By LARRY NEUMEISTER, MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Updated 1:22 PM CDT, August 11, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell shouldn’t be released, a judge ruled Monday…
By BRUCE SCHREINER Updated 11:10 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Ford Motor Co. will invest nearly $2 billion retooling a Kentucky factory to produce electric vehicles that it says will be more affordable, more profitable to build, and will…
By STAN CHOE and ELAINE KURTENBACH Updated 2:10 PM CDT, August 11, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their record heights on Monday as Wall Street waits for an upcoming update on inflation. The S&P 500 fell 0.1% and…
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 5:48 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Flash flooding canceled the final day of the Wisconsin State Fair on Sunday as continued heavy rainfall in half a dozen Midwest states forced motorists to abandon their…
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds turned out to honor the life of Aland Etienne, the security guard who was killed last month at a Manhattan office tower by a gunman targeting the headquarters of the National Football League. An immigrant from Haiti who came…
By MARC LEVY and MICHAEL CASEY Updated 11:50 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 An explosion Monday at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh has left dozens wounded and people trapped under the rubble, with emergency workers on site trying to rescue them, officials…
By ERIC OLSON Updated 11:03 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 For the first time, Texas will open a college football season ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25. The Longhorns hardly have a mandate in the poll released Monday: They edged…
By DAVID KLEPPER Updated 10:00 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is promising new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington including deployment of the National Guard, prompting the city’s mayor to voice legal concerns about who would be…
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Erin formed Monday in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean, just west of the Cabo Verde Islands, as Hurricane Henriette strengthened in the Pacific Ocean well away from Hawaii, forecasters said. There were no coastal watches…
By ADRIANA MORGA Updated 2:57 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The Free Application for Federal Student Aid for the 2026-27 school year has opened for a limited number of students as part of a beta test, the Department of…
By CHRISTINA LARSON Updated 8:20 AM CDT, August 8, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Summer’s most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks soon. This year, a bright moon will dampen viewing at the time of peak early Wednesday morning, so some experts recommend…
PALM COAST, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman is accused of posing as a licensed nurse and giving medical care to thousands of patients, authorities said. Autumn Marie Bardisa, 29, of Palm Coast, participated in medical services involving 4,486 people…
BERLIN (AP) — A motorist was clocked driving at more than 320 kph (199 mph) on the Autobahn west of Berlin, a record high at more than 124 mph above the speed limit, German police said. The speedster, who was…
By MARCIA DUNN Updated 10:49 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. NASA and the European Space Agency…
By WILL WEISSERT and VASILISA STEPANENKO Updated 5:22 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, a potential major…
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL Updated 5:12 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — William H. Webster, the former FBI and CIA director whose troubleshooting skills and integrity helped restore public confidence in those federal agencies, has died, his family announced…
ATLANTA (AP) — Police were responding Friday to a report of an active shooter on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, near the entrance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta police did not immediately say whether…
By DON BABWIN Updated 2:52 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died…
By DAMIAN J. TROISE, ALEX VEIGA and TERESA CEROJANO Updated 3:34 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 U.S. stocks closed higher Friday, capping a choppy week of trading with the market’s third winning week in the last four and another milestone. The S&P 500 rose…
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Updated 2:52 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has removed former U.S. Rep. Billy Long as IRS commissioner less than two months after his confirmation, a White House official said Friday. The official,…
By MARK SCOLFORO, PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Updated 11:15 AM CDT, August 8, 2025 A man fatally shot his neighbor in rural Pennsylvania and then unleashed a hail of gunfire on first responders, wounding two state troopers, running an EMT off the road…
By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Updated 11:36 AM CDT, August 8, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of an investigation into whether she violated President Donald Trump’s civil rights, according to two…
By JENNIFER PELTZ Updated 12:19 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Three 9/11 victims’ remains have newly been identified, officials said this week, as evolving DNA technology keeps making gradual gains in the nearly quarter-century-long effort to return the…
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Updated 9:45 AM CDT, August 8, 2025 Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States has withdrawn from international negotiations and commitments, particularly around climate. But the U.S. is very much involved in treaty talks for a global…