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 […]
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) 鈥� Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia said Saturday that President Donald Trump’s unsettled economic policy is the biggest problem facing his state, saying the 鈥渃haos and uncertainty鈥� is hurting the ability of businesses and individuals to makes decisions for the future. Ossoff, who’s gearing up to run for reelection in 2026, […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Los Angeles police have released video from the shooting of author Jillian Lauren, the wife of a Weezer band member, during a chaotic backyard confrontation that culminated in a volley of gunfire. Lauren’s wounds were not life-threatening in the April 8 shooting in the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock, […]
A federal judge in west Texas joined other courts in temporarily blocking the deportations of Venezuelan immigrants under an 18th-century wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act. U.S. District Judge David Briones in El Paso, Texas, issued the ruling Friday while he ordered the release of a couple accused of being members of a […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) 鈥� Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have in recent days deported the breastfeeding Cuban-born mother of a 1-year-old girl, separating them indefinitely, and in another case a 2-year-old girl who is a U.S. citizen along with her Honduran-born mother, their lawyers say. Both cases raise questions about who is being deported, and […]
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) 鈥� Shedeur Sanders is still waiting for a call on the NFL draft’s final day, a shocking turn of events for a quarterback with arguably the highest profile in this class. The uncertainty surrounding the Colorado star and son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders is the dominant story […]
SAXAPAHAW, N.C. (AP) 鈥� Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy isn鈥檛 drawing stadium-size crowds like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are as he tours the country talking to voters. But in a packed concert hall in rural North Carolina, people are starting to view the Democrat as worthy of the national spotlight. […]
MIAMI (AP) 鈥� A few dozen women gathered at a posh Miami brewery on a recent evening to listen to U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart outline the Republican plans to retain their slim House majority in next year’s elections. In an hour of remarks, Diaz-Balart did not bring up immigration on his own. Diaz-Balart is one […]
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) 鈥� At least 49 people were killed by Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours, according to health officials, as Arab mediators scrambled to restart a ceasefire. An airstrike in a neighborhood in western Gaza City early Saturday morning, flattened a three-story house, killing 10 people, according to a cameraman […]
MUSCAT, Oman (AP) 鈥� Iran and the United States prepared Saturday to start in-depth negotiations in Oman over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, talks that likely will hinge on the Islamic Republic’s enrichment of uranium. Iranian state television suggested the talks could start mid-day Saturday in Muscat, the mountain-wrapped capital of this sultanate on the […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) 鈥� Pope Francis is being laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony reflecting his priorities as pope and wishes as pastor: Presidents and princes will attend his funeral in St. Peter鈥檚 Square, but prisoners and migrants will usher him into the basilica where he will be buried. As many as 200,000 people […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) 鈥� Kseniia Petrova never imagined she would face significant immigration issues, but it has been 68 days since she was detained at the Boston airport while traveling with undeclared frog embryo samples. The Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher associate was in the United States legally. But she finds herself thrust […]
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) 鈥� A new tribal national park in North Dakota’s rugged Badlands is opening a little-seen area of the dramatic landscape to hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts, part of a Native American tribe’s efforts to preserve the land and encourage recreation. The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation established Three Affiliated Tribes National Park […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥� As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining some 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city’s segregated school system and the entrenched poverty in poor communities. Sixty years on, Lucas will be back on the Boston Common on Saturday […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) 鈥� Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the suddenly strong demand for electricity to run Big Tech’s cloud computing and artificial intelligence applications has set off a full-on sprint to find new energy sources. President Donald Trump 鈥� who has pushed […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) 鈥� Authorities released more videos Friday related to their investigation of the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, including images of agents returning to the couple’s Santa Fe home days after they were found to look for more evidence. The bodies of Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were […]
