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By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, a popular two-term Republican credited with guiding the state into a period of greater financial stability in the 1990s, died Sunday, according to his family. He was 79. Edgar died from complications related to his treatment for pancreatic cancer, his family said

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Family and friends of the 22-year-old accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk described his politics as veering left in recent years as he spent large amounts of time scrolling the “dark corners of the internet,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Sunday. Investigators

NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sunday urged New Yorkers to vote Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, giving the Democratic nominee one of his most significant endorsements to date in the contest to lead the nation’s biggest city. Writing in the New York Times’ opinion section, Hochul said that while

By ALAN SUDERMAN AP Business Writer President Donald Trump’s administration renewed its request Sunday for a federal appeals court to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, a move the president is seeking ahead of the central bank’s vote on interest rates. The Trump administration filed a response just ahead

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, one of the GOP’s most prominent foreign affairs hawks, announced on Sunday that he’ll retire, while warning that, with Russia’s escalation of its invasion of Ukraine, “we got to be very careful not to be on the precipice of a World War III.” McCaul made

By STEVE PEOPLES and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Even before the killing of Charlie Kirk, Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania was struggling with the emotional toll of political violence. In the middle of the night just five months ago, someone broke into his home and set it on fire. Shapiro, who

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press A federal judge on Saturday said it appeared the Trump administration was making an “end run” around U.S. court orders prohibiting five African immigrants to be deported to their home countries by sending them first to Ghana, which was poised to then relocate them to countries where they could face

By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is asking a U.S. appeals court to reject the Trump administration’s latest bid to remove her from her post ahead of the central bank’s next vote on interest rates. In a filing with the court Saturday, attorneys on behalf of Cook asked the court

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is temporarily keeping in place measures preventing the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan migrant children in government custody. Judge Timothy J. Kelly’s decision Saturday keeps the government from removing Guatemalan children who came to the U.S. alone and are currently living in government shelters

By MARK VANCLEAVE and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) — As the nation comes to grips with the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, two candidates in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park are going door to door seeking to win a legislative seat left open by another political attack that

By CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press/Report for America CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A lone Democrat competing for a state senate seat in a deeply Republican Atlanta suburb snagged nearly 40% of votes in a special primary election last month, amplifying her party’s optimism that discontent with President Donald Trump could spur future wins. Yet it’s unclear

By MAKIYA SEMINERA and JOCELYN GECKER AP Education Writers Some students watched the video in the middle of class. Others pulled out their phones as they walked out of school and found themselves watching the videos over and over. Some teachers interrupted lessons to discuss the horrific news. Almost instantly after Charlie Kirk was assassinated

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Curtis Sliwa — his own party’s New York City mayoral candidate — as “not exactly prime time” and even disparaged his affinity for cats, as pressure mounts for Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani ‘s rivals to drop out of the race.

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a suspect who tried to evade arrest Friday in a Chicago suburb by driving his car at officers and dragging one of them, officials said. The shooting outside the city follows days of threats by

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. government employs a sizable staff of 150 Venezuelans and spends upward of $6.7 million annually for upkeep of the shuttered American embassy and other diplomatic properties in Caracas, despite having broken relations with President Nicolás Maduro’s government in 2019, according to a new watchdog report.

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer Political analyst Matthew Dowd says MSNBC reacted to a “right wing media mob” in firing him for commentary about hateful rhetoric that aired on the network shortly after early reports this week that conservative activist Charlie Kirk had been shot. In a Substack post Friday, Dowd admitted to being

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republicans handed President Donald Trump a political victory Friday, giving final legislative approval to a redistricting plan that could help Republicans win an additional U.S. House seat in next year’s elections. The Senate vote sends the redistricting plan to Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe,

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California state lawmakers have passed legislation that would ban most law enforcement officers from covering their faces while carrying out operations, a response to recent immigration raids in Los Angeles. But even if the governor signs the measure into law, it’s unclear whether the state could

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, immigration crackdowns and sweeping tax and spending law are expected to increase jobless rates and inflation and lower overall growth this year before they improve next year, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The CBO on Friday

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, long an advocate for civility, made an impassioned plea on Friday for Americans and young people in particular to use the horror of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s public assassination as an inflection point to turn the country away from political violence and

OREM, Utah (AP) — Suspect in assassination of Charlie Kirk is arrested on suspicion of capital murder, weapons and obstruction offenses.

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press During her three years as the 24th poet laureate, Ada Limón said her travels around the United States taught her just how many poets the country has. Limón said people would approach her during appearances to tell her they wrote poems regularly in a journal, or on a full moon

By DAVID A. LIEB and M.K. WILDEMAN Associated Press President Donald Trump has approved federal disaster aid for six states and tribes following storms and floods that occurred this spring and summer. The disaster declarations, announced Thursday, will allow federal funding to flow to Kansas, North Carolina, North Dakota and Wisconsin, and for tribes in

OREM, Utah (AP) — Utah governor says Charlie Kirk assassination suspect is believed to have acted alone and the investigation is ongoing.

OREM, Utah (AP) — Utah governor calls Kirk killing ‘attack on the American experiment,’ urges new generation to ‘choose a different path.’

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump said Friday he’ll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor. Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, the Republican president has openly mused about sending troops to other cities, claiming they’re needed

Associated Press OREM, Utah, EE.UU. (AP) — Fuente de AP dice que hay un sospechoso de 22 años detenido por la muerte de Charlie Kirk.

OREM, Utah (AP) — Suspect in custody in connection with Charlie Kirk shooting is a 22-year-old from Utah, an AP source says.

NEW YORK (AP) — Trump says ‘with a high degree of certainty’ that suspect in Charlie Kirk killing has been caught.

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Control of the Minnesota House of Representatives will once again be at stake Tuesday in a special election to replace Melissa Hortman, the former Democratic state House speaker who was slain along with her husband at their home in June. The election takes place three months after