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BERLIN (AP) — A motorist was clocked driving at more than 320 kph (199 mph) on the Autobahn west of Berlin, a record high at more than 124 mph above the speed limit, German police said. The speedster, who was…

By  MARCIA DUNN Updated 10:49 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. NASA and the European Space Agency…

By  WILL WEISSERT and VASILISA STEPANENKO Updated 5:22 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, a potential major…

By  DOUGLASS K. DANIEL Updated 5:12 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — William H. Webster, the former FBI and CIA director whose troubleshooting skills and integrity helped restore public confidence in those federal agencies, has died, his family announced…

ATLANTA (AP) — Police were responding Friday to a report of an active shooter on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, near the entrance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta police did not immediately say whether…

By  DON BABWIN Updated 2:52 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 CHICAGO (AP) — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died…

By  DAMIAN J. TROISE, ALEX VEIGA and TERESA CEROJANO Updated 3:34 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 U.S. stocks closed higher Friday, capping a choppy week of trading with the market’s third winning week in the last four and another milestone. The S&P 500 rose…

By  FATIMA HUSSEIN Updated 2:52 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has removed former U.S. Rep. Billy Long as IRS commissioner less than two months after his confirmation, a White House official said Friday. The official,…

By  MARK SCOLFORO, PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Updated 11:15 AM CDT, August 8, 2025 A man fatally shot his neighbor in rural Pennsylvania and then unleashed a hail of gunfire on first responders, wounding two state troopers, running an EMT off the road…

By  JENNIFER PELTZ Updated 12:19 PM CDT, August 8, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Three 9/11 victims’ remains have newly been identified, officials said this week, as evolving DNA technology keeps making gradual gains in the nearly quarter-century-long effort to return the…

By  JENNIFER McDERMOTT Updated 9:45 AM CDT, August 8, 2025 Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States has withdrawn from international negotiations and commitments, particularly around climate. But the U.S. is very much involved in treaty talks for a global…

By  DAMIAN J. TROISE and TERESA CEROJANO Updated 10:04 AM CDT, August 8, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in morning trading on Wall Street Friday, keeping the market on track for its third weekly gain in the last four. The S&P…

By  ALEXA ST. JOHN and MATTHEW DALY Updated 3:17 PM CDT, August 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday terminated a $7 billion grant program intended to help pay for residential solar projects for more than 900,000 lower-income U.S.…

By  JOSH BOAK Updated 4:37 PM CDT, August 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unexpectedly summoned reporters to the Oval Office on Thursday to present them with charts that he says show the U.S. economy is solid following a jobs report…

By  ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and DEE-ANN DURBIN Updated 1:39 PM CDT, August 7, 2025 American businesses and consumers soon will have a better idea of how President Donald Trump’s foreign trade agenda might affect them now that the United States has imposed higher tariffs on products from dozens…

By  STEVE KARNOWSKI Updated 10:22 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man charged with killing the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court.…

By  ALEXA ST. JOHN Updated 4:56 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hire as many as 450 people to shore up the National Weather Service after deep cuts this spring raised concern about dangerous understaffing,…

By  ERIC TUCKER Updated 11:17 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in the Jan.…

EAST ALTON, Ill. (AP) — A helicopter flying over the Mississippi River ran into a powerline Thursday, then crashed into a barge and sparked a fire, killing two people, officials said. The two dead were flying in the helicopter and…

By  BARBARA ORTUTAY Updated 7:16 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an artificial intelligence system it says can help preemptively detect predatory language in game…

By  RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN Updated 10:29 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — A half-dozen soldiers at a Georgia Army base are being hailed as heroes for tackling an armed assailant accused of shooting five people and then…

By  MATT OTT Updated 8:15 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers despite economic uncertainty related to U.S. trade policy. Jobless…