By LEAH WILLINGHAM Updated 2:55 PM CDT, August 12, 2025 BOSTON (AP) — A manatee was recently spotted off the coast of Massachusetts for the first time in almost a decade and scientists want to monitor its condition to see if…
By CHRISTINA LARSON Updated 10:13 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Summer’s most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks early Wednesday. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter will converge in the sky — overlapping like a very bright star.…
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Updated 3:29 PM CDT, August 12, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government’s gross national debt has surpassed $37 trillion, a record number that highlights the accelerating debt on America’s balance sheet and increased cost pressures on taxpayers. The $37…
By RUSS BYNUM Updated 3:11 PM CDT, August 12, 2025 SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A U.S. Army sergeant accused of shooting five fellow soldiers at a Georgia base was charged Tuesday with attempted murder, aggravated assault and domestic violence as the Army revealed…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. budget deficit in July climbed 20% this fiscal year compared to the last despite the U.S. taking in record income from President Donald Trump’s tariffs, according to Treasury Department data released Tuesday. The U.S. saw a 273% increase…
By DAVID A. LIEB Updated 1:07 PM CDT, August 12, 2025 President Donald Trump is taking a new look at reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a move that could nudge the federal government closer to an approach already embraced…
By JIM VERTUNO and JOHN SEEWER Updated 10:59 AM CDT, August 12, 2025 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — County leaders in Uvalde, Texas, released police body camera video and documents Tuesday detailing the agonizingly slow law enforcement response during one of the deadliest classroom attacks…
By NADIA LATHAN Updated 9:14 PM CDT, August 11, 2025 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A gunman opened fire Monday in the parking lot of a Target store in Texas’ capital, killing two adults and a child before stealing two cars during…
ATLANTA (AP) — The man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into a locked safe to get his father’s weapons and wanted to send a…
By ASHRAF KHALIL Updated 9:55 AM CDT, August 12, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by President Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on Tuesday, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to…
By MARIA SHERMAN Updated 9:30 AM CDT, August 12, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Look what you made her do — Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” Swift announced the album on her website shortly after…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A group of masked thieves stole about $7,000 worth of Labubu dolls from a Los Angeles-area store this week, authorities said. The incident took place early Wednesday morning at a store in La Puente, a city…
By MARCIA DUNN Updated 1:44 PM CDT, August 9, 2025 Four astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after hustling to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve the stuck test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the…
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Updated 3:32 PM CDT, August 11, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — AOL’s dial-up internet is finally taking its last bow. Yes, while perhaps a dinosaur by today’s digital standards, dial-up is still around. But AOL says it’s officially…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 11:27 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Nvidia and AMD have agreed to share 15% of their revenues from chip sales to China with the U.S. government, as part of a deal to…
By LARRY NEUMEISTER, MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Updated 1:22 PM CDT, August 11, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell shouldn’t be released, a judge ruled Monday…
By BRUCE SCHREINER Updated 11:10 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Ford Motor Co. will invest nearly $2 billion retooling a Kentucky factory to produce electric vehicles that it says will be more affordable, more profitable to build, and will…
By STAN CHOE and ELAINE KURTENBACH Updated 2:10 PM CDT, August 11, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their record heights on Monday as Wall Street waits for an upcoming update on inflation. The S&P 500 fell 0.1% and…
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 5:48 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Flash flooding canceled the final day of the Wisconsin State Fair on Sunday as continued heavy rainfall in half a dozen Midwest states forced motorists to abandon their…
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds turned out to honor the life of Aland Etienne, the security guard who was killed last month at a Manhattan office tower by a gunman targeting the headquarters of the National Football League. An immigrant from Haiti who came…
By MARC LEVY and MICHAEL CASEY Updated 11:50 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 An explosion Monday at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh has left dozens wounded and people trapped under the rubble, with emergency workers on site trying to rescue them, officials…
By ERIC OLSON Updated 11:03 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 For the first time, Texas will open a college football season ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25. The Longhorns hardly have a mandate in the poll released Monday: They edged…
By DAVID KLEPPER Updated 10:00 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is promising new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington including deployment of the National Guard, prompting the city’s mayor to voice legal concerns about who would be…
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Erin formed Monday in the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean, just west of the Cabo Verde Islands, as Hurricane Henriette strengthened in the Pacific Ocean well away from Hawaii, forecasters said. There were no coastal watches…