By RIO YAMAT AP Airlines and Travel Writer A federal court jury has awarded over $28 million to the family of a United Nations consultant who died in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max jetliner in Ethiopia more than six years ago. The verdict was reached Wednesday on behalf of the relatives of ...
By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Native tribes and conservation groups sued the federal government Wednesday, seeking in at least three separate lawsuits to overturn a land exchange aimed at allowing a road to be built through a national wildlife ...
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers on Wednesday reported two promising new approaches to counteract malaria's growing resistance to medication — one involving a new class of drugs. Switzerland-based Novartis released results of what it called a ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he's worried about how President Donald Trump might respond to the growing controversy over documents tying him to Jeffrey Epstein. "My great fear, of course, is that with the release of that ...
By RIO YAMAT Associated Press America's aviation system is straining under the weight of the longest government shutdown on record: thousands of flight cancellations, long delays at major airports and frustrated travelers nationwide. In an unprecedented move, the Federal Aviation ...
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer A little more than a year ago, Ryan Sprankle welcomed President Donald Trump to one of the three grocery stores his family owns near Pittsburgh. Trump was on the campaign trail; they talked about high grocery prices, and the Republican nominee picked up ...
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The longest government shutdown in history could conclude as soon as Wednesday, Day 43, with almost no one happy with the final result. Democrats didn't get the heath insurance provisions they demanded added to the spending deal. And ...
By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press Electricity demand will rise much faster than overall energy growth in the coming decades, underscoring the need for diversified energy sources, according to an analysis released Wednesday. The report by the International Energy Agency said renewable ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications. In the past few days, the sun has burped out several bursts of energy called coronal mass ejections that ...
NEW YORK (AP) — John F. Kennedy's grandson Jack Schlossberg is running for the U.S. House next year, announcing Tuesday that he's seeking a key New York seat set to be vacated by longtime Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler. "This district should have a representative who can harness the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide to two New York governors is set to go on trial Wednesday on charges she sold her influence to the Chinese government and illegally profited from the state's bulk purchase of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Linda Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, were ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — When Jim Sanborn was commissioned to create a sculpture at CIA headquarters, he wanted to do something that to spoke to its world of spies and secret codes. The result was a 10-foot-tall, S-shaped copper screen called "Kryptos" that ...
By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press The first major cold spell of the season plunged parts of the southeastern U.S. into record-low temperatures Tuesday, delivering a shock for 18 million people under a freeze warning across Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Meanwhile, several inches of snow ...
By CLAIRE SAVAGE The Associated Press A Virginia transportation security officer is accusing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of sex discrimination over a policy that bars transgender officers from performing security screening pat-downs, according to a federal lawsuit. The ...
By MEG KINNARD and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press BELEM, Brazil (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday he is stunned by eight senators' decision to break with Democrats and end the government shutdown and warned they are not alarmed enough about President Donald Trump's ...
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three paintings from famously chill public television legend Bob Ross sold Tuesday for more than $600,000 at auction. The paintings were the first of 30 Ross works being sold to benefit public TV stations hurt by cuts in federal ...
By JOHN HANNA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom. Marion ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Calling America's absence from key United Nations climate negotiations "doubling down on stupid," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday the United States risks being left behind as an economic power. Newsom, a Democrat eyeing ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump boasts that his tariffs protect American industries, lure factories to the United States, raise money for the federal government and give him diplomatic leverage. Now, he's claiming they can finance a windfall ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In Southern California, where police pursuits are common, this was one for the books. A suspect in an allegedly stolen minivan led authorities on a two-hour, 170-mile (274-kilometer) chase through four counties Monday that ended with her escaping into Mexico, officials ...