By PAUL WISEMAN Updated 9:38 AM CDT, September 3, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted 7.2 million job vacancies in July as the American labor market continues to cool. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that job openings fell from 7.4 million in…
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Updated 9:42 AM CDT, September 3, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google’s search engine in an attempt to curb the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN Updated 12:07 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 McDonald’s is cutting prices on some combo meals to woo back customers who’ve been turned off by the rising costs of grabbing a fast food meal. The price drop may induce its rivals,…
By STAN CHOE Updated 3:16 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street sank on Tuesday as rising pressure from the bond market pulled U.S. stocks further from their records. The S&P 500 fell 0.7% for its worst…
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Updated 3:26 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration “willfully” broke federal law by sending National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area in early June after…
By JUAN A. LOZANO Updated 1:52 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 HOUSTON (AP) — Police have charged a Houston man with murder in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy who rang the doorbell of a home and ran away as a prank,…
By WILL WEISSERT Updated 3:18 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to combat crime in Chicago and Baltimore, despite staunch opposition from state and local officials in both…
By AAMER MADHANI and REGINA GARCIA CANO Updated 3:39 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela. The president offered scant…
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Updated 12:38 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz plans to call a special legislative session to consider tougher gun laws following a shooting last week at a Catholic school in Minneapolis that left two children…
By The Associated Press In the first AP Top 25 college football poll rankings of the regular season, the Ohio State Buckeyes took the lead, followed by Penn State at No. 2 and LSU at No. 3. The Buckeyes slid into position to dominate this week’s rankings with 55 first-place votes…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot rose to an estimated $1.3 billion Monday night after the winning numbers failed to appear. The numbers drawn were 8, 23, 25, 40, 53 with the Powerball 5. No one has matched…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN and MICHELLE CHAPMAN Updated 10:11 AM CDT, September 2, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Kraft Heinz is splitting into two companies a decade after a merger of the brands created one of the biggest food manufacturers on the planet. One of the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will award former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, two days after his longtime political ally was seriously injured in a car crash.…
By SEUNG MIN KIM and KIM CHANDLER Updated 3:06 PM CDT, September 2, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.…
By STEVE KARNOWSKI, JOHN SEEWER and SAFIYAH RIDDLE Updated 2:43 PM CDT, August 29, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Moments after rifle blasts reverberated inside a Minneapolis church, Catholic school children wearing plaid jumpers and green polo shirts ducked into pews, some jumping atop friends to…
By JAMIE STENGLE Updated 10:30 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 DALLAS (AP) — From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways…
By CURT ANDERSON and CODY JACKSON Updated 11:06 PM CDT, August 27, 2025 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies…
By EBRAHIM NOROOZI Updated 4:45 AM CDT, August 22, 2025 BERLIN (AP) — Twin giant panda cubs Leni and Lotti celebrated their first birthday party with their mother Meng Meng at the zoo in Berlin on Friday. This is a photo gallery curated…
By JOE REEDY Updated 10:33 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Retired NFL star and current coach Eddie George has some competition when it comes to being the most popular figure on Bowling Green’s football team. Pudge The Cat…
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Army will begin selling alcoholic beverages at football games at Michie Stadium, athletic director Tom Theodorakis announced Wednesday. Army was the last service academy to not sell alcohol at football games. Air Force began sales…
By MARTÍN SILVA Updated 9:12 AM CDT, August 25, 2025 AXTLA DE TERRAZAS, Mexico (AP) — Cameras flashed and reporters crowded around 15-year-old Isela Anahí Santiago Morales as she stepped from a vintage car into the pouring rain. Her friends formed…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes that was experiencing engine trouble dumped its fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods near Los…
By DAVID A. LIEB and ANDREW DEMILLO Updated 4:32 PM CDT, August 29, 2025 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts as part of a growing…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 4:34 PM CDT, August 29, 2025 Budget carrier Spirit Airlines said Friday that it has filed for fresh bankruptcy protection months after emerging from a Chapter 11 reorganization. The no-frills airline said it intends to conduct business…