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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…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Democrat has won a special election for an Iowa state Senate seat in a district that had been held by Republicans and had voted heavily for President Donald Trump in 2024, adding to the Democratic Party’s…

By  DEE-ANN DURBIN Updated 8:28 AM CDT, August 27, 2025 Cracker Barrel said late Tuesday it’s returning to its old logo after critics — including President Donald Trump — protested the company’s plan to modernize. In a post on its website, Cracker Barrel…

By  DARLENE SUPERVILLE Updated 8:47 AM CDT, August 27, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that his department is taking management of Union Station, the main transportation hub in Washington, away from Amtrak, in another example of how the…

By  GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Updated 9:39 PM CDT, August 26, 2025 Some employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who signed a public letter of dissent earlier this week were put on administrative leave Tuesday evening, according to documents reviewed by The…

By  STEVE KARNOWSKI and MARK VANCLEAVE Updated 11:08 AM CDT, August 27, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A shooting Wednesday at a Minneapolis Catholic school killed two children as they prayed and injured 17 other people, 14 of them kids, the police chief and…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — The parents of a missing 7-month-old boy in Southern California have been charged with murder. The Riverside County District Attorney’s office charged Jake Haro, 32, and his wife, Rebecca Haro, 41, in the death of their…

By  ROSS FRANKLIN and HALLIE GOLDEN Updated 5:08 PM CDT, August 26, 2025 PHOENIX (AP) — Crews cleaned up downed trees and got power mostly restored for thousands of people Tuesday after a powerful dust storm roared through the Phoenix area. The wall…

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical storms Juliette and Fernand churned Tuesday over open waters, one in the Pacific Ocean and one in the Atlantic, at the same time as some officials continued to deal with the aftermath of the massive Hurricane Erin which…

By  FATIMA HUSSEIN Updated 2:56 PM CDT, August 26, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 300 million Americans’ Social Security data was put at risk after Department of Government Efficiency officials uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight, according…

By  ANDREW DEMILLO and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Updated 2:57 PM CDT, August 26, 2025 A rash of hoax calls about active shooters on college campuses — some featuring gunshots sounding in the background — has sent waves of fear among students around the nation…

By  KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Updated 4:55 PM CDT, August 25, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Adm. Daryl Caudle took over as the Navy’s highest-ranking officer Monday, ending a six-month vacancy created by the Trump administration’s firing of his predecessor. Caudle became chief of naval…

By  DAMIAN J. TROISE Updated 11:20 AM CDT, August 26, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are holding near breakeven in afternoon trading on Wall Street Tuesday as indexes hover just below their recent all-time highs. The S&P 500 edged 0.1%…

By  MAE ANDERSON Updated 9:20 AM CDT, August 26, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. consumers have gotten used to shopping the world without paying customs duties on the international packages they receive from big e-commerce companies like Shein and Temu, specialty shops and…

By  JOCELYN NOVECK Updated 12:30 PM CDT, August 26, 2025 It’s a love story and, baby, she said yes: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged, they announced Tuesday. In a five-photo joint post on Instagram, the superstar singer and football…

By  LEA SKENE Updated 10:27 AM CDT, August 26, 2025 BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Maryland’s entire federal bench over an order by the chief judge that stopped the immediate deportation of migrants…

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard seized more than 75,000 pounds (34,000 kilograms) of illegal drugs this summer from boats far out to sea in the Pacific and Caribbean, which the service called its largest-ever haul worth nearly half a billion…

By  MATT OTT Updated 9:19 AM CDT, August 26, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ view of the U.S. economy declined modestly in August as anxiety over a weakening job market grew for the eighth straight month. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its…

By  GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Updated 4:27 PM CDT, August 25, 2025 Warning: This may be an actual emergency — as far as emergencies about emergencies go, at least. The recently defunded nonprofit corporation that distributed federal money to public media stations…

By  MICHAEL LIEDTKE Updated 1:32 PM CDT, August 25, 2025 Elon Musk on Monday targeted Apple and OpenAI in an antitrust lawsuit alleging that the iPhone maker and the ChatGPT maker are teaming up to thwart competition in artificial intelligence. The…

By  RIO YAMAT Updated 3:24 PM CDT, August 25, 2025 Southwest Airlines will soon require travelers who can’t fit within the armrests of their seat to pay for an extra one in advance, part of a string of recent changes the…