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Updated: 16 minutes ago
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
Frustrated Senate Republicans re-upped their complaints that Democratic negotiators are taking too hard a line in talks on a sweeping coronavirus relief bill, but an afternoon negotiating session brought at least modest concessions from both sides, even as an agreement appears far off.
Updated: 24 minutes ago
|By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press
Explosives experts and video footage have suggested the blast may have been caused by ammonium nitrate been ignited by a fire at what appeared to be a nearby warehouse containing fireworks.
Updated: 33 minutes ago
Two men jumped in to help after the ATV crash, with one making tourniquets for the injured driver and the other freeing the two passengers, who were face down in the water, from their harnesses.
Updated: 1 hours ago
|By Kali O'Rourke
Authorities say the five young men helped subdue a suspected drunken driver who had a deputy in a chokehold following a multiple car collision.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press
Chad Daybell has pleaded not guilty to charges related to hiding the remains of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan. Authorities have yet to file charges related to the deaths of the children.
Updated: 6 hours ago
|By BRYAN ANDERSON and SARAH BLAKE MORGAN
Tropical Storm Isaias spawned tornadoes and dumped rain along the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday after making landfall as a hurricane in North Carolina, where it smashed boats together and caused floods and fires that displaced dozens of people.
Updated: 6 hours ago
|By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the two sides set a goal of reaching an agreement by the end of the week to permit a vote next week.
Updated: 9 hours ago
Virgin Atlantic is the latest airline to wind up in court because of the financial harm from the coronavirus outbreak.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By BASSEM MROUE
A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the port, damaging buildings and blowing out windows and doors across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Jacqueline Policastro
In a broadcast exclusive, the president says he wants to extend the $600 weekly benefit to unemployed Americans.
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Updated: 11 hours ago
|By MARCIA DUNN
The astronauts on SpaceX's first crew flight say their Dragon capsule “came alive” and sounded like a beast as it descended through the atmosphere to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
President Donald Trump says U.S. military generals have told him that they think the massive explosion that rocked Beirut on Tuesday, killing more than 70 people, was likely a bomb.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Jonathan Grass
The campaign began last week with the hope of raising a minimum of $1.5 million to sustain museum operations and to be able to reopen Space Camp in April 2021.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|“Mulan” is no longer headed for a major theatrical release. The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday that it will debut its live-action blockbuster on its subscription streaming service, Disney+, on Sept. 4.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By Amanda Alvarado
The vehicle sunk off a southern California coast July 30.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By PHIL MARCELO, CARLA K. JOHNSON and LISA MARIE PANE
Big house parties, no-mask weddings, crowded bars and restaurants — there are reasons the U.S. has racked up more than 155,000 coronavirus deaths, by far the most of any country, and is fast approaching an off-the-charts 5 million confirmed infections, easily the highest in the world.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law legislation that will devote nearly $3 billion annually to conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands. The measure was overwhelmingly approved by Congress.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer
Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
Health experts once thought 2020 might be the worst year yet for a rare paralyzing disease that has been hitting U.S. children for the past decade.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By JAMES LAPORTA
The leader of the U.S. Navy SEAL said the unit has severed ties with the National Navy SEAL Museum, a nonprofit organization that is not overseen by the Navy in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Updated: 16 hours ago
Clorox's shortage of disinfectant cleaning materials will remain difficult to find well into 2021, according to their incoming CEO.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By Travis Leder
Retailers believe the coronavirus pandemic could bring increased back-to-school business.
Updated: 16 hours ago
A judge sentenced ex-Michigan State gymnastics coach Kathie Klages to 90 days in jail plus probation for lying in a case related to Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of athletes on campus.
Updated: 17 hours ago
Graham Ivan Clark, 17, is accused of using the hijacked Twitter accounts to scam people around the world out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin.
Updated: 17 hours ago
The comments came in a wide-ranging, contentious interview with Axios that aired Monday on HBO.
Updated: 17 hours ago
The Trump Organization is selling a helicopter featured in the opening credits of “The Apprentice.”
