By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press President Donald Trump delivered what sounded like one of his typical meandering, grievance-laden campaign speeches on Friday, but it was where he did it — inside the U.S. Department of Justice — that mattered. The appearance marked Trump's ...

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a Republican-led spending bill Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into law. The ...

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts launched to the International Space Station on Friday night, paving the way for the pair's return after nine long months. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams need SpaceX to get ...

By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz stood before hundreds of Iowans on Friday and admitted he doesn't have all the answers about issues facing the country. "If I did, we wouldn't be in this goddamn mess," Walz said. Walz is back on the ...

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A video released Friday shows the moment federal immigration agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student whose detention alarmed free-speech advocates. The clip begins with at least ...

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday against immigration and civil rights advocates attempting to help migrants who had been sent to the Guantanamo Bay military base — and trying to prevent further transfers — days after the Trump ...

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pledged to "expose" his enemies during a norm-breaking political speech Friday at the Justice Department in which he aired a litany of grievances about the criminal cases he ...

By HALELUYA HADERO The Associated Press Vice President JD Vance said Friday that he was hopeful a deal to keep TikTok operating in the U.S. will be wrapped up by the early April deadline. "There will almost certainly be a high-level agreement that I think satisfies our national security ...

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump's campaign to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs that his officials say exclude white and Asian American ...

SUFFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — A pilot was killed when a helicopter struck a power line early Friday and crashed into a reservoir in northeastern Ohio. The crash in Suffield Township was reported shortly after 7 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said. The pilot, Anthony Jones, 52, of ...

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sean 'Diddy' Combs returned to federal court in New York City on Friday, pleading not guilty to the latest version of an indictment charging him with two decades of sex trafficking crimes. The 55-year-old Combs, his beard noticeably ...

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan judge has thrown cold water on a plan to have Walmart shoplifters wash cars as a consequence for their misdemeanor crime. The unusual sentence came from Judge Jeffrey Clothier, who has been on the 67th District Court in Genesee ...

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders sounded an alarm Friday, saying rollbacks proposed by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency's dual mission to protect the ...

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed "illegal aliens" on its campus, one of its top officials said Friday, as the Trump administration intensified its campaign to deport ...

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied to their best day in months on Friday as Wall Street's roller coaster suddenly shot back upward. That still wasn't enough to keep the U.S. market from a fourth straight losing week, its longest such streak since ...

By TRÂN NGUYỄN The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's top insurance regulator on Friday said he would approve an emergency request by State Farm to raise premiums 22% on home insurance for about a million customers if the insurance giant could justify the hike at ...

By LEA SKENE and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge is considering whether to temporarily block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Social Security Administration systems that hold sensitive data on millions of Americans. A ...

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in the state since the death penalty resumed last fall following a 13-year pause. Mikal Mahdi's execution ...

By AMANDA SEITZ and TOM MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz promised senators on Friday to fight health care fraud and push to make Americans healthier if he becomes the next leader of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. But the former heart surgeon and ...

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Friday passed a bill that would result in more prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers as both Republicans and Democrats seek to show they can act to rein in distribution of the deadly drug. The bill passed the Senate ...