By MEG KINNARD Associated Press
CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Changeover among federal government agencies is normal when a new administration comes to Washington, with presidents regularly dismissing appointees selected by predecessors from opposing political parties. But President Donald Trump ...
By TARA COPP Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six transgender active duty service members and two former service members who seek re-enlistment on Tuesday filed the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order that calls for revising policy on transgender troops ...
By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the ...
By BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Duffy was confirmed Tuesday as transportation secretary, giving him a key role in helping President Donald Trump cut regulations and fix the nation's infrastructure.
The former Wisconsin congressman has promised safer Boeing ...
By JOSH FUNK Associated Press
East Palestine and Norfolk Southern have announced a $22 million settlement resolving all of the village's claims arising from the disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that prompted a national reckoning on railroad safety.
The ...
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — The Justice Department appears poised to take a very different approach to investigating voting and elections.
Conservative calls to overhaul the department by removing career employees, increasing federal voter fraud cases and ...
Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous "Doomsday Clock" to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement — which rates how close humanity is ...
By TARA COPP Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's nominee to be the military's top weapons buyer is an official who directed the Pentagon to withhold aid from Ukraine in 2019 as Trump sought a commitment from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate the Biden ...
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer
Energy company Chevron is partnering with Engine No. 1 and GE Vernova to create natural gas power plants in the United States that will be linked to data centers in order to support increased demand for electricity at these centers, particularly for ...
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A week into Donald Trump's second presidency and his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, federal officers are operating with a new sense of mission, knowing that "nobody gets a free pass anymore."
A dozen officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
By JOSH FUNK, MARK VANCLEAVE and DEE-ANN DURBIN Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023. And it appears there may be no relief in sight, given ...
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — A shooting at a grocery store in northern Indiana on Monday left three people dead, including the suspected shooter, and two police officers wounded, officials said.
Police received a 911 call at about 5:30 p.m. about a shooting at Martin's Super Market in Elkhart, the ...
HONOLULU (AP) — One of the world's most active volcanoes is back in action.
The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.
The eruption that began Dec. 23 in a crater at Kilauea's summit has paused ...
By The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Oil and gas companies would be liable for damages caused by climate change -related disasters in California under legislation introduced Monday by two Democratic lawmakers.
The proposal claims that the oil industry intentionally deceived ...
By KEVIN FREKING, WILL WEISSERT and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump regaled House Republicans on Monday with a rhetorical highlight reel from his first week in office, and he urged them to support his immigration crackdown and border security ...
By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer
A frenzy over an artificial intelligence chatbot made by Chinese tech startup DeepSeek was upending stock markets Monday and fueling debates over the economic and geopolitical competition between the U.S. and China in developing AI ...
STEPHANY MATAT and KATE PAYNE Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — In Florida, it's game on between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state's Republican lawmakers.
In a stunning rebuke to DeSantis, who was once floated as the Republican successor to President Donald Trump, Florida ...
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the ...
By The Associated Press
News from China upset U.S. markets Monday and disrupted the frenzy that had built up around artificial intelligence.
A company called DeepSeek said it had developed a large language model that can compete with U.S. AI giants but at a fraction of the cost. DeepSeek ...
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street's superstars tumbled Monday as a competitor from China threatens to upend the artificial-intelligence frenzy they've been feasting on.
The S&P 500 dropped 1.5%, dragged down in large part by a 16.9% fall for Nvidia. Other ...