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By  LEAH WILLINGHAM Updated 3:19 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 People from all over the world are expected to pay tribute to Frank Caprio, a retired municipal judge who found online fame as an empathetic jurist and host of “ Caught in…

By  ANDREW DEMILLO Updated 2:47 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 Former Major League Baseball star Mark Teixeira announced Thursday that he’s running for the Republican nomination for a House seat in Texas. The former slugger for the Texas Rangers and New…

By  MIKE STOBBE, AMANDA SEITZ and CHRIS MEGERIAN Updated 2:51 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency was left reeling and leaderless as the White House works to expel its handpicked director from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and three…

By  PAUL WISEMAN Updated 8:31 AM CDT, August 28, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy rebounded this spring from a first-quarter downturn due to fallout from President Donald Trump’s trade wars. In an upgrade from its first estimate in July, the Commerce Department said…

By  CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Updated 7:57 AM CDT, August 28, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as employers appear to be holding onto their workers even as the economy has slowed. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week…

By  MIKE SCHNEIDER and KATE PAYNE Updated 9:27 AM CDT, August 28, 2025 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” must keep moving toward shutting down operations by late October, a judge has ruled, even as…

By  GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, STEVE KARNOWSKI, MARK VANCLEAVE and HALLIE GOLDEN Updated 9:26 AM CDT, August 28, 2025 RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Investigators were examining the videos, writings and movements of the shooter who fired through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, killing two children and…

By  JONEL ALECCIA Updated 3:46 PM CDT, August 27, 2025 Federal health officials have dramatically scaled back a program that has tracked food poisoning infections in the U.S. for three decades. The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, known as FoodNet, has cut…

By  CHRISTINA LARSON Updated 8:19 AM CDT, August 27, 2025 SpaceX launched the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday night and completed the first-ever deployment of a test payload — eight dummy satellites — into space. After just over an hour coasting…

By  BRETT MARTEL Updated 2:51 PM CDT, August 27, 2025 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The LIV Golf League has added a summer tournament in New Orleans for 2026 after Louisiana agreed to pay the Saudi-backed tour $5 million and spend an…

By  ALEX VEIGA Updated 3:18 PM CDT, August 27, 2025 Modest gains on Wall Street lifted the stock market to an all-time high Wednesday ahead of a highly anticipated earnings update from computer chip giant Nvidia. The S&P 500 rose 0.2%, good…

By  WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Updated 1:32 PM CDT, August 27, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 355,000 of its pickup trucks across the U.S. because of an instrument panel display failure that’s resulted in critical information, like warning…

By  KATE PAYNE and MIKE SCHNEIDER Updated 11:50 AM CDT, August 27, 2025 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Democrat has won a special election for an Iowa state Senate seat in a district that had been held by Republicans and had voted heavily for President Donald Trump in 2024, adding to the Democratic Party’s…

By  DEE-ANN DURBIN Updated 8:28 AM CDT, August 27, 2025 Cracker Barrel said late Tuesday it’s returning to its old logo after critics — including President Donald Trump — protested the company’s plan to modernize. In a post on its website, Cracker Barrel…

By  DARLENE SUPERVILLE Updated 8:47 AM CDT, August 27, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that his department is taking management of Union Station, the main transportation hub in Washington, away from Amtrak, in another example of how the…

By  GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Updated 9:39 PM CDT, August 26, 2025 Some employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who signed a public letter of dissent earlier this week were put on administrative leave Tuesday evening, according to documents reviewed by The…

By  STEVE KARNOWSKI and MARK VANCLEAVE Updated 11:08 AM CDT, August 27, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A shooting Wednesday at a Minneapolis Catholic school killed two children as they prayed and injured 17 other people, 14 of them kids, the police chief and…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — The parents of a missing 7-month-old boy in Southern California have been charged with murder. The Riverside County District Attorney’s office charged Jake Haro, 32, and his wife, Rebecca Haro, 41, in the death of their…

By  ROSS FRANKLIN and HALLIE GOLDEN Updated 5:08 PM CDT, August 26, 2025 PHOENIX (AP) — Crews cleaned up downed trees and got power mostly restored for thousands of people Tuesday after a powerful dust storm roared through the Phoenix area. The wall…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical storms Juliette and Fernand churned Tuesday over open waters, one in the Pacific Ocean and one in the Atlantic, at the same time as some officials continued to deal with the aftermath of the massive Hurricane Erin which…

By  FATIMA HUSSEIN Updated 2:56 PM CDT, August 26, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 300 million Americans’ Social Security data was put at risk after Department of Government Efficiency officials uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight, according…

By  ANDREW DEMILLO and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Updated 2:57 PM CDT, August 26, 2025 A rash of hoax calls about active shooters on college campuses — some featuring gunshots sounding in the background — has sent waves of fear among students around the nation…