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By JENNA FRYER
The 104th running of “The Great American Race” will be the first without spectators, who showed up at Indianapolis Motor Speedway every year, even during the Great Depression.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By MIKE SCHNEIDER
The U.S. Census Bureau is cutting its schedule for data collection for the 2020 census a month short as legislation that would have extended the national head count’s deadlines stalls in the U.S. Senate.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer
Privacy and consumer groups have called on authorities to block the deal, citing privacy and antitrust concerns.
Updated: 20 hours ago
They once laughed about the virus. Now they say it’s no joke.
Updated: 20 hours ago
After being eaten by a dark-spotted frog, this species of water beetle travels through the frog's gut and emerges on the other end.
Updated: 21 hours ago
Honda is recalling over 1.6 million minivans and SUVs in the U.S. to fix problems that include faulty backup camera displays, malfunctioning dashboard lights and sliding doors that don’t latch properly.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By NICK PERRY
Three men have been rescued from a tiny Pacific island after writing a giant SOS sign in the sand that was spotted from above, authorities say.
Updated: 22 hours ago
The Daily Mail on Monday published parts of videos from two Minneapolis police officers involved in Floyd’s arrest on May 25.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press
The money can also be used to help victims find permanent housing, get a job and receive occupational training and counseling.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 6:11 AM CDT
|By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
The Trump administration’s plan to provide every nursing home with a fast COVID-19 testing machine comes with an asterisk: The government won’t supply enough test kits to check staff and residents beyond an initial couple of rounds.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 5:27 AM CDT
|By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MICHAEL CASEY
Some 23 million people nationwide at risk of being evicted, according to The Aspen Institute, as moratoriums enacted because of the coronavirus expire and courts reopen. Around 30 state moratoriums have expired since May, according to The Eviction Lab at Princeton University.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 5:18 AM CDT
Having been in the 12-year-old’s shoes when he was younger, the Kansas man has made it his life’s mission to never give up on kids.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 4:25 AM CDT
Police apologized after a group of Black girls was detained and at least two handcuffed during a weekend investigation of a stolen car. Officers later determined they had stopped the wrong car.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 1:13 AM CDT
Deputies arrested a Florida man for allegedly shooting and killing a drive-thru worker at Burger King after a female customer complained about a long wait.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 11:29 PM CDT
|By DON BABWIN Associated Press
New statistics show that not only was July one of the deadliest months in Chicago’s history but the city is seeing more children wounded and killed by gunfire than in recent years.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 10:53 PM CDT
|By SARAH BLAKE MORGAN Associated Press
The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned oceanside home dwellers to brace for storm surge up to 5 feet and up to 8 inches of rain in spots, as Isaias moves up the coast.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 6:38 PM CDT
Nevada state lawmakers passed a bill Sunday that would add the state to a growing list of U.S. states that will mail active voters ballots ahead of the November election amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 6:17 PM CDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
Both the Trump administration negotiating team and top Capitol Hill Democrats remain far apart, and talks since Saturday — when the combatants announced modest progress — have yet to lend momentum.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 5:10 PM CDT
|By STEPHEN GROVES
South Dakota, which has seen an uptick in coronavirus infections in recent weeks, is bracing to host hundreds of thousands of bikers for the 80th edition of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 4:31 PM CDT
Seven St. Louis Cardinals players and six staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, causing Major League Baseball to postpone the team’s four-game series at Detroit.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 4:03 PM CDT
A Maryland baby is fighting to survive after pregnant woman shot to death, forcing doctors to deliver the baby early.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 3:52 PM CDT
|By JEFF AMY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press
Many schools are planning a hybrid approach, with students alternating between in-person classes and online instruction.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 3:42 PM CDT
Nearly 300 employees in the district have tested positive or have been in contact with someone infected, school officials said.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 3:30 PM CDT
|By MATTHEW DALY
The House Oversight Committee has invited the new postmaster general to appear at a hearing next month to examine operational changes to the U.S. Postal Service that are causing delays in mail deliveries.