AP National News

By JONATHAN MATTISE, KIMBERLEE KRUESI and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The shooter behind the 2023 Nashville elementary school attack that killed six people, including three children, had been obsessively planning it for years while hiding mental health issues from family and doctors, a police report released Wednesday reveals. The nearly 50-page

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A California man will plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C, nearly three years ago, the defendant’s attorneys said in a court filing on Wednesday. Nicholas John Roske, of Simi Valley, California, was arrested

By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge dismissed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case on Wednesday, agreeing it was the only practical outcome while blasting the Justice Department’s “troubling” rationale for wanting the charges thrown out — namely so the Democrat could help President

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Biden administration Health Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday became the latest Democrat to join the crowded field seeking to become California’s next governor, a contest that could be dramatically reshaped if former Vice President Kamala Harris becomes a candidate. The Stanford Law School

By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The problems for Head Start began days after President Donald Trump took office. Trump’s administration announced it would freeze federal grants — the primary funding for the early education program that serves more than half a million low-income children. Then came glitches with the funding website

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A judge in Boston is holding a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in contempt after he detained a suspect while the man was on trial. ICE agent Brian Sullivan detained Wilson Martell-Lebron last week as he was leaving court. But a Boston Municipal Court judge issued

By KATHY McCORMACK and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered authorities to keep her in Massachusetts, lawyers for the U.S. government said. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration

By SARAH PARVINI and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After TikTok was banned in the United States earlier this year, President Donald Trump gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that was passed in Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court that said the ban was necessary for national security.

By JEFF MARTIN and HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press Tornadoes and violent storms struck parts of the South and Midwest on Wednesday, killing at least one person, knocking down power lines and trees, ripping roofs off homes and shooting debris thousands of feet into the air. A tornado emergency was briefly issued in northeast Arkansas, with

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in California on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore legal aid to tens of thousands of migrant children who are in the United States without a parent or guardian. The Republican administration on March 21 terminated a contract with the Acacia

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press Forecasters are warning of potentially deadly flash flooding and strong tornadoes as more rounds of thunderstorms are poised to strike parts of the Midwest and South. The potent storm system will bring the threat of “significant, life-threatening flash flooding” starting Wednesday, according to the Weather Prediction Center, a part of

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Anger over the Trump administration’s tariffs and rhetoric will likely cause international travel to the U.S. to fall even further than expected this year, an influential travel forecasting company said Tuesday. Tourism Economics said it expects the number of people arriving in the U.S. from abroad to decline by

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has halted dozens of research grants at Princeton University, the latest Ivy League school to see its federal money threatened in a pressure campaign targeting the nation’s top universities. Princeton was notified this week that several dozen federal grants are being suspended by

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii boat captain who rebuilt her whale-watching tour business after losing three boats in the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire captured iPhone footage of her dog barking excitedly when a humpback swam near them over the weekend and poked its head out to greet Macy, a

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the legal battle over Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation should continue to play out in New Jersey, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to transfer the Columbia University protester’s case to Louisiana. In a written decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz in

By PETER SMITH Associated Press As many as four in five immigrants at risk of deportation from the United States are Christian, according to a new report that calls on their fellow believers to consider the impact of the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation policies. The report says about 10 million Christians are vulnerable to deportation

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states over the next six months to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country, marking a continuation of efforts by the federal government to address high rates of violence

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The federal government has paused $27.5 million for organizations that provide family planning, contraception, cancer screenings and sexually transmitted infection services as it investigates whether they’re complying with the law. The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association says 16 organizations received notice Monday that funding is on hold. At

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A University of Minnesota graduate business student who’s being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is suing for his immediate release, saying his arrest violated his rights and he’s been given little explanation for why he’s being held. The lawsuit filed this week on behalf of Doğukan

BOSTON (AP) — A box truck crashed into a building Tuesday afternoon in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood and hit several pedestrians before flipping onto its side, city officials said. The driver and five others were injured in what authorities said appears to have been an accident. “At least at this preliminary juncture, we don’t have any

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press A Cornell University student facing deportation after his visa was revoked because of his campus activism said he decided to leave the United States. Momodou Taal, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Gambia, had asked a federal court to halt his detention. But he posted on X late Monday

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press President Donald Trump’ s administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison last month, but is arguing against returning him to the United States because of his alleged gang ties and the U.S. government’s lack of power over the Central

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that she has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, following through on the president’s campaign promise to vigorously pursue capital

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d’Haiti, the Catholic church at the heart of the largest Haitian diaspora in the United States. For a community caught in the crossfire of growing violence in their island homeland and disappearing

By DEVNA BOSE and LINDSEY WHITEHURST Associated Press A coalition of state attorneys general sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to cut $12 billion in federal funds that go toward COVID-19 initiatives and various public health projects across the country. Attorneys general from 23 states filed the suit in federal court in

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven years ago, when a joint bid by the United States, Canada and Mexico was awarded the 2026 World Cup, rifts created by tariffs — yes, back then, too! — and a proposed border wall were glossed over because of the neighbors’ longstanding political and economic

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health. The cuts include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders,

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There are just two Planned Parenthood clinics in South Carolina, but every year they take hundreds of low-income patients who need things like contraception, cancer screenings and pregnancy testing. The organization has long been at the center of the debate over abortion, but its clinics across the

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has declined to block the use of Georgia’s electronic voting system in a long-running lawsuit alleging that the system is vulnerable to attack and has operational issues that could deprive voters of their constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg found that the activists

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film “JFK” portrayed President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, is set to testify to Congress on Tuesday about thousands of newly released government documents surrounding the killing. Scholars say the files that President Donald Trump ordered to