National News

By  TRÂN NGUYỄN and JIM VERTUNO Updated 1:53 PM CDT, August 21, 2025 SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — The national tit-for-tat redistricting battle entered its next phase Thursday as California Democrats launched their final legislative push to redraw their congressional map to add up…

By  MATT OTT Updated 7:52 AM CDT, August 21, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but U.S. layoffs remain in the same historically healthy range of the past few years. Applications for unemployment benefits for…

By  STEVE LeBLANC Updated 12:18 AM CDT, August 21, 2025 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Frank Caprio, a retired municipal judge in Rhode Island who found online fame as a caring jurist and host of “ Caught in Providence,” has died. He was…

By  CHRIS MEGERIAN and JACQUELYN MARTIN Updated 12:45 PM CDT, August 21, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to join a Thursday evening patrol in the nation’s capital as federal authorities deploy checkpoints around the city and sometimes ask people for their immigration…

By  ALLEN G. BREED and JOHN SEEWER Updated 9:03 AM CDT, August 21, 2025 RODANTHE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Erin battered North Carolina’s Outer Banks with strong winds and waves that flooded part of the main highway and surged under beachfront homes as the monster-sized…

By  JAIMIE DING Updated 6:25 AM CDT, August 21, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Menendez brothers will make their cases for parole starting Thursday, marking the closest they’ve been to winning freedom from prison since their convictions almost 30 years…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. (AP) — Dr. James Dobson, a politically influential child psychologist who started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents, founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was long a campaigner against abortion…

By  MIKE STOBBE Updated 4:14 PM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are receiving permanent termination notices in the wake of a recent court decision that protected…

By  STAN CHOE, YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT Updated 3:29 PM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes ended mixed on Wednesday after Nvidia, Palantir and other superstar stocks pared most of their steep losses from the morning. The S&P…

By  LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK Updated 2:03 PM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge who presided over the sex trafficking case against financier Jeffrey Epstein has joined two other judges in rejecting the government’s request to unseal grand…

By  KATE PAYNE Updated 9:47 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has posthumously awarded five notable Floridians with the Governor’s Medal of Freedom, one of the state’s highest honors. The awardees include the state’s last Democratic…

By  MIKE STOBBE Updated 8:14 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — States are warning beachgoers about a summertime surge in infections from a frightening, flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters. Vibrio vulnificus are becoming an annual threat along…

By  MATT O’BRIEN Updated 8:08 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The winged passenger ferry gliding over the surface of Narragansett Bay could be a new method of coastal transportation or a new kind of warship. Its…

By  ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Updated 7:03 AM CDT, August 20, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Target is counting on a company veteran to revive its magic as it struggles to compete with rivals like Walmart. The Minneapolis-based retailer said Wednesday that Chief…

By  ERIC TUCKER, AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW LEE Updated 3:40 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved Tuesday to revoke the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials in the latest act of retribution targeting public…

By  STEVE KARNOWSKI Updated 3:04 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota on Tuesday joined a wave of states suing TikTok, alleging the social media giant preys on young people with addictive algorithms that trap them into becoming…

By  MATT BROWN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRIS MEGERIAN Updated 4:31 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — National Guard members from West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana began arriving in Washington on Tuesday to assist in President Donald Trump’s federal crackdown on…

By  LEA SKENE Updated 12:54 PM CDT, August 19, 2025 BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused an explosion aboard a cargo ship laden with coal as it departed Baltimore’s harbor for East Africa. Officials said…

By  DARLENE SUPERVILLE and AAMER MADHANI Updated 11:10 AM CDT, August 19, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered his assurances that U.S. troops would not be sent to help defend Ukraine against Russia after seeming to leave open the possibility the…

By  AUDREY McAVOY Updated 10:38 PM CDT, August 18, 2025 HONOLULU (AP) — Lava shoots high into the sky. Molten rock erupts from two vents simultaneously. The nighttime sky glows red and orange, reflecting the lava oozing across a summit crater. Scientists expect Kilauea volcano to…

By  RYAN J. FOLEY and EDDIE PELLS Updated 8:05 AM CDT, August 19, 2025 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to…