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By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city’s segregated school system and the entrenched poverty in poor communities. Sixty years on, Lucas was back on the

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the suddenly strong demand for electricity to run Big Tech’s cloud computing and artificial intelligence applications has set off a full-on sprint to find new energy sources. President Donald

By HILLEL ITALIE and MARIA SHERMAN AP Entertainment Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the 1960s and 1970s, Judy Collins can never forget one in Washington, D.C., where she stood before thousands and sang Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War.” “It was just me, and Bruce

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press On Thursday, President Donald Trump directed his Department of Justice to investigate ActBlue, the Democratic Party-aligned fundraising site that has fueled so many successful challenges against his own party. The next day, amid a long-running feud with judges who have put some of his initiatives on hold because they may

By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican John Reid said Friday he will continue his campaign to be Virginia’s lieutenant governor and denied he had anything to do with a social media account containing sexually explicit photos that had prompted GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin to call for him to quit

By MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press U.S. military recruitment has made a comeback following a downturn caused primarily by the COVID-19 pandemic, low unemployment and stiff competition from the private sector. Posts circulating widely on social media give President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth credit for this increase, a claim that has been pushed

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Organizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights for this summer’s World Pride festival in Washington, D.C., amid a shift in priorities and the ousting of leadership at one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions. Multiple artists and producers involved

Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s governor on Friday sued the Des Moines Register over the newspaper’s open records request, asking the court to validate her office’s withholding of certain emails she claims are protected. A Register reporter submitted a records request in February to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ office, according to the complaint.

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration launched an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley, on Friday centered on foreign funding, making it the latest university to be targeted by the federal government. The investigation revives criticism from several years ago about the university’s partnership with China’s Tsinghua University. It comes after President Donald

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is cracking down on leaks of information to the news media, with Attorney General Pam Bondi saying prosecutors will once again have authority to use subpoenas, court orders and search warrants to hunt for government officials who make “unauthorized disclosures”

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from implementing an executive order that a labor union says would cancel collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled that a key part of President Donald Trump’s March

By JANIE HAR and KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the country after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, federal officials said Friday. The records in a federal student database maintained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas may enter his state’s Republican primary for a Senate seat, adding more intrigue to what is already a marquee midterm contest. Hunt this month discussed a potential Senate bid with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and political director James Blair, according to

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Why not tax the millionaires? As Congress begins drafting a massive package for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” with trillions of dollars in tax breaks and federal program cuts, it’s a question that won’t seem to go away. Trump himself has mused he’d “love” to

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer President Donald Trump is badgering the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, but even if the Fed gave in to the pressure, it wouldn’t necessarily lead to lower borrowing costs for consumers. In fact, economists say, Trump’s ongoing attacks on Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his tariff policies could

By The Associated Press The FBI on Friday arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan, saying she “intentionally misdirected” federal immigration agents away from a man they were trying to take into custody at her courthouse. The judge’s arrest escalates a clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the Republican president’s sweeping immigration crackdown. The

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — As hundreds of migrants crowded into the Krome Detention Center in Miami on the edge of the Florida Everglades, a palpable fear of an uprising set in among its staff. As President Donald Trump sought to make good on his campaign pledge of mass

By PETER SMITH and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The day before he died, in his final public address, Pope Francis expressed an Easter Sunday message of unity and an appeal for the marginalized and migrants. “All of us,” he proclaimed, “are children of God!” In a dramatically different message Sunday, President

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Trump administration’s plan to strictly require anyone illegally in the U.S. to register with the government and carry documentation is stirring up fears of heightened racial profiling even among legal residents, immigrants’ rights advocates say. For some, it’s a return to a climate from the recent

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos was sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison, sobbing as he learned his punishment for the crimes that led to his expulsion from Congress. Santos, who pleaded guilty last summer to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft,

SEJAL GOVINDARAO Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on Thursday lifted her blanket veto threat after Republicans and Democrats united on legislation supplying funding for a state agency that provides services for some of Arizona’s most vulnerable residents. After a standoff that lasted months and running up against an early May deadline,

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned a Nevada Republican politician who was awaiting sentencing on federal charges that she used money meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer for personal costs, including plastic surgery. Michele Fiore, a former Las Vegas city councilwoman and state lawmaker

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to investigate the Democratic Party’s top fundraising platform, the latest example of Trump using the tools of the government to go after his political opponents. Trump, in an executive order signed Thursday, directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Migrants subject to removal from the U.S. under the contested Alien Enemies Act are getting about 12 hours to decide if they want to contest their removal, according to court documents unsealed Thursday — a window the government contends complies with a Supreme Court decision giving

By JOSH FUNK and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press KEARNEY, Nebraska (AP) — Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts on Thursday repeatedly returned to his call for spending cuts amid grumbles from a central Nebraska audience during a public meeting that illustrated the tension between some voters in the country and Republicans. And though Ricketts was interrupted at

By The Associated Press The Trump administration was handed a rapid-fire series of court losses Wednesday night and Thursday in lawsuits filed over its policies on immigration, elections and its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools. But the legal disputes playing out across the country are far from over, and administration attorneys