By AUDREY McAVOY Updated 8:30 PM CDT, August 2, 2025 Charlie the 10-year-old yellow lab likes surfing so much, he will grab his surfboard and run toward the water. His humans sometimes have to hide his board if they want to…
By STAN CHOE, ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT Updated 4:02 PM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied on Monday and won back most of their sharp loss from last week, when worries about how President Donald Trump’s tariffs may be punishing the…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 1:58 PM CDT, August 4, 2025 Texas holds the top spot in the USA Today preseason coaches football poll released on Monday. The Longhorns received 28 of the 67 first-place votes. Defending national champion Ohio State…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Updated 8:54 PM CDT, August 3, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. Actress Loni Anderson…
By BILL BARROW, NADIA LATHAN, ANDREW DEMILLO and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Updated 4:18 PM CDT, August 4, 2025 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrats on Monday prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by…
By RIO YAMAT Updated 11:06 PM CDT, August 3, 2025 LAS VEGAS (AP) — When Susana Pacheco accepted a housekeeping job at a casino on the Las Vegas Strip 16 years ago, she believed it was a step toward stability for…
By JEFF AMY Updated 9:52 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 ATLANTA (AP) — Former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley on Monday announced his 2026 Republican bid for the U.S. Senate in Georgia against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff. The 57-year-old Dooley…
By CHRISTINA LARSON Updated 10:00 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars –…
By CORA LEWIS and LINLEY SANDERS Updated 8:56 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The vast majority of U.S. adults are at least somewhat stressed about the cost of groceries, a new poll finds, as prices continue to rise and concerns about…
By MARK KENNEDY Updated 10:13 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Hank Hill is back and he’s the same ol’ Hank Hill, but a lot of things around him have changed. The lovable animated hero of “King of…
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Updated 9:41 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Several thousand workers at three Midwest manufacturing plants where Boeing develops military aircraft and weapons went on strike early Monday, potentially complicating the aerospace company’s progress in regaining its financial…
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ANDREW DEMILLO Updated 6:56 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Updated 2:10 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 A baby boy born last week to an Ohio couple developed from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years in what is believed to be the longest…
By JAMES POLLARD Updated 1:11 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Online creators from dozens of countries, led by MrBeast and popular science YouTuber Mark Rober, are launching a $40 million fundraiser to build water quality projects around the world. The…
By DAN GELSTON Updated 11:42 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The first 5K held in the memory of John and Matt Gaudreau helped raise more than $500,000, enough to break ground later this year on an accessible playground…
SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) — A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions. Crews were stuck with a job they did not relish — rolling…
By TERESA M. WALKER Updated 2:51 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Bristol Motor Speedway is ready to make history by hosting the first Major League Baseball game in Tennessee. The stage, or in this case the racetrack, has been…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Updated 10:31 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 American businesses and consumers woke up Friday to find the contours of President Donald Trump’s foreign trade agenda taking shape but without much more clarity on how import taxes on goods from dozens of…
By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Updated 8:42 PM CDT, July 31, 2025 LIMA, Peru (AP) — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand underground gas networks in Peru’s capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday. One was empty, but the other held the 1,000-year-old remains…
By LINDSEY BAHR Updated 9:29 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 The best of the internet’s cat videos are coming to the big screen this weekend. Cat Video Fest is a 73-minute, G-rated selection of all things feline —silly, cuddly, sentimental and comedic—that’s playing in more…
By NOAH TRISTER Updated 4:51 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Commanders’ hopes of returning to the site of their former home at RFK Stadium cleared a significant hurdle Friday when the District of Columbia Council approved the legislation.…
By DAMIAN J. TROISE, ALEX VEIGA and TERESA CEROJANO Updated 3:03 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 The stock market had its worst day since May after the government reported a sharp slowdown in hiring and President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from…
By TED ANTHONY and KEVIN FREKING Updated 4:24 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a cornerstone of American culture for three generations, announced Friday it would take steps toward its own closure after being defunded by…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Updated 2:53 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Federal judge T.S. Ellis III, whose legal scholarship and commanding courtroom presence was evident in numerous high-profile trials, has died after a long illness. He was 85. Ellis…