By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and AARON KESSLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of major accidents involving military aircraft spiked in 2024, internal Pentagon figures show, and a series of high-profile aviation mishaps with deaths and the loss of aircraft in 2025 suggest the ...

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that the long-awaited meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would happen in Washington later this week, setting up an in-person clash between the political polar opposites who for months have ...

By KEVIN FREKING and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to repeal part of a new law that gives senators the ability to sue the federal government for millions of dollars if their personal or office data is accessed without ...

By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Larry Summers was once so powerful that he was dubbed a member of the Committee to Save the World. Now, he's increasingly a man in exile. Summers took leave from his teaching post at Harvard University on Wednesday following the release ...

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a potentially far-reaching development in a yearslong push by survivors of Epstein's ...

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal ...

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press A draft of a much-anticipated report on reforms to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been whittled down in size, with recommendations compiled by a council appointed by the president slashed and amended by Homeland Security Secretary ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn wigmaker and social media influencer who raced through a red light and plowed into a mother and two children, killing them, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 years to 9 years in state prison. Miriam Yarimi, 33, pleaded guilty last month in state court in Brooklyn to ...

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Congress has passed a measure to overturn a plan enacted during the Biden administration that put off limits to oil and gas leasing nearly half a vast petroleum reserve in Alaska. Critics see the vote as political meddling that ...

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Five people pleaded guilty Wednesday to terrorism-related charges after they were accused of supporting antifa in a July shooting that wounded a police officer outside a Texas immigration detention center. The charges brought by the ...

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Federal authorities said Wednesday they seized more than a half-ton of methamphetamine and indicted 15 people following a two-year investigation that disrupted a drug trafficking organization from Mexico operating in Colorado. Eleven ...

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily halted an order restricting the use of force by federal immigration agents in the Chicago area, calling it "overbroad" and "too prescriptive." But the7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also ...

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with committing a terrorist attack, alleging he poured gasoline on a woman and chased her through a Chicago train car before setting her on fire. Lawrence Reed was sitting at the back of a car on a Blue ...

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will face a projected $18 billion deficit next year, setting up a challenge for Gov. Gavin Newsom to safeguard some of the progressive policies that have defined his tenure as he considers a presidential run. The ...

WEST OLIVE, Mich. (AP) — The Trump administration has once again extended the life of a Michigan coal-fired power plant that was supposed to close last May as the utility Consumers Energy transitions to cleaner sources of electricity. The U.S. Energy Department says there are "emergency ...

By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey hit another hurdle Wednesday as the Justice Department encountered mounting questions about how the case was presented to a grand jury for indictment. The ...

By BILL BARROW Associated Press Billionaire businessman and activist Tom Steyer, who once self-financed an unsuccessful White House campaign and spent his own money advocating for President Donald Trump's impeachment, has launched his bid for California governor as a Democrat. The ...

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made hardline immigration policies a signature issue, but acknowledged on Wednesday that he's been criticized for recently saying some skilled immigrants should be allowed into the country from his "Make ...

By SEUNG MIN KIM The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former president Joe Biden will attend Thursday's memorial service for former vice president Dick Cheney at the Washington National Cathedral, which will feature remarks from another former president, George W. Bush. A spokeswoman ...

By ED WHITE Associated Press A high-stakes dispute over whether an indictment will stand against former FBI Director James Comey is putting attention on grand juries and how they work in secret to bring charges in U.S. federal courts. The U.S. Justice Department admitted there may have ...