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Updated: 51 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and JACK BROOK and SARA CLINE
The system knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, sent storm surge rushing into coastal communities and raised flooding fears.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A woman in Austria was found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19, her second pandemic-related conviction within a year.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to impaired driving Friday, resolving the criminal case stemming from his June arrest in New York’s Hamptons.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Pope Francis on Friday slammed both U.S. presidential candidates for what he called anti-life policies on abortion and migration.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The driver charged with killing NHL hockey player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew as they bicycled on a rural road had a blood-alcohol level of .087, above the .08 legal limit in New Jersey, a prosecutor said Friday.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and AAMER MADHANI
The talks come amid signs that the White House could be moving toward a shift in its policy, and as Russia’s President Vladimir Putin warned that Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons would put NATO at war with Moscow.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and DAVID KOENIG, MANUEL VALDES and LINDSEY WASSON Associated Press
Machinists at Boeing have voted to go on strike, another setback for the giant aircraft maker whose reputation and finances have been battered.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The first handful of the so-called Next Generation Delivery Vehicles rolled out in August in Athens, Georgia. Within a few years, the fleet will have grown to 60,000, most of them electric models.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump launched campaign blitzes Thursday with dramatically different approaches to attracting swing-state voters who will decide the presidential contest.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and KEVIN McGILL Associated Press
The ER nurse used a hammer to smash out the back window of the truck and haul the man out.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America
The man who shot the teen, a councilman in a town near Denver, was arrested on suspicion of charges that include first-degree assault.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JACK BROOK and SARA CLINE
Francine weakened Thursday after striking Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, sent storm surge rushing into coastal communities and raised flood fears in New Orleans and beyond.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and TIM REYNOLDS
Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa left Thursday night against Buffalo because of a concussion after colliding with Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin and hitting the back of his head against the turf.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JAIMIE DING, AMY TAXIN and EUGENE GARCIA Associated Press
People took to social media to post they were awakened by a jolt early Wednesday, including several celebrities.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The suit, which seeks at least $15 million from the entertainment trade publication, was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JESSE BEDAYN and AMY BETH HANSON
Police say a 34-year-old man was arrested after a standoff with police where he held a woman hostage in an apartment at the Arista Flats complex in Broomfield.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and COLLEEN LONG and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
The White House on Thursday is set to announce new efforts to address online harassment and abuse, and to help ease housing issues that many survivors of domestic violence face when they are trying to escape abusers.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 6:08 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The Justice Department is preparing criminal charges in connection with an Iranian hack that targeted Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 5:34 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Grammy-winning artist and rapper Cardi B announced on social media Thursday that she gave birth over the weekend.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 4:48 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crimes charges ahead of his retrial in New York.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 4:43 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Solar storms may bring faint but visible auroras to the Northern Hemisphere starting late Thursday and extending into early Friday morning.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 2:58 PM CDT
|By Susan Montoya Bryan and The Associated Press
A bag of Cheetos dropped and left on the floor caused a major environmental chain reaction at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 2:28 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Officials say two people were badly burned and two others are believed to be dead after an explosion and fire destroyed a gas station in a small north-central Idaho town Wednesday afternoon.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 2:21 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer
The Pac-12 is adding Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State, starting in 2026, to join Oregon State and Washington State in a rebuilt Conference of Champions.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 1:41 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Joe Schmidt, the Hall of Fame linebacker who helped the Detroit Lions win NFL championships, has died.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 11:54 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
France's First Lady Brigitte Macron is appearing as a surprise guest on the fourth season of the Netflix show “Emily in Paris,” parts of which were released on Thursday.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 8:54 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MARCIA DUNN
A billionaire kicked off the first private spacewalk Thursday, teaming up with SpaceX on the daring endeavor hundreds of miles above Earth.
Updated: Sep. 12, 2024 at 6:30 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
A pair of rare Amur tiger cubs are making their public debut at the Minnesota Zoo, raising hopes for preserving an endangered species that’s native to far eastern Russia and northern China.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 11:31 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The Aces’ two-time league MVP came into the game averaging 27.3 points and 11.9 rebounds.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 11:12 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Prosecutors say the suspect had recently been fired for leaving threatening notes for two female co-workers.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 10:49 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MARIA SHERMAN
Chappell Roan won the MTV Video Music Award for best new artist, and Sabrina Carpenter won for song of the year for “Espresso.”
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 9:08 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and JACK BROOK and SARA CLINE
Hurricane Francine barreled toward Louisiana on Wednesday as residents made last-minute trips to stock up on supplies and forecasters warned of potentially deadly storm surge, widespread flooding and destructive winds.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 6:19 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it hasn’t fixed persistent deficiencies.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 6:18 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and TIM REYNOLDS and ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writers
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill acknowledged Wednesday that he could have handled himself better in the initial moments of a weekend traffic stop.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 6:15 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press
Police say they found 264 unopened bottles of the boy's feeding formula in the family home.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 5:45 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and ANDREW DALTON
The Miami-Dade County judge approved the agreement on Friday, one year after the 35-year-old Jonas Brothers singer filed to divorce the 28-year-old “Game of Thrones” and “X Men” actor.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 5:25 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and JENNIFER PELTZ and KAREN MATTHEWS
With presidential candidates looking on, some 9/11 victims’ relatives appealed to them Wednesday for accountability as the U.S. marked an anniversary laced with election-season politics.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 5:18 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press
Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a vote Wednesday on a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies and programs funded for six months.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating pets, repeating during a televised debate the type of inflammatory and anti-immigrant rhetoric he has promoted throughout his campaigns.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 4:48 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The shuttered Kansas prison where the killers chronicled in Truman Capote ‘s “In Cold Blood” were executed is now a tourist attraction.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 3:40 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and BILL BARROW
By the end of Tuesday night, it was the 78-year-old Trump on the defensive after the 59-year-old Harris controlled much of the debate.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 2:37 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
More women chose to have their tubes tied after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, a new study shows.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 1:29 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Justin Timberlake is scheduled to enter a new plea Friday in his drunken driving case in New York’s Hamptons, prosecutors said. Details of the plea weren’t disclosed, but a person with knowledge of the deal said Timberlake has agreed to plead guilty to a less serious offense than the original charge of driving while intoxicated.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 12:29 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MARGERY A. BECK
The Nebraska Supreme Court is weighing whether voters get to determine if taxpayer money can be used for private school tuition.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 7:54 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Wednesday’s report from the Labor Department showed that consumer prices rose 2.5% in August from a year earlier.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 12:12 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press
The comments underscored his refusal, even four years later, to accept the reality of his defeat and to admit the extent to which his falsehoods about his election loss emboldened the mob that rushed the Capitol.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press and ZEKE MILLER, MICHELLE L. PRICE, JILL COLVIN and JOSH BOAK Associated Press
Kamala Harris pressed a forceful case against Donald Trump in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2024 at 11:25 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
In their first and perhaps only debate, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris described the state of the country in starkly different terms.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2024 at 11:16 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press
The singer referred to herself as a "childless cat lady" when she made the endorsement.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2024 at 9:58 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and SARA CLINE Associated Press
Francine, the sixth named storm of the hurricane season, is expected to crash ashore Wednesday afternoon on Louisiana's coast.