The Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
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President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on policing Wednesday, the second anniversary of George Floyd's death.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed restrictions that would block plans for a copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region, the latest in a long-running dispute over efforts by developers to advance the mine in a region known for its salmon runs.
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Josh Duggar was arrested last year after a Little Rock police detective found child porn files were being shared by a computer at a car dealership he owned.
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After their meeting this month, the policymakers raised their benchmark short-term rate by a half-point — double the usual hike.
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O’Rourke was escorted out while members of the crowd yelled at him, with one man shouting profanities at O’Rourke.
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The United States’ top negotiator for Iran nuclear talks has made the case to lawmakers for sticking with Iran nuclear talks.
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The Congressional Budget Office says that high inflation will persist into next year.
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Scientists will set about 1,000 traps this year in their quest to wipe out the Asian giant hornet in Washington, the state Department of Agriculture said Tuesday.
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Fresh cemeteries, uprooted villagers and war-scarred landscapes are commonplace, as Russia intensifies its attacks in eastern and southern Ukraine.
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Amazon shareholders on Wednesday voted down a proposal calling for an independent audit of working conditions at the e-commerce behemoth’s warehouses.
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Celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, led former hedge fund CEO David McCormick by 902 votes, or 0.07 percentage points.
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In a study of veterans published Wednesday, about one-third who had breakthrough infections showed signs of long COVID.
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Defense lawyers for a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer charged with lying to the FBI during the Trump-Russia probe showed jurors handwritten notes on Wednesday aimed at undercutting allegations that he misled the federal government about his legal work.
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Activists planned the Wednesday vigil and a rally at the governor’s residence for the anniversary of Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020.
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Morrisey announced the development in court in the state’s lawsuit against Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc., AbbVie’s Allergan and their family of companies.
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The Phoenix Mercury center has been detained since Feb. 17 after vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage at an airport near Moscow.
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Actor Matthew McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers on Tuesday. He responded by calling on Americans to act now to control an “epidemic” of mass shootings.
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The launches were made hours after President Joe Biden ended an Asian trip where he reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to defend its allies in the face of North Korea's nuclear treat.
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The state joins more than a dozen others adopting similar laws in the past two years.
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It was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, almost a decade ago.
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President Biden directed that American flags be flown at half-staff through sunset Saturday in honor of the victims.
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Connecticut U.S. Chris Murphy, who came to Congress representing Sandy Hook, begged his colleagues to finally pass legislation that addresses the nation’s continuing gun violence problem as the country’s latest school shooting unfolded Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas.
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Sanders headed into the primary virtually assured of the nomination, and she remains a heavy favorite in the general election.
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A massive recall is getting most of the blame for the U.S. baby formula shortage, but experts say the products have long been vulnerable to this type of crisis.
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Southern Baptist leaders say they will release a secret list of hundreds of pastors and church-affiliated staff members accused of sexual abuse.
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Fort Bragg would become Fort Liberty as a panel recommends new names for Army bases that commemorate Confederate officers.
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Russia is bent on capturing the eastern industrial heartland of the Donbas and has made some localized gains, Britain’s Defense Ministry said.
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Amber Heard’s lawyers had initially suggested they would call Johnny Depp, but they ultimately opted against it when they rested their case Tuesday morning.
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Surges in COVID-19 cases are causing disruptions in many parts of the U.S., but as the school year wraps up and Americans prepare for their summer vacations, many people have returned to their pre-pandemic routines.
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The University of California system has agreed to pay $375 million to more than 300 women who said they were sexually abused by a longtime UCLA gynecologist.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back Tuesday on the decision by San Francisco’s conservative Catholic archbishop to deny her Communion over her support of abortion rights, saying she respects that people have opposing views but not when they impose them on others.
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The U.S. is expected to end Russia’s ability to pay bondholders through American banks, setting up Russia to default this summer.
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The chair of former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the latest charges in an indictment accusing him of secretly working for the United Arab Emirates to influence Trump’s foreign policy.
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A man wanted in an apparently unprovoked fatal shooting aboard a New York City subway train surrendered to police on Tuesday, hours after authorities posted his name and photo on social media and implored the public to help find him.
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A Maryland man who was draped in a Confederate flag when he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced Monday to 33 months in prison for assaulting police officers and obstructing an official proceeding during the mob’s attack.
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Florida would require statewide recertification of condominiums higher than three-stories tall as a response to the Surfside building collapse that killed 98 people.
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The summit came on the final day of Biden's five-day visit to Japan and South Korea, his first trip to Asia as president.
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The recall expands and replaces three previous recalls, and includes 2019-2022 Accents, 2021-2023 Elantras and 2021-2022 Elantra HEVs.
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The 25-year-old Vermont native was in Austin for a cycling event at the time of her death.
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An autopsy report shows that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was legally drunk when he was fatally struck by a dump truck on a Florida highway last month.
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Social media companies could avoid liability if they remove features deemed addictive to children and conduct quarterly audits to review their practices.
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A man was killed Monday and two women were critically injured.
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The New York attorney general’s office says it subpoenaed Donald Trump’s longtime executive assistant and plans to question her under oath next week.
A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the first time, will create a publicly accessible database of pastors known to be abusers.
Police were searching Monday for a woman suspected in the fatal shooting of a professional cyclist at an Austin home.
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The District of Columbia on Monday sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal.
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More than 850,000 people already voted early, including more than 483,000 who chose a Republican ballot and almost 369,000 who chose a Democratic ballot. Georgia has no party registration, so voters can choose which primary to vote in when they go to the polls.
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads.
A hand surgeon has testified that Johnny Depp could not have lost the tip of his middle finger the way he told jurors it happened in his civil lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard.
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The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn had a conflict of interest in a cryptocurrency he promoted and engaged in an improper relationship with a member of his staff.