Brooklyn rapper 6ix9ine arrested on racketeering charges
NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was deemed a likely danger to the community and denied bail Monday after a prosecutor said there was...
California gunman’s life was both unremarkable and troubled
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — At first, the outlines of the mass shooter’s 28 years appeared unremarkable. Ian David Long enlisted in the Marines out...
Backlash at Chinese university shows limits to surveillance
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese university’s plan to conduct a blanket search of student and staff electronic devices has come under fire, illustrating the limits...
Rams outlast Chiefs 54-51 in record Monday night showdown
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even before the fourth lead change of the fourth quarter, well before the 1,001st yard of combined offense was tallied, the...
Rain could hamper search for victims of California wildfire
CHICO, Calif. (AP) — It’s been 12 days since Christina Taft started the frantic search for her mother Victoria, who refused to evacuate their Paradise...
Arrest of Nissan’s Ghosn in financial probe stuns Japan
TOKYO (AP) — The arrest of Nissan Motor Co.’s chairman Carlos Ghosn amid a financial probe prompted by a whistleblower caused the automaker’s shares to...
Trump criticizes war hero for not capturing bin Laden sooner
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm of criticism and charges that he is politicizing the military by faulting a war hero...
Report: Ivanka Trump used personal email for government work
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a top White House adviser, sent hundreds of emails about government business from a personal email...
Trump pressed to levy harsh US response to Khashoggi killing
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump faces increasing pressure to take tougher measures against Saudi Arabia over the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi. Trump says...
Argument at Chicago hospital erupts into deadly shooting
CHICAGO (AP) — An argument outside a Chicago hospital turned deadly when a man pulled out a gun and killed an emergency room doctor with...
Judge bars US from enforcing Trump asylum ban
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Monday from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the southern border illegally. U.S. District...
Sanders barnstorming country ahead of midterm elections
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is embarking on a nine-state battleground tour on behalf of Democratic candidates competing in the November elections, returning to...
US student detained in Israel for alleged boycott support
JERUSALEM (AP) — In a first-of-its-kind case, Israel has held an American graduate student at its international airport for a whole week, accusing her of...
Officials: 4 men remain missing in West Texas flooding
DALLAS (AP) — Emergency crews are set to resume searching Tuesday morning for four co-workers who disappeared when their recreational vehicle was swept away by...
Hundreds attend vigil to honor 20 victims of limousine crash
AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) — A ceremony for the victims of the limousine crash that killed 20 people ended with participants lifting candles above their heads...
‘Embarrassing’: Yanks routed by Red Sox 16-1, trail ALDS 2-1
NEW YORK (AP) — Their ace got booed off the mound, loudly. Their manager let things get out of hand. And their backup catcher wound...
Pot legalization advocates seek foothold in Midwest states
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Backers of broad marijuana legalization are looking to break through a geographic barrier in November and get their first foothold in...
Hurricane Michael gains strength, takes aim at north Florida
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Michael intensified into a Category 2 over warm Gulf of Mexico waters Tuesday amid fears it would strike Florida on Wednesday...
Kanye West to visit Trump, discuss prison reform, violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rapper Kanye West has been invited to the White House. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says West is scheduled to...
APNewsBreak: Wife of ex-Interpol boss describes threats
LYON, France (AP) — The wife of the former Interpol president who disappeared in China has revealed that she had received a threatening phone call...
Turkey to search Saudi Consulate for missing journalist
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey said on Tuesday it will search the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a...
Kavanaugh to hear his 1st arguments as Supreme Court justice
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins...
Kavanaugh’s civil rights views studied ahead of confirmation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh emailed his White House colleagues in June 2003 with an alert: The U.S. Supreme Court was about to release opinions...
Dutch police shoot suspect after stabbing at train station
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Police in the Dutch capital shot and wounded a suspect Friday after he stabbed two people at Amsterdam’s busy central railway station....
At least 7 die as Greyhound bus, semitrailer collide head-on
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A blown tire on a semitrailer may be to blame for a deadly head-on crash with a commercial passenger bus along...
The Latest: Aretha Franklin honored at Buckingham Palace
DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on the funeral for soul legend Aretha Franklin (all times local): 11:15 a.m. The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin has...
El Salvador: 3 kids separated in US were abused at shelters
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Three minors from El Salvador separated from their parents after crossing the U.S. border were sexually abused in shelters...
White House faces brain drain at perilous moment
WASHINGTON (AP) — Increasingly convinced that the West Wing is wholly unprepared to handle the expected assault from Democrats if they win the House in...
The Latest: Casket arrives at Capitol for McCain memorial
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on memorial services for the late Sen. John McCain (all times local): 10:45 a.m. The hearse carrying the casket of...
His way: Washington says goodbye to John McCain
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s Washington’s turn to say goodbye to John McCain. His way. The six-term Republican senator, who lived and worked in the nation’s...
AP sources: Lawyer was told Russia had ‘Trump over a barrel’
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Justice Department lawyer says a former British spy told him at a breakfast meeting two years ago that Russian intelligence...
Democrats look to longshot territory for midterm gains
MASON, Ohio (AP) — As Aftab Pureval campaigns for Congress in southwest Ohio, he sometimes smilingly introduces himself as “a brown dude with a funny...
State probe says Latino teens strapped down but not abused
WASHINGTON (AP) — A state review into the treatment of immigrant teens held at a Virginia detention center confirmed the facility uses restraint techniques that...
Key Afghan city turned into ‘ghost town’ by deadly battles
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of people have fled four days of fierce fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban over the key provincial capital...
Trump signs bill named for Sen. McCain, doesn’t mention him
FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed a $716 billion defense policy bill named for John McCain but included no mention...
Under new law, military kids get sex assault protections
The Defense Department must improve the way it responds to child-on-child sexual assault at military bases in the U.S. and abroad as part of a...
Immigration cases tossed in fallout from high court ruling
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigration courts from Boston to Los Angeles have been experiencing fallout from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that has caused...
FBI fires Peter Strzok in wake of anti-Trump text messages
WASHINGTON (AP) — Peter Strzok, a longtime FBI agent who was removed from the Russia investigation over anti-Trump text messages, has been fired by the...
Seattle airplane theft prompts review of security measures
SEATTLE (AP) — The spectacular theft of a 76-seat plane from the Seattle airport by a ground crew employee is prompting an industrywide review of...
White man charged with fatally shooting black man in Florida
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a white man with manslaughter Monday in the death of an unarmed black man whose video-recorded shooting in...
Trump’s Harley boycott call roils Wisconsin primary
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson both came out Monday against boycotting Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson, the day...
Maryland puts Durkin on leave amid football investigation
Maryland placed head coach DJ Durkin on administrative leave Saturday while the school scrutinizes allegations of poor behavior by the football staff, apparent misdeeds that...
Turkey’s president: US waging “economic war” against Turkey
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president on Saturday blamed the country’s economic downturn on the United States and other nations that he claims are waging “war”...
Crews make progress battling Southern California wildfire
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters made significant progress trying to tamp down a wildfire that threatened homes and has been raging for days south...
Canadian police charge suspect in shooting that left 4 dead
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police charged a man Saturday for the deaths of two police officers and two civilians in a shooting that struck a...
Facing indictment, Rep. Chris Collins ends re-election bid
NEW YORK (AP) — In an about-face, U.S. Rep. Chris Collins is ending his re-election bid days after the Republican congressman from New York was...
Thousands attend Arab-led rally against Israeli bill
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Members of Israel’s Arab minority led a mass protest in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night against a contentious new...
Authorities probe how airline employee could steal plane
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Investigators are piecing together how an airline ground agent working his regular shift stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took...
Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul dies at 85
LONDON (AP) — V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose celebrated writing and brittle, provocative personality drew admiration and revulsion in equal measures, died Saturday...
Peaceful events, heavy security mark rally anniversary
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Charlottesville, Virginia, was marking the anniversary of last summer’s white supremacist violence with marches, vigils and other community events that began...