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By  BEN FINLEY and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Updated 10:09 PM CDT, October 21, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders at the Pentagon have significantly altered how military officials will speak with Congress after a pair of new memos issued last week. In an Oct. 15…

By  STAN CHOE Updated 3:22 PM CDT, October 21, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record on Tuesday as the floodgates opened for companies reporting how much profit they made during the summer. The Dow…

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed a lawsuit that seeks to get Democrat Adelita Grijalva sworn in as the state’s newest member of Congress after U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to seat her a…

By  OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JANIE HAR SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump keeps threatening to send National Guard troops to San Francisco next, blasting the California city as crime-ridden and saying its residents are clamoring for federal help. But local and…

By  KONSTANTIN TOROPIN WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated Lt. Gen. Christopher LaNeve to serve as the Army’s second-highest-ranking officer, according to congressional records. Gen. James Mingus is currently vice chief of staff and has not publicly said he plans…

By  DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction started this week on the $250 million ballroom that President Donald Trump is adding to the White House as construction crews began tearing down the facade of the East Wing, where the new space is being built. The Republican…

By  MATT O’BRIEN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Updated 12:58 PM CDT, October 21, 2025 OpenAI said Tuesday it is introducing its own web browser, Atlas, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer…

By  MATTHEW LEE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Updated 1:08 PM CDT, October 21, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is on hold, a U.S. official said Tuesday, the latest twist in his stop-and-go effort to…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A plane carrying passengers from Omaha, Nebraska, to Los Angeles made an emergency landing minutes into the flight “out of an abundance of caution” after pilots mistakenly thought someone was trying to breach the cockpit. The SkyWest Flight…

By  SYLVIE CORBET Updated 12:22 PM CDT, October 21, 2025 PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor said Tuesday that crown jewels stolen in a dramatic weekend Louvre heist were worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million), but that the monetary…

By  HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Updated 11:57 PM CDT, October 20, 2025 Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. The Charlotte…

By  MELANIE LIDMAN and SAMY MAGDY Updated 10:35 AM CDT, October 21, 2025 KIRYAT GAT, Israel (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday visited a newly opened center in Israel for civilian and military cooperation that he called central to keeping…

By  MARY CLARE JALONICK Updated 9:55 AM CDT, October 21, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House on Tuesday — not for urgent talks on how to end it but…

By  STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied on Monday to the cusp of their records. The S&P 500 climbed 1.1% and pulled within 0.3% of its all-time high set earlier this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 515 points,…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Former All-Pro NFL running back Doug Martin died after a struggle with police officers who were taking him into custody while they were investigating a break-in at a home in Oakland, police said Monday. Martin, best known for…

By  CLAIRE RUSH and GENE JOHNSON PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An appeals court on Monday put on hold a lower court ruling that kept President Donald Trump from taking command of 200 Oregon National Guard troops. However, Trump is still barred from actually deploying those troops, at…

By  MATTHEW DALY Updated 3:00 PM CDT, October 20, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agency tasked with overseeing the U.S. nuclear stockpile has begun furloughing employees as part of the ongoing federal government shutdown, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Monday. In…

By  KELVIN CHAN LONDON (AP) — A problem with Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world Monday, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms. The disruption and…

By  KEVIN FREKING Updated 12:30 PM CDT, October 18, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government shutdown is quickly approaching the second longest on record with no end in sight. Some lawmakers are predicting it could become the longest, surpassing the 35 days from President Donald Trump’s…

By  MARK SCOLFORO Remains found buried in a wooded area behind an abandoned school are those of Kada Scott, a 23-year-old woman who had been missing for about two weeks, prosecutors in Philadelphia said Monday. Authorities said an anonymous tip led police back…

By  AUDREY McAVOY Updated 8:33 PM CDT, October 19, 2025 Metal shrapnel from an exploding artillery shell fell hit and damaged a California Highway Patrol vehicle as personnel at a U.S. Marine Corps base fired live rounds over a highway —…

By  SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a critical-minerals deal at the White House on Monday as the U.S. eyes the continent’s rich rare-earth resources when China is imposing tougher rules on exporting…