By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be imprisoned for 15 years for a "grave abuse of his power," after the New Jersey Democrat became the first person to be convicted of abusing a Senate committee leadership position ...

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The massive wildfires that have killed 10 people in the Los Angeles area and caused billions of dollars in property damage are the latest sign of the growing threat posed by climate change — one that President-elect Donald