Authorities still searching for suspect in shooting of 2 Minnesota state lawmakers
By TIM SULLIVAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — Hundreds of law officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb Saturday in pursuit of a man who authorities say posed as a police officer and fatally…
Why 2 Chinese aircraft carriers are operating in the Pacific together for the first time
By MARI YAMAGUCHI and DAVID RISING Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan this week confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers have operated together for the first time in the Pacific, fueling Tokyo’s concern about Beijing’s rapidly expanding military activity far…
US helps Israel shoot down barrage of Iranian missiles
By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — American air defense systems and Navy assets in the Middle East helped Israel shoot down incoming ballistic missiles Friday that Tehran launched in response to Israeli strikes on…
Oil prices leap 6% and stocks slip on worries about what will happen to the crude market
By STAN CHOE, DAVID McHUGH and JIANG JUNZHE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices are leaping, and stocks are slipping Friday on worries that Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets could escalate further and damage the…
What’s targeted in Trump’s request for $9.4 billion in budget cuts from Congress
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is looking to cancel $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress. That’s just a sliver of the $1.7 trillion that lawmakers OK’d for the budget year ending Sept….
London-bound Air India flight with more than 240 aboard crashes after takeoff from Ahmedabad, India
By AJIT SOLANKI and RAJESH ROY Associated Press AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — An Air India passenger plane bound for London with more than 240 people on board crashed Thursday in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad, and there were no known…
EPA set to roll back rules that limit greenhouse gases and mercury from US power plants
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to eliminate rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, part of a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations that…
Brian Wilson, Beach Boys visionary leader and summer’s poet laureate, dies at 82
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most…
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
By LAURA UNGAR and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to…
Trump sends Marines and more National Guard members to Los Angeles
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, TARA COPP, JASON DEAREN and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another 2,000 National Guard troops along with 700 Marines are headed to Los Angeles on orders from President Donald Trump, escalating a military…