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…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Violent crime in the United States fell 4.5% last year, according to a new FBI report, which also shows an 8% drop in property crime from the year before. The FBI statistics released Tuesday show murder and…
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — More than 800 structures are threatened by a massive wildfire in central California that left at least three people injured as it burned through Los Padres National Forest. The Gifford Fire scorched more than 129 square miles…
By JOSH FUNK Updated 10:18 AM CDT, August 5, 2025 A new federal rule proposed Tuesday would make it easier for companies to use drones over longer distances out of the operator’s sight without having to go through a cumbersome waiver…
By SEUNG MIN KIM and MEG KINNARD Updated 10:23 AM CDT, August 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is establishing a task force on the 2028 Olympic Games being held in Los Angeles. Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday to make the task…
By PATRICK WHITTLE Updated 9:25 AM CDT, August 5, 2025 PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The deadly Titan submersible disaster that raised global alarms about private deep-sea tourism was the result of preventable safety failures and deliberate efforts to avoid oversight, according to a…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — An osprey caught a fish but got tired in the heat and dropped it onto power lines, sparking a brush fire in western Canada — at least that’s what firefighters believe. Or maybe the bird…
By STEPHEN GROVES Updated 9:38 AM CDT, August 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department on Tuesday for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may…
By AUDREY McAVOY Updated 8:30 PM CDT, August 2, 2025 Charlie the 10-year-old yellow lab likes surfing so much, he will grab his surfboard and run toward the water. His humans sometimes have to hide his board if they want to…
By STAN CHOE, ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT Updated 4:02 PM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied on Monday and won back most of their sharp loss from last week, when worries about how President Donald Trump’s tariffs may be punishing the…
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated 1:58 PM CDT, August 4, 2025 Texas holds the top spot in the USA Today preseason coaches football poll released on Monday. The Longhorns received 28 of the 67 first-place votes. Defending national champion Ohio State…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Updated 8:54 PM CDT, August 3, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday. Actress Loni Anderson…
By BILL BARROW, NADIA LATHAN, ANDREW DEMILLO and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Updated 4:18 PM CDT, August 4, 2025 AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrats on Monday prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by…
By RIO YAMAT Updated 11:06 PM CDT, August 3, 2025 LAS VEGAS (AP) — When Susana Pacheco accepted a housekeeping job at a casino on the Las Vegas Strip 16 years ago, she believed it was a step toward stability for…
By JEFF AMY Updated 9:52 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 ATLANTA (AP) — Former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley on Monday announced his 2026 Republican bid for the U.S. Senate in Georgia against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff. The 57-year-old Dooley…
By CHRISTINA LARSON Updated 10:00 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars –…
By CORA LEWIS and LINLEY SANDERS Updated 8:56 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The vast majority of U.S. adults are at least somewhat stressed about the cost of groceries, a new poll finds, as prices continue to rise and concerns about…
By MARK KENNEDY Updated 10:13 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Hank Hill is back and he’s the same ol’ Hank Hill, but a lot of things around him have changed. The lovable animated hero of “King of…
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Updated 9:41 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Several thousand workers at three Midwest manufacturing plants where Boeing develops military aircraft and weapons went on strike early Monday, potentially complicating the aerospace company’s progress in regaining its financial…
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ANDREW DEMILLO Updated 6:56 AM CDT, August 4, 2025 Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers from office Monday if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Updated 2:10 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 A baby boy born last week to an Ohio couple developed from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years in what is believed to be the longest…
By JAMES POLLARD Updated 1:11 PM CDT, August 1, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Online creators from dozens of countries, led by MrBeast and popular science YouTuber Mark Rober, are launching a $40 million fundraiser to build water quality projects around the world. The…
By DAN GELSTON Updated 11:42 AM CDT, August 1, 2025 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The first 5K held in the memory of John and Matt Gaudreau helped raise more than $500,000, enough to break ground later this year on an accessible playground…
SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) — A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions. Crews were stuck with a job they did not relish — rolling…