By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A babysitter looked under a bed to reassure a worried child that there wasn’t a monster hiding there — and came face-to-face with a man who wasn’t supposed to be there, a sheriff’s office in Kansas said in a news release. The 27-year-old was booked into jail this week after
Continue Reading By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A babysitter looked under a bed to reassure a worried child that there wasn’t a monster hiding there — and came face-to-face with a man who wasn’t supposed to be there, a sheriff’s office in Kansas said in a news release. The 27-year-old was booked into jail this week after
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By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City rapper who joined President Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges after prosecutors say he used earnings from his music career to fuel gang violence in Brooklyn. Sheff G, whose legal name
Continue Reading By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ordering a fix before summer in what has become of the country’s biggest lawsuits over keeping prisoners safe during dangerous extreme heat. But U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s warnings to
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump aims to reshape Smithsonian museums and zoo with order targeting funding to programs with ‘improper ideology.’
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By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Brian Kemp could tie New York’s Kathy Hochul for the highest-paid state governor under a proposal made Thursday. State senators agreed to amend House Bill 86 to give big pay raises to most of Georgia’s statewide elected officials, who are all Republicans. The bill would also
Continue Reading CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A former St. Louis County police officer was sentenced Thursday to five years of probation for firing a gun into the air at a trick-or-treating event and shouting that people were going to die. Matthew McCulloch, 40, pleaded guilty in January to six counts of endangering the welfare of a child,
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — King Charles III was briefly hospitalized for observation on Thursday after experiencing “temporary side effects’’ related to a scheduled cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace said in a statement. His engagements for Thursday afternoon and Friday were canceled. “His majesty has now returned to Clarence House and as a
Continue Reading By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s public schools could soon be required to teach that the keys to a successful life include following a proper sequence of events: high school, job or higher education, marriage and then children. It’s a proposal advancing inside the state’s Republican-dominant Legislature and similar to others
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By BETH HARRIS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty White is making her mark on the nation’s snail mail. The beloved actor of “The Golden Girls” fame was celebrated with a new U.S. Postal Service stamp at a first-day-of-issue ceremony at the Los Angeles Zoo on Thursday. Fans that were crowded behind barricades cheered
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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance for exemptions from requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene. The Environmental Protection Agency has
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By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who set fire to Tesla vehicles in Las Vegas and who painted the word “resist” for authorities to find at the scene has been arrested. Paul Hyon Kim, 36, faces charges in connection with the March 18 attack in both state and federal court
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a story published Mar. 27, 2025, about a vandalism case at a Tesla facility in Las Vegas, The Associated Press erroneously dropped attribution to police who announced the name of a suspect arrested in the case. Paul Hyon Kim faces charges in state court including arson and possession of an
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By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge cleared the way Thursday for Luigi Mangione to get a laptop behind bars — if his jailers agree — so he can examine documents and other material in the UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case. New York state Judge Gregory Carro wrote
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By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that he would speak with U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days after Trump announced 25% tariffs on auto imports. Carney, who hasn’t spoken with Trump since becoming Canada’s new leader nearly two weeks ago, said that the U.S.
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By JEFFREY COLLINS and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press When Nicole Taylor and her family moved to their new home in the South Carolina mountains six months ago, the gorgeous view of Table Rock Mountain was the clincher. She ended up with a porch-side seat to one of at least a half dozen wildfires in the
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By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — School officials in Maine said Thursday they will not comply with a proposed agreement from President Donald Trump’s administration that would bar transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports. The U.S. Health and Human Services said earlier this month that the Maine Department of Education, Maine
Continue Reading By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — School officials in Maine said Thursday they will not comply with a proposed agreement from President Donald Trump’s administration that would bar transgender athletes from participating in girls’ sports. The U.S. Health and Human Services said earlier this month that the Maine Department of Education, Maine
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By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was pulling Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a stunning turnaround for his Cabinet pick after her confirmation had been stalled for months over concerns about Republicans’ tight margins in the
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By CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press/Report for America ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia bill to codify the right to in vitro fertilization got overwhelming approval from the state Senate Thursday, setting it up to move to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk for his signature. The House approved it last month, and the chamber will likely approve the
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By BILL BARROW and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has once again scrambled the politics of organized labor and the working class with his planned tariffs on auto imports. The White House is eagerly promoting supportive comments from the nation’s top auto worker union leader, a previous Trump critic who
Continue Reading By BILL BARROW and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has once again scrambled the politics of organized labor and the working class with his planned tariffs on auto imports. The White House is eagerly promoting supportive comments from the nation’s top auto worker union leader, a previous Trump critic who
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MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at least the Civil War — have long been intertwined with the principle of equally and equitably educating children across racial lines. When President Donald Trump last week
Continue Reading By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s Republican attorney general is suing a county sheriff over his Facebook post saying his department doesn’t always need to detain people at the request of federal immigration authorities. The lawsuit filed late Wednesday jeopardizes state funding to the county in northeast Iowa, home to
Continue Reading By The Associated Press HELENA (AP) — Transgender people in Montana can no longer use bathrooms in public buildings that do not align with their sex assigned at birth after Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed new restrictions into law Thursday. The law, which takes effect with its approval, requires public buildings including the state Capitol,
Continue Reading By DAVID McHUGH, LORNE COOK, AAMER MADHANI and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Whatever the U.S. gains from President Donald Trump’s 25% tax on imported cars – and experts are skeptical – automakers around the world are bracing for a lot of pain. In Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Canada and across Europe,
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge says he will order government agencies to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike.
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By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Greenlandic lawmakers on Thursday agreed to form a new government, banding together to resist U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to annex the Arctic island, local media reported. Four of the five parties elected to Greenland’s parliament earlier this month have agreed to form a coalition that will
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By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press Nineteen sea turtles that were rehabilitated in Missouri after suffering the effects of cold water temperatures in New England were released Wednesday afternoon into the Atlantic Ocean off of Jacksonville, Florida. It was sunny and 72 degrees as the turtles made their way into the ocean off Little Talbot Island
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By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An old anti-apartheid song that was a call for Black people to stand up against oppression and has now been decried by Elon Musk and others as promoting the killing of whites was back in the headlines in South Africa and the subject of
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