By CARA ANNA Associated Press The United States and Israel targeted Iran in coordinated attacks over the weekend that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of other senior figures and kicked off a furious Iranian response that was expanding into a wider regional ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press Iran's leaders are scrambling to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years before he was killed in the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment. It's only the second time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that a new ...

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After a long career of fighting for civil rights, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is visiting his home for one last time to lie in state at the South Carolina Capitol on Monday. The final full honors from the state where he was born ...

By FOSTER KLUG and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press The war in the Middle East expanded on multiple fronts Monday as attacks from Iran and Iranian-backed militias struck Israel and Arab states as well as U.S. military targets in the region. The U.S. military said Kuwait "mistakenly shot ...

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two hotly contested U.S. Senate primaries in Texas will help officially kick off the 2026 midterm election cycle Tuesday, when voters in three states will pick nominees to compete in the November general election. Republicans hold a ...

By The Associated Press South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said on social media Saturday that the school is working to try and help a few former players return home from Israel where they are playing professionally. The trio of former Gamecocks — Tiffany Mitchell, Destiny Littleton and Mikiah ...

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina voters will narrow down the field of candidates Tuesday in a competitive U.S. Senate race that could decide control of the closely divided chamber in November. Also on the ballot are contested primaries for U.S. House, state ...

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Some of the United States' most important historical documents are beginning a first-of-its kind journey Monday as part of the country's 250th anniversary commemoration. Typically housed in highly controlled vaults under the watch of preservation experts at ...

By R.J. RICO Associated Press A triceratops skeleton that stood in a Wyoming museum for decades will be auctioned off, a rare instance of a museum-exhibited dinosaur going to the auction block just as the market for the prehistoric giants has hit record highs. The fossil, dubbed "Trey," ...

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Congress is about to launch a war powers debate over President Donald Trump's authority to bomb Iran under largely unusual circumstances — he has already done it, and the country is essentially already at ...

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices rose sharply when market trading began Sunday, as U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliatory strikes against Israel and U.S. military installations around the Gulf sent disruptions through the global energy supply ...

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the U.S. attacks on Iran, the military announced Sunday, marking the first American casualties in a major offensive that President Donald Trump said ...

By JACK MYER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A gunman wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and declaring "Property of Allah" killed two people and wounded 14 early Sunday at a Texas bar, a law enforcement official told The ...

By JACK DURA Associated Press MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — It's still winter in Minnesota, but for the people lined up Sunday in single-digit cold at the Moorhead Dairy Queen, spring is in the air. The annual March 1 opening of the 77-year-old walk-up ice cream shop is a tradition, no matter ...

By MARC LEVY Associated Press Hundreds of thousands of stranded travelers scrambled to make new connections and get through to airlines on jammed phone lines Sunday after the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel shut down much of the Middle East to air travel. Tourists and ...

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, his Treasury secretary and his choice to lead the Federal Reserve believe they can coax the U.S. economy into partying like it's 1999. They are putting their faith in artificial intelligence to duplicate what ...

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has taken the United States into war with Iran despite decades of self-professed aversion to foreign entanglements, particularly in the Middle East, and repeated pledges to focus primarily on the Western ...

By TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press Barely an hour after the first U.S. and Israeli missiles struck Iran, President Donald Trump made clear he hoped for regime change. "Now is the time to seize control of your destiny," he told the Iranian people in a video. "This is the moment for action. Do ...

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — To receive Medicaid health coverage, some adults will soon have to show they are working, volunteering or taking classes. But to gather that proof, many states first will have to spend millions of dollars improving their ...

By BRIAN MELLEY and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press The massive U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, triggered retaliatory strikes on multiple countries in the region and is reverberating around the world. Related violence expanded Sunday to a ...