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Updated: 32 minutes ago
|By MATTHEW DALY and BRIAN SLODYSKO
At least a dozen lawmakers have ties to organizations that received federal coronavirus aid, according to newly released government data, highlighting how Washington insiders were both author and beneficiary of one of the biggest government programs in U.S. history.
Updated: 43 minutes ago
A judge has set a July 14 date for an arraignment and bail hearing for Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend on charges she recruited girls for him to sexually abuse.
Updated: 1 hour ago
|By CASEY SMITH
The FBI said Tuesday it’s investigating the reported assault of a Black man by a group of white men at a southern Indiana lake.
Updated: 1 hour ago
|By Gray News Staff
The snake was later identified as an eastern brown snake, which is highly venomous and one of the deadliest snakes in the world.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By Gray News Staff
Texas has seen a resurgence in coronavirus cases, recently surpassing 10,000 new cases in a single day for the first time.
Updated: 5 hours ago
The injured officer "suffered some pretty serious stab wounds," according to the police chief, who credits the homeless good Samaritan with saving the man's life.
Updated: 7 hours ago
Letourneau was a former suburban Seattle teacher who became tabloid fodder when she pleaded guilty in 1997 to raping her 12-year-old student. She served a 7½-year prison term.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
For his first foreign trip as president, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador is travelling to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump, a leader who has repeatedly used Mexico as a piñata to rally his base.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By KATE BRUMBACK and BEN NADLER
Atlanta's mayor says she doesn’t agree with the Georgia governor’s order to mobilize the National Guard in her city as a surge in violence became a political talking point.
Updated: 10 hours ago
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved two products for killing the novel coronavirus on surfaces following laboratory testing.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent
An eviction moratorium is lifting. Extra unemployment benefits are ending. Parents are being called to work, but schools are struggling to reopen for fall as the COVID-19 crisis shows no signs of easing.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By GEOFF MULVIHILL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press
A national nursing union is concerned that gear has to be reused.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By Ed Payne
The chain is focusing on larger standalone cafes.
Updated: 11 hours ago
In his interview with Van Susteren, President Trump discusses the treatment and vaccine timeline for COVID-19 and if the Republican Convention can still be held in Florida.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Authorities say they have recovered the bodies of six of the eight people killed when two airplanes collided over a scenic mountain lake in Idaho.
Updated: 13 hours ago
At least eight Mississippi lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after working several weeks in a Capitol where many people stood or sat close together and did not wear masks.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By HOPE YEN
The U.S. government is launching a national campaign aimed at reducing high suicide rates, particularly among veterans.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $150 million to settle claims that it broke compliance rules in its dealings with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, New York state announced Tuesday.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press
The area inside the plutonium facility was secured and there was no risk to public health or safety, lab officials said.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
Mary Trump is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., the president's elder brother, who died in 1981. She has a doctorate in psychology.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By MATTHEW LEE
The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, although the pullout won’t take effect until next year, meaning it could be rescinded under a new administration of if circumstances change.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By COLLIN BINKLEY
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday assailed plans by some local districts to offer in-person instruction only a few days a week and said schools must be “fully operational” even amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By LOLITA C. BALDOR
The top U.S. general for the Middle East says the intelligence suggesting that Russia may have paid Taliban militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan was worrisome, but he is not convinced that any bounties resulted in U.S. military deaths.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer
Widespread and prolonged extreme heat is baking the contiguous United States and meteorologists see no relief in sight, except for a brief time in a corner of the Pacific Northwest.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By MARCELO DE SOUSA and DAVID BILLER
Bolsonaro confirmed the test results while wearing a mask and speaking to reporters in capital Brasilia on Tuesday.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By WILL WEISSERT
Joe Biden is promising to shift production of medical equipment and other key pandemic-fighting products “back to U.S. soil,” creating jobs and bolstering a domestic supply chain he says has been exposed as inadequate and vulnerable by the coronavirus outbreak.
Updated: 18 hours ago
Law enforcement is investigating a human head that was found on the side of a roadway in St. Petersburg.
Updated: 18 hours ago
The U.S. Marine Corps says a person who was surrounded by military police responding to reports of an active shooter on a California Marine Corps base has suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Updated: 19 hours ago
Police said a shooting that left three people dead, including a teenage girl, started with a court dispute over a dog.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By JEFF AMY Associated Press
Faculty and employees have increasingly been demanding that their institutions mandate masks to slow virus transmission, signing letters and petitions
Updated: 20 hours ago
The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating complaints of fuel leaks in older Chevrolet Cobalt small cars and HHR wagons.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By Staff
A woman accused of helping her boyfriend dismember and bury the body of a 20-year-old Fort Hood soldier who disappeared in April is held without bond after an initial hearing Monday.
Updated: 20 hours ago
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out with updated guidelines for youth sports safety in the age of COVID-19.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By JULIE CARR SMYTH
Governors who ordered shutdowns as their states responded to the coronavirus pandemic were among millions of beneficiaries of the loan program created to help small businesses weather COVID-19′s effect on the economy, data released Monday show.
Updated: 21 hours ago
The United States is considering a ban on Chinese social media apps, including TikTok, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer
The case needs independent verification and it’s way too soon to speculate about a possible cure, scientists cautioned.
Updated: 23 hours ago
Kanye West’s clothing brand Yeezy reportedly got between $2 million and $5 million in coronavirus aid loans from the federal government.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2020 at 6:22 AM CDT
One health expert says rapid surges in coronavirus cases have made contact tracing impossible across the southern U.S.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2020 at 5:27 AM CDT
|By BRIAN SLODYSKO and ANGELIKI KASTANIS
As much as $273 million in federal coronavirus aid was awarded to more than 100 companies that are owned or operated by major donors to President Donald Trump’s election efforts, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2020 at 4:58 AM CDT
Police are investigating the motive for the crime, but family members believe it was domestic violence.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2020 at 4:20 AM CDT
|By Matthew Brown
A spokesman for TC Energy said the company is not giving up on Keystone, but it will have to delay large portions of the 1,200-mile oil sands pipeline.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2020 at 2:43 AM CDT
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for the staff involved to be fired and for additional training for other employees. The organization also plans to file discrimination charges.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2020 at 12:45 AM CDT
|By MARTHA BELLISLE
A judge set bail at $1.2 million on Monday for the man accused of driving a Jaguar on to a closed Seattle freeway and hitting two protesters, killing one.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2020 at 12:42 AM CDT
|By John Wawrow and Stephen Whyno
The National Hockey League and NHL Players’ Association have reached a tentative agreement to return to play this season and extend their collective bargaining agreement by four years.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 11:15 PM CDT
|By Bernie Wilson
By the time MLB revealed each team’s 60-game slate, last year's World Series teams, the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, had canceled workouts because of COVID-19 testing delays.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 11:00 PM CDT
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is celebrating his 80th birthday on Tuesday.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 10:59 PM CDT
|By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and LISA MARIE PANE
Hospitals are fast approaching capacity in Florida and Texas, and the Miami area again ordered restaurants closed as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases and hospitalizations began to climb.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 9:08 PM CDT
|By Frances D'Emilio
During a career that spanned decades and earned him an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2007, Ennio Morricone produced more than 400 original scores for feature films.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 8:25 PM CDT
|By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer
Country music legend Charlie Daniels died Monday at the age of 83 at a hospital in Hermitage, Tenn., his publicist said.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 8:18 PM CDT
|By COLLIN BINKLEY
New federal guidelines say international students will be forced to leave the U.S. or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall.