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Oil prices drop sharply, and stocks rally worldwide after announcement of Israel-Iran ceasefire
June 24, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices are dropping further, and stocks are rallying worldwide Tuesday on hopes that Israel’s war with Iran will not damage the global flow of crude, even if a tentative truce seemed to fray under fire... Read More

US confirms missile attack from Iran on air base in Qatar
June 23, 2025
By DAVID RISING, JON GAMBRELL and MELANIE LIDMAN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Defense Department official is confirming a missile attack from Iran on a U.S. military base in Qatar but says no casualties have been... Read More

Oil prices flip-flop and US stocks drift as Wall Street waits for Iran's reaction to US strikes
June 23, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices are flip-flopping and the U.S. stock market is holding relatively steady following the United States’ bunker-busting entry into Israel’s war with Iran. Oil jumped as much as 4% shortly after trading began on Sunday... Read More

Would you hail a 'robotaxi'? Musk bets cabs will give Tesla a lift after boycotts and sales plunge
June 22, 2025
By BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk promised in 2019 that driverless Tesla “robotaxis” would be on the road “next year,” but it didn’t happen. A year later, he promised to deliver them the next... Read More

US inserts itself into Israel's war with Iran, strikes 3 Iranian nuclear sites
June 21, 2025
By SAM MEDNICK, AAMER MADHANI and DAVID RISING Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The United States struck three sites in Iran early Sunday, inserting itself into Israel ‘s war aimed at destroying the country’s nuclear program in a... Read More

Purdue Pharma's $7B opioid settlement plan could get votes from victims and cities
June 20, 2025
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma ‘s $7 billion-plus plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids will go before a judge Friday, potentially setting up votes on whether to accept it for... Read More

Federal Reserve leaves its key rate unchanged but sees two cuts this year
June 18, 2025
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials expect inflation to worsen in the coming months but they still foresee two interest rate cuts by the end of this year, the same as they projected in... Read More

Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader, US official tells AP
June 15, 2025
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump vetoed a plan presented by Israel to the U.S. to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. The Israelis... Read More

Authorities still searching for suspect in shooting of 2 Minnesota state lawmakers
June 14, 2025
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... Read More

US helps Israel shoot down barrage of Iranian missiles
June 13, 2025
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... Read More

Oil prices leap 6% and stocks slip on worries about what will happen to the crude market
June 13, 2025
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... Read More

What's targeted in Trump's request for $9.4 billion in budget cuts from Congress
June 12, 2025
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.... Read More

EPA set to roll back rules that limit greenhouse gases and mercury from US power plants
June 11, 2025
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... Read More

Brian Wilson, Beach Boys visionary leader and summer's poet laureate, dies at 82
June 11, 2025
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... Read More

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
June 10, 2025
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... Read More

Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops
June 9, 2025
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... Read More

Trump asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing plans
June 3, 2025
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... Read More

FBI says 8 injured in Colorado attack by man with makeshift flamethrower who yelled 'Free Palestine'
June 2, 2025
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,... Read More

Trump honors fallen soldiers at Arlington, calling them 'America's best and bravest'
May 26, 2025
By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump honored fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, calling them “great, great warriors” who were “America’s best and bravest.” “We... Read More

Trump signs executive orders to boost nuclear power, speed up approvals
May 23, 2025
By MATTHEW DALY and JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed executive orders Friday intended to quadruple domestic production of nuclear power within the next 25 years, a goal experts say the United States is highly... Read More