By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Updated 10:15 AM CDT, August 25, 2025 More than 180 current and former employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency published a letter Monday warning that debilitating cuts to the agency charged with handling federal disaster response risks a…
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER Updated 5:59 PM CDT, August 22, 2025 Just days ahead of the 70th anniversary of his killing, the federal government made public thousands of pages of records Friday on the lynching of Emmett Till. The records in the…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 11:04 AM CDT, August 21, 2025 Beatles fans will be feeling some “real love” for this: New content from the iconic band is coming this fall on screen, in music and in print. “The Beatles Anthology” will be…
NEW YORK (AP) — Sony has raised the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles being sold in the United States by $50. “Similar to many global businesses, we continue to navigate a challenging economic environment,” Sony Global Marketing Vice President Isabelle Tomatis…
By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Updated 10:53 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ten cheetah cubs held in captivity since birth and destined for international wildlife trade markets have been rescued in Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia Laurie Marker,…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sixteen critically endangered western Santa Cruz tortoises born to some very old parents got a slow walk and the red carpet treatment Wednesday at a Philadelphia Zoo event to show off the highly prized hatchlings. Animal care…
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN Updated 10:00 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists for the first time have spotted the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare peek into stellar evolution. Stars can live for millions to…
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN Updated 1:41 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. The new member of the lunar gang, announced Tuesday by NASA, appears to be just six miles…
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — The late President Jimmy Carter will be honored with a commemorative Forever stamp on what would have been his 101st birthday. The U.S. Postal Service will release the stamp for purchase on Oct. 1 in Atlanta. The postage…
By TAMMY WEBBER Updated 8:03 AM CDT, August 17, 2025 Share In San Francisco Bay, salt ponds created more than a century ago are reverting to marshland. Along the New York and New Jersey coasts, beaches ravaged by Superstorm Sandy underwent…
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A library book has been returned nearly 82 years after it was borrowed from the San Antonio Public Library. It came with a letter noting that “Grandma won’t be able to pay for it anymore.” The…
By LYDIA DOYE Updated 11:34 AM CDT, August 18, 2025 LONDON (AP) — What the skibidi is happening to the English language? “Skibidi” is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this…
By ALLEN G. BREED, JOHN SEEWER and LEAH WILLINGHAM Updated 4:15 PM CDT, August 22, 2025 RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Strong winds and waves battered Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard and dangerous rip currents threatened from the Carolinas to New England as Hurricane Erin made its way farther out…
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MICHAEL LIEDTKE Updated 3:29 PM CDT, August 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said that Intel has agreed to give the U.S. government a 10% stake in its business. Speaking with reporters on Friday, Trump said…
By STAN CHOE, TERESA CEROJANO and MATT OTT Updated 3:34 PM CDT, August 22, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rallied to its best day in months on Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve hinted that cuts to interest rates may be…
PEMBROKE, N.Y. (AP) — A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 51 passengers crashed and rolled Friday on an interstate highway, killing and injuring multiple people, police said. The bus apparently lost control on I-90…
By ALIANA MEDIRATTA/Verite News Updated 12:59 PM CDT, August 22, 2025 Mayor LaToya Cantrell made history — becoming the first New Orleans mayor to be indicted while in office — after federal prosecutors on Friday charged her with multiple counts of…
By ROB GILLIES Updated 12:07 PM CDT, August 22, 2025 TORONTO (AP) — Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday. Carney said Canada will include…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 11:47 AM CDT, August 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company “highly overrated” and said Friday he’ll keep extending the…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference is moving to a nine-game conference schedule beginning in 2026, ending a yearslong debate and potentially easing a path toward another expansion of the College Football Playoff. The change was approved by conference…
By DAVID FISCHER, MIKE SCHNEIDER and FREIDA FRISARO Updated 10:05 PM CDT, August 21, 2025 MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the…
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Updated 11:02 AM CDT, August 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown will start carrying firearms, the Pentagon…
By TRÂN NGUYỄN and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press California lawmakers have passed legislation advancing a partisan redistricting plan that could help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats in 2026. Lawmakers voted mostly along party lines Thursday. Republicans have sued…
By STAN CHOE, TERESA CEROJANO and MATT OTT NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes lost ground. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% Thursday, its fifth straight modest loss since setting an all-time high last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 0.3%, and the…