WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of trying to hijack plans to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary and using the nonprofit National Park Foundation to solicit money from private donors for some of the president’s pet projects, including t...

Sunday night’s Super Bowl and Bad Bunny fell short of setting records for most watched U.S. broadcast and halftime show.Seattle’s 29-13 victory over New England averaged 124.9 million viewers on NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital, and NFL+, according to Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel ra...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Nearly all of the 230 people up for Oscars across 24 categories gathered Tuesday for the Academy Award nominees luncheon, an event that functions as a celebration, group portrait session and orientation for next month’s big ceremony. Nominees including Jessie Buc...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former federal prosecutor who quit amid a dispute with the Trump administration is now representing former CNN host Don Lemon, who was one of nine people indicted for their alleged roles in disrupting a service at a Minnesota church where an Immigration and Customs Enfor...

Tuesday’s release of video surveillance footage showing an armed, masked person at Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep on the night she was abducted has raised a host of questions about why it took so long to publicly release, how it was retrieved and what it means for privacy.The process involved days...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama circuit judge on Monday denied Alabama basketball player Charles Bediako’s motion for a preliminary injunction, ending the 7-foot center’s collegiate eligibility and his season with the Crimson Tide.County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Pruet cited that Bediako...

The document includes numerous claims about ballots and elections that have been widely debunked. Witnesses’ names were redacted before the affidavit was unsealed.

Connecticut education leaders are expressing cautious optimism as the state Department of Education tries its hand at course development.The department announced the release of its first-ever “Course in a Box,” An American History of Rock and Soul, in January. It’s a one-semester elective de...

MILAN (AP) — Ilia Malinin playfully threw a couple of jabs at a TV camera while skating off the ice Tuesday night, the pressure of his first Olympics having seemingly vanished following a team gold medal and a near-perfect short program to begin the men’s competition.The American wunderkind...

PHOENIX (AP) — “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie and her siblings have posted a series of videos online since their mother, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, went missing earlier this month in a mysterious case that has gripped the nation. In the Instagram videos, Savannah, Camron and Annie Guthri...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — When Bad Bunny said “God bless America,” a common English expression for the United States, during the Super Bowl halftime show and then began naming countries across the continent, the phrase functioned as both a play on words and a statement. In Spanish, América usually...

Immigrant rights groups are seeking to toss out a Republican lawsuit that would prohibit the U.S. Census Bureau from counting people who are in the U.S. illegally during the 2030 census. The groups said the lawsuit filed late last month by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway would vi...

MIAMI (AP) — Less than three years after President Joe Biden pardoned a close ally of Nicolás Maduro, the Justice Department is once again targeting the businessman, The Associated Press has learned, an investigation that could bolster the U.S. prosecution of the deposed Venezuelan leader.Fe...

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (AP) — When thousands of New York City nurses walked off the job last month in the city’s largest strike of its kind in decades, 9-year-old Logan Coyle was a patient in the cancer unit at NewYork-Presbyterian’s children’s hospital in Manhattan. Logan was recovering from...

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to withhold some public health and transportation money from a group of Democratic-led states.Full details have not been released, including whether the states could take any steps to avoid losing the funding. The federal government cited c...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three Idaho families who are U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are suing after they and hundreds of others were detained for hours during an aggressive immigration raid at a rural horse racing track last year. The families say state and federal law enforcement...

Nevada will pay $447,000 in court-ordered fines for continued delays in providing mental health care to criminal defendants in Clark County, the latest sign of its struggles to quickly provide treatment.Defendants deemed unfit for trial are supposed to be transferred to a mental health facil...

A federal civil jury issued a verdict Monday clearing three Richmond police officers of any liability in the 2021 in-custody death of 47-year-old Ivan Gutzalenko of Concord.The jury came back with its ruling less than two hours after hearing closing arguments in the trial, which began Feb. 2...

