By BYRON TAU Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the escalating war in Iran, the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs would ordinarily be at the center of the geopolitical fray. Typically led by a veteran diplomat, the bureau's role would be to coordinate U.S. foreign ...
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the Trump administration's repeal of a scientific finding that had been the central basis for U.S. ...
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Proposals to prohibit federal immigration agents from masking their faces have gained new life in states — thanks in part to a court ruling that blocked the nation's first such law, in California. A little over a month after the California law was ...
By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is facing perhaps the most daunting question of the war with Iran, one that could define his time in office: Will he put U.S. troops on the ground in Iran to secure some 970 pounds of enriched ...
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, MAE ANDERSON and CHRIS RUGABER AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — As the war in Iran ratchets up, the price of crude oil has been swinging sharply. Consumers are already feeling the effects of the war and its destabilizing effect on worldwide energy ...
By AMY TAXIN and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After thousands of Iranian demonstrators were killed in a January crackdown, Shima Razavi Gacek wanted to keep alive her family's favorite springtime holiday traditions but didn't feel like throwing her annual house ...
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. and Israel's war with Iran has thrust the Strait of Hormuz once again into the crosshairs of a geopolitical conflict. Nearly all traffic has ground to a halt in the waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the rest ...
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press American Airlines and Google said Thursday that they significantly reduced the climate impact of some of the airline's flights using an AI-based forecasting tool to help prevent contrails. When airplanes fly through cold and humid areas, ice crystals ...
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff's deputies who sued him over music videos in which he used home security footage to mock their raid of his home. "We did it, America! Yeah, we did it! Freedom of ...
By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security presented a softer approach on federal emergency management in his Senate confirmation hearing, rejecting the idea of eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and DAVID BAUDER Associated Press It was no surprise when Joe Kent showed up on Tucker Carlson's podcast a day after quitting his counterterrorism job in President Donald Trump's administration. Here was a top official who resigned to protest the war with Iran turning to ...
By DAVID CRARY and PETER SMITH Associated Press For many U.S. Jews, following current events these days can be emotionally tumultuous. Simultaneously, there is widely shared anger at the upsurge of attacks targeting their communities, and deep divisions within those communities over ...
By ERIC TUCKER, DAVID KLEPPER and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's top intelligence official told lawmakers Wednesday that Iran's government "appears to be intact but largely degraded" yet repeatedly dodged questions about whether President Donald ...
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman was convicted Monday of aggravated murder after poisoning her husband with fentanyl and self-publishing a children's book about coping with grief. Prosecutors said Kouri Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group hoping to expand support for child and elder care plans to spend $50 million to back Democrats in congressional races, tying the costs of caregiving to the nation's affordability debate. The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, created a decade ago, ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jurors in Akron began deliberating Tuesday in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged for their alleged roles in a sweeping $60 million bribery scheme that resulted in a lucrative bailout of two affiliated nuclear plants. Former CEO Chuck ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — A 7-ton meteor that sped across the Cleveland sky at 45,000 miles (72,420 kilometers) per hour on Tuesday before breaking apart in a thunderous boom startled residents who feared an explosion. People several states away reported seeing the bright fireball even though ...
By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first year in the Trump administration racked up win after win for the longtime anti-vaccine crusader's allies. Activists in the "medical freedom" movement were thrilled to see Kennedy fire all 17 ...
By SEUNG MIN KIM and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing his concerns about the justification for military strikes in Iran and saying he "cannot in good conscience" ...
JASPER, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia said they were responding to a shooting Tuesday at a VA clinic, and at least one person was airlifted to the hospital. Jasper police were sent to the VA clinic around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the city said in a statement on its Facebook page. The officers ...