By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson asked the U.S. Department of Justice this week to investigate allegations made by a former attorney for President Donald Trump in Wisconsin that a judge overseeing his felony case is guilty of ...
ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday announced it would send $350 million in funding to localities and electric cooperatives for relief efforts following Hurricane Helene and Tropical Storm Debby. The announcement comes two months after ...
By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press DORAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. Navy admiral who oversees military operations in Latin America handed off command responsibilities Friday as scrutiny increases over the Trump administration's deadly strikes on alleged drug boats in the region. Adm. Alvin ...
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings "would severely intrude on the President's prerogative to control the image he presents to the public," part of a ...
By JAMES CULLUM After two years of renovations, the first and second floors of George and Martha Washington's mansion at Mount Vernon have reopened to visitors. The $40 million preservation project at the first president's home included designing and installing a new HVAC system, major ...
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies indefinitely despite years of warnings from conservationists that populations are shrinking. The U.S. ...
By JESSICA HILL Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Declaring Las Vegas a "cowboy town," dozens of riders on horseback have traditionally kicked off the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo by galloping into the arena and then lining up their horses side by side as the riders tip their hats to ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A California woman changing her infant daughter's diaper in the bathroom of the Macy's Herald Square store in New York City was stabbed and injured by another woman in an unprovoked attack, police said. The attack occurred Thursday afternoon at the store in Manhattan. The ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department is targeting businesses that people use to wire money to family members abroad as the Trump administration rachets up investigations into fraud within Minnesota's Somali community, Treasury Secretary Scott ...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge blocked U.S. immigration authorities on Friday from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia, saying she feared they might take him into custody again just hours after she had ordered his release from a detention ...
By PETER SMITH Associated Press The top leader of the Anglican Church in North America faces a church trial after a board of inquiry said Friday it found probable cause for formal charges that include abuse of power and sexual immorality. Archbishop Stephen Wood was already suspended from ...
By JOSH BOAK and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — This holiday season isn't quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck in a rut under President Donald Trump, a ...
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The oil tanker was navigating near the coast of Guyana recently when its location transponder showed it starting to zigzag. It was a seemingly improbable maneuver and the latest digital clue that the ship, the Skipper, ...
By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump successfully harnessed voter anxiety over the economy, immigration and crime last year to retake the White House — and lift plenty of other Republicans into office with him. But as the party tries to keep its ...
By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them there. "You discovered Orthodoxy online. You learned ...
By PETER SMITH Associated Press Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism's "festival of lights." On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched ...
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. has stepped up technology in its popular F-150 pickup to combat the ever-evolving techniques car thieves have at their disposal. It is the latest cat-and-mouse move that the automaker hopes will help customers avoid the ...
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A federal appeals court blocked the immediate release of hundreds of immigrants detained during a Chicago area immigration crackdown in a split decision Thursday that also allowed the extension of a consent decree outlining how federal ...
By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan and NASCAR chairman Jim France stood side-by-side on the steps of a federal courthouse as if they were old friends following a stunning settlement Thursday of a bruising antitrust case in which the Basketball Hall ...
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal grand jury indicted the leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in Oklahoma City over allegations that millions of dollars in grant funds were improperly spent on international trips, groceries and personal real estate, ...