By CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press/Report for America ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta church with a viral pastor has grown from less than 200 weekly churchgoers in 2023 to about 6,000 today. Before service, Christian rap blasts and volunteers chant into megaphones as lines snake outside. Many of ...
By JACK BROOK Associated Press/Report for America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans' mayor-elect said Friday that a federal immigration crackdown launched this week is already causing harm as encounters between masked agents and residents, including some caught on video, has prompted public ...
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Massachusetts college student who was deported while trying to visit family for Thanksgiving missed multiple opportunities to fight a removal order issued when she was a young child, according to a government attorney. Any Lucia Lopez ...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court's conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency. And that began well before Donald Trump's time in the White House. The justices could take the next step ...
By KIMBERLY CHANDLER and JAYLEN GREEN Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Montgomery Bus Boycott is marking its 70th anniversary. For 381 days, an estimated 40,000 Black Alabama residents stayed off city buses. They opted to walk, ride in car pools or take Black-owned cabs until a ...
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, CLAUDIA LAUER and JIM VERTUNO Associated Press A man clinging to a tree on the Guadalupe River and screaming for a helicopter rescue. A father hustling his family into the attic to escape the rising waters. A Camp Mystic staffer pleading with a 911 operator to send ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in a decade, hunters are fanning out across Florida to legally hunt the Florida black bear. The state-sanctioned hunt began Saturday, despite the vocal opposition of critics. Hunters who were issued ...
OPELOUSAS, Louisiana (AP) — Officials in Louisiana say two inmates accused of violent crimes are on the run after escaping from jail by removing pieces of a wall and using sheets to scale a wall. St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz says three inmates removed mortar from a degrading ...
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born. A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried the actions ...
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press A federal law enforcement operation at an Arizona taco shop resulted in a fracas on Friday, with agents deploying pepper spray as a group of protesters tried to stop authorities. Two agents were injured, and U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva was in the ...
By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military opened fire on two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs, congressional lawmakers learned this week as they seek more answers about the attack and the legal underpinnings ...
By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press Indiana state House Republicans passed a new state congressional map Friday at the behest of President Donald Trump, advancing the legislation to the state Senate, where it is unclear if enough lawmakers will support its final passage. Lawmakers in the ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City high school senior was jailed Friday on a federal arson charge after authorities say he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger. Hiram Carrero, 18, was not required to enter a plea during his ...
By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of planting a pair of pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack told investigators ...
INWOOD, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week's shooting in Washington is slowly healing, West Virginia's governor said Friday. Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe's head wound is slowly improving and "he's beginning to 'look more like himself,'" Gov. Patrick ...
By RIO YAMAT AP Airlines and Travel Writer U.S. airlines were notified this week that an investigation is underway into whether they complied with an emergency order requiring flight cuts at 40 major airports during the record government shutdown, the Federal Aviation Administration said ...
By DAVE COLLINS and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former high-level agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and obtain military-grade firearms and explosives for a Mexican ...
By JOSH FUNK and RIO YAMAT AP Transportation and Airlines Writers The government picked a company with little experience working with the Federal Aviation Administration called Peraton to oversee the roughly $31.5 billion overhaul of the outdated air traffic control system. Transportation ...
By TERRY CHEA and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned the Trump administration's authority and need to maintain command of California National Guard troops it first deployed to Los Angeles in June following violent ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security Administration is hoping to cut visits to its field offices in half next year, a move that advocates for the agency fear signals more closures are coming. Field offices have long been community-based branches that ...