By JOSH BOAK, MICHELLE PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that he regretted using the term "illegal" during his State of the Union address to describe the suspected killer of Laken Riley, as his all-but-certain 2024 GOP rival, Donald ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's Republican-dominated state Legislature on Saturday concluded a 60-day session marked by budget disputes and controversial social issue bills that advanced but ultimately didn't go anywhere.
Lawmakers conferenced ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia bill that would have provided a framework for public school teachers to remove kindergarten and elementary school students from the classroom for severe misbehavior failed to pass after legislators missed a ...
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hi, "Oppenheimer."
When Hollywood gathers for the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the blockbuster biopic is widely expected to overpower all competition — including its release-date companion, "Barbie" — at an election-year Oscars that ...
By JOSH KELETY undefined
PHOENIX (AP) — A nationwide review of procedures by The Associated Press and CNHI News revealed a patchwork of complicated systems for resolving open government disputes that often put the burden of enforcing transparency laws on private citizens.
The review, ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities investigating a fire and explosions that rocked a suburban Detroit building filled with vaping industry supplies, killing one man as gas canisters soared up to 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) away, urged residents Friday not to pick up any debris because ...
By BILL BARROW and JEFF AMY Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — The 2024 presidential election campaign will pick up Saturday where the 2020 contest left off. Or, more precisely, in a place where it never actually ended.
Georgia was so close four years ago that Republican Donald Trump finds ...
By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer
Lou Gehrig's disease took away Grace Armant's ability to speak, but the 84-year-old still has plenty to say about her insurance.
UnitedHealthcare has rejected several requests from her doctors for coverage of a machine Armant needs to breathe as she deals with ...
LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — Firefighters in Hawaii were able to get control of a large fire at a biomass plant on Kauai Island that broke out on Friday.
Crews were called to the plant at about 3:30 p.m., KITV Island News reported. The firefighters had the fire under control about two hours ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Democrat Kayla Young and Republican Patricia Rucker frequently clash on abortion rights and just about everything else in West Virginia's Legislature, but they agree on one thing: Too few of their ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleven-year-old Domonic Davis was not far from his mom's Cincinnati home when a hail of gunfire sprayed out from a passing car. Nearly two dozen rounds hurtled through the night at a group of children in the blink of an eye.
Four ...
LA GRULLA, Texas (AP) — A helicopter flying over the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas crashed Friday, killing two National Guard soldiers and a Border Patrol agent, the military said. Another soldier on board was injured.
The UH-72 Lakota helicopter was assigned to the federal government's border ...
ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police in New Hampshire shot and killed a man during a foot chase after he was taken down by a police dog and pulled a weapon Friday evening, the state attorney general said.
New Hampshire State Police troopers killed Joseph Russell, 36, during the pursuit that began ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia city official arrested during a traffic stop said she started recording because she feared for her husband's life as a trooper handcuffed him on a rainy elevated highway.
The trooper then charged at her "like a linebacker," knocking the cellphone away and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is going all-in on calling out "shrinkflation."
The term applies to a seemingly covert way for companies to raise prices by ever so slightly reducing the size of their products. There's suddenly fewer pretzels in the bag, less toothpaste in the tube and ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A fractious three-way Republican primary for the chance to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this November is culminating in Ohio, where candidates are divided more over their pasts than their policy positions.
Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno, Secretary of ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia, which has the highest rate of adult cigarette use in the nation, could become the 12th state to ban smoking in vehicles with children present under a bill that won final legislative passage Thursday.
The Republican-dominated House of Delegates passed ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Bargainers for a union representing workers at 38 Kroger stores in West Virginia and two other states reached a tentative agreement with the grocery chain on a contract Thursday.
The announcement came a week after members of the United Food & Commercial Workers ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice's administration has been characterized by flat budgets and record surpluses that helped cut the state's income tax last year.
Now, the state could face collateral damage: a possible $465 million clawback of pandemic aid by ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's employers delivered another healthy month of hiring in February, adding a surprising 275,000 jobs and again showcasing the U.S. economy's resilience in the face of high interest rates.
Last month's job growth marked an ...