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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The panel’s first hearing comes as partisan tensions have only worsened since the insurrection, with many Republicans playing down, or outright denying, the violence that occurred.
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Enzi had been hospitalized with a broken neck and ribs three days after a bicycle accident.
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The assault happened in the Jack London Square neighborhood, according to a tweet on Boxer’s verified Twitter account.
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A series of underdogs stole the show at the beginning of surfing’s historic Olympic debut but two of the sport’s most seasoned superstars took home the gold medals.
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As a four-time Grand Slam champion, the highest-paid female athlete in the world and the host country’s poster girl for the Games, the huge expectations were hard to handle.
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After the shooter injured one person, other party-goers gave chase. One person was fatally shot during the chase and two others were injured.
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Authorities say a California sheriff’s deputy and four other people, including the suspect, were killed in a weekend shooting in a San Joaquin Valley home.
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Firefighters have been dealing with perilous fire behavior, with flames consuming huge areas of vegetation each day.
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Britney Spears’ new lawyer has petitioned to remove her father from the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money for 13 years and replace him with a professional accountant.
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The fuel needle is moving closer to “empty” at some U.S. airports.
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Biden did not say how many U.S. troops would remain in Iraq when the combat mission is formally completed.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday became the first major federal agency to require health care workers to get COVID-19 vaccines.
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President Joe Biden earlier this month said that his administration was “in the process” of considering how soon the U.S. could lift the ban on European travel bound for the U.S. after the issue was raised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her visit to the White House.
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The rule is expected to affect about 340,000 city employees, making the city one of the largest employers in the U.S. to take such action.
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The government has said it wants to end smoking in England by 2030.
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Tom Barrack, 74, appeared in Brooklyn federal court for the first time, days after he was freed on $250 million bail following his arrest in California. His lawyer entered his plea for him.
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Hundreds of thousands of young salmon are dying in western rivers as a heat wave and drought take their toll.
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California will require state employees and all health care workers to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or get tested weekly as officials aim to slow rising coronavirus infections, mostly among the unvaccinated.
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Texas and Oklahoma have been in discussions with the SEC about joining the league, though neither school nor the powerhouse conference has acknowledged that publicly.
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The IOC updated “Portrayal Guidelines” to steer all Olympic sports and their rights holders toward “gender-equal and fair” broadcasts of their events.
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Utah Highway Patrol says at least eight people died when 22 vehicles were involved in a pileup crash during a sandstorm.
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Workers were frozen out of files. Printers spewed out demands for money. Over the next several days, residents couldn’t pay water bills, the government couldn’t process payroll, police officers couldn’t retrieve certain records.
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Hancock is the first skeet shooter to win three golds and set an Olympic record by hitting 59 of 60 targets.
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After decades in the shadows of men’s skateboarding, the future for the sport’s daring, trailblazing women suddenly looked brighter than ever at the Tokyo Games.
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In a similar move, just days before the Olympics began, the Norwegian women’s beach handball team refused to play in bikini bottoms.
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Caleb Dressel led off an American victory in the men’s 4x100-meter freestyle relay at the Tokyo Olympics, easing a bit of the U.S. sting from Katie Ledecky's first Olympic loss.
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Robert Moses, the 1960s civil rights activist, has reportedly died at 86.
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NBC says an estimated 17 million people in the United States saw the opening of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.
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California’s largest wildfire merged with a smaller blaze and destroyed homes in remote areas with limited access for firefighters.
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The United States is in an "unnecessary predicament" of soaring COVID-19 cases fueled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent delta variant, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert said Sunday.
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Lawmakers racing to seal a bipartisan infrastructure deal early this coming week are hitting a major roadblock over how much money should go to public transit.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday named a second Republican critic of Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, to a special committee investigating the Capitol riot and pledged that the Democratic-majority panel will “get to the truth.”
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It was Trump’s most explicit effort to insert himself into the widely discredited Arizona audit as he tries to increase the pressure on other states to embark on similar efforts.
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The U.S. men’s basketball team suffered its first Olympic loss since 2004, beaten by France 83-76 in the opener at the Tokyo Games.
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Anastasija Zolotic won the United States’ first gold medal in women’s taekwondo by beating Russian athlete Tatiana Minina 25-17 to claim the featherweight division title.
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The U.S. women's gymnastics team's bid for a third straight Olympic title is off to a rocky start.
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Mariel Zagunis is the only other U.S fencer to earn gold. She won the saber events at the 2004 and 2008 Games.
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Health protocols agreed to ahead of the Tokyo Olympics to control COVID-19 infections had required all medalists to keep masks on for the whole ceremony.
Osaka hadn’t played since she withdrew from the French Open in May to take a mental health break, revealing that she has dealt with depression. She then sat out Wimbledon.
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Olympic golf will be without the last two U.S. Open champions.
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William Shaner has won gold men’s 10-meter air rifle, adding to the United States’ second-day haul at the Tokyo Olympics.
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Police say the suspect was arrested after DNA evidence linked him to the killing.
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Chase Kalisz won the first American medal of the Tokyo Games with a gold in the men’s 400-meter individual medley.
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Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-jokester whose feisty brand of standup comedy got laughs from nightclubs in the Catskills to West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died.
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Although hot weather with afternoon winds posed a continued threat of spreading blazes, weekend forecasts also called for a chance of scattered thunderstorms in California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and other states.
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A snow leopard at the San Diego Zoo has tested positive for the coronavirus.
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A prolific serial torture-slayer dubbed “The Dating Game Killer” has died while awaiting execution in California.
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Maintaining daily updates on the virus does require significant resources for states.
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A message was sent Saturday to his lawyers about the additional allegations.
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The U.S. men’s basketball team begins play, while surfing makes its Olympic debut and the women’s skateboarders see their first action.