The owners of Colony Ridge, a Houston-area developer accused of running a predatory lending scheme that deceived Latinos, agreed to a sweeping legal settlement that will require them to invest in law enforcement and infrastructure on their properties and tighten selling practices to address...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The mother of a U.S. Air Force airman shot and killed by a Florida sheriff’s deputy nearly two years ago says she doesn’t want people to forget about her son and is still seeking accountability so it doesn’t happen to someone else.Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 2...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday that he expects the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota will end in “days, not weeks and months,” based on his recent conversations with top Trump administration officials.The Democratic governor said at a news conference that he spoke Mon...

More than two dozen privacy and advocacy organizations are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to remove a network of covert license plate readers deployed across Southern California that the groups believe feed data into a controversial U.S. Border Patrol predictive domestic intelligenc...

ATLANTA (AP) — The FBI obtained a search warrant to seize hundreds of boxes of ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a criminal investigation into possible “deficiencies or defects” in the vote count in the 2020 contest lost by President Donald Trump, according...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter, changing course before a meeting of its board, which has a majority of members picked by the coal-friendly Trump administration. In ne...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump has the right to amend a permit for a new bridge between Canada and Michigan, prolonging the latest dispute between the U.S. and its northern neighbor hours after its prime minister signaled there could be a detente. The Gordie Ho...

MILAN (AP) — U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn has smoothed out copyright concerns with the artist behind one of the pieces of her free skate music, and the Olympic team gold medalist thinks she may have struck up a new friendship with him because of it.Canadian artist Seb McKinnon, who produce...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Six former players on the women’s basketball team at the University of Pittsburgh have sued coach Tory Verdi and the school over what they call abusive coaching methods and say their efforts to seek help were ignored. “These players aren’t soft. We aren’t talking about se...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s team posted and then deleted a message on social media about the Republican’s visit to a memorial paying tribute to early 20th century Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire.The issue was the post using the term “Armenian genocide,” a designation the U.S. gover...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument, angering activists who see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ+ history. The multicolored flag, one of the world’s most well known emble...

Grammy-winning singer Chappell Roan has left the talent agency led by entertainment industry executive and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics chair Casey Wasserman, who appears in recently released government files on Jeffrey Epstein.Wasserman has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Parents who owe a significant amount of child support soon could lose their ability to travel internationally as the Trump administration expands and steps up enforcement of a 30-year-old law that allows the federal government to revoke American passports until payments are...

Federal health officials said Tuesday they will reassess the safety of a chemical called BHA used in foods including potato chips, cereals, frozen meals and meat products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new request for information regarding butylated hydroxyanisole, a preserv...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man has been sentenced to four years in prison for acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government while working as a campaign adviser for a local politician.Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 65, was sentenced Monday in federal court in Los Angeles after pleading guil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Under questioning from Democrats Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child, reversing Lutnick’s previous claim that he had cut ties with the late fina...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins announced her reelection bid Tuesday, betting that she can hold onto her coveted Maine seat despite a renewed Democratic effort to oust her in a race that could determine control of the U.S. Senate. The campaign will test Collins’ politica...

TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — Hanadi Abu Zant has been unable to pay rent on her apartment in the occupied West Bank for almost a year after losing her permit to work inside Israel. When her landlord calls the police, she hides in a mosque.“My biggest fear is being kicked out of my home. Where...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Lindsey Vonn sustained a “complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly” after her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill, the skier said in a social media post late Monday.Vonn posted on Instagram about...

NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers unexpectedly paused their spending in December from November, closing out the holiday shopping season and the year on a lackluster tone.The report, issued by the Commerce Department on Tuesday, surprised economists who were looking for growth despite mounting concern...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie pleaded for the public’s help at “an hour of desperation” in the search for her missing mother as the family’s latest attempts to reach the abductors failed to yield any proof she is alive or communication with the culprits.Guthrie and...

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A single-engine plane made an emergency landing on a busy road in a Georgia, striking three vehicles and leaving two people with minor injuries, authorities said.The Hawker Beechcraft BE-36 landed Monday on Browns Bridge Road in Gainesville, about 50 miles (80 kilomet...

