CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) 鈥� Several people were injured Sunday when a boat crashed off the Memorial Causeway Bridge. The Clearwater Police Department posted on X that there were multiple injuries and the crash had been declared 鈥渁 mass casualty incident鈥� by the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department due to the number of injuries. Authorities did […]
鈥�60 Minutes鈥� correspondent Scott Pelley paid tribute Sunday to Bill Owens, the show’s executive producer who resigned last week, saying on the air that 鈥渘one of us is happy鈥� about the extra supervision that corporate leaders are imposing. Pelley made his comments at the end of the evening’s CBS News telecast, saying that in quitting, […]
EVANS, Ga. (AP) 鈥� One Georgia deputy was killed and a second was shot in the face after a motor home driver they had pulled over opened fire, law enforcement officials said Sunday. The driver of the motor home also died in the incident. James Blake Montgomery was pulled over Saturday evening on Interstate 20 […]
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) 鈥� A shooting at a small college in eastern North Carolina left one person dead and six others wounded and prompted a campus lockdown early Sunday, the university said. The shooting occurred in the center of Elizabeth City State University’s campus following Yard Fest, the final event of the historically Black […]
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) 鈥� A shooting in the popular South Carolina tourist town of Myrtle Beach left 11 people wounded, and police fatally shot one person, authorities said. Myrtle Beach officers responded to a disturbance involving multiple individuals Saturday night in which someone began firing a weapon. In a statement, the department said that […]
President Donald Trump made clear Sunday that he would not follow his predecessor’s practice of recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day in October, accusing Democrats of denigrating the explorer’s legacy as he pressed his campaign to restore what he argues are traditional American icons. Democrat Joe Biden was the first president to mark Indigenous […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� A suspect has been arrested in connection with the theft last week of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ‘s purse as she ate at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, officials said Sunday. Noem’s purse was nabbed on Easter Sunday and reportedly contained about $3,000 in cash, her keys, driver鈥檚 license, passport and Homeland […]
More than 100 immigrants suspected of being in the United States illegally were taken into custody early Sunday following a federal raid at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado, authorities said. Video posted online by the Drug Enforcement Administration showed agents announcing their presence outside the building and ordering patrons to leave with their hands […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Drag performer Bianca Castro-Arabejo, who was known as reality television star Jiggly Caliente on 鈥淩uPaul鈥檚 Drag Race,鈥� died Sunday at age 44, days after her family reported hospitalization for a serious infection. Castro-Arabejo, who became a judge on 鈥淒rag Race Philippines” in 2022, scrapped plans to appear on the upcoming season […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) 鈥� As pressure grows to get artificial colors out of the U.S. food supply, the shift may well start at Abby Tampow鈥檚 laboratory desk. On an April afternoon, the scientist hovered over tiny dishes of red dye, each a slightly different ruby hue. Her task? To match the synthetic shade used for […]
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) 鈥� Many days over the past two weeks, no one answered the phone at any of U.S. Rep. Scott Perry鈥檚 four offices. Perry’s team did not share details about the Republican congressman’s public appearances until they were over. Even supporters who live in Perry’s central Pennsylvania district could not remember the last […]
In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump exerted his power in a sweep and scale that has no easy historical comparison. His actions target the architecture of the New Deal and the Great Society, but they hardly stop there. He is also rewriting the Reagan Republican orthodoxy of free trade and strong international alliances. […]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) 鈥� Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker will headline a major Democratic fundraiser in New Hampshire on Sunday as the potential 2028 presidential contender builds his national profile and positions himself as a leading voice opposing President Donald Trump. Pritzker has given several high-profile speeches this year criticizing Trump, but the keynote address at […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling U.S. coal industry. Trump issued executive orders this month to allow mining on federal land. He has used his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power plants set for retirement to keep producing electricity to meet the […]
FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) 鈥� The winner of this year’s West Virginia Coal Festival teen beauty pageant walks among the ruins of a community abandoned 70 years ago and imagines the rusted remains of coal tipples and processing plants coming back to life. Ava Johnson knows West Virginia coal will not ever be what it once […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Elon Musk spent years building cachet as a business titan and tech visionary, brushing aside critics and skeptics to become the richest person on the planet. But as Musk gained power in Washington in recent months, his popularity has waned, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs […]
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� Before dawn on Oct. 18, 2017, FBI agents broke down the front door of Trina Martin’s Atlanta home, stormed into her bedroom and pointed guns at her and her then-boyfriend as her 7-year-old son screamed for his mom from another room. Martin, blocked from comforting her son, cowered in disbelief for what […]
State lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to use more taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuitions and homeschooling expenses even as they try to figure out how to budget in a time of economic uncertainty. A $1 billion-per-year voucher program the Texas Legislature sent to the governor last week and a longshot push […]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) 鈥� Campgrounds, boat ramps and other facilities in at least 30 locations at federal lakes and reservoirs in six states will be closed or have their hours curtailed as of mid-May as the Trump administration tries to rapidly shrink the U.S. government. Officials at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees […]
There was no president. There was no comedian. What remained at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner on Saturday night were the journalists and the First Amendment. The stripped-down festivities were a reflection of the somber tone in Washington at the beginning of President Donald Trump鈥檚 second term, in which he has battled with […]
Immigration and civil rights advocates have renewed concerns that immigrants detained at Guantanamo Bay are being held in extreme isolation, cut off from meaningful access to legal counsel or candid communication with relatives, according to a new court filing Saturday. In a lawsuit brought on behalf or two Nicaraguan immigrants held at the U.S. Navy […]
EVANS, Ga. (AP) 鈥� Two Columbia County deputies were shot during a traffic stop Saturday evening, and one of them is dead, law enforcement officials said. The Columbia County Sheriff鈥檚 Office confirmed the death around 6:30 p.m. of the deputy and said the other deputy was taken to a hospital, the WDRW television station reported. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a routine security check, officials said Saturday. 鈥淭he spouse is not a member of the Coast […]
