By BEN FINLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military's 20th strike on a boat accused of transporting drugs has killed four people in the Caribbean Sea, the U.S. military said Friday, coming as the Trump administration escalates its campaign in South American waters. The ...
By MEAD GRUVER and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Getting high around a campfire in a national park, especially in Wyoming, is likelier to get you prosecuted under a new Justice Department policy cracking down on minor marijuana offenses on federal land. The ...
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, who turned America's largest retailer into a tech-powered giant and spearheaded a period of robust sales growth since becoming chief executive in 2014, plans to retire early next year, the company said ...
By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Manchester, N.H. (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker on Friday took his frustration with the deal ending the government shutdown to the home field of two fellow Democrats who helped broker the compromise. Booker leaned into his past as a college football ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Central Park's iconic horse-drawn carriages will trot on, for now. A proposal to ban the popular tourist attractions that have been fixtures in Central Park for more than 150 years failed to clear a key New York City Council committee ...
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A Washington state resident has bird flu, and it's a different type than what was seen in previous infections, state health officials said Friday. It is the nation's first human case of bird flu since February. The older adult with ...
By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration on Friday appealed a ruling from a federal judge in Oregon that barred it from deploying the National Guard to Portland. The ruling last week from U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a ...
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An immigrant who was arrested after a Milwaukee judge allegedly helped him dodge federal agents has been deported. Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 31, pleaded guilty in September to illegally reentering the United States after he reached a ...
By ALLEN G. BREED and ERIK VERDUZCO Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The latest city bracing for the Trump administration's immigration crackdown is Charlotte, North Carolina, which could see an influx of federal agents as early as this weekend, a county sheriff said ...
By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges appalling conditions at California's largest immigration detention facility, a formerly mothballed prison in the desert where sewage bubbles up from shower drains and detainees are forced to use ...
By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A wildlife photographer out on a whale watching trip in waters off Seattle captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering onto the stern of her boat. Charvet Drucker was on a ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan man long blamed for the disappearance of his three sons at Thanksgiving in 2010 has been charged with their deaths, court records show. John Skelton is facing three counts of murder and tampering with evidence in the deaths of ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jessica Sweet spent the federal government shutdown cutting back. To make ends meet, the Social Security claims specialist drank only one coffee a day, skipped meals, cut down on groceries and deferred paying some household bills. She ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos' company and NASA are counting on to get people and supplies to the moon — and it was a complete ...
By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff was arrested and indicted on federal corruption charges this week, roughly a year after she disclosed the investigation to Newsom's office and was placed on leave. Dana ...
By BEN FINLEY, REGINA GARCIA CANO and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The most advanced U.S. aircraft carrier is expected to reach the waters off Venezuela in days, a flex of American military power not seen in Latin America for generations. Experts disagree on the ...
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The head of the Georgia Ethics Commission said Thursday that his agency is still trying to prove whether or not a voter advocacy group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams illegally coordinated election work with Abrams' unsuccessful 2018 campaign ...
By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Trump administration said Thursday it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at protecting from future oil and gas leasing vast swaths of a petroleum reserve in Alaska that provide key habitat for migrating birds, caribou ...
By JONATHAN J. COOPER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Historical Association has reclaimed a series of sketches by American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell, spending a whopping $7.25 million at auction on Friday. The four 1940s-era ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Billions of dollars for Pennsylvania's public schools and social services could soon start flowing after four-plus months of delay, as lawmakers on Wednesday approved key elements of a roughly $50 billion spending plan to break the state's budget impasse. A concession ...