PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally as the U.S. Supreme Court is poised…
By MARK SHERMAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press The Supreme Court says it will not immediately take up a plea by special counsel Jack Smith to rule on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted for his actions to…
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Rudy Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy, days after being ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation lawsuit. The former New York City mayor listed nearly $153 million in existing or…
BY MATTHEW BROWN AND MATTHEW DALY Updated 2:48 PM CST, December 20, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil companies offered $382 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday after courts rejected the Biden administration’s plans to scale back the sale to protect…
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press The Colorado Supreme Court is removing former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, saying he is ineligible to be president after his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An orange tabby cat named Taters stars in the first video transmitted by laser from deep space, stealing the show as he chases a red laser light. The 15-second video was beamed to Earth from NASA’s…
BY DAVID KOENIG Updated 8:08 AM CST, December 11, 2023 More Americans are expected to fly or drive far from home over Christmas than did last year, putting a cap on a busy year for travel. Auto club AAA forecast Monday…
BY KEVIN FREKING Updated 2:12 PM CST, December 15, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States experienced a dramatic 12% increase in homelessness to its highest reported level as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach…
BY SCOTT MCFETRIDGE AND JIM SALTER Updated 12:55 PM CST, December 15, 2023 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Satanic Temple display inside the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines was destroyed, and a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot running for a statehouse seat…
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press The House has authorized the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Every Republican rallied behind the politically charged process despite lingering concerns among some in the party that the investigation has yet to produce evidence…
BY KRISTIN M. HALL Updated 11:02 PM CST, December 7, 2023 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When country music star Brad Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, helped create a free grocery store in Nashville, Tennessee, their goal was to give families in…
Updated 1:27 PM CST, December 8, 2023 KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — An extremely rare white leucistic alligator has been born at a Florida reptile park. The 19.2-inch female slithered out of its shell and into the history books as one…
BY CURT ANDERSON Updated 10:48 AM CST, December 5, 2023 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A two-year experimental feeding program for starving Florida manatees will not immediately resume this winter as conditions have improved for the threatened marine mammals and the seagrass on…
By ANTHONY McCARTNEY AP Entertainment Writer Actor Ryan O’Neal, who was nominated for an Oscar for the tear-jerker “Love Story” and played opposite his precocious daughter Tatum in “Paper Moon,” has died. O’Neal's son Patrick said on Instagram that his…
BY AUDREY MCAVOY AND CLAIRE RUSH Updated 11:07 PM CST, December 6, 2023 PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor’s uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS Dobbin when he heard a call…
It's almost been a week since the historic expulsion of George Santos from the House of Representatives. Congressman Mike Ezell voted 'no' to the expulsion, releasing a statement to explain his…
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy says he is resigning from his congressional seat in California two months after his historic ouster as House speaker. McCarthy made history in October when a contingent of hard-right…
BY LYNN ELBER LOS ANGELES (AP) — Norman Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with “All in the Family” and “Maude,” propelling political and social turmoil into the once-insulated world of sitcoms, has died. He was…
BY GARY D. ROBERTSON Updated 12:35 PM CST, December 5, 2023 Share RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry, who presided temporarily over the U.S. House for three intense weeks while Republicans struggled to elect a permanent speaker after Kevin McCarthy’s…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate in a single stroke Tuesday approved about 425 military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthlong blockade of nominations over his opposition to a Pentagon abortion policy. Tuberville had been under pressure…
BY MARCIA DUNN Updated 10:02 AM CST, November 29, 2023 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of…
U.S. health officials recalled three more brands of whole and pre-cut cantaloupes Friday as the number of people sickened by salmonella more than doubled this week. Nearly 100 people in 32 states have gotten sick from the contaminated fruits. Arizona, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin…
BY MIKE STOBBE Updated 1:12 PM CST, December 1, 2023 NEW YORK (AP) — Flu is picking up steam while RSV lung infections that can hit kids and older people hard may be peaking, U.S. health officials said Friday. COVID-19, though,…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. It turns out that the asteroid Dinkinesh has a dinky sidekick — a mini moon. The discovery was made…