By CHRISTINA LARSON Updated 10:00 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars –…
By CORA LEWIS and LINLEY SANDERS Updated 8:56 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The vast majority of U.S. adults are at least somewhat stressed about the cost of groceries, a new poll finds, as prices continue to rise and concerns about…
By MARK KENNEDY Updated 10:13 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Hank Hill is back and he’s the same ol’ Hank Hill, but a lot of things around him have changed. The lovable animated hero of “King of…
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Updated 9:41 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Several thousand workers at three Midwest manufacturing plants where Boeing develops military aircraft and weapons went on strike early Monday, potentially complicating the aerospace company’s progress in regaining its financial…
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ANDREW DEMILLO Updated 6:56 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Updated 2:10 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 A baby boy born last week to an Ohio couple developed from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years in what is believed to be the longest…
By JAMES POLLARD Updated 1:11 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Online creators from dozens of countries, led by MrBeast and popular science YouTuber Mark Rober, are launching a $40 million fundraiser to build water quality projects around the world. The…
By DAN GELSTON Updated 11:42 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The first 5K held in the memory of John and Matt Gaudreau helped raise more than $500,000, enough to break ground later this year on an accessible playground…
SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) — A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions. Crews were stuck with a job they did not relish — rolling…
By TERESA M. WALKER Updated 2:51 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Bristol Motor Speedway is ready to make history by hosting the first Major League Baseball game in Tennessee. The stage, or in this case the racetrack, has been…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Updated 10:31 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 American businesses and consumers woke up Friday to find the contours of President Donald Trump’s foreign trade agenda taking shape but without much more clarity on how import taxes on goods from dozens of…
By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Updated 8:42 PM CDT, July 31, 2025 LIMA, Peru (AP) — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand underground gas networks in Peru’s capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday. One was empty, but the other held the 1,000-year-old remains…
By LINDSEY BAHR Updated 9:29 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 The best of the internet’s cat videos are coming to the big screen this weekend. Cat Video Fest is a 73-minute, G-rated selection of all things feline —silly, cuddly, sentimental and comedic—that’s playing in more…
By NOAH TRISTER Updated 4:51 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Commanders’ hopes of returning to the site of their former home at RFK Stadium cleared a significant hurdle Friday when the District of Columbia Council approved the legislation.…
By DAMIAN J. TROISE, ALEX VEIGA and TERESA CEROJANO Updated 3:03 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 The stock market had its worst day since May after the government reported a sharp slowdown in hiring and President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from…
By TED ANTHONY and KEVIN FREKING Updated 4:24 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Updated 2:53 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Federal judge T.S. Ellis III, whose legal scholarship and commanding courtroom presence was evident in numerous high-profile trials, has died after a long illness. He was 85. Ellis…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Updated 2:01 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A stalemate over the pace of confirmations has delayed the Senate’s yearly August recess, for now, as President Donald Trump declares that his nominees “should NOT BE…
By ANDREW DEMILLO and SAFIYAH RIDDLE Updated 9:43 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A 28-year-old teacher who authorities say admitted to fatally stabbing a couple he didn’t know who were hiking with two of their children in an Arkansas state…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas as her criminal case generates renewed public attention. The federal Bureau of Prisons said Friday that…
By MARCIA DUNN Updated 11:20 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts sidelined for the past year by Boeing’s Starliner trouble blasted off to the International Space Station on Friday, getting a lift from SpaceX. The U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew of four rocketed…
By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Updated 9:38 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. hiring is slowing sharply as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyze businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy. The Labor…
By JOSH FUNK Updated 5:49 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday enters its third and final day of public testimony over the fatal midair crash between an Army helicopter and commercial jet in January. Two previous…
By ITZEL LUNA Updated 2:13 PM CDT, July 31, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Timberlake has been diagnosed with Lyme disease, the former NSYNC star said on Instagram Thursday. Timberlake shared the news in a post commemorating his Forget Tomorrow tour, which…