By THALIA BEATY Associated Press A judge barred the Trump administration on Thursday from immediately moving to shut down a small federal agency that supports investment in African countries on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon in Washington issued the order hours after the ...

By PAUL WISEMAN, ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Marc Rosenberg, founder and CEO of The Edge Desk in Deerfield, Illinois is getting ready to introduce a fancy ergonomic chair designed to reduce customers' back pain and boost their productivity. He ...

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke ...

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday voted to censure an unrepentant Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump's address to Congress. Green was joined in the well of the House by more than 20 fellow Democrats as Speaker Mike ...

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York corrections officials implored striking prison guards on Thursday to take a last-chance deal to return to work without repercussions, over the objections of their union leaders. Daniel Martuscello, commissioner of the state ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah on Wednesday became the first state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify users' ages and get parental consent for minors to download apps to their devices. The bill headed to the desk of Gov. Spencer Cox has pitted Meta, which operates Facebook and ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is spending more than $10 million to replace its electronic voter registration database with an election management system that will also provide election night results and handle campaign finance filings and lobbyist registration. Secretary of State Al ...

By DEVI SHASTRI/Associated Press and CARLOS NOGUERAS RAMOS/Texas Tribune SEMINOLE, Texas (AP) — Measles had struck this West Texas town, sickening dozens of children, but at the Community Church of Seminole, more than 350 worshippers gathered for a Sunday service. Sitting elbow-to-elbow, ...

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday night, it won't be lethal injection or electrocution that ends his life. It will be three people holding ...

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It is a ritual that takes place every winter — federal and state wildlife managers use remote cameras, scat collection, radio telemetry devices and helicopters to count Mexican gray wolves that are roaming mountain ranges ...

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — When Fargo voters approved a unique local election system in 2018, their goal was to choose candidates with broader support to lead North Dakota's largest city. It worked — maybe too well. Now the state Legislature is moving to ban ...

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are introducing a pair of resolutions demanding the Trump administration turn over documents and information about billionaire adviser Elon Musk's potential conflicts of interest ...

By JACK BROOK Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The good times and parades still rolled in New Orleans for Mardi Gras Day celebrations early Tuesday, ahead of expected severe winds, thunderstorms and tornado warnings in the afternoon. Carnival Season's final parades in Louisiana's ...

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats on Tuesday promised to "punch back" against Elon Musk in the race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, casting the election as a referendum on the billionaire adviser to President Donald Trump. The Wisconsin ...

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Uber will shift into a new gear in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday when its ride-hailing service will begin dispatching self-driving cars to pick up passengers. The autonomous option is being provided through a partnership that brings together Uber and ...

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's nominee for the top policy job at the Pentagon acknowledged during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday that Russia invaded Ukraine and poses a significant military threat to the U.S. and Europe, but only ...

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi's first Black lawmaker of the 20th century and rose to the second-highest leadership role in the state House of Representatives, died Tuesday at age 96, his son ...

Kroger Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen has resigned after an internal investigation into his personal conduct. Kroger, the nation's largest grocery chain, said Monday that the investigation into McMullen's personal conduct was unrelated to the business, but was found to be inconsistent with ...

ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — The mother of three missing Michigan boys asked a judge Monday to declare them dead nearly 15 years later, saying they deserve the respect that they didn't get at the end of their young lives. "We may not have their bodies, but their life still meant something," Tanya ...

President Donald Trump arrives this week on Capitol Hill to deliver a speech to Congress, a coequal branch of government he has bulldozed past this first month in office, wielding unimaginable executive power to get what he wants, at home and abroad. Democrats, after their stunning rejection ...