By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday approved its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight years, one that will allow a Bill Gates-backed company to build a sodium-cooled reactor in western Wyoming. TerraPower filed ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions over the Justice Department's handling of files regarding the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking ...
By JONATHAN MATTISE and KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Elon Musk's proposed Tesla tunnel loop under the streets of Nashville was met with opposition Tuesday by the metro council, which passed a resolution to put their concerns about safety, transparency and a ...
By ERIC OLSON and TOM COYNE Associated Press Lou Holtz, the College Football Hall of Fame coach who led Notre Dame to a national championship and won 249 games over 33 seasons at six schools, has died. He was 89. Notre Dame announced on Wednesday that Holtz died in Orlando, Florida, surrounded ...
The Associated Press Hundreds of thousands of people have been stranded across the Middle East amid the U.S. and Israel's joint war against Iran. And between swaths of flight cancellations and airspace closures, many are still scrambling for next steps. In a matter of days, the conflict ...
By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Supreme Court has again ruled that voters will get to cast ballots on a congressional redistricting plan that could help Democrats in this year's midterm elections. The court said Wednesday that the April 21 ...
By JIM VERTUNO and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Wednesday declined to keep Camp Mystic closed this summer in a case about operating the all-girls youth camp where 25 girls and two counselors were killed in catastrophic floods last year. While a ...
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrapped up two days of scrutiny in Congress on Wednesday, appearing for the first time in front of lawmakers since the shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis at the hands of ...
By PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds. Judge Richard Eaton of the U.S. Court of ...
By ALI SWENSON and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration is expanding its crackdown on state Medicaid programs to New York, launching a fraud probe in the state a week after it said it was freezing nearly $260 million in Medicaid funding ...
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market rebounded Wednesday from two days of punishing swings after oil prices stopped spiking and reports gave encouraging updates on the economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.8% and made back most of its losses since the war with ...
By HANNAH FINGERHUT, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Sgt. Declan Coady had been checking in with his family from Kuwait every hour or two after the U.S. and Israel launched their military campaign against Iran, even as Iran launched ...
By DAN EGITTO/ARLnow ARLnow Even if self-driving vehicles become legally possible in Virginia, they'd have to get through several more rounds of discussion and possible regulation before they could hit the road. Sen. Saddam Salim (D-37), the chief patron of legislation in Richmond ...
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press An Arkansas man accused of killing his teenage daughter's alleged abuser won the Republican nomination for local sheriff while waiting to stand trial for murder in his rural county, where he ran on a message of seeing the failures of law enforcement. Aaron ...
By STEVE PEOPLES, THOMAS BEAUMONT and LISA MASCARO Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he soon will endorse a Republican candidate in the Texas Senate race, warning that the divisive contest "cannot, for the good of the Party, and our Country, itself, be ...
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration's top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, is working to hire a researcher and friend who wants the agency to add new warnings to antidepressants about unproven pregnancy risks, The Associated Press ...
By BILL BARROW, FERNANDA FIGUEROA and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — James Talarico did not mention Donald Trump when he greeted exuberant supporters at his primary night celebration. But the newly minted Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in Texas is now a front man ...
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged on Wednesday that some Iranian air attacks may still hit their targets even as he asserted that U.S. military superiority is quickly giving it control of the Islamic ...
By JOYCE CHU/San Jose Spotlight San Jose is clearing one of its most infamous homeless camps again, in what city officials claim will be the last time. About 100 homeless people have repopulated the creek around Story Road across from Happy Hollow Park & Zoo — an area known as " the ...
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. and Israel's joint war against Iran has already upended travel across the Middle East, stranding hundreds of thousands of people. And the future is anything but certain. Experts stress that flights scheduled in the ...