By HALLIE GOLDEN, KATHY McCORMACK and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press Four people were killed Friday in southern Michigan as powerful storms that produced at least one tornado, reduced homes to rubble, sent parts of roofs flying into the air and left a trail of debris hanging from power ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new ambassador to the United States to manage one of the Holy See's most important bilateral relationships, which has come under strain over the Trump administration's war in Iran ...
By AAMER MADHANI and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press DORAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to gather with Latin American leaders on Saturday at his Miami-area golf club as his administration looks to demonstrate it's still committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on ...
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — While the U.S. Senate remains deadlocked over President Donald Trump's call for strict citizenship voting requirements, Republicans in some states are pressing ahead with their own measures that could require documentary proof ...
By PHILIP MARCELO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Families and supporters of Americans detained in Iran say their loved ones face new dangers during the intensifying war, including the risk of becoming unintended casualties of Israeli and American bombardment or victims ...
By MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press As attacks spread after the bombing of Iran by U.S. and Israeli forces, a video circulated widely of crowds peering up at fire, smoke and debris coming from the top of a high-rise building said to be in Bahrain. Social media users claimed an Iranian ...
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East. The conflict, in which nearly every country ...
CHICAGO (AP) — A day after former presidents, sitting governors and local Chicago residents alike attended a vibrant, televised celebration for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the family and friends who knew him best will privately grieve the civil rights leader at his organization's ...
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Charles "Sonny" Burton said no one was supposed to get hurt during the 1991 AutoZone robbery that landed him on death row, and he only learned later that another man in the group of robbers had shot and killed a store customer. "I ...
By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press It's delicate for any president to watch flag-draped transfer cases return home from overseas, a solemn tradition that honors the dead and shines a spotlight on the human costs of conflict. Donald Trump's visit Saturday to Dover Air Force Base, ...
By KATHY McCORMACK and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press Three people have been killed in an apparent tornado in southern Michigan on Friday, authorities said, as powerful storms ripped across the state, tearing the roof off a home improvement store and knocking down trees. The Branch County ...
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that questions about the war in Iran were "easy" compared to efforts to better regulate college sports and rein in high salaries for football players — an extraordinary suggestion that even he ...
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer President Donald Trump predicted the destruction not just of college sports but the entire U.S. collegiate system unless the industry is fixed quickly — something some sports leaders who joined him Friday at a White House summit agreed could only happen ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland judge set bail at $2 million Friday for a woman accused of killing her two young daughters and burying them in suitcases in shallow graves. Aliyah Henderson, 28, faces two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Mila Chatman and Amor Wilson, whose bodies ...
By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer A top Pentagon official said Anthropic's dispute with the government over the use of its artificial intelligence technology in fully autonomous weapons came after a debate over how AI could be used in President Donald Trump's future Golden Dome missile ...
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, who was the first woman to serve as president of the Hawaii State Senate, has died. She was 74. Hanabusa died early Friday after a five-month battle with cancer, said Mike Formby, her friend ...
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus is closing more department stores as it focuses on its most profitable businesses and trims debt during its Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring. Saks Global Inc. said Friday ...
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oil shot to its highest price since 2023 after surging again Friday because of the Iran war, and a weak update on the U.S. job market knocked stocks lower to cap Wall Street's worst week since October. The S&P 500 dropped 1.3% after a ...
By SEUNG MIN KIM and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to two officials familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter. The ...
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a one-minute video, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, decked out in Western riding gear and a cowboy hat, rides a horse through a pine forest near Mount Rushmore. She trumpets her department's hard-line message: "You cross ...