Spruced-up White House Rose Garden set for first lady speech
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Rose Garden has been spruced up in time for its moment in the campaign spotlight. First lady Melania Trump...
London’s famous Tower Bridge gets stuck in an open position
LONDON (AP) — London’s famous Tower Bridge, which crosses the River Thames in the heart of the British capital, was stuck open on Saturday, leaving...
2 bodies found, 2 missing after explosion in Texas port
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The bodies of two missing crew members of a dredging boat were found Saturday following an explosion a day earlier...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s distortion on Dems and the pledge
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is accusing the Democrats of taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance at their national convention. He’s distorting...
As more colleges stay online, students demand tuition cuts
As more universities abandon plans to reopen and decide instead to keep classes online this fall, it’s leading to conflict between students who say they...
AP EXCLUSIVE: US faces back-to-school laptop shortage
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays, of up to several months, in getting this year’s most...
Democrats see racism in GOP mispronunciations of ‘Kamala’
CHICAGO (AP) — Bantering during the final night of the Democratic National Convention, actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang repeatedly got the...
In just a week, wildfires burn 1 million acres in California
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Firefighters in California were racing to slow the spread of wildfires that burned nearly one million acres in a week and...
The bully pulpit: Trump pushes Washington, but virus resists
WASHINGTON (AP) — His face framed by the golden Oval Office curtains behind him, President Donald Trump stared straight into the camera aimed at the...
House passes bill to reverse changes blamed for mail delays
WASHINGTON (AP) — With heated debate over mail delays, the House approved legislation in a rare Saturday session that would reverse recent changes in U.S....
Man drives Jeep off 6-story roof of Los Angeles-area garage
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — A man drove his Jeep off the the sixth floor of a Los Angeles-area parking garage early Sunday and was...
‘Leaning Tower of Dallas’ endures blows from wrecking ball
DALLAS (AP) — The “Leaning Tower of Dallas,” a social media sensation born when a part of a building survived implosion, endured scores of blows...
Man leaps from ambulance, is killed on California highway
ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — A 23-year-old man jumped out of the back of a moving ambulance and was struck by a car and killed on...
Woman, 84, sinks putt across basketball court to win new car
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — All that 84-year-old Mary Ann Wakfield needed to do to win a new car was sink a putt across the entire...
‘Leaning Tower of Dallas’ endures blows from wrecking ball
DALLAS (AP) — The “Leaning Tower of Dallas,” a social media sensation born when a part of a building survived implosion, endured scores of blows...
‘Leaning Tower of Dallas’ endures blows from wrecking ball
DALLAS (AP) — The “Leaning Tower of Dallas,” a social media sensation born when a part of a building survived implosion, endured hundreds of blows...
‘Leaning Tower of Dallas’ endures blows from wrecking ball
DALLAS (AP) — The “Leaning Tower of Dallas,” a social media sensation born when a part of a building survived implosion, endured hundreds of blows...
Buttigieg lands black South Carolina lawmaker’s endorsement
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg is picking up his first endorsement among South Carolina’s black lawmakers as attention in the early...
Trial team quits Roger Stone case in dispute over sentence
WASHINGTON (AP) — The four lawyers who prosecuted Roger Stone quit the case after the Justice Department overruled them and said it would take the...
White supremacist propaganda spreading, anti-bias group says
NEW YORK (AP) — Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, according to...
Poodle perfection: Siba wins best in show at Westminster
NEW YORK (AP) — Primped and poised, Siba the standard poodle owned the ring. Even with the crowd at Madison Square Garden chanting for a...
Pope avoids question of married priests in Amazon document
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis refused Wednesday to approve the ordination of married men to address a shortage of priests in the Amazon, sidestepping...
Syria: US troops open fire on locals in northeast, killing 1
DAMASCUS (AP) — A Syrian was killed and another was wounded in a rare clash Wednesday between American troops and a group of government supporters...
2 Russians flee virus quarantine, in dismay at hospitals
MOSCOW (AP) — One patient jumped out of a hospital window to escape her quarantine and another managed to break out by disabling an electronic...
Fall in new cases raises hope in virus outbreak in China
BEIJING (AP) — The number of new cases in China dropped for a second straight day in the virus outbreak that has infected about 45,000...
NFL team’s deep Catholic ties behind role in abuse crisis
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Why would an NFL team, even one called the Saints, strike a behind-the-scenes alliance with the Roman Catholic Church on an...
Klobuchar surged in New Hampshire. Can she make it count?
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — It took a year of campaigning, countless stump speeches and an especially strong night on the debate stage for little-known Democratic...
Sanders edges Buttigieg in NH, giving Dems 2 front-runners
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire’s presidential primary, edging moderate rival Pete Buttigieg and scoring the first clear victory in the Democratic...
AP source: MLB considering expanding playoffs to 14 teams
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is considering expanding the playoffs to nearly half the 30 teams and allowing higher-seeded wild-card teams to choose...
Gunman dead, 2 officers hurt in shooting at Arkansas Walmart
FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) — Two police officers were wounded and a gunman was killed Monday morning in an exchange of gunfire at a Walmart...
Oscars viewership plunges to record low
NEW YORK (AP) — Without a host or a great deal of pizzazz, ABC’s telecast of the Academy Awards reached its smallest audience ever of...
Kobe Bryant’s widow expresses grief, anger in online post
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vanessa Bryant expressed grief and anger in an Instagram post Monday as she copes with the deaths of her husband Kobe...
‘Never happened’: Model denies trapping Weinstein accuser
NEW YORK (AP) — In the strongest defense testimony yet, a Mexican model on Monday denied a Harvey Weinstein accuser’s claim that she stood by...
US says Chinese military stole masses of Americans’ data
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four members of the Chinese military have been charged with breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and...
Trump looks to ‘shake up the Dems’ with New Hampshire rally
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Eager to put on a show of force in a general election battleground state, President Donald Trump tried to rattle Democrats...
Pentagon: 109 troops suffer brain injuries from Iran strike
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. service members diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries has shot up to more than 100, the Pentagon said Monday,...
China’s daily death toll from virus tops 100 for first time
BEIJING (AP) — China’s daily death toll from a new virus topped 100 for the first time and pushed the total past 1,000 dead, authorities...
How crucial is New Hampshire win? It depends on whom you ask
ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — In the waning hours before New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary voting begins, Democratic presidential candidates took varied approaches to the expectations game...
Woman sees missing dog on beer cans promoting shelter dogs
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — A Florida brewery that recently began placing shelter dogs’ faces on beer cans helped reunite a Minnesota woman with her dog,...
Family gets 55,000 duplicate letters from loan company
An Ohio man is pondering what to do with the 55,000 duplicate statements addressed to his home by a student loan company. Dan Cain said...
Britain’s EU Journey #2: When De Gaulle said ‘non’ twice
LONDON (AP) — Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the...
Global stocks tumble on growing concern about China virus
BEIJING (AP) — Global stock and oil prices tumbled Tuesday as concern about the impact of a Chinese disease outbreak increased and a rating agency...
China sentences ex-boss of Interpol to 13 years for bribes
BEIJING (AP) — China has sentenced the former president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, to 13 years and six months in prison on charges of accepting...
Feds allow use of opioid funds to stem meth, cocaine surge
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alarmed by a deadly new twist in the nation’s drug addiction crisis, the government will allow states to use federal money earmarked...
100s in river ‘no-man’s land’ after Mexico troops block way
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of Central American migrants were stranded in a sort of no-man’s land on the river border between Guatemala and...
Thunberg slams Davos elites on climate as Trump takes stage
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Four young climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, told the elites gathered at the World Economic Forum they are not doing enough...
As coronavirus spreads, anxiety rises in China and overseas
WUHAN, China (AP) — Face masks sold out and temperature checks at airports and train stations became the new norm as China strove Tuesday to...
Trump tells business leaders of ‘spectacular’ US economy
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to sell the United States to the global business community, telling an economic conference in the...
Buckle up: What to watch as impeachment trial takes off
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators like to float above messy politics in what’s known by some as the dignified “upper chamber,” home of Congress’ cooler heads...
Trump impeachment trial to begin with rules fight, long days
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is set to unfold at the Capitol, a contentious proceeding to render judgment on his Ukraine actions...