MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A shooter who opened fire in the West Texas city of Midland died Friday after a standoff with police following an attack that left one person dead and at least nine others injured, city officials said.…
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge agreed on Friday to extend a court-ordered block on the Trump administration’s creation and operation of a $1.8 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government.…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ford is recalling more than 250,000 vehicles that were incorrectly repaired under a previous recall meant to fix a problem that caused the engine to stall while driving. The recall includes 255,404 Ford Focus automobiles, model years…
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and MATTHEW BROWN The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk is due back in court Friday as his attorneys seek to hold prosecutors in contempt for comments they made in the media about a bullet fragment recovered from Kirk’s body. Defense attorneys for Tyler…
By STAN CHOE and ALEX VEIGA NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied to their best day in two months, and oil prices fell Thursday after President Donald Trump called off his threat to bomb Iran in the evening. That raised hopes for a potential…
By PAUL WISEMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. producer prices climbed last month at the fastest pace since November 2022, fueled by a surge in energy prices after the start of the Iran war. The Labor Department reported Thursday that its producer price…
By PAUL WISEMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government can continue collecting the 10% worldwide tariff it imposed in February while legal challenges to the levies continue to work their way through the courts, a federal court ruled Thursday. The Court…
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX will make its debut on Wall Street Friday and both institutional and retail investors are expected to gobble up the 555.6 million shares going up for sale at $135 apiece. Musk, already the…
By COLLIN BINKLEY, LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of…
By DÁNICA COTO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government on Thursday announced sanctions against Cuba’s state-owned oil and gas company in a move some experts say will only deepen the island’s crises and hit vulnerable Cubans the hardest. U.S. Secretary…
By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday announced the launch of Fostering the Future Accounts, a spinoff of the Trump Accounts investment funds meant to give $1,000 to every newborn whose parent opens…
By HALLIE GOLDEN Damaging storms swept through the Midwest, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers and causing more than a thousand flight delays or cancellations at Chicago airports with more potentially severe weather expected Thursday. The National Weather…
By KIM CHANDLER MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is waging a last-minute legal fight to execute a man with nitrogen gas on Thursday night, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set aside a judge’s findings that the method violates the Constitution’s ban on…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he has called off new military strikes on Iran, hours after threatening to escalate the war. The president said in a social media post that he made the…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband, as well as the nonfatal shootings of a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday after prosecutors…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) — A rare lapse in a law that allows the United States to gather intelligence abroad appears likely after the House failed on Thursday to temporarily extend the program, in a protest…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — Another sell-off for artificial-intelligence stocks helped drag the U.S. market sharply lower Wednesday, as Wall Street’s former superstars continue to face heavy scrutiny for their success. The S&P 500 dropped 1.6% for its first back-to-back drop in three…
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising gas prices pushed inflation to its highest level in three years last month, a headache for the Federal Reserve and a potential political challenge for the Trump administration as midterm elections near. Consumer prices rose 4.2% in May…
By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security ’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year’s projections, according to an annual report released Tuesday, while Medicare ’s hospital insurance trust fund will be unable…
By DAVID A. LIEB The Florida Supreme Court has allowed new U.S. House districts drawn by Republicans to be used in the midterm elections, marking another victory for the GOP in a nationwide redistricting effort aimed at helping the party retain its slim…
By KEN SWEET NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has named Brian Johnson as his choice to be the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, turning to a former official who helped run the CFPB during his first…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The U.S. military says it’s begun another round of strikes against Iran. U.S. Central Command said in a social media post that the military is striking “multiple targets in Iran” and that it’s being…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities served a search warrant on Wednesday at a Southern California aerospace facility where a chemical tank overheated last month, forcing 50,000 residents to evacuate because authorities feared an explosion. The warrant signed by a federal…
By JAIMIE DING and CHRISTOPHER WEBER LOS ANGELES (AP) — Opening statements began Wednesday in the federal arson trial for the man accused of sparking last year’s deadly Palisades Fire in and around Los Angeles. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, has pleaded not guilty to starting what became one…