CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Retired NBA great Michael Jordan took the stand at the landmark NASCAR antitrust trial and testified Friday that he has been a fan of the stock car series since he was a child but felt he had little choice but to sue to force changes in a business model he sees ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — U.S. Steel said it will resume making steel slabs at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois as demand rebounds. The company shut down the last blast furnace there in 2023, and it even moved to wind down its steel processing mill there in September. However, it ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A pretrial hearing on Luigi Mangione's bid to exclude evidence from his state murder case was postponed Friday because the defendant is sick, his lawyers and the judge said. The hearing is slated to resume Monday. Mangione is seeking to exclude a gun, notebook and other ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Argentina and Lionel Messi will start their World Cup title defense against Algeria, while the U.S. was drawn Friday to open against Paraguay as soccer's quadrennial championship returns to North America for the first time since 1994. Three-time champion Argentina also will ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As a leader of the College Democrats at Vanderbilt University, Luci Wingo knew the odds of a Democrat winning one of Nashville's three U.S. House seats weren't great. Yet her hope grew as the party mounted an aggressive campaign for its candidate, Aftyn Behn, in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration's bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools. The mental health program, which was funded by Congress ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A pup that was swept out to sea by a rip current must be feeling doggone lucky after her unlikely rescue off the San Diego coast. Sadie, a black Labrador retriever-mix, stole away from the home where her owners were staying during a football game last month, the San Diego ...

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump lit the National Christmas Tree on a chilly Thursday night in the nation's capital. At the annual tree lighting on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, President Donald Trump told the crowd, "The ...

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump's effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los ...

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Southern Command announced that it had conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, following a pause of almost three weeks. It is the 22nd strike the U.S. military has carried out ...

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn, (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tim Walz denounced President Donald Trump on Thursday for calling Minnesota's Somali community "garbage" and dismissing the state as a "hellhole." Walz said Trump slandered all Minnesotans and that his ...

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Two New York City police officers won't be charged in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man during a mental health crisis last year as his mother and brother begged the officers not to open fire, state Attorney General Letitia James' office said ...

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy admiral commanding the U.S. military strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean told lawmakers Thursday that there was no "kill them all" order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, but a stark video of the ...

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year's elections to be held under the state's congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed by President Donald Trump despite a ...

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Minutes after police approached Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald's, he told an officer he didn't want to talk, according to video and testimony at a court hearing Thursday for the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO ...

By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday temporarily paused a lower court ruling that had called for an end to the deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. "The purpose of this ...

By JEFF AMY Associated Press CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is allowed to loan $10 million to his campaign for governor, Georgia's ethics panel said Thursday. Attorney General Chris Carr, who is running against Jones, alleged it evaded campaign finance ...

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press MORRO BAY, Calif. (AP) — On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans gather on rock promontories, packed in like edgy commuters as they take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore. The water churns in whitecaps as the ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A California animal welfare activist who took four chickens from a major Perdue Farms poultry plant was sentenced to 90 days in jail after being convicted of felony conspiracy, trespassing and other charges. Zoe Rosenberg, 23, did not deny taking the animals from ...

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI on Thursday arrested a man accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack, an abrupt ...