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Judge orders Trump administration to temporarily allow USAID funds...
ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press

Judge orders Trump administration to temporarily allow funds for foreign aid to flow again

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a three-week funding freeze that has shut down U.S. aid and development programs abroad.
9 hours ago
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Independent preside...
Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as Trump’s secretary after a close Senate vote

The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary.
22 hours ago
Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's choice to be the Director of National Intelligence, arrives...
David Klepper, Associated Press

Senate confirms Gabbard as Trump’s director of national intelligence after Republicans fall in line

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence after Republicans who had initially questioned her experience and judgment fell in line behind her nomination. Gabbard was an unconventional pick to oversee and coordinate the country’s 18 different intelligence agencies, given her past comments sympathetic to Russia, a meeting she held with […]
2 days ago
Jean-Michel Gisnel cries out while praying with other congregants at the First Haitian Evangelical ...
David Crary, Associated Press

Trump won’t block immigration arrests in houses of worship. Now these 27 religious groups are suing

More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans filed a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration move allowing immigration agents to make arrests at houses of worship.
3 days ago
A flag is raised during halftime of the NFL Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl 59 football game between the ...
JON GAMBRELL Associated Press

What’s happening in the Gaza Strip and Sudan that sparked a protest at the Super Bowl halftime show?

A brief protest by a performer at Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show unfurled a flag emblazoned with the words Sudan and Gaza.
3 days ago
A Mexican long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis) is seen in Nuevo León, Mexico, in July 2022....
Ty Oneil and Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press

Mexican long-nosed bats are no strangers to southeastern Arizona. The proof is in the saliva

Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but without capturing and measuring the night-flying creatures, proof has been elusive.
4 days ago
Freshly-made pennies sit in a bin at the U.S. Mint in Denver on Aug. 15, 2007....
Jill Colvin, Associated Press

Trump says he has directed US Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost

President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producion.
4 days ago
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One where Trump signed a proclamation d...
JILL COLVIN Associated Press

Trump says he is serious about Canada becoming 51st state in Super Bowl interview

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow. “Yeah it is,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier when asked whether his talk of annexing Canada is “a real thing” — as Canadian Prime […]
5 days ago
This photo provided by Bud Light shows Bud Light's 2025 Super Bowl NFL football spot.  ( Bud Light ...
Mariah Maynes

Super Bowl commercials rely on comedy and nostalgia to avoid potential missteps

Most of the commercials airing during this year's Super Bowl are going for laughs, with advertisers betting that America could use a little break.
5 days ago
Kansas City Chiefs fan Rose Loftus, 9, from Dallas, ties her hair while wearing a Taylor Swift frie...
DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer

Taylor Swift makes her Super Bowl return to watch Travis Kelce and his Chiefs face the Eagles

Taylor Swift was spotted in a Superdome suite about 90 minutes before the 2025 Super Bowl kickoff.
5 days ago
FILE - Donald Trump shakes hands with Herschel Walker in New York after agreement on a 4-year contr...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press

A presidential first: Trump at the Super Bowl, latest chapter in a complicated legacy with football

President Donald Trump is expected to view the 2025 Super Bowl in person, which is a first time attendance for any in-office president.
5 days ago
This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, shows a small commuter plane t...
Associated Press

Missing commuter plane found crashed on Alaska sea ice and all 10 aboard died, authorities say

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome was located Friday on sea ice, and all 10 people on board died, authorities said. The crash appeared to be one of the deadliest in the state in the last 25 years. Mike […]
6 days ago
Nineteen states sued President Donald Trump on Friday to stop Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing ...
ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

19 states sue to stop DOGE from accessing Americans’ personal data

Nineteen states sued President Donald Trump on Friday to stop Elon Musk’s DOGE from accessing records that contain personal data for millions of Americans.
7 days ago
Hiring sign is displayed at a health service center in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025....
Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

US employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, jobless rate slips to 4% to start the year

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, but the jobless rate slipped to 4% to start 2025 and the government revised November and December payrolls higher. The first job report of Donald Trump’s second presidency suggested that he inherited a labor market that is solid but unspectacular. Economists had expected about […]
7 days ago
FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, a woman in Sullivan City, Texas, who said she entered the cou...
Michael Kunzelman and Mike Catalini, Associated Press

Trump’s birthright citizenship order is put on hold by a second federal judge

A federal judge ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
9 days ago
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the W...
MICHELLE L. PRICE, AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press

Trump says he’s given advisers instructions for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it assassinates him

President Donald Trump says he's given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him.
9 days ago
Estee Lauder products on display...
ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer

Estee Lauder to cut up to 7,000 jobs as sales slide

Estee Lauder said it's expanding its restructuring plan to include from 5,800 to 7,000 job cuts by 2026.
9 days ago
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Associated Press

Remains of all 67 victims of plane/chopper collision near DC are recovered

The news came Tuesday as crews worked to try to recover the cockpit and other parts of the jetliner from the Potomac River.
10 days ago
Adult education center shooting, Sweden...
STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press

About 10 killed at adult education center in what officials say is Sweden’s worst mass shooting

At least 10 people, including the gunman, were killed during a shooting Tuesday at an adult education center in Sweden.
10 days ago
This image shows a chicken coop and garden at the home of Sarah Penny in Knoxville, Tenn., in May 2...
Associated Press

Soaring egg prices are piquing interest in backyard chickens

Thinking about backyard chickens as egg prices soar? Think hard, especially in light of the bird flu outbreak.
10 days ago
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters next to Air Force One after arriving back at Joint Base ...
Josh Boak and Christopher Sherman, Associated Press

Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico, but import taxes still in place for Canada and China

President Trump temporarily pauses tariffs for one month after talking with Mexico's president.
11 days ago
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MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer

Jimmy Carter wins posthumous Grammy for narrating an audiobook of his Sunday school lessons

Former President Jimmy Carter posthumously won a Grammy on Sunday for narrating an audiobook of Sunday school lessons.
11 days ago
parent tackles gunman at texas school band competition...
Mariah Maynes

Parent tackles gunman who injured 1 at Texas school band competition, officials say

A parent tackled a gunman who opened fire at a Texas school band competition. One person was injured.
11 days ago
LA wildfires...
DORANY PINEDA Associated Press

As crews clean up from LA wildfires, some residents are furious over hazardous waste

As crews work to clean up wreckage from the LA wildfires, residents and politicians are voicing opposition to the site designated to contain the waste.
12 days ago