By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border with Mexico nudged upward February over the previous month. But at a time when immigration is increasingly a concern for voters, the numbers were still among the ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press
CHARLESTON (AP) — The West Virginia National Guard joined in battling wildfires Friday that have scorched more than 6.25 square miles in the state and destroyed several homes.
Two Blackhawk helicopters dropped water from buckets on the fires in steep, wooded ...
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department said it has discovered a calculation error in hundreds of thousands of student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them — a blunder that follows a series of ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump claimed on Friday to have almost a half-billion dollars in cash but said he'd rather spend it on his presidential run than on the $454 million civil fraud judgment against him in New York. The former president vowed to fight ...
By GENE JOHNSON and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press
Authorities said Friday they believe the deaths of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs and a 72-year-old man who lived in a remote cabin are connected to the escape of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang member and an accomplice ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos of New York said Friday that he will leave the Republican Party and run as an independent in a bid to return to Congress after having been expelled while facing federal fraud charges.
In social media postings, Santos criticized ...
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose joined other GOP statewide officeholders Thursday in endorsing his former rival, Republican Senate nominee Bernie Moreno — after a bruising and expensive primary in which he repeatedly ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick will be the only eligible names on ballots for the office in Pennsylvania's April primary after a ruling Friday by the state's highest court.
The ruling completed the third ...
By JOHN RABY Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia, which has the highest rate of adult cigarette use in the nation, became the 12th state to ban smoking in vehicles with children present under a bill signed by Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Friday.
But violators can ...
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some of Pennsylvania's most populous counties are relocating polling places out of synagogues and other Jewish buildings because the Legislature deadlocked last year over proposals to move next month's primary election so it would ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Businessman Dave Taylor has defeated 10 of his fellow Republicans in a crowded primary for southern Ohio's 2nd Congressional District seat, and State Sen. Michael Rulli has won the Republican primary in Eastern Ohio's 6th Congressional District.
Taylor will face ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Foes of Republican Ohio House Speaker Jason Stephens picked off four of his allies, including one of his leadership team, in primary elections, though were still one shy of the number needed to obliterate his majority in the next legislative session. But a bitter battle ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump got what he wanted when former car dealer Bernie Moreno won the Republican Senate primary in Ohio.
So did Democrats.
Moreno's positions on abortion, immigration and Trump's election lies make the Republican less electable this fall, Democrats believe, in ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose joined other GOP statewide officeholders Thursday in endorsing his former rival, Republican Senate nominee Bernie Moreno — after a bruising and expensive primary in which he repeatedly attacked his rival as untrustworthy.
In a post ...
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House approved a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills on Friday just a few hours before funding for some key federal agencies is set to expire, a long overdue action nearly six months into the budget year that will push any threats ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Senate has approved limits on how long homeless families can stay in emergency state shelters as part of an $850 million plan to fund the system at the center of the migrant crisis.
Under the bill approved late Thursday by a ...
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Riley Strain, a University of Missouri student who went missing in Tennessee's capital for nearly two weeks, has been found dead in a river, police announced Friday. No foul play is suspected, investigators said.
Metro Nashville ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is returning to the stock market.
Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded shell company, approved a deal to merge with the former president's media business in a Friday vote. That means Trump Media & Technology Group, whose flagship ...
By MELINA WALLING Associated Press
Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby conventional farms applied more pesticides, likely to stay on top of ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — April's total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new spacecraft and telescopes — and cosmic chance.
The moon will be extra close to Earth, providing a long and intense period of darkness, and the ...