By DAMIAN J. TROISE and TERESA CEROJANO Updated 10:04 AM CDT, August 8, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Friday, keeping the market on track for its third weekly gain in the last four. The S&P…
By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Updated 5:08 AM CDT, August 8, 2025 A big increase in the tax on university endowments is adding to financial uncertainty for the wealthiest colleges in the U.S., leading several already to lay off staff or implement hiring…
By ALEXA ST. JOHN and MATTHEW DALY Updated 3:17 PM CDT, August 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday terminated a $7 billion grant program intended to help pay for residential solar projects for more than 900,000 lower-income U.S.…
By JOSH BOAK Updated 4:37 PM CDT, August 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unexpectedly summoned reporters to the Oval Office on Thursday to present them with charts that he says show the U.S. economy is solid following a jobs report…
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and DEE-ANN DURBIN Updated 1:39 PM CDT, August 7, 2025 American businesses and consumers soon will have a better idea of how President Donald Trump’s foreign trade agenda might affect them now that the United States has imposed higher tariffs on products from dozens…
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Updated 10:22 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man charged with killing the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court.…
By ALEXA ST. JOHN Updated 4:56 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing,…
By ERIC TUCKER Updated 11:17 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in the Jan.…
EAST ALTON, Ill. (AP) — A helicopter flying over the Mississippi River ran into a powerline Thursday, then crashed into a barge and sparked a fire, killing two people, officials said. The two dead were flying in the helicopter and…
By BARBARA ORTUTAY Updated 7:16 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an artificial intelligence system it says can help preemptively detect predatory language in game…
By RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN Updated 10:29 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — A half-dozen soldiers at a Georgia Army base are being hailed as heroes for tackling an armed assailant accused of shooting five people and then…
By MATT OTT Updated 8:15 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers despite economic uncertainty related to U.S. trade policy. Jobless…
By DASHA LITVINOVA, BARRY HATTON and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Updated 8:43 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he hopes to meet next week with U.S. President Donald Trump, possibly in the United Arab Emirates. The news came on the eve…
By JACK BROOK and LISA BAUMANN Updated 9:05 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 A disruption to a system housing United Airlines’ flight information that caused more than 1,000 delays has been resolved, but delays continued into Thursday. The impacted system, called Unimatic, houses flight information…
By KAREL JANICEK Updated 10:08 AM CDT, August 6, 2025 DVUR KRALOVE, Czech Republic (AP) — Four Barbary lion cubs were born recently in a Czech zoo, a vital contribution for a small surviving population of the rare lion that is extinct in…
By STAN CHOE, YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT Updated 3:15 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — A rally for Apple led Wall Street higher on Wednesday as U.S. stocks reclaimed more of their sharp losses from last week. The S&P 500…
By JOSH BOAK Updated 4:02 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to join President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to announce a commitment by the tech company to increase its investment in…
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 3:54 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump could meet in person with Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as next week as he seeks to broker an end to…
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Updated 2:14 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is auctioning off the $325 million yacht Amadea, its first sale of a seized Russian luxury ship since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The…
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Updated 12:59 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Mall-based teen accessories retailer Claire’s, known for helping to usher in millions of teens into an important rite of passage — ear piercing — but now struggling…
By BEN WALKER and RONALD BLUM Updated 12:41 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Jen Pawol is set to become the first woman to umpire in Major League Baseball when she works games this weekend between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves.…
By AMANDA SEITZ Updated 11:44 PM CDT, August 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Robert F.…
By KIM CHANDLER Updated 7:02 AM CDT, August 6, 2025 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the now-infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,…
By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY Updated 9:39 AM CDT, August 6, 2025 ChatGPT will tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to conceal eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked, according…