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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina state legislator accused this week of sex-related crimes involving a 15-year-old appeared in court remotely from a hospital bed while still in custody Friday, and a judge set his bond at just over $1 million. Democratic state Rep. Cecil Brockman of High Point, who was arrested Wednesday, had

By PHILIP MARCELO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime political foe of President Donald Trump, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on mortgage fraud charges. It’s a case she says is bogus, cooked up by the Justice Department to cater to

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., sent a letter to Big Ten presidents Friday, warning that a move into private equity could have negative consequences, including impacting the schools’ tax-exempt status. “The primary goal of these companies is to make money for the firm, which is unlikely to align with the

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press Vice President JD Vance visited Republican state lawmakers in Indianapolis on Friday as the White House continues to press the state on redistricting to give the GOP an advantage in next year’s elections. Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Braun confirmed he met with Vance, marking at least the second in-person discussion

By The Associated Press National Guard troops started patrolling in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday, even after judges stalled President Donald Trump’s plans to deploy troops to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in other states. The troops, dressed in Guard fatigues and protective vests, with guns in their holsters, patrolled at a Bass Pro Shops

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Two young Republican groups have challenged statistical methods used to produce the results of the 2020 census, four years after the numbers were released, as the GOP continues its growing attack on the numbers from the last U.S. head count. The legal challenge, filed in a

By PATRICK WHITTLE and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year, two people familiar with Mills’ plans said on Friday. The development sets up a potential showdown between the parties’ best-known figures

By The Associated Press The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues. Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on the social platform X that the “RIFs have

By MIKE PESOLI and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday despite jockeying from his fellow Republicans, various world leaders and — most vocally — himself. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the prize, after she was nominated last

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is in “exceptional health,” his physician said Friday after he underwent a checkup that included lab tests and preventive health assessments at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Trump spent roughly three hours at the Bethesda, Maryland, hospital earlier Friday for what his

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — The Trump administration is pushing again to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador, even though three African countries they’ve approached have rejected the idea, a judge heard during testimony Friday. Abrego Garcia is challenging efforts

By MATT BROWN and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are ramping up the pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who won a special election last month to succeed her late father. The delay has attracted mounting attention this week, with Johnson challenged by

By CLAIRE RUSH AND MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — President Donald Trump, members of his administration and conservative influencers painted a bleak portrait of Portland, Oregon, at a roundtable event at the White House Wednesday, alleging that the city has been besieged by violence perpetrated by “antifa thugs” and that it is

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain and head of the U.N. World Food Program, suffered a mild stroke this week and is said to be recovering “well,” according to a press release Thursday from the humanitarian organization. The statement said McCain, 71, is expected

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the states contributing National Guard troops to President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement initiative in Washington have set target dates for their withdrawal later this fall, state officials told The Associated Press. The dates, in late October and November, could be extended, and it

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories from President Donald Trump and his supporters since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official, the new company announced Thursday. The newly formed company, Liberty Vote,

By MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans voted Thursday to roll back restrictions on mining, drilling and other development in three Western states, advancing President Donald Trump’s ambitions to expand energy production from public lands. Senators voted 50-46 to repeal land management plans that were adopted in the final

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday in a mortgage fraud case that President Donald Trump urged his Justice Department to bring after vowing retribution against some of his biggest political enemies. James, a Democrat who infuriated Trump

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Heather Campbell lost her job working for a food bank over the summer because of federal funding cuts. Her husband serves as an officer in the Air Force, but now he’s facing the prospect of missing his next paycheck because of the government shutdown. If lawmakers in

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press As the White House continues to push for redistricting, Vice President JD Vance is expected to be in Indiana on Friday for the second time in recent months, according to a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration. While other Republican-led states like Texas and Missouri quickly answered the White House’s

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Here’s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, Ryan S.: How might the shutdown affect the U.S. economy? Shutdowns of the federal government usually don’t leave much economic damage. But the one that started Wednesday looks riskier, not least because President Donald Trump is threatening to

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge says that the agency tasked with finding a prosecutor to take over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others can have a little more time, but not as much time as it wanted. What will happen to the case has been