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By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Last Friday, President Donald Trump heaped praise on Elon Musk as the tech billionaire prepared to leave his unorthodox White House job. Less than a week later, their potent political alliance met a dramatic end Thursday when the men attacked each other with blistering epithets. Trump threatened to go

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Columbia graduate facing deportation over his pro-Palestinian activism on campus has outlined the “irreparable harm” caused by his continued detention as a federal judge weighs his release. Mahmoud Khalil said in court filings unsealed Thursday that the “most immediate and visceral harms” he’s faced in

By JACK DURA and JOHN HANNA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two federal agencies cannot punish Catholic employers and health care providers if they refuse for religious reasons to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients or won’t provide health insurance coverage for such care to their workers, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The ruling

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Three decades ago, foreign students at Harvard University accounted for just 11% of the total student body. Today, they account for 26%. Like other prestigious U.S. universities, Harvard for years has been cashing in on its global cache to recruit the world’s best students. Now, the

By ANNIE MA, AMANUEL BIRHANE and FU TING Associated Press Winning admission to Harvard University fulfilled a longtime goal for Yonas Nuguse, a student in Ethiopia who endured a war in the country’s Tigray region, internet and phone shutdowns, and the COVID-19 pandemic — all of which made it impossible to finish high school on

By The Associated Press Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s alliance took off like one of SpaceX’s rockets. It was supercharged and soared high. And then it blew up. The spectacular flameout Thursday peaked as Trump threatened to cut Musk’s government contracts and Musk claimed that Trump’s administration hasn’t released all the records related to sex

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s alliance took off like one of SpaceX’s rockets. It was supercharged and soared high. And then it blew up. The spectacular flameout Thursday peaked as Trump threatened to cut Musk’s government contracts and Musk claimed that Trump’s administration hasn’t released all

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York education officials won’t rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing federal funding. Instead, New York officials suggested in a letter to the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday that they

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Trump administration has accused the Wisconsin Elections Commission of failing to provide a state-based complaint process for voters bringing allegations against the commission itself, calling that a violation of federal law and threatening to withhold all federal funding. But the commission’s Democratic chairwoman said Thursday

By BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer Investors bought hundreds of billions of dollars of Tesla stock after Donald Trump was elected on a bet that politics were more important than profits. In three hours Thursday, they learned yet again how dangerous that gamble could be. Shares of Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker plunged more than

By The Associated Press U.S. President Donald Trump has banned citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States and restricted access for people from seven others. The ban, which was announced Wednesday, takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

By WILL WEISSERT and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into pardons and other executive actions issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden — launching an extraordinary effort to show that the Democrat hid his cognitive decline and was otherwise too mentally impaired to do the job. Trump,

By WILL WEISSERT and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump alleged Thursday that officials in Joe Biden ‘s administration might have in effect forged their boss’s signature and taken broad actions he wasn’t aware of — while acknowledging he had no evidence that actually happened. Meeting in the Oval Office with

By SEUNG MIN KIM, KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and GEIR MOULSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace, even as Germany’s new chancellor appealed to him as the “key person in the world”

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press The Trump administration must restore hundreds of millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grant funding and thousands of service workers in about two dozen states, a federal judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman granted a temporary block on the agency’s cancellation of grants and early discharge of corps

WASHINGTON (AP) — As peace talks stall, Trump says it may be better to let Ukraine, Russia ‘fight for a while’ before pulling them apart.

BALTIMORE (AP) — AmeriCorps must restore grant funding and service workers to states that sued over cuts, federal judge rules.

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s support of Pete Rose was among the factors Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred weighed when he decided last month that permanent bans by the sport ended with death, which allows the career hits leader to be considered for the Hall of

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace. In an Oval Office meeting Thursday with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump likened the war in Ukraine — which Russia invaded in early 2022 — to a

By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A former Republican congressman and vocal critic of Donald Trump says he wants to become governor in the president’s adopted home state of Florida and is running as a Democrat. David Jolly formally announced his bid Thursday, becoming the latest party convert hoping to

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — David Jolly, a Trump critic and former GOP congressman, announces he is running for Florida governor as a Democrat.

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A political consultant who sent voters artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking former President Joe Biden last year went on trial Thursday in New Hampshire, where jurors are being asked to consider not just his guilt or innocence but whether the state actually held its first-in-the-nation presidential primary.

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By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body. In an executive order signed

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press New York City mayoral race front-runner Andrew Cuomo was forced to fend off a volley of attacks from his Democratic primary rivals in a debate Wednesday, with his opponents unleashing pent up barbs at the former governor in an attempt to crack his lead. Cuomo was on the defensive from

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday directed his administration to investigate Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline” and casting doubts on the legitimacy of his use of the autopen to sign pardons and other documents. The order marked a

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump moves to block entry to the U.S. for foreigners intending to study at Harvard University.

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press A Guatemalan man deported to Mexico, whom President Donald Trump’s administration was working to bring back after a court order, landed in the United States on Wednesday, his attorneys confirmed. The man, identified in court documents by initials O.C.G., landed in California via a commercial flight and made contact