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…
China says its exports to the US fell 35% in May, as trade talks are due to start in London
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer China’s exports to the United States fell 35% in May from a year earlier, new customs data show, adding to pressure on the world’s second largest economy as a new round of trade talks…
Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops
By JASON DEAREN, JAIMIE DING and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tensions in Los Angeles escalated Sunday as thousands of protesters took to the streets in response to President Donald Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National…
Trump threatens to cut Musk’s government contracts as their public feud escalates
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to cut Elon Musk’s government contracts as their fractured alliance rapidly escalated into a public feud with Trump suggesting he would use the U.S. government…