adviser turned critic of emailing classified information to family members and…
By MATT O’BRIEN Updated 8:48 AM CDT, October 16, 2025 Microsoft is encouraging people to talk to their laptops as it rolls out new artificial intelligence updates to Windows 11 and pushes users to phase out its predecessor, Windows 10. Microsoft…
By STAN CHOE Updated 3:57 PM CDT, October 16, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, hurt by drops for midsized banks as worries flare about the loans they’ve made. The S&P 500 slid 0.6% in its latest up-and-down…
By MIKE SCHNEIDER ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A suspect in the Los Angeles area’s deadly Palisades Fire earlier this year was ordered to be moved to California on Thursday from central Florida, where he was arrested last week. A hearing for Jonathan…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Updated 3:46 PM CDT, October 16, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California will begin selling affordable insulin under its own label on Jan. 1, nearly three years after he first announced a partnership to sell state-branded…
By ALI SWENSON, MICHELLE L. PRICE and LAURA UNGAR WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker EMD Serono will reduce the cost of a common fertility medication through a deal struck with the Trump administration, President Donald Trump said Thursday while also unveiling new federal guidance he said will…
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the glam rock band Kiss who captivated audiences with his elaborate makeup and smoke-filled guitar, died Thursday. He was 74. Frehley died peacefully surrounded by family…
By CHRISTINE FERNANDO CHICAGO (AP) — Troubled by clashes between agents and the public, a judge on Thursday ordered federal immigration officers in the Chicago area to wear body cameras and also summoned a senior official to court next week to discuss…
By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Updated 3:41 PM CDT, October 16, 2025 GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton was charged Thursday in a federal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar…
By SOPHIE BATES LELAND, Miss. (AP) — Nine people have now been arrested in connection with a mass shooting in the Mississippi Delta town of Leland that left six people dead, an FBI special agent said Thursday. Robert Eikhoff, special agent in charge…
By SOPHIE BATES Updated 12:51 PM CDT, October 16, 2025 LELAND, Miss. (AP) — Law enforcement officers and community leaders are asking for the public’s help in identifying people wanted for questioning about a mass shooting in the Mississippi Delta town of…
By JONATHAN MATTISE Updated 9:10 AM CDT, October 16, 2025 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities said Wednesday that they have identified the remains of 14 of the 16 people killed last week in a massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant, where it’s possible…
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MORGAN LEE A federal program that provides food assistance to 40 million low-income people could be at risk in November if the government shutdown isn’t resolved by then. And in at least some places, new applications for the program…
By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are poised for the 10th time Thursday to reject a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government, insisting they won’t back away from demands that Congress take up health care benefits.…
By SOPHIE BATES PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed Wednesday. Charles Crawford, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. following a lethal injection at the…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — Most U.S. stocks rose Wednesday following another topsy-turvy day on Wall Street. The S&P 500 added 0.4%, but only after jumping toward one of its biggest gains since the summer, erasing it all and…
By TOM MURPHY CVS has finished buying customer prescription files from hundreds of closed Rite Aid drugstores and is now running 63 of the defunct chain’s locations. The company said Wednesday that it is operating former Rite Aid and Bartell Drugs stores in…
By DAVID BAUDER Updated 4:10 PM CDT, October 15, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military…
By PATRICK WHITTLE PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday. The NTSB…
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — A firefighter braved rising floodwaters to rescue a shivering pup that was stranded Tuesday on debris during a rare October storm in Southern California. Video shows a Ventura County firefighter climbing down a ladder to reach the…
By ASSOCIATED PRESS A person living in the suburbs of New York City has tested positive for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that is more often seen in South America and hasn’t been transmitted on the U.S. mainland in a decade. Health officials…
By JANIE HAR SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge ordered on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco said the cuts appeared to be politically…