Updated 7:48 AM CDT, April 29, 2026 SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — The search has been suspended for five missing crew members of a cargo ship that overturned near the Northern Mariana Islands during a typhoon in the Pacific…
By PHILIP MARCELO NEW YORK (AP) — King Charles III and Queen Camilla are headed to New York on Wednesday as part of their closely watched diplomatic visit to the U.S. The royal couple’s swing through the city comes midway through a four-day trip marking 250…
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with a faith-based pregnancy center that raised First Amendment concerns about an investigation into whether it misled people to discourage abortions. The high court’s unanimous ruling is a procedural victory for…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and is accused of trying to kill President Donald Trump took a picture of himself in his hotel room just minutes earlier, outfitted with an ammunition…
By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district in a decision that could open the door for Republican-led states to eliminate Black and Latino electoral districts that tend to favor Democrats and…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — Sinking AI stocks and another climb in oil prices because of the Iran war helped pull Wall Street off its record heights on Tuesday. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% from its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average…
By MATT OTT WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence rose modestly in April despite growing anxiety over soaring energy prices brought on by the war in Iran. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index inched up to 92.8…
By MARIA SHERMAN NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift filed three new trademark applications with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, a move one legal expert theorizes it is to protect her voice and image from potential misuse through artificial intelligence. Two of…
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. special forces soldier pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he used classified information about the mission to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to win more than $400,000 on the prediction…
By STEVEN SLOAN, JOSH BOAK and MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — King Charles III acknowledged “times of great uncertainty” as he expressed gratitude to the American people and marked the 250th anniversary of independence from Britain in a speech to the U.S. Congress that highlighted the bonds…
By MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Tuesday that it is preparing a limited release of commemorative U.S. passports celebrating America’s 250th birthday that feature a picture of President Donald Trump, who would be the first living president to be featured in…
By MATTHEW BROWN BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump is withdrawing his nomination of a hospitality company executive to lead the National Park Service, the White House announced Monday. The withdrawal of nominee Scott Socha comes as the park service has been shaken by…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Three students who were injured in the December campus shooting at Brown University are each suing the Ivy League school, alleging it ignored prior warnings about the shooter and did not provide adequate security that could…
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on Tuesday in an investigation over a social media photo of seashells arranged on a beach that officials said constituted a threat against President Donald Trump, according to…
By MOLLY MINTA/Mississippi Today Black, sweeping lines form an outline of a tree on the brick wall that once displayed the Tree of Life in Mississippi’s largest synagogue. The commemorative brass plaque was damaged but withstood a fire that was intentionally set earlier this…
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. special forces soldier is due in federal court in New York on Tuesday on charges that he used classified information about the mission to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to win more than $400,000 on…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A college dropout was ordered held without bond Tuesday for murder charges in the killings of two University of South Florida students, just days after a SWAT team descended on his parents’ house to arrest him. Hillsborough…
By PHILIPP JENNE, MATTHIAS SCHRADER and STEFANIE DAZIO WIENER NEUSTADT, Austria (AP) — A man accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and plotting to attack one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna nearly two years ago pleaded guilty as his trial began on…
By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market’s record-breaking rally slowed on Monday after uncertainty rose over the weekend about what will happen next in the Iran war, while oil prices rose. The S&P 500 inched 0.1% higher to its latest all-time…
By MARIA SHERMAN NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Jackson once sang “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.” For fans of the King of Pop’s music, it’s words to live by: Streams of his catalog jumped 95% in the U.S. over the weekend when…
By JIM VERTUNO AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Young and inexperienced Camp Mystic counselors were not trained to help campers during floods or other emergencies, and feared making decisions on their own, an investigator into the 2025 flood that killed 27 counselors…
By GARY D. ROBERTSON and DAVID A. LIEB RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Supreme Court justices on Monday questioned whether the state’s Democratic-led legislature complied with constitutional requirements when it sent a congressional redistricting plan to voters, in a case that carries high…
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation. Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office “on behalf…
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JILL LAWLESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Two and a half centuries after the American colonies declared independence from Britain under King George III, his descendant King Charles III arrived in the United States on Monday with trans-Atlantic ties under strain and security in the…