By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — On a pristine Rhode Island beach teeming with noisy seabirds, a group of biologists armed with nets sneak up on a pair of American oystercatcher chicks. But just as they move in to capture them, one of the football-size ...

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and NICKY FORSTER Associated Press Life after college did not go as Ashley Dreahn planned. After starting out as a teacher, she went back to school — and took out more loans — in hopes of landing a higher-paying job in the chemical processing industry. It never ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office has performed autopsies in many high-profile cases, including that of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who singer D4vd is charged with killing, and the death of "Friends" star Matthew Perry. Chief Medical Examiner Dr. ...

By The Associated Press e delegate battle. Maine Democrats have been scrambling to pick a new candidate after Platner withdrew from the race after a woman accused him of sexual assault, which he denied. Troy Jackson, a former state legislator, moved into a strong position to replace Graham ...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Fausto formed Sunday well off Mexico's southwest Pacific coast, while a tropical depression meandering in warm Gulf of Mexico waters south of the Florida Panhandle was threatening to strengthen into a named storm. Fausto emerged from a tropical depression about ...

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, on Sunday announced the birth of their fourth child, the first born to a sitting vice president in more than 150 years. Born Sunday, Alec Neel Vance joins older ...

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" launched with an estimated $124.5 million in domestic ticket sales and another $139.6 million from overseas, notching an even better debut than "Oppenheimer" and marking the filmmaker's best opening since ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A second person has died in connection with an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York, the New York City Health Department announced Saturday. The outbreak on Manhattan's Upper East Side has infected 72 people, according to health officials. Two people have died. The ...

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — Senate candidate Haley Stevens talks often about manufacturing, taking on President Donald Trump and why she's the Democrat best positioned to win Michigan. The congresswoman has far less to say about the pro-Israel group ...

By JONATHAN J. COOPER, JACQUES BILLEAUD and WUFEI YU Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — As the head of the conservative Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House, Rep. Andy Biggs was one of the Republican Party's most hard-line brawlers in Washington, championing President Donald Trump's agenda ...

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, whose social media empire promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny has made them among the world's most polarizing internet personalities, were arrested Saturday in Miami as British authorities ...

By SEUNG MIN KIM and JOSH BOAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to present the World Cup trophy to the winner of Sunday's final between Argentina and Spain. But to him, the real victor of soccer's premier tournament just might be the United States. "It ...

MIAMI (AP) — A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country. Alcántara, 38, was greeted at the airport by a crowd that was cheering, ...

By SAVANNAH PETERS Associated Press Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S. Products with the potential to be ...

By BILL BARROW Associated Press . ATLANTA (AP) — Nearly a decade ago, Jon Ossoff was a 30-year-old Democratic congressional candidate promising Georgia suburban voters he would "cut wasteful spending" and make "both parties in Washington" be "accountable to you." His Republican opponent ...

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter used to be one of President Donald Trump 's favorite political targets, a catchall foil for feckless Democrats that he could jeer at to make himself look strong and decisive. But lately, Trump's sentiments on the 39th ...

By MEG KINNARD and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that Darline Graham, the sister of the late Lindsey Graham, has his support to run for a full term to replace her brother in the U.S. Senate. He wrote on social media that she "has ...

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people in the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states muddled through another day of unhealthy air from uncontrolled wildfires on Friday. The thick smoke enveloped the nation's capital in a gloomy, eerie haze and ...

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley plans to jump back into the Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor after Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez abandoned her campaign for the state's top office Friday amid a campaign finance scandal. Crowley will announce ...

By JOSH KELETY Associated Press A federal appeals court ruled Friday that New Jersey's bans on assault firearms and magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds are unconstitutional. This is the first time a federal appeals court has struck down a state ban on such weapons, and it comes as ...