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world’s oldest democracy can be sustained.Cultural institutions, sporting events, even communities are polarized...

A new wave of artists is transcending traditional notions of Christian music, drawing young global audiences to faith-based rap, Afrobeats and R&B.Often boosted by social media, many of them got their start with independent labels or by uploading self-made songs to streaming platforms. Now,...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — As rising global temperatures accelerate the melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, it has sparked a boom in ships taking routes that were previously impassable because they were frozen.The increase in shipping traffic in the Arctic, which received increased attent...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ hope for their future has fallen to a new low, according to new polling.In 2025, only about 59% of Americans gave high ratings when asked to evaluate how good their life will be in about five years, the lowest annual measure since Gallup began asking this questio...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is expected this week to revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, according to a White House official. The Environmental Protection Agency will is...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The heads of the agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda will testify in Congress Tuesday and face questions over how they are prosecuting immigration enforcement inside American cities.Trump’s immigration campaign has been heavily scrutinized...

Coca-Cola saw stronger U.S. demand in the fourth quarter despite higher prices.Global unit case volumes grew 1% for the October-December period, led by the U.S., Japan and Brazil, the Atlanta beverage giant said Tuesday. Unit case volumes also rose by 1% in North America, reversing several q...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in a landmark trial in Los Angeles that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta and Google’s YouTube responsible for harms to children who use their products....

A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting most of the American West, depleting future water supplies, making it more vulnerable to wildfires and hurting winter tourism and recreation.Scientists say snow cover and snow depth are both at the lowest levels they’ve seen in decades...

MILAN (AP) — Much like the Olympic flame, there is another symbol of triumph and transcendence — far less known — that graces one host city after another: a one-of-a-kind, wooden cross. The Cross of the Athletes has arrived in Milan for the Winter Games and holds pride of place beside the ma...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a traveling salesman during a robbery is set to be executed Tuesday evening in the first lethal injection this year in Florida.Ronald Palmer Heath, 64, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison nea...

An immigration court blocked the deportation of a Turkish Tufts University graduate student who was detained by immigration officials near her Massachusetts home, her attorneys said in court documents filed Monday. Rümeysa Öztürk’s attorneys said the immigration court found on Jan. 29 that t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of Buddhist monks is set to reach Washington, D.C., on foot Tuesday, capping a trek from Texas that has captivated the country.The monks in their saffron robes have become fixtures on social media, along with their rescue dog Aloka.They walk to advocate for peace. T...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The general counsel for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday warned the attorney for an anonymous government employee not to directly share a top-secret complaint about Gabbard’s handling of classified material with members of Congress.The letter to att...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal judges have dismissed three lawsuits accusing bestselling British fantasy author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting his children’s nanny in New Zealand four years ago.Scarlett Pavlovich filed a lawsuit against Gaiman and his wife, Amanda Palmer, in Wisconsin in F...

ATLANTA (AP) — Seven months after the collapse of an alleged $140 million Ponzi scheme that touched the top ranks of Republican politics in Georgia and Alabama, some investors are impatient to get their money back.“We feel like we’re never going to see it, as old as we are,” Thomas Todd, a 7...

The morning after the Seahawks became Super Bowl champions, people spent Monday trying to figure out who had won the other widely talked about competition of the night: Dueling halftime performances between Bad Bunny and conservative darling Kid Rock. Nielsen figures won’t be released until...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked a California law from going into effect that would ban federal immigration agents from covering their faces, but they will still be required to wear clear identification showing their agency and badge number.California became the first sta...

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — Two people were convicted of forgery and other crimes Monday in an election petition scandal that spoiled the candidacies of five Republicans who were running for Michigan governor in 2022.The petitions were rife with bogus signatures and, as a result, the candida...

Expanding natural gas infrastructure is a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s agenda to lower energy costs and boost the fossil fuel industry. He has referred to Democrats opposed to such projects as “ anti-energy zealots.”But political support for gas pipelines has run into powerful loc...

David Geeslin can still remember what it felt like to start learning American Sign Language as a toddler.“My world became much clearer and more colorful,” Geeslin said through an ASL interpreter. “It wasn’t black and white anymore.”Sign language opened up opportunities for Geeslin. When he w...

Gov. Joe Lombardo’s 2025 campaign fundraising haul of $4.3 million relied heavily on so-called “bundling” arrangements, where donors are easily and legally able to skirt contribution limits by sending donations through different names.About $1.9 million of Lombardo’s fundraising total came f...

One of California’s larger public employee unions is pushing legislation to make remote work a permanent option for state workers as the clock ticks down on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s July 1 mandate for most employees to be in the office four days a week. The measure, authored by Assemblymember Ale...

BOSTON (AP) — A supervisor and three instructors with a Massachusetts State Police tactical unit were indicted in connection with the death of a recruit following a boxing match during training, the official who led an independent investigation into the case said Monday.Enrique Delgado-Garci...

Law enforcement raided the illegal cannabis operation in Shasta-Trinity National Forest months before, but rotting potatoes still sat on the growers’ makeshift kitchen worktop, waiting to be cooked. Ecologist Greta Wengert stared down the pockmarked hillside at a pile of pesticide sprayers l...

HOUSTON (AP) — The final two of nearly 30 civil lawsuits that Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson had faced from women accusing him of sexual misconduct have been dismissed, according to court records.The dismissal of these two lawsuits clears Watson of legal problems he had been fac...

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — A student was shot inside a high school in Maryland on Monday and another student was in custody, police said.One student was found with a gunshot wound in a hallway and was taken to a hospital in stable condition, the Rockville City Police Department said in a post on...

State officials are attempting to address voters’ worries about the rising cost of living, including housing and everyday items such as groceries, utilities and child care.As governors give their annual state of the state speeches, many of them are designing their messages to speak to consti...

Two inmates facing charges that include murder escaped from a Georgia jail Sunday night.Ricky Martin, 20, and Kentravious Holmes, 21, were detained at the Sumter County Jail in Americus, Georgia, approximately 139 miles (234 km) south of Atlanta. They were in custody for charges including mu...

For the third year in a row, the Department of Education has failed to provide lawmakers with clear records on how it spent almost $4 million on more than 8,000 trips in 2025. Last month, the department submitted more than 200 pages of travel records dating from January to November 2025. But...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Catherine O’Hara died from a pulmonary embolism, with cancer as the underlying cause. A Los Angeles County death certificate issued Monday lists the pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery in the lungs, as the immediate cause of the actor’s Jan....

New York (AP) — To better understand some of the significance of Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday night, start at the end. “God Bless America,” were the first and few English-language words uttered by the Spanish-language performer, who then proceeded to list co...

At a blessing to celebrate the opening of city-subsidized affordable housing, Mayor Rick Blangiardi stood behind a podium bedecked in lei to talk about the value of adding 29 new rental units to the city’s urban core. “This is exactly what we know we need to create,” he said last April in Ma...

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — The first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades opened Monday in Texas, part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite they spawn from crossing the Mexican border and wreaking havoc on the American cattle industry.U.S. Agric...

Two websites that distribute instructions for how to manufacture ghost guns are facing a new lawsuit from the state of California alleging that they provide access to illegal and untraceable firearms.The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu,...

On a recent weekday morning as Ashley Fairbanks sat in a salon chair getting her hair done, she put out a call to her 49,000 followers on BlueSky: Twelve families needed their rent paid, urgently.There was no time for fundraisers or applications for emergency rental assistance; they needed t...

Forklifts drove across the frozen campus of Pleasant River Lumber’s sawmill in Enfield on a bitter January morning with ease, preparing neatly wrapped stacks of softwood lumber for customers from Boston to Baltimore.Business was humming and has been for a while even as other forest products...