By MATT OTT and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 8:53 AM CDT, July 24, 2025 Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern confirmed Thursday that they are in merger talks that would create a single U.S railroad with service stretching from the East to the West…
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN Updated 9:56 AM CDT, July 24, 2025 Pura Scents is recalling more than 850,000 diffusers because some magnets may detach and cause a possible ingestion hazard to children. The company is recalling about 851,400 Pura 4 Smart Home…
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing icon in the world of professional wrestling, has died at the age of 71, Florida police and WWE said Thursday. In Clearwater, Florida, authorities responded to a call Thursday morning about…
By ADRIAN SAINZ Updated 10:51 PM CDT, July 23, 2025 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Three men who were reported missing while fishing and swimming on a sandbar in the Mississippi River have been found dead near Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said Wednesday.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department officials were set to meet on Thursday with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned girlfriend of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a person familiar with the matter. The meeting in Florida, which Deputy Attorney General…
By SARA CLINE Updated 12:51 PM CDT, July 23, 2025 Nine men accused of breaking out of a New Orleans city jail in May after slipping through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a barbed wire fence pleaded not guilty to escape…
By SUSAN HAIGH Updated 2:58 PM CDT, July 23, 2025 The U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday marked its upcoming 250th anniversary with the release of new commemorative stamps, including an exclusive, modernized version of the nation’s first 5-cent stamp featuring Benjamin…
By REBECCA BOONE Updated 3:02 PM CDT, July 23, 2025 BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Friends and relatives of four University of Idaho students murdered in their rental home by Bryan Kohberger delivered powerful statements of love, anguish and condemnation Wednesday as…
By ED WHITE Updated 2:43 PM CDT, July 23, 2025 A judge on Wednesday rejected a Trump administration request to unseal transcripts from grand jury investigations of Jeffrey Epstein years ago in Florida, though a similar request for the work of a different grand jury is…
By MARCIA DUNN Updated 3:28 PM CDT, July 3, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and…
By NADIA LATHAN Updated 9:51 AM CDT, July 23, 2025 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers on Wednesday began reviewing the July 4 floods that killed at least 136 people, a disaster that put local officials under scrutiny over why residents along the…
By ALEX VEIGA Updated 9:15 AM CDT, July 23, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slid in June to the slowest pace since last September as mortgage rates remained elevated and national median sales prices hit unprecedented levels.…
By JOCELYN GECKER Updated 9:07 AM CDT, July 23, 2025 No question is too small when Kayla Chege, a high school student in Kansas, is using artificial intelligence. The 15-year-old asks ChatGPT for guidance on back-to-school shopping, makeup colors, low-calorie choices at Smoothie…
By MOLLY QUELL Associated Press The United Nations' top court says that if countries fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, they could be in violation of international law. The International Court of Justice on Wednesday…
PARIS (AP) — With the support of international partners and the mobilization of $115 million, the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO recently helped rebuild the Iraqi city of Mosul after it was devastated by the Islamic State group. The restoration of…
By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham have announced the reissue of 1973's “Buckingham Nicks.” It is their only full-length album as a duo and had not been available on CD or streaming platforms.…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN and JONEL ALECCIA Updated 2:18 PM CDT, July 22, 2025 President Donald Trump teased the announcement last week, but the Coca-Cola Co. confirmed it Tuesday: a cane sugar-sweetened version of the beverage maker’s trademark soda will be released in the U.S. this fall. For…
By ISABELLA O’MALLEY and SARAH BRUMFIELD Updated 2:22 PM CDT, July 22, 2025 A wildfire burning in a sparsely populated region of central Oregon has become the largest fire this year and is on the verge of surpassing 100,000 acres to become what’s…
By ERIC TUCKER Updated 12:01 PM CDT, July 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice wants to interview Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the financier sexually abuse underage girls and is now serving a lengthy prison…
By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Updated 1:58 PM CDT, July 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is rebuffing pressure to act on the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, instead sending members home early for a month-long break from Washington after the…
By DAVID KLEPPER Updated 12:15 PM CDT, July 22, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — People with congestive heart failure, undergoing treatment for schizophrenia or who have a history of paraphilic disorders will no longer be eligible for a medical waiver to serve…
By AMANDA SWINHART Updated 11:03 AM CDT, July 22, 2025 TUNBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn’t until he found himself living in rural…
By MARK KENNEDY Updated 1:50 PM CDT, July 22, 2025 Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died Tuesday, just weeks…
By STAN CHOE, ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT Updated 10:03 AM CDT, July 22, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is hanging near its records on Tuesday following some mixed profit reports, as General Motors and other big U.S. companies give updates on how much President Donald Trump’s…