NEW YORK (AP) — Music manager Scooter Braun has broken his silence regarding his public beef with Taylor Swift, who has called Braun out since she discovered he owned her master recordings. Braun wrote a lengthy post on Instagram Friday, saying his family has received “numerous death threats” since Swift called on her legion of […]
Wataru "Wat" Misaka, the first player of Japanese descent to play in the league that was the predecessor to the NBA, has died. He was 95.
The University of Utah athletic department said in a news release Thursday that Misaka died Wednesday in Salt Lake City. He grew up in Ogden, Utah.
In almost any other year it would be hailed as a public health victory: The smoking rate among U.S. high schoolers took its biggest hit ever this year, federal figures show, falling to a new low.
Local officials in a handful of Virginia counties have voted to honor and defend gun rights by declaring their counties to be “Second Amendment Sanctuaries.”
Attorney General William Barr said on Thursday that he would take the Trump administration’s bid to restart federal executions after a 16-year hiatus to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Jake Burton Carpenter has died of complications stemming from a relapse of testicular cancer. Carpenter is widely known as the inventor of the snowboard. He was 65 years old.
Israel’s attorney general on Thursday formally charged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a series of corruption cases, throwing the country’s paralyzed political system into further disarray and threatening the long-time leader’s grip on power.
Utah’s oil and gas division has not carried out state-mandated oversight allowing more than 100 noncompliance cases to go unresolved and is not forcing cleanup of environmental contamination at waste disposal sites, a legislative audit found.
Britain’s Conservative Party changed the name of its press office’s Twitter account to “factcheckUK” during a televised election debate between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn this week.
In western Pennsylvania, where Fred Rogers' actual neighbors were, the ripples he left behind reveal a strong sense of faith — not merely the religious faith that shaped his ideals but a deep, nonsectarian commitment to the impressive, imperfect, always striving patch of the world where he chose to make both his program and his home.
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LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
House impeachment investigators will hear on Thursday from two key witnesses who grew alarmed by how President Donald Trump and others in his orbit were conducting foreign policy in Ukraine, capping an intense week in the historic inquiry.
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NICHOLAS RICCARDI and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press
A poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Opinion Research and USAFacts indicates that those surveyed are broadly skeptical that facts underly decisions made by the media, policymakers, political candidates, and American voters.
An attorney for Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher says Navy leaders are trying to remove Gallagher from the elite force in retaliation for President Trump's decision last week to restore his rank.
A Latino American war veteran, wrongfully detained by immigration agents in Michigan, has filed a lawsuit against the United States for his three days in custody.
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LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
Ambassador Gordon Sondland, the most anticipated witness in the impeachment inquiry, will confront questions Wednesday about his evolving accounts of the Trump administration’s dealings with Ukraine and a newly revealed summertime phone call with President Donald Trump.
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LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
Two top national security aides who listened to President Donald Trump’s July call with Ukraine’s president are preparing to testify Tuesday at House impeachment hearings as the inquiry reaches deeper into the White House.
The head of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. told angry California lawmakers Monday that the nation’s largest electric utility wasn’t fully prepared for the effects of its unprecedented outages last month even as it plans to shut off power to more than half a million people again this week to prevent wildfires.
South Dakota sparked online guffaws Monday by rolling out an anti-drug campaign featuring people saying, “Meth, I’m on it,” and the governor said the backlash proves the effort to raise awareness is working.
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MARY CLARE JALONICK, ZEKE J. MILLER and LISA MASCARO Associated Press
A transcript of closed-door testimony was released on Monday, containing a first-hand account from State Department official David Holmes recalling a telephone call between President Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland in Kyiv.
