The Associated Press
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The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
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Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman acknowledged triggering a fire alarm Saturday in one of the U.S. Capitol office buildings as lawmakers scrambled to pass a bill to fund the government before the midnight shutdown deadline.
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On Friday, a massive hard-right revolt in the House caused Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s latest plan to collapse.
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The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended, the mayor confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday.
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One of New York’s wettest days in decades left the metropolitan area stunned and swamped Friday.
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A semitruck carrying anhydrous ammonia overturned near the town of Teutopolis, Illinois.
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The 39th president was celebrated Saturday at his presidential library and museum ahead of his 99th birthday on Sunday.
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NY woman who fatally shoved singing coach, age 87, is sentenced to more time in prison than expected
A New York judge sentenced a woman who pleaded guilty to fatally shoving an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach onto a Manhattan sidewalk to six months more in prison than the eight years that had been previously reached in a plea deal.
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As Nebraska’s new law restricting gender-affirming care for minors goes into effect this weekend, families with transgender children and the doctors who treat them are steeling themselves for change. But exactly what and how much change is anyone’s guess.
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The company said Saturday that it is working on an update to the iOS17 system that powers the iPhone 15 lineup.
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Latest search for remains of the Tulsa Race Massacre victims ends with seven sets of remains exhumed
None of the remains found thus far have been confirmed as victims of the massacre.
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The year also will have a heavy focus on social media and how free speech protections apply online.
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Duane Keffe D. Davis was arrested and charged with murder, with prosecutors saying he ordered and masterminded the Shakur killing.
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He's accused of stealing the tax return information and giving it to news outlets, the Justice Department said in a statement.
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The Battle of Midway took place six months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Traffic was at a standstill, with water above cars’ tires, on a stretch of the FDR Drive — a major artery along the east side of Manhattan.
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Federal prosecutors pressed their case Friday for a limited gag order on former President Donald Trump, citing what they said was a continuing pattern of incendiary and intimidating statements in the case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 60, has long been known to investigators as one of four suspects identified early in the investigation.
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McCarthy’s right-flank Republicans refused to support the bill despite its steep spending cuts.
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The union went on strike Sept. 14 when it couldn’t reach agreements on new contracts with Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis.
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A judge on Friday rejected a request by former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark to move the Georgia election subversion charges against him from state court to federal court.
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The majority of more than 420 national park units will be off-limits to the public starting Monday, Interior officials said.
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Hargreaves' vehicle came to rest in the New Jersey police department's squad room.
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On Sunday, Maryland will end the state’s statute of limitations for when civil lawsuits for child sexual abuse can be filed against institutions.
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The ripple effects would come down to how long the shutdown lasts and varying contingency plans in place at impacted agencies.
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Milley is retiring after more than four decades of military service, including multiple combat deployments and two often turbulent years as Joint Chiefs chairman under Trump.
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Three people familiar with the situation confirmed her death to The Associated Press on Friday.
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The estimated $925 million prize is the world’s ninth-largest lottery jackpot, behind earlier Powerball and Mega Millions prizes that all topped $1 billion.
The Supreme Court will decide if state laws limiting social media platforms violate the Constitution
The justices will review laws enacted by Republican-dominated legislatures and signed by Republican governors in Florida and Texas.
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Pava LaPere died from strangulation and blunt force trauma, court records show.
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First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence for adults in Michigan, but the shooter was 15 at the time.
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The Army and Navy have the largest and most well known special operations forces, including the Navy SEALs and Army’s Delta Force, Green Berets and Ranger Regiment.
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Christopher Worrell was on house arrest when he went missing last month ahead of his sentencing hearing in Washington.
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The Air Line Pilots Association said Friday that 82% of pilots who took part in the voting favored the agreement.
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Another suit to disqualify Trump under the Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause is filed in Michigan
This is the first time an organization with significant legal resources has sought to block the GOP frontrunner’s campaign in a swing state.
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Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose 0.4% from July to August, up from just 0.2% the previous month.
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A judge says she is ending conservatorship between former NFL player Michael Oher and Memphis couple.
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The bus was transporting students from grammar schools across the River Mersey from Liverpool.
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804,000 long-term borrowers are having their student loans forgiven before payments resume this fall
Here’s what to know about the cancellation.
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For faith leaders, the line to get a green card historically has been short enough to get one before their temporary work visas expired, attorneys say. That changed in March.
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The Biden administration on Friday is expected to release a playbook on best practices for training workers as the low 3.8% unemployment rate and years of underinvestment have left manufacturers, construction firms and other employers with unfilled jobs.
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Juan de Oñate has been a controversial figure in New Mexico’s history for generations, with activists targeting the statue and other likenesses of the Spaniard for his oppressive and sometimes brutal treatment of Native Americans during his country’s conquest of what is now the Southwestern United States.
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A government shutdown appeared all but inevitable as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dug in Thursday.
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The more than six-hour hearing came as House Republicans face scattered resistance to an impeachment inquiry from their own ranks and deep reluctance in the Senate from Republicans.
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A man who fled a New York City day care center where a child died and three others were hospitalized with suspected fentanyl poisoning is in custody in California — the latest person to face charges in what investigators said was a drug lab run out of a place where toddlers played and napped.
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Alan Colie, 31, was acquitted of aggravated malicious wounding in the shooting of Tanner Cook, 21, who runs the “Classified Goons” YouTube channel.
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Former President Donald Trump will not seek to get his Georgia election interference case transferred to federal court, his attorneys said in a filing Thursday, three weeks after a judge rejected a similar attempt by the former president’s White House chief of staff.
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Biden on Thursday will make his fourth in a series of presidential addresses about the state of democracy, a cause that is a key motivator and a touchstone for him.
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The man charged with first-degree murder in the death of 26-year-old Pava LaPere, was released from prison last October after earning good behavior credits to reduce the time he served for the 2013 sexual assault.
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New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour, among nation’s highest
When it takes effect on April 1, fast food workers in California will have among the highest minimum wages in the country.
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Tropical Storm Rina has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center says.
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