By PETER SMITH Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jewish communities everywhere reacted with horror at last year's Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, but the approaching one-year commemoration of the assault hits home particularly hard in Pittsburgh's Jewish community, which already marks ...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to step into a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico. The justices said they will review a ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found that the ...
ASSOCIATED PRESS undefined Elon Musk will join Donald Trump at his rally Saturday in Butler, the Pennsylvania city where the Republican presidential nominee survived an assassination attempt earlier this year. "I will be there to support!" Musk wrote on his social platform X on Thursday ...
BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Michigan man with killing and dismembering a janitor he met on the dating app Grindr. Justie Stilwell, a 41-year-old janitor at T.L. Handy Middle School in Bay City, was reported missing on Sept. 18. A teenager spotted a foot in the Saginaw ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether to block a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against leading U.S. gun manufacturers over allegations their commercial practices have helped caused much bloodshed there. The gun makers asked the justices to undo an appeals ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up the case of an Ohio woman who claims she suffered sex discrimination in her employment because she is straight. The justices on Friday agreed to review an appellate ruling that upheld the dismissal of the discrimination lawsuit filed by the ...
Sam Dutcher had just finished running errands when the 18-year-old's Honda Pilot suddenly began to accelerate, even though his foot wasn't on the gas pedal. The brake wouldn't work, he couldn't shift into neutral, and before long, the runaway SUV was speeding into the western Minnesota ...
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press A judge ripped into a Colorado county clerk for her crimes and lies before sentencing her Thursday to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race. District ...
BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — Police and firefighters in New Hampshire responded to an unusual call Thursday morning — a moose was trapped in a backyard swimming pool. A video shot by police shows rescuers removing a pool covering after arriving at the home at about 8:45 a.m. to reveal the adult ...
By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Six U.S. companies will spend at least $350 million to manufacture medical gowns to store in the Strategic National Stockpile, years after doctors and nurses working in hospitals found themselves without the equipment while COVID-19 ...
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury began deliberations Thursday on whether a former police officer who fatally shot a shoplifting suspect last year outside a busy northern Virginia shopping mall should be convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Wesley ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith has provided a road map for how prosecutors hope to prove their case charging former President Donald Trump with an illegal scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss — if it ever gets to trial. In ...
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Kirk was a Category 4 major hurricane on Thursday, and waves from the system could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions this weekend along the U.S. East Coast as well as in Bermuda, the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas, forecasters said. Kirk was ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election clerks referred 30 instances of suspected fraud and voting irregularities to prosecutors over the last year, according to a new report. The nation's multilayered election processes provide many safeguards that keep voter fraud generally detectable and ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is speeding up its switch to a new schools chief as indicted Mayor Eric Adams faces mounting pressure to bring stability to a city government that has been roiled by searches, subpoenas and ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS is expanding its program that allows people to file their taxes directly with the agency for free. The federal tax collector's Direct File program, which allows taxpayers to calculate and submit their returns to the government ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers speedily approved funding for the state veterans home, a program to help kids at risk of dropping out of school and other proposals on Monday after gaveling in for a special session called by Republican Gov. Jim Justice. The GOP-controlled ...
Iowa (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten) at No. 3 Ohio State (4-0, 1-0), Saturday, 3:30 ET (CBS) BetMGM College Football Odds: Ohio State by 19 1/2. Series record: Ohio State leads 47-15-3. What's at stake Iowa will be the toughest test yet for the Buckeyes, who has blown out every opponent so far. Last ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice presidential hopefuls Tim Walz and JD Vance focused their criticism on the top of the ticket on Tuesday as they engaged in a policy-heavy discussion that may be the last debate of the 2024 presidential campaign. It was the first encounter between Minnesota's Democratic ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Republican challenger David McCormick will meet Thursday night for their first debate in an expensive race for a swing-state seat that could help determine control of the Senate in November's election. Casey, perhaps ...