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By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s effort to impose new requirements on Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine — the nation’s only traditional protein-based option for the coronavirus — is sowing uncertainty about updates to other vaccines, too. Novavax said Monday that the Food and Drug Administration was asking the

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The upper Midwest braced Monday for severe thunderstorms with the potential for strong tornadoes. The National Weather Service said the highest risks — a 4 on a scale of 1 to 5 — were in portions of southern Minnesota, including the Minneapolis area, northern Iowa and western

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A disability-rights case at the Supreme Court grew unusually heated on Monday, including accusations of lying and references to one side’s position being a potential “five-alarm fire.” The appeal comes from a teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy whose family says some courts have made

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Members of New Jersey’s Supreme Court sounded skeptical at times Monday about the effort of a Catholic diocese to stop the state from empaneling a grand jury to investigate clergy sexual abuse allegations. The high court is considering the state attorney general’s appeal of lower court

By ADRIAN SAINZ and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.’s final campaign in 1968 caught fire early Monday morning and suffered significant damage. “The inside is a total loss, but we’re still somewhat hopeful that some

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The main cause of Gene Hackman’s death was heart disease, but he was also in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease and likely had not eaten for a long time, according to a new autopsy report. The report documents the 95-year-old actor’s

By MICHAEL CASEY and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a double jeopardy appeal filed by Karen Read, who’s on trial for the second time on charges she killed her Boston police officer boyfriend in 2022. A mistrial was declared last year after jurors said they were at an impasse.

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Another federal judge in Washington has expressed skepticism about the legality of a Trump administration executive order targeting a prominent law firm, saying he was concerned that the clear purpose of the edict was punishment. U.S. District Judge John Bates had already temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s

By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Since her birth 10 years ago, Mackenzie Holmes has rarely called one place home for long. There was the house in Houston owned by her grandmother, Crystal Holmes. Then, after Holmes lost her Southwest Airlines job and the house, there was the trio of apartments in

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Romano spent more than 17 years at the Justice Department, eventually becoming a supervisor on the team that would prosecute more than 1,500 people charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The moment he watched the largest investigation in department history get wiped away

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The weeks since President Donald Trump returned to office have been a whirlwind of activity to show Americans that his administration is relentlessly pursuing his promises. With a compliant Republican-controlled Congress, Trump has had a free hand to begin overhauling the federal government and

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A recreational boat crashed into a ferry transporting 45 people on the final day of a sand-sculpting festival in Florida, killing one person and injuring at least 10 others, officials said. The crash late Sunday in calm waters off Clearwater on the western Florida coast set off an emergency response due

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn woman said she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked, spit at and pelted with objects by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against Israel’s far-right security minister. The assault, recorded by a

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Three former Memphis police officers were frustrated, angry and full of adrenaline when they fatally beat Tyre Nichols after he ran away from a traffic stop in 2023, a prosecutor said Monday during opening arguments in their trial on second-degree murder charges. Prosecutor Paul Hagerman showed

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Jurors considering second-degree murder charges against a former Michigan police officer repeatedly watched videos Monday showing the officer struggling with and then shooting a Black man, Patrick Lyoya, whose death three years ago sparked weeks of protest and outrage. The trial of Christopher Schurr, who

By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Scrutiny of a welfare program that is the signature initiative of Casey DeSantis, Florida’s first lady, is threatening to undermine a potential run to succeed her husband as governor, as well as his own presidential ambitions. Lawmakers in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ own party have

EVANS, Ga. (AP) — One Georgia deputy was killed and a second was shot in the face after a motor home driver they had pulled over opened fire, law enforcement officials said Sunday. The driver of the motor home also died in the incident. James Blake Montgomery was pulled over Saturday evening on Interstate 20

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press President Donald Trump made clear Sunday that he would not follow his predecessor’s practice of recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day in October, accusing Democrats of denigrating the explorer’s legacy as he pressed his campaign to restore what he argues are traditional American icons. Democrat Joe Biden was the

WASHINGTON (AP) — A suspect has been arrested in connection with the theft last week of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ‘s purse as she ate at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, officials said Sunday. Noem’s purse was nabbed on Easter Sunday and reportedly contained about $3,000 in cash, her keys, driver’s license, passport and Homeland

By JOHN RABY Associated Press More than 100 immigrants suspected of being in the United States illegally were taken into custody early Sunday following a federal raid at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, authorities said. Video posted online by the Drug Enforcement Administration showed agents announcing their presence outside the building and

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Drag performer Bianca Castro-Arabejo, who was known as reality television star Jiggly Caliente on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” died Sunday at age 44, days after her family reported hospitalization for a serious infection. Castro-Arabejo, who became a judge on “Drag Race Philippines” in 2022, scrapped plans to appear on the

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Horror movies are often one-week wonders at the box office, but Ryan Coogler’s“Sinners” is defying the odds and proving to be true event cinema. In its second weekend in theaters, “Sinners” earned $45 million in ticket sales from theaters in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday.

By The Associated Press Weather forecasters warned of an extreme fire risk across much of New Mexico on Sunday as high winds, low humidity and dry vegetation formed ideal conditions for fast-moving wildfires. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center forecast an extreme risk for wildfires across a large swath of central and southern New

By STEVE PEOPLES and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Many days over the past two weeks, no one answered the phone at any of U.S. Rep. Scott Perry’s four offices. Perry’s team did not share details about the Republican congressman’s public appearances until they were over. Even supporters who live in Perry’s

By JOHN RABY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling U.S. coal industry. Trump issued executive orders this month to allow mining on federal land. He has used his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power plants set for

By LEAH WILLINGHAM and JOHN RABY Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 years ago and imagines the rusted remains of coal tipples and processing plants coming back to life. Ava Johnson knows West Virginia

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk spent years building cachet as a business titan and tech visionary, brushing aside critics and skeptics to become the richest person on the planet. But as Musk gained power in Washington in recent months, his popularity has waned, according to a poll

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Before dawn on Oct. 18, 2017, FBI agents broke down the front door of Trina Martin’s Atlanta home, stormed into her bedroom and pointed guns at her and her then-boyfriend as her 7-year-old son screamed for his mom from another room. Martin, blocked from

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press State lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to use more taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuitions and homeschooling expenses even as they try to figure out how to budget in a time of economic uncertainty. A $1 billion-per-year voucher program the Texas Legislature sent to

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press Immigration and civil rights advocates have renewed concerns that immigrants detained at Guantanamo Bay are being held in extreme isolation, cut off from meaningful access to legal counsel or candid communication with relatives, according to a new court filing Saturday. In a lawsuit brought on behalf or two Nicaraguan immigrants