By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MARK SHERMAN and ERIC TUCKER Updated 11:25 PM CDT, September 10, 2025 OREM, Utah (AP) — Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was shot…
By STAN CHOE Updated 4:23 PM CDT, September 10, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street inched to more records on Wednesday following a surprisingly encouraging report on inflation and a stunning forecast for growth from Oracle because of the artificial-intelligence boom. The S&P 500…
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Updated 5:08 PM CDT, September 10, 2025 BENSENVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Federal agents seized hundreds of thousands of illegal vaping products in raids across the country on Wednesday as the Trump administration moved to crack down on…
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man who killed John Lennon outside the former Beatle’s Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 14th time, according to New York prison officials. Mark David Chapman, 70, appeared before a parole board…
By DAVID FISCHER FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A jury was selected Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump while he played golf last year in South Florida. The panel of 12 jurors and four…
By COLLEEN SLEVIN DENVER (AP) — Three teens were critically wounded in a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, including the suspected shooter, on Wednesday, authorities said. The shooting was reported around 12:30 p.m. at Evergreen High School in Evergreen,…
By PHILIP MARCELO Updated 4:06 PM CDT, September 10, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — When longtime friends David Paine and Jay Winuk set out to encourage people to take part in volunteer and service projects on the anniversary of the Sept. 11,…
By KIM CHANDLER Updated 9:48 PM CDT, September 9, 2025 AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Flowers and memorial messages were tied to the gate of Kiesel Park in Auburn to remember retired veterinary professor Julie Gard Schnuelle, who was attacked and killed…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 7:59 AM CDT, September 10, 2025 BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO allies swiftly held talks Wednesday on the incursion by multiple Russian drones into Polish — and alliance — airspace and the shooting down of some of the weapons by Polish…
OREM, Utah (AP) — Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in an act that the state's governor called a “political assassination.” A “person of…
By PAUL WISEMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. producer prices fell unexpectedly last month, dropping 0.1% from July. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its producer price index — which captures inflation in the supply chain before it hits consumers — showed that wholesale…
By GARY FIELDS and LEAH ASKARINAM Updated 10:13 AM CDT, September 10, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s emergency order over the nation’s capital, which federalized its police force and launched a surge of law enforcement into the city, is set to expire overnight…
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG Updated 8:28 AM CDT, September 10, 2025 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean charter plane left for the U.S. on Wednesday to bring back Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in Georgia last week, though officials said the…
By JACK BROOK Updated 11:06 PM CDT, September 9, 2025 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is scheduled to appear in federal court Wednesday for the first time since she was indicted on corruption charges stemming from an alleged…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN Updated 10:53 AM CDT, September 9, 2025 Cracker Barrel said Tuesday it’s suspending remodels of its restaurants after criticism from many longtime fans. The announcement came two weeks after Cracker Barrel backtracked on a separate plan to modernize and simplify its…
By DAVE COLLINS Updated 4:25 PM CDT, September 9, 2025 Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal of the $1.4 billion judgment a Connecticut jury and judge issued against him for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a…
By JONATHAN J. COOPER Updated 8:57 AM CDT, September 9, 2025 Donald Trump isn’t the only U.S. president to appear in a collection of birthday messages that were sent to Jeffrey Epstein. An entry attributed to former President Bill Clinton is among…
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Updated 4:03 PM CDT, September 9, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing on President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Tuesday, putting a policy at the center of his economic agenda squarely before the nation’s highest court.…
By GENE JOHNSON and KATHY McCORMACK Updated 4:25 PM CDT, September 9, 2025 SEATTLE (AP) — A 13-year-old boy who police said appeared to be fixated on school shooters was arrested on charges of unlawful firearms possession and making a threat after they…
By PAUL WISEMAN Updated 10:15 AM CDT, September 9, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market was much weaker in 2024 and early this year than originally reported, adding to concerns about the health of the nation’s economy. Employers added 911,000…
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Updated 9:55 AM CDT, September 9, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The income for the typical U.S. household barely rose last year and essentially matched its 2019 peak, the Census Bureau said Tuesday, as stubbornly high inflation offset wage…
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Updated 2:50 PM CDT, September 9, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup is here. The tech giant on Tuesday unveiled four new models that mark the latest editions to its marquee product. That includes the introduction of the iPhone…
Ford is recalling almost 1.5 million vehicles in the United States because the rear view camera may show a blank or distorted image on the center display screen while the vehicle is in reverse, which can reduce or distort the…
By ISABELLA VOLMERT Updated 9:49 AM CDT, September 9, 2025 LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge dismissed criminal charges Tuesday against a group of people who were accused of attempting to falsely certifying President Donald Trump as the winner of…