By STAN CHOE, ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT Updated 10:03 AM CDT, July 22, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is hanging near its records on Tuesday following some mixed profit reports, as General Motors and other big U.S. companies give updates on how much President Donald Trump’s…
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Updated 7:57 AM CDT, July 22, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN Updated 8:05 AM CDT, July 22, 2025 Coca-Cola said Tuesday it will add a cane-sugar version of its trademark cola to its U.S. lineup this fall, confirming a recent announcement by President Donald Trump. Trump said in a…
By JACK DURA and MARGERY A. BECK Updated 3:39 PM CDT, July 21, 2025 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The pilot of a regional airliner flying over North Dakota made an unexpected sharp turn to avoid a possible midair collision with a military B-52…
By FREIDA FRISARO Updated 1:57 PM CDT, July 21, 2025 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jimmy Buffett ’s widow has accused her late husband’s financial adviser of failing to administer the singer’s multimillion-dollar trust in good faith and ignoring what she believed were…
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer U.S. stock indexes inched to more records to kick off a week full of profit updates from big U.S. companies. The S&P 500 rose 0.1% and squeaked past its prior all-time high set on…
By BILL BARROW Associated Press The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.…
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 5.2 million aboveground swimming pools sold across the U.S. and Canada over the last two decades are being recalled after nine drowning deaths were reported. The recall covers a range of Bestway, Intex Recreation…
By JAVIER CORDOBA and ANDREW DALTON Updated 2:14 PM CDT, July 21, 2025 SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Malcolm-Jamal Warner the actor who played teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” has died at age 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica,…
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo and a call to astronaut Buzz Aldrin. After praying the Sunday Angelus…
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Just three people remain missing — down from nearly 100 at last count — since the Texas Hill Country was pounded by massive flooding on July 4, officials said Saturday. Officials praised rescuers for the sharp reduction…
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN Updated 7:29 AM CDT, July 21, 2025 Ford is recalling more than 694,000 Bronco Sport and Escape vehicles because the fuel injector may crack and leak, which may cause a fire. If fuel leaks inside the engine compartment…
By DEE-ANN DURBIN Updated 9:13 AM CDT, July 21, 2025 Want a little autumn in your August? You’re in luck. Starbucks said Monday that its Pumpkin Spice Latte will return to store menus in the U.S. and Canada on Aug. 26. The Pumpkin Spice…
By PHILIP MARCELO Updated 3:39 PM CDT, July 18, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan pawn shop owner pleaded guilty Friday to serving as a fence for luxury items stolen from wealthy residences across the country, including a brazen burglary…
By MARCIA DUNN Updated 2:47 PM CDT, July 16, 2025 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.…
By KEVIN FREKING and MARY CLARE JALONICK Updated 8:46 AM CDT, July 18, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday as Republicans intensified their…
By JONEL ALECCIA Updated 2:33 PM CDT, July 14, 2025 Ice cream makers representing about 90% of the U.S. supply of the frozen treat have pledged to remove artificial dyes from their products in less than three years, federal health officials…
By REBECCA SANTANA and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Updated 9:11 AM CDT, July 18, 2025 NEW YORK (AP) — When limits on liquids were introduced at TSA checkpoints across the country in 2006, bins overflowed with bottled water, toothpaste, shaving cream and so much more.…
By SEUNG MIN KIM and ALAN SUDERMAN Updated 2:39 PM CDT, July 18, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law new regulations for a type of cryptocurrency, a major milestone for an industry that has spent heavily to strengthen…
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press The Justice Department has asked a federal court to unseal grand jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein’s case amid a firestorm over the Trump administration’s handling of records related to the wealthy…
By DAVID KLEPPER Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dismissed claims that U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities failed to destroy their targets. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon ahead of a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, Hegseth said the…
By ANNIE MA Updated 12:50 PM CDT, July 18, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a letter imploring the Trump administration to allow frozen…
By ETIENNE LAURENT and ERIC TUCKER Updated 1:53 PM CDT, July 18, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A deadly explosion that shook a law enforcement training facility in Los Angeles early Friday was being investigated as a possible training accident, officials said. Three…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ALAN SUDERMAN Updated 5:00 PM CDT, July 17, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed three bills intended to boost the legitimacy of the cryptocurrency industry with new regulations as President Donald Trump has pushed to make the…