By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man who attempted to claim ownership of the New Yorker Hotel has pleaded guilty to fraud, ending a lengthy legal saga involving an obscure tenant law that allowed the man to live rent-free for years in the storied ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The top official at a California agency running the state's long-delayed bullet train project is taking a leave of absence after he was arrested earlier this month over allegations of domestic violence, although prosecutors say they aren't pressing charges. The ...
By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer More than 550 commercial driving schools in the U.S. that train truckers and bus drivers must close after investigators found they employed unqualified instructors, failed to adequately test students and had other safety issues, the federal ...
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A red, white and blue color scheme championed by President Donald Trump will become the new look for Air Force One, the U.S. military said Thursday. The Air Force said a "red, white, gold and dark blue paint scheme" will be used ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Federal Reserve officials want to see inflation fall further before they would support additional interest rate cuts this year, particularly if the job market continues to stabilize, minutes of last month's meeting ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's top economist on Wednesday urged that Federal Reserve economists be punished for research last week that showed American companies and consumers paying for nearly all the new tariffs imposed by the White ...
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, challenging the rescinding of a scientific finding that has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge in Philadelphia has set a Friday deadline for the Trump administration to restore an exhibit on the nine people enslaved by George Washington at his former home on Independence Mall. Senior U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe issued the deadline Wednesday even as the ...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — As an attorney, Thomas Goldstein routinely argued cases before the Supreme Court and published a popular blog about the nation's highest court. Unbeknownst to friends and colleagues, Goldstein also became an ultra-high-stakes ...
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration plans to drop its longtime standard of requiring two rigorous studies to win approval for new drugs, the latest change from Trump administration officials vowing to speed up the availability of certain ...
Associated Press Norman C. Francis, a civil rights pioneer and champion of education who played a pivotal role in helping rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, died Wednesday. He was 94. Community members, activists and leaders across Louisiana celebrated the life and accomplishments ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city will resume clearing makeshift homeless encampments, promising to take a more humane approach to a practice he previously criticized. Mamdani paused the previous ...
By R.J. RICO Associated Press Eight backcountry skiers were found dead and one remains missing after an avalanche near Lake Tahoe, authorities said Wednesday. The avalanche in Northern California's Sierra Nevada mountains is one of the deadliest in U.S. history. Here's a look at the ...
Public opposition to the military's plan to build up to seven telescopes in a state conservation district atop Haleakalā has been mounting in recent weeks, after the release of a draft environmental impact statement late last month. Six academic and four space surveillance telescopes already ...
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A coalition of authorities is deploying technology to try to locate the wreck of a fishing boat that sank last month off Massachusetts, killing all seven aboard. But winter weather and sea conditions have thus far slowed their efforts. The 72-foot (22-meter) vessel ...
By MATT BROWN Associated Press When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for the country to realize its highest ideals. "If I can become president," said Jackson, who grew up poor and Black in segregated South ...
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Imagine: A sprawling world-class city and a small mountain village with a rich Olympic history, separated by about five or six hours, collaborate and play host to a truly dual-host Winter Games. Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo pulled it off. And some wonder if ...
Pittsburgh-based Alcoa will pay the Australian government a settlement the company put at $36 million for "unlawfully" clearing tracts of endangered forest without approvals between 2019 and 2025. The metals giant began mining bauxite — the raw ingredient for aluminum — from beneath ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A collection of Paul McCartney instruments, outfits, handwritten lyrics, unseen photos and tour memorabilia will be part of an exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this summer, billed as the first major museum show to feature McCartney and Wings. "Paul McCartney and ...
When the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his second presidential bid in 1988 in Pittsburgh, he saw the campaign as a chance for the country to realize its highest ideals. "If I can become president," said Jackson, who grew up poor and Black in segregated South Carolina, "every woman can. Every ...