By RIO YAMAT, AP Airlines and Travel Writer The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday approved the smallest model of Boeing’s Max jetliners for commercial service nearly a decade after the aircraft manufacturer first unveiled the plane. Certification of the Boeing 737 Max 7 represents a milestone…
By LINDSEY BAHR Spider-Man beat the Avengers at the box office. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” broke the “Avengers: Endgame” record for the biggest North American opening weekend with $360 million in ticket sales from theaters in the U.S. and Canada, Sony Pictures said…
By MICHAEL CASEY PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial resumed Monday with diary entries from the months leading up to the killings in a coastal…
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE More than 20 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Monday to block it from getting wide access to the personal information of millions of recipients of a benefits program for low-income families. The…
By PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-five states sued the Trump administration Monday over its latest tariffs, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes the Supreme Court struck down in February. The United States last month imposed double-digit tariffs…
By LINDSEY WASSON and JOHN HANNA SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Light winds and lower temperatures were in the forecast Monday to help firefighters battle wildfires in eastern Washington state that destroyed at least 600 structures and forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane…
By EDDIE PELLS DENVER (AP) — The judge who granted some athletes the right to play another year in college issued a new order Sunday that makes clear that does not include football players who signed pro contracts this summer then had a…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican senators who had threatened to block acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s confirmation to lead the Justice Department said Monday that they will support his nomination, ending an impasse over plans to…
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan in the first confirmed deaths in the U.S. related to the microscopic parasite, state health officials announced Monday. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said both…
By MORIAH BALINGIT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is planning a dramatic overhaul of Head Start that would gut its quality standards, upending the hallmarks of the early education program for impoverished children, two people familiar with the deliberations said. Head…
By REBECCA BOONE, MARTHA BELLISLE and SARAH RAZA BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three people were killed and seven more were injured, some critically, in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon, a Twin Falls city spokesman said. Police…
By KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — Key senators unveiled a short-term spending bill on Sunday that would keep federal agencies funded past the midterm elections and into early December as they look to avoid a government shutdown during the middle of…
By ANNA FURMAN LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just beyond an ambulance and wheelchair ramp wait Dr. Moodswing and Dr. Feelgood, dressed in starched white lab coats and ready to check you in with a neon orange patient wristband. At this hospital though, it’s…
By MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans outside the nation’s capital will soon be able to get limited-edition U.S. passports that feature a picture of President Donald Trump and celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the State Department said Thursday. The department’s 27 passport agencies nationwide…
By KAREL JANICEK PRAGUE (AP) — With Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated “The Odyssey” recording impressive sales around the globe, thousands of Europeans have used it as a new and unexpected reason to visit Prague. The Czech capital has a movie theater that’s among the few…
By JIM MORRIS VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The townspeople of St. Mary’s can breathe a sigh of relief. They are finally getting rid of the foul smell of rotten fish that has for years — when the wind blows their…
By DAVE SKRETTA ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are lining up to host the Super Bowl and Final Four in their $3 billion domed replacement for aging Arrowhead Stadium, which has yet to break ground but is expected to…
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago. The rocket’s upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, carving…
By ROD MCGUIRK MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian public library has had a book returned an estimated 150 years late and has no way of tracking down the errant borrower, a librarian said on Thursday. The book “Antiquities of Athens,” published in…
GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — A TSA agent discovered a set of stolen Civil War-era cannonballs in a passenger’s suitcase during a routine security screening at an Alabama airport earlier this month, law enforcement officials said. The Transportation Security Administration said in…
By ARNIE MELENDREZ STAPLETON ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Drew Brees has especially been on Sean Payton’s mind lately. The Denver Broncos coach and several of his staff members who worked with him in New Orleans will miss practice to attend the Pro Football…
By DÁNICA COTO SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The only zoo in the Dominican Republic is providing a safe haven for confiscated illegal and smuggled animals as a government crackdown aimed at protecting exotic species gathers pace. Tucked inside a green oasis in the…
By ANNA ALBRECHT/The New Bedford Light New Bedford is considered the home of whaling’s history in America — and now, home to the worst aquarium ever. In 2020, a Google user left a one-star review of the New Bedford Whaling Museum coining that…
By DYLAN LOVAN SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — KFC founder Colonel Sanders ' pressure cooker, black bow tie and dozens of other personal items are up for public auction, along with his former home and a dinner house Sanders opened after selling his iconic…