LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of Los Angeles public schools in the nation's second-largest district, was put on paid leave Friday, two days after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the district's headquarters. Authorities have not provided details of the ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The 911 call came in at 6:32 a.m. on Thursday: Two "suspicious" men wearing dark clothing were lingering inside a Columbia University residential building. But when New York Police Department officers were dispatched to the scene, they ...
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer ChatGPT maker OpenAI has received $110 billion in funding from Amazon, SoftBank and Nvidia, putting the technology company's pre-money valuation at $730 billion. Amazon is leading the trio of tech heavyweights in commitments, putting up $50 billion, ...
DURHAM, N.Y. (AP) — Shoppers in upstate New York earlier this month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: tucked next to a cookie jar made in the shape of a chicken was a live owl resting peacefully on a shelf. The state Department of Environmental ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock 'n' roll and led to a second run of success in the 1970s, has died. Sedaka, whose hits included "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" and "Laughter in ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department has terminated its collective bargaining agreement with unionized workers employed at the Internal Revenue Service, the agency said Friday, in an escalation of President Donald Trump 's push to exert more ...
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton told members of Congress on Friday that he "did nothing wrong" in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and saw no signs of Epstein's sexual abuse as he faced hours of grilling from lawmakers over his ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles firefighter testified in a newly released deposition that he told colleagues the ground was still smoldering from a brush fire days before authorities say it reignited into the most destructive blaze in city history. Scott Pike, a firefighter with the Los ...
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — An injured mother manatee and her calf were rescued this week from a river in Florida and taken to SeaWorld Orlando for rehabilitation, officials said. Drone pilots provided the rescuers with an aerial view, guiding their boat toward the manatees on Wednesday, then ...
By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The father of an accused Georgia school shooter testified in his own defense Friday that he gave his son a rifle as a Christmas present in hopes of bonding with the boy over hunting and outings at the gun range. In one of the latest cases ...
By SARAH RAZA Associated Press Attorney General Pam Bondi announced federal charges Friday against 30 more people who are accused of civil rights violations in a January protest inside a Minnesota church where a pastor works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Bondi said on social ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Friday they won't appeal a judge's ruling that bars them from seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In a letter, Deputy U.S. Attorney Sean ...
By BEN FINLEY and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has made a deal with Scouting America that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday would maintain their century-old partnership but refocus the organization away from diversity initiatives and other "woke" ...
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. is in talks with Havana and raised the possibility of a "friendly takeover of Cuba" without offering any details on what he meant. Speaking to reporters outside the White House as he ...
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will forbid members of the military from attending Columbia, Yale, Brown and other universities starting next school year amid a campaign to cut ties with institutions that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called ...
By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer The United States swept the hockey gold medals at the Winter Olympics for the first time, beating Canada 2-1 in overtime in both the men's and women's tournaments and finishing the tournaments unbeaten. It set off a celebration that quickly became ...
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A New York businesswoman was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison over a financial scheme that ripped off more than $30 million from foreign investors and funneled some of the stolen money into U.S. political campaigns, including a fundraiser for ...
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO Associated Press ST PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Two American cardinals and the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. denounced the mass deportations in Minnesota under the federal government's immigration crackdown, but they urged everyone to repair strained relations and work ...
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writers Target will stop selling cereals containing synthetic colors by the end of May. The Minneapolis-based discounter said Friday it had been phasing out synthetic colors in cereals for several years. Right now, 85% of its cereal ...
By JACK BROOK Associated Press/Report for America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actor Shia LaBeouf has been charged with battery and is accused of repeatedly using homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people at a New Orleans bar during Mardi Gras, according to a police report. The New Orleans ...