September 17, 2024

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential election campaigning revved back up Tuesday, with Donald Trump heading to Michigan and Vice President Kamala Harris answering questions at a forum for Black journalists in Pennsylvania — all while authorities... Read More

September 17, 2024

By LARRY NEUMEISTER, MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs presided over a sordid empire of sexual crimes, coercing and abusing women for years, threatening them to keep them in line and... Read More

September 17, 2024

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Instagram is making teen accounts private by default as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives. Beginning Tuesday in the... Read More

September 15, 2024

By ALANNA DURKING RICHER, COLLEEN LONG and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secret Service agents opened fire after seeing a person with a firearm near Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, while the Republican presidential... Read More

September 15, 2024

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Texas is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll for the first time in 16 years, replacing Georgia on Sunday after the Bulldogs struggled to remain unbeaten. The Longhorns moved... Read More

September 14, 2024

HONOLULU (AP) — The wind pushed flames from house to house as a group of neighbors tried to escape their blazing subdivision, abandoning their cars in a blocked road and running to an industrial outbuilding for safety. All six perished... Read More

September 14, 2024

AP-US-Biden-Climate-Methane BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota has temporarily blocked a new Biden administration rule aimed at reducing the venting and flaring of natural gas at oil wells. “At this preliminary stage, the plaintiffs have shown they are... Read More

September 9, 2024

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LONDON, Ky. (AP) — The man suspected of opening fire on a highway in Kentucky sent a text message vowing to “kill a lot of people” less than 30 minutes before he shot and... Read More

September 9, 2024

By SARA CLINE and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Tropical Storm Francine strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday and was forecast to make landfall as a hurricane this week in Louisiana, where evacuation orders were quickly... Read More

September 9, 2024

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, “The Lion King”... Read More

September 8, 2024

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer After the first shake-up of the college football season, the Southeastern Conference grabbed six of the top seven spots in the AP Top 25 — a first in the 88-year history of the rankings... Read More

September 8, 2024

AP-US-Southern-California-Wildfire, 6th Ld-Writethru SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Tens of thousands of homes and buildings were threatened Sunday by an out-of-control wildfire burning in the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles, amid a days-long heat wave that... Read More

September 8, 2024

By BRUCE SCHREINER and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities searched a rugged, hilly area of southeastern Kentucky on Sunday for a man suspected in the weekend shooting of nine vehicles and wounding of five people on... Read More

September 7, 2024

By JEFF AMY and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press WINDER, Ga. (AP) — The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed four people at a Georgia high school and his father, who was arrested for allowing his son to have a weapon, will... Read More

September 7, 2024

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Hiring by America’s employers picked up a bit in August from July’s tepid pace, and the unemployment rate dipped for the first time since March in a sign that the job... Read More

September 7, 2024

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until after the November election, granting the former president a hard-won reprieve as he navigates the... Read More

September 7, 2024

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a lifelong Republican, will vote for Kamala Harris for president, he announced Friday. Liz Cheney, who herself endorsed Harris on Wednesday, first announced her father’s endorsement when asked by... Read More

September 3, 2024

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks tumbled to their worst day since an early August sell-off after another report raised worries about the economy’s health. The S&P 500 slumped 2.1% Tuesday after a report... Read More

September 3, 2024

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press A former aide to two New York governors was charged Tuesday with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government who used her state positions to subtly advance Beijing’s agenda in exchange for financial... Read More

September 2, 2024

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer ESPN has gone off the air on a major carrier for the second straight year during the U.S. Open tennis tournament and in the midst of the first full weekend of college football. Disney... Read More