By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Manhattan's original Pennsylvania Station was demolished in 1963, it marked the undignified end to one of America's great public works, a monolithic Beaux Arts train terminal with Roman-style columns and a spacious central waiting ...
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes accelerated last month to their fastest pace since December, a sharp turnaround in demand after a lackluster start to the spring homebuying season. Existing home sales rose 3.2% in May from the previous month to a ...
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Reiner's son Nick Reiner is seeking unpaid money from a trust his parents established for him, saying he needs it to help in his defense against charges that he killed them. A petition filed by the 32-year-old Nick Reiner's ...
By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses, including the tech giant Alibaba, electric car maker BYD and search engine Baidu, to its list of Chinese military companies, preventing them from getting U.S. defense ...
By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press A Democratic group that previously focused on presidential races is wading into the midterms by targeting more than a dozen House and Senate contests, many of them on Republican turf, in a new advertising campaign that begins Tuesday. American Bridge 21st ...
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside the main cluster in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a resurgent pest that could devastate the nation's cattle industry, the U.S. Department of ...
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's use of nitrogen gas to put people to death needs more study of whether it violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, a federal appeals court decided Monday. The state first used nitrogen for capital ...
By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer ChatGPT maker OpenAI filed preliminary paperwork that would open the door to it becoming a publicly traded company, the third in a powerhouse trio of artificial intelligence companies racing to Wall Street debuts. The San Francisco-based company said ...
By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2024, voters in the Southern California city of Arcadia elected the first all-Asian city council in the city's history. Now, one of those politicians has pleaded guilty to being an illegal agent of the Chinese government. Former ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI, MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are warning the White House that a critical surveillance authority is likely to lapse this week amid bipartisan backlash over President Donald Trump's pick to temporarily lead the ...
By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A teenager who fatally stabbed a competitor at a Texas high school track meet was upset after the confrontation and said he had warned the victim "not to touch me," one of the last trial witnesses testified Monday. Karmelo ...
By COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance has added a chicken coop to his residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory, along with a dozen baby chicks whose new henhouse is designed to look like the Victorian home where the second family lives. The coop, ...
By LUCAS DUFALLA/Pittsburgh's Public Source U.S. Steel plans to invest up to $2.5 billion into upgrades to its Mon Valley Works, which it forecasts will generate $1.7 billion for the state, according to a Monday report from the steelmaking giant. The economic impact is expected to include ...
By JOHN HANNA and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press The New World screwworm fly is threatening the $113 billion U.S. cattle industry for the first time in more than half a century, as officials race to eradicate a deadly flesh-eating parasite not seen in Texas since 1966. The U.S. Department of ...
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Professional wrestling legend Hulk Hogan died of natural causes last year, according a report by Florida police that formally closes the investigation into his death. The Clearwater Police Department released a 72-page report on Friday ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, contradicting an earlier federal court ruling upholding the fee hike. The administration announced the much-higher fee as a way of preventing ...
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A lawyer who represented Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for nearly a decade over accusations of corruption and securities fraud is supporting Democrat James Talarico — and not his former client — in one of the biggest U.S. ...
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press A Texas man is accused of using a fake boarding pass to get on a United Airlines flight before he was found hiding in a restroom, forcing the plane back to the gate before it could take off at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, court documents ...
By MARTIN SILVA REY Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A worsening fuel crisis across Cuba is testing the island's famed "almendrones," the vintage American cars that serve as vital shared taxis and embody the island's ingenuity and endurance. These days, many of the iconic gas-guzzling ...
By JAIMIE DING and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal arson trial began Monday for the man accused of sparking last year's deadly Palisades Fire as the area struggles to rebuild and the aftermath reverberates through the Los Angeles mayor's race. Jonathan ...