By ERIC TUCKER Updated 11:17 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in the Jan.…
EAST ALTON, Ill. (AP) — A helicopter flying over the Mississippi River ran into a powerline Thursday, then crashed into a barge and sparked a fire, killing two people, officials said. The two dead were flying in the helicopter and…
By BARBARA ORTUTAY Updated 7:16 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an artificial intelligence system it says can help preemptively detect predatory language in game…
By RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN Updated 10:29 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — A half-dozen soldiers at a Georgia Army base are being hailed as heroes for tackling an armed assailant accused of shooting five people and then…
By MATT OTT Updated 8:15 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers despite economic uncertainty related to U.S. trade policy. Jobless…
By DASHA LITVINOVA, BARRY HATTON and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Updated 8:43 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he hopes to meet next week with U.S. President Donald Trump, possibly in the United Arab Emirates. The news came on the eve…
By JACK BROOK and LISA BAUMANN Updated 9:05 AM CDT, August 7, 2025 A disruption to a system housing United Airlines’ flight information that caused more than 1,000 delays has been resolved, but delays continued into Thursday. The impacted system, called Unimatic, houses flight information…
By KAREL JANICEK Updated 10:08 AM CDT, August 6, 2025 DVUR KRALOVE, Czech Republic (AP) — Four Barbary lion cubs were born recently in a Czech zoo, a vital contribution for a small surviving population of the rare lion that is extinct in…
By STAN CHOE, YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT Updated 3:15 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — A rally for Apple led Wall Street higher on Wednesday as U.S. stocks reclaimed more of their sharp losses from last week. The S&P 500…
By JOSH BOAK Updated 4:02 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to join President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to announce a commitment by the tech company to increase its investment in…
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 3:54 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump could meet in person with Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as next week as he seeks to broker an end to…
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Updated 2:14 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is auctioning off the $325 million yacht Amadea, its first sale of a seized Russian luxury ship since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The…
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO Updated 12:59 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Mall-based teen accessories retailer Claire’s, known for helping to usher in millions of teens into an important rite of passage — ear piercing — but now struggling…
By BEN WALKER and RONALD BLUM Updated 12:41 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Jen Pawol is set to become the first woman to umpire in Major League Baseball when she works games this weekend between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves.…
By AMANDA SEITZ Updated 11:44 PM CDT, August 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Robert F.…
By KIM CHANDLER Updated 7:02 AM CDT, August 6, 2025 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the now-infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,…
By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY Updated 9:39 AM CDT, August 6, 2025 ChatGPT will tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to conceal eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked, according…
By RUSS BYNUM and MIKE CATALINI Updated 4:22 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — A sergeant shot five soldiers Wednesday at one the country’s largest Army bases before he was quickly tackled by other Fort Stewart troops, forcing a…
By STAN CHOE, ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT Updated 4:21 PM CDT, August 5, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes slipped on Tuesday following the latest discouraging signal on the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 fell 0.5%, coming off a whipsaw stretch…
By MARCIA DUNN Updated 6:21 AM CDT, August 2, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station on Saturday, making the trip in a quick 15 hours. The four U.S., Russian and Japanese astronauts pulled up in…
LONDON (AP) — Ozzy Osbourne died of a heart attack and had coronary artery disease in addition to suffering from Parkinson’s disease for years, his death certificate said. The singer had suffered from coronary artery disease as well as Parkinson’s, according to the certificate…
By ROB GILLIES Updated 3:08 PM CDT, August 5, 2025 TORONTO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump raised the tariffs on Canadian goods to 35% last week, but a key exemption for Canada and Mexico shields the vast majority of goods from the punishing duties.…
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Updated 3:22 PM CDT, August 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s whittled down his list of potential Federal Reserve chair candidates to four as he considers a successor to Jerome Powell — a choice…
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Updated 1:17 PM CDT, August 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s day began typically enough, with a television interview and a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Then it took an unexpected and unusual turn when he appeared on…