PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman was convicted Monday of aggravated murder after poisoning her husband with fentanyl and self-publishing a children's book about coping with grief. Prosecutors said Kouri Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group hoping to expand support for child and elder care plans to spend $50 million to back Democrats in congressional races, tying the costs of caregiving to the nation's affordability debate. The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, created a decade ago, ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jurors in Akron began deliberating Tuesday in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged for their alleged roles in a sweeping $60 million bribery scheme that resulted in a lucrative bailout of two affiliated nuclear plants. Former CEO Chuck ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — A 7-ton meteor that sped across the Cleveland sky at 45,000 miles (72,420 kilometers) per hour on Tuesday before breaking apart in a thunderous boom startled residents who feared an explosion. People several states away reported seeing the bright fireball even though ...
By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first year in the Trump administration racked up win after win for the longtime anti-vaccine crusader's allies. Activists in the "medical freedom" movement were thrilled to see Kennedy fire all 17 ...
By SEUNG MIN KIM and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, citing his concerns about the justification for military strikes in Iran and saying he "cannot in good conscience" ...
JASPER, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia said they were responding to a shooting Tuesday at a VA clinic, and at least one person was airlifted to the hospital. Jasper police were sent to the VA clinic around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the city said in a statement on its Facebook page. The officers ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America has tentatively settled a lawsuit claiming it ignored suspicious financial transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein while he was sexually abusing hundreds of girls and women. The proposed settlement was revealed in ...
By COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is delaying a diplomatic trip to China that had been planned for months but began to unravel as he pressured Beijing and other world powers to use their military might to protect the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press READING, Mass. (AP) — Just before St. Patrick's Day, an Irish pub appeared one night beneath a basketball hoop in a suburban Massachusetts driveway. Neighbors packed around the bar as music played and Guinness flowed — inside a miniature pub that ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — A suspected meteor that fell over the Cleveland area on Tuesday shook homes and startled residents who heard a boom that some compared to an explosion. People hundreds of miles (kilometers) away reported seeing the bright fireball even though it was 9 a.m. The American ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Reenactors in 18th-century military coats and tricorn hats filled the pews of one of the nation's oldest Catholic Churches on Tuesday before firing muskets outside and marching through neighborhood streets, marking the 250th anniversary ...
By EMIILIE MEGNIEN and RIO YAMAT Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Travel disruptions continued Tuesday in the U.S. as airlines worked to recover from a powerful storm system that had already snarled flight schedules a day earlier. Carriers canceled more than 1,000 U.S. flights on Tuesday ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iran war has scrambled the Federal Reserve's outlook on inflation and unemployment and will likely further delay interest rate cuts this year, putting off any relief for consumers struggling with high borrowing costs for ...
By BILL BARROW Associated Press The U.S. counterterrorism official who resigned Tuesday had been a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump through his 2020 election defeat, the Jan. 6 riots and years of conservative media advocacy and failed congressional bids. But Trump's war in Iran ...
By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group hoping to expand support for child and elder care plans to spend $50 million to back Democrats in congressional races, tying the costs of caregiving to the nation's affordability debate. The Campaign for a Family ...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's sweeping act of clemency for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol also should apply to a man charged with planting pipe bombs near the national headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties on the ...
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are launching an unprecedented effort on Tuesday to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a bill that they know won't pass — an attempt to capture public attention on legislation requiring stricter voter ...
By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Millions more Americans will likely donate to nonprofits following changes in tax laws passed by Congress last summer, but those changes will also likely reduce the overall amount of money given to charity, according to new research. The ...
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twice on Monday, President Donald Trump said he'd wrangled a confession of sorts from an Oval Office predecessor who he said had expressed regret in a private conversation about not attacking Iran the way Trump has ...