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By  JONEL ALECCIA Updated 12:12 PM CDT, August 29, 2025 More companies are recalling tens of thousands of packages of imported shrimp sold at Walmart, Kroger and other U.S. stores because they may contain radioactive contamination, according to federal notices. AquaStar USA Corp.…

By  JANIE HAR Updated 11:42 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans gain more seats in the 2026 midterm elections, delivering a win for President Donald Trump and his desire to hold onto…

By  SEUNG MIN KIM and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Updated 11:17 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has revoked former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection that otherwise would have ended next summer, senior Trump administration officials said Friday. Former vice…

By  MAE ANDERSON Updated 9:50 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Low-value imports lost their duty-free status in the United States on Friday as part of President Donald Trump’s agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods and resetting global…

By  ALEX VEIGA Updated 9:07 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 Stocks are losing ground on Wall Street in early trading Friday, pulling the market down from its latest all-time highs, after a closely watched measure of inflation showed prices mostly held…

By  REGINA GARCIA CANO and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Updated 9:02 AM CDT, August 29, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is boosting its maritime force in the waters off Venezuela to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels with the expected arrival of more vessels next week,…

By  STEVE KARNOWSKI, MARK VANCLEAVE and CLAUDIA LAUER Updated 3:37 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen youngsters sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the same…

By  ALEX VEIGA Updated 3:31 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 Wall Street notched more milestones Thursday after gains in technology stocks helped push the market to another all-time high. The S&P 500 rose 0.3%, lifting the benchmark index to its second…

By  LARRY NEUMEISTER Updated 3:35 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say Luigi Mangione, accused of killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare on a Manhattan sidewalk, has inspired others to embrace violence over reasoned debate. As evidence of Mangione’s growing influence,…

By  LEAH WILLINGHAM Updated 3:19 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 People from all over the world are expected to pay tribute to Frank Caprio, a retired municipal judge who found online fame as an empathetic jurist and host of “ Caught in…

By  ANDREW DEMILLO Updated 2:47 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 Former Major League Baseball star Mark Teixeira announced Thursday that he’s running for the Republican nomination for a House seat in Texas. The former slugger for the Texas Rangers and New…

By  MIKE STOBBE, AMANDA SEITZ and CHRIS MEGERIAN Updated 2:51 PM CDT, August 28, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s top public health agency was left reeling and leaderless as the White House works to expel its handpicked director from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and three…

By  PAUL WISEMAN Updated 8:31 AM CDT, August 28, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy rebounded this spring from a first-quarter downturn due to fallout from President Donald Trump’s trade wars. In an upgrade from its first estimate in July, the Commerce Department said…

By  CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Updated 7:57 AM CDT, August 28, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week as employers appear to be holding onto their workers even as the economy has slowed. Applications for unemployment benefits for the week…

By  MIKE SCHNEIDER and KATE PAYNE Updated 9:27 AM CDT, August 28, 2025 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” must keep moving toward shutting down operations by late October, a judge has ruled, even as…

By  GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, STEVE KARNOWSKI, MARK VANCLEAVE and HALLIE GOLDEN Updated 9:26 AM CDT, August 28, 2025 RICHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — Investigators were examining the videos, writings and movements of the shooter who fired through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, killing two children and…

By  JONEL ALECCIA Updated 3:46 PM CDT, August 27, 2025 Federal health officials have dramatically scaled back a program that has tracked food poisoning infections in the U.S. for three decades. The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, known as FoodNet, has cut…

By  CHRISTINA LARSON Updated 8:19 AM CDT, August 27, 2025 SpaceX launched the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday night and completed the first-ever deployment of a test payload — eight dummy satellites — into space. After just over an hour coasting…

By  BRETT MARTEL Updated 2:51 PM CDT, August 27, 2025 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The LIV Golf League has added a summer tournament in New Orleans for 2026 after Louisiana agreed to pay the Saudi-backed tour $5 million and spend an…

By  ALEX VEIGA Updated 3:18 PM CDT, August 27, 2025 Modest gains on Wall Street lifted the stock market to an all-time high Wednesday ahead of a highly anticipated earnings update from computer chip giant Nvidia. The S&P 500 rose 0.2%, good…

By  WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Updated 1:32 PM CDT, August 27, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 355,000 of its pickup trucks across the U.S. because of an instrument panel display failure that’s resulted in critical information, like warning…

By  KATE PAYNE and MIKE SCHNEIDER Updated 11:50 AM CDT, August 27, 2025 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican…