By ALEX ROZIER/Mississippi Today North Mississippi senators pleaded for an improved disaster response from the state Thursday as thousands of their constituents still lacked power nearly three weeks after the January winter storm. Sen. Rita Potts Parks, a Republican from Corinth, ...

By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer In one testimonial after another, teachers detailed all the ways President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has shaped their work and the lives of their students. In a court filing Thursday, educators around the country described rumors of ...

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new crew rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday to replace the astronauts who returned to Earth early in NASA's first medical evacuation. SpaceX launched the replacements as soon as possible at NASA's ...

By The Associated Press The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein case is spreading around the world. Politicians, diplomats, business leaders and royals have seen reputations tarnished, investigations launched and jobs lost after a trove of more than 3 million pages of Epstein-related ...

CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — For Don Furko, Aug. 11, 2025, was a normal shift. Until it became the shift he would never forget. At 10:47 a.m., U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works outside Pittsburgh — a sprawling riverside industrial facility and the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere — ...

By JULIET LINDERMAN and CLAIRE GALOFARO undefined The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family. The decision likely ends a bitter, ...

By MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the abolitionist, writer and presidential adviser Frederick Douglass in a bipartisan move brokered by Black lawmakers. The renaming of the press gallery, ...

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Colorectal cancer is a threat not just to older adults but increasingly to young men and women, too. It's now the top cancer killer of Americans younger than 50. The deaths of "Dawson's Creek" actor James Van Der Beek at 48 this ...

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced an end Thursday to credits to automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles, a device intended to reduce emissions that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said ...

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that he did not think it was appropriate for the Justice Department to be tracking the search histories of lawmakers who are reviewing files from the Jeffrey ...

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Thursday to block the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for participating in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders. U.S. District ...

By MIKE STOBBE and ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services one year ago, he has defended his upending of federal health policy by saying the changes will restore trust in America's ...

By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car. Every Christmas, they're called to mind by the holiday lyric "chestnuts ...

By AMANDA EGGERT/Montana Free Press Montana Free Press While Montana might not be viewed as an artificial intelligence hotbed, it is considered among the top states in the country with potential to "power the AI revolution." An analysis CNBC published last July based on grid reliability ...

By ROCIO HERNANDEZ/The Nevada Independent The Nevada Independent A women's rights group is trying to keep a Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo-led proposed ballot initiative, which would limit transgender female student athletes to school sports based on their sex at birth, off the 2026 ...

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The city of Seattle has reached a $29 million settlement with the family of a 23-year-old graduate student from India who was struck by a speeding police officer as she crossed a street in 2023. Jaahnavi Kandula was hit by Officer Kevin ...

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A man who admitted to killing two men in a drive-by shooting in 2006 was put to death Thursday in Oklahoma's first execution of the year. Kendrick Simpson, 45, was pronounced dead at 10:19 CST following a three-drug injection at the ...

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation's highest security federal prison, warning that officials cannot employ a "sham" process for ...

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining within the historically healthy range of the past few years. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Feb. 7 fell by 5,000 to 227,000 from the ...

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press Prosecutors in Utah have filed a first-degree felony rape charge against Brigham Young University standout wide receiver Parker Kingston, officials said Wednesday. Kingston, 21, is being held without bail in St. George, a city near Arizona, Washington ...