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…
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….
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…
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 asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing plans
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and…
FBI says 8 injured in Colorado attack by man with makeshift flamethrower who yelled ‘Free Palestine’
By COLLEEN SLEVIN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A man with a makeshift flamethrower yelled “Free Palestine” and hurled an incendiary device into a group that had assembled to raise attention for Israeli hostages in Gaza,…