CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Congresswoman Carol Miller has held off a challenge from convicted Jan. 6 riot participant Derrick Evans to win the Republican primary for her U.S. House seat in West Virginia.
Miller defeated Evans in the 1st Congressional District and will try to capture her fourth ...
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Prosecutors in Utah filed an aggravated murder charge Tuesday against a truck driver accused of intentionally killing a police officer during a traffic stop, but the Utah County attorney said it he has not yet decided whether to pursue the death penalty for the capital ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former West Virginia state health official was sentenced Monday to one year of probation for lying about whether or not he verified vendor invoices from a company claiming to have conducted COVID-19 tests for the state.
Timothy Priddy was sentenced in federal court ...
By CLAUDIA LAUER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Hunter Biden's federal gun case will go to trial next month, a judge said Tuesday, denying a bid by lawyers for the president's son to delay the prosecution.
U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected ...
NEW LENOX, Ill. (AP) — A baby girl who weighed just over one pound when she was born prematurely in November has beaten the odds and gone home with her parents after spending her first six months at a suburban Chicago hospital.
Nyla Brooke Haywood was treated to a send-off party Monday at ...
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the U.S. judicial system on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court with Donald Trump and using his powerful position to attack the hush money case against the former president as an ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found.
When the temperatures spiked last year, numerous weather agencies said it was the hottest month, summer and year on record. But those ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients swirling around a young star.
The diameter of this colossal disk is roughly 3,300 times the distance between Earth and the ...
DETROIT (AP) — Federal auto safety regulators are warning people not to stick decals on their steering wheels because they can be hurled at drivers if the air bags inflate in a crash.
The warning from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration comes after another driver was severely ...
By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer
Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite years of warnings about the health risks of drinking the unpasteurized products — and an outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows.
Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. cattle for the ...
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — When union organizer Brandon Johnson was elected Chicago mayor last year, he promised to unroll a "bold progressive movement" in the nation's third-largest city. A year later, he shocked liberal Democrats by promoting plans for a ...
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — The one remaining wrongful death lawsuit filed after 10 people were killed during a deadly crowd crush at the 2021 Astroworld music festival has been set for trial in civil court in September, a judge said Tuesday.
State District Judge ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the central bank is unlikely to raise its key interest rate in response to signs of stubborn inflation and underscored his view that price increases would soon start to cool ...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A movie weapons armorer is appealing her conviction for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film "Rust," according to court documents released Tuesday.
A defense attorney filed the shortly worded ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported, according to a new FBI report released Tuesday.
The report analyzes data from state, local, federal and other agencies across the U.S. to ...
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a Georgia county illegally discriminated against a sheriff's deputy by failing to pay for her gender-affirming surgery.
In its ruling Monday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it was tasked with ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. wholesale prices rose sharply last month, a sign that inflation pressures remain stubbornly high after three elevated readings in consumer prices to start the year.
The Labor Department said Tuesday that its producer price ...
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — How good would an algorithm have to be to take over your job?
It's a new question for many workers amid the rise of ChatGPT and other AI programs that can hold conversations, write stories and even generate songs and images within ...
ABBEVILLE, La. (AP) — Parishioners subdued a teenager with a gun who entered a Louisiana church during a service for dozens of young children, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Officials in the Catholic diocese are weighing new safety protocols, including the possibility of someone carrying a ...
MIAMI (AP) — Investigators believe they've found the boat that fatally struck a 15-year-old girl off a South Florida beach, officials said Tuesday.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation and other law enforcement agencies had been searching for the vessel since Saturday, when Ella Adler ...