By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents. Arctic sea ice levels, especially in the summer, are crucial to ...

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press A judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration can convene a meeting next week to seek an exemption from the Endangered Species Act on the basis of national security for expanded oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. District of Columbia ...

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A United Airlines flight came within a few hundred feet of a military helicopter near John Wayne Airport in Southern California earlier this week, triggering an alarm directing the airline pilots to change course. The Federal Aviation Administration said ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout designed to be a friendly addition to social spaces like homes and schools. The e-commerce giant is already a robotics powerhouse, having boasted of deploying ...

By AMANDA SWINHART Associated Press STOWE, Vt. (AP) — Looking back, gubernatorial candidate Dean Roy says his political ambitions started in the eighth grade. And by that he means, last year. After working as a legislative page at the Vermont Statehouse, the 14-year-old freshman at ...

By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the United States is winning the war with Iran even as thousands of additional American troops deploy to the Middle East. He has pilloried other countries for not helping the U.S., only to say later he does ...

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has listed five objectives that the U.S. wants to achieve before ending its war with Iran. Now, one month into the conflict, he has suggested the U.S. may soon be "winding down" the operation, even though some ...

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Iranian missile attack Friday wounded at least 10 U.S. service members and damaged several planes at a military base in Saudi Arabia, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the situation. Two of the troops were seriously ...

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the war in Iran pushes U.S. gas prices toward $4 a gallon nationally, some lawmakers are pushing to suspend the federal gasoline tax in the latest attempt to try to control surging energy costs. Lawmakers say the action would provide ...

By EMILY LEAYMAN/ARLnow ARLnow Prominent voting rights advocates are applauding a new executive order returning Virginia to a multistate voter roll program and limiting when voters can be removed from the rolls before elections. An executive order signed earlier this week by Gov. Abigail ...

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Four of the current seven law enforcement officers in a rural Colorado county, including the sheriff, as well as a former deputy have been indicted in an investigation into allegations of misconduct, prosecutors said Friday. A grand jury ...

HANALEI, Hawaii (AP) — A tourist helicopter crashed on a remote beach on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, killing three people and injuring two others, authorities said. The helicopter was carrying one pilot and four passengers when it crashed Thursday afternoon at Kalalau Beach, the Kauai Fire ...

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge plans to hear arguments Friday on a demand by officials in Georgia's Fulton County that the FBI return seized ballots and other materials from the 2020 election. U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee wrote in a scheduling order ...

THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — A generational divide over the Iran war surfaced Thursday between older attendees and their political heirs at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, as the group's leaders pleaded for unity in a challenging midterm ...

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate early Friday morning approved Homeland Security funds to pay Transportation Security Administration agents and most other agencies, but not the immigration enforcement operations at the heart of the ...

By FATIMA HUSSEIN The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department plans to put President Donald Trump's signature on all new U.S. paper currency, the agency announced on Thursday. The move would be a first for a sitting president, since traditionally, U.S. paper ...

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he would sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents, while senators worked late into the night ...

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A man who fled to China after leaving an explosive device outside MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa has been indicted along with his sister in Florida on federal charges, and their mother has been detained pending deportation ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — The execution of a former Florida police officer convicted of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl was temporarily halted Thursday by the Florida Supreme Court. The court issued a stay in execution for 68-year-old James Aren Duckett, who was scheduled to receive a ...

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused in Long Island's infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings intends to plead guilty in the case next month, according to two people familiar with his decision. Rex Heuermann, a former architect charged with murdering seven ...