By MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAURA UNGAR Associated Press More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign ...
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement for voting in U.S. elections hasn't been able to pass Congress and has been blocked by the courts, so allies of President Donald Trump's administration are pursuing another avenue to ...
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The union representing Broadway's musicians reached a tentative labor agreement with commercial producers on Thursday, averting a potentially crippling strike that would have silenced nearly two dozen musicals. The American ...
By JENNIFER McDERMOTT and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the United States rapidly builds massive data centers for the development of artificial intelligence, many Americans are concerned about the environmental impact. Worries about how AI will affect the ...
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown has reopened debate on what has been a central issue for both major political parties in the last 15 years: the future of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Tax credits for people who get ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Zohran Mamdani was attacked over his thin resume, Republican Curtis Sliwa strove to prove his seriousness as a candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was pressed on the sexual harassment allegations that drove him from ...
BY KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man over a drug debt was set to be executed Thursday evening in the state's latest death sentence carried out with nitrogen gas. Anthony Boyd, 54, was sentenced to death for his role in ...
By BEN FINLEY and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In less than two months, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say the U.S. military has killed at least 37 people in nine strikes against drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern ...
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press OGUNQUIT, Maine (AP) — His U.S. Senate campaign under fire, Maine Democrat Graham Platner said Wednesday that a tattoo on his chest has been covered to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol. The first-time ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has suggested he's entitled to compensation from the federal government over investigations he faced that he claims were politically motivated. Now, the Justice Department that Trump has ...
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Chase Mathis told prison guards he was being threatened by other inmates and feared for his life. But within hours of being moved to an adjacent prison, he was dead. Mathis died June 4, 2024, after being placed in general ...
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Investigators in Wyoming sought to identify two men they believe left a homemade bomb in front of the state Capitol, causing the building's evacuation after a passerby found the object and brought it inside. The bomb, at a time of ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A dark history long buried under the towering live oak trees and manicured lawns of a country club in Florida's capital city of Tallahassee is reviving painful memories of the community's segregated past and ...
By KATHLEEN FOODY and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — One of Chicago's most infamous gang leaders asked Gov. JB Pritzker for clemency Wednesday after winning a pardon from President Donald Trump earlier this spring, arguing that he had been "lost in an enduring pattern of ...
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Led by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, Democrats seized the Senate floor on Wednesday to protest President Donald Trump's presidency amid the government shutdown and push for Republicans to negotiate with them on expiring health ...
WOODS HOLE, Mass. (AP) — A family was rescued Wednesday by the Coast Guard off Cape Cod after their 30-foot pleasure boat caught fire and they were forced to swim to a small island where they sheltered in a barn for almost two days. When the mother, father and their son didn't return as ...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who says he was detained by police for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader's theme song from "Star Wars" on his phone sued the District of Columbia on Thursday, claiming the officers violated his ...
A United Airlines plane appears to have collided with a weather balloon while cruising over Utah at 36,000 feet last week, fracturing layers of its windshield and forcing an emergency landing. A California company called Windborne Systems said it started looking into the situation Sunday, not ...
Remains found buried in a wooded area behind an abandoned school are those of Kada Scott, a 23-year-old woman who had been missing for about two weeks, prosecutors in Philadelphia said Monday. Authorities said an anonymous tip led police back to the area they previously searched and they found ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Mahmoud Khalil appeared Tuesday in a federal appeals court in Philadelphia as he continues to challenge a deportation case brought by President Donald Trump's administration over his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University. The hearing before the 3rd Circuit Court of ...