By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Preliminary data from the deadliest U.S. aviation accident in nearly 25 years showed conflicting readings about the altitudes of an airliner and Army helicopter when they collided near Reagan National Airport in Washington, killing ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems, ...
Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2, but celebrating the midpoint between the shortest and darkest day of the year and the spring equinox has ancient roots in European agricultural life.
Punxsutawney Phil is far from the only ...
A medical transport jet carrying a child patient, her mother and four others slammed into a Philadelphia neighborhood and exploded in flames.
The child had been treated in Philadelphia for a life-threatening condition and was being transported home to Mexico, according to Jet Rescue Air ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In Boston, Northeastern University renamed a program for underrepresented students, emphasizing "belonging" for all. In New Jersey, a session at Rutgers University catering to students from historically Black colleges had to be abruptly canceled. And around the U.S., ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A person in a car was the seventh fatal victim of the fiery crash of an air ambulance onto a busy Philadelphia street, authorities said Saturday, as investigators sifted through burned cars, damaged homes and charred debris for clues to determine why the aircraft plummeted ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Former Hawaii lawmaker Suzanne Chun Oakland remembers arriving at school one morning in 1977 to an eerie buzz.
She had met up with girlfriends as usual before class at Honolulu's McKinley High School when she learned a student named Dawn Momohara had been found dead on the ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MATT ROURKE Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several ...
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In Boston, Northeastern University renamed a program for underrepresented students, emphasizing "belonging" for all. In New Jersey, a session at Rutgers University catering to students from historically Black colleges had to be ...
By JOHN SEEWER and ADAM GELLER Associated Press
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The moments Grace Maxwell shared with her grandfather over the years were "his greatest joy." And a trip home to Wichita, Kansas, allowed the 20-year-old to be by his side one final time.
Maxwell, a mechanical ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday refused to stop what would be the fourth nitrogen gas execution in the U.S., saying the inmate had not proven his claims that the new method is unconstitutionally cruel and causes psychological terror.
Chief District Judge Emily C. Marks ...
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn't find lethal injection drugs.
Marion Bowman Jr. was executed at 6:27 ...
By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's highest court upheld on Friday a law that gave adult victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek civil damages, rejecting arguments that the temporary window violated constitutional protections for ...
By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday fired a group of prosecutors involved in the Jan. 6 criminal cases and demanded the names of FBI agents involved in those same probes so they can possibly be ousted, moves that ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump White House issued a proclamation Friday recognizing February as Black History Month around the same time the Defense Department issued guidance declaring "identity months dead."
The conflicting messages came as President Donald Trump has been targeting diversity, ...
By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press
A number of U.S. government web pages changed or went dark Friday as agencies scrambled to comply with President Donald Trump's executive orders declaring his administration would recognize only two genders and ordering an end to diversity, equity and ...
By JAIMIE DING and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The pilot of a drone that crashed into a firefighting plane, leaving a gaping hole and grounding the aircraft during the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, ZEKE MILLER, CLAUDIA LAUER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Police boats combed the banks of the Potomac River on Friday, slowly scanning the shoreline in the rain as investigators sought clues into the midair collision that killed 67 ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A woman accused of fatally poisoning her boss had her manslaughter conviction overturned Friday. A New York appeals court said improperly obtained evidence from her cell phone was used against her.
Kaitlyn Conley has been serving a 23-year sentence in the 2015 death of ...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who told police that she went to the U.S. Capitol to kill members of President Donald Trump's cabinet said she was influenced by Luigi Mangione, the man charged with fatally shooting the CEO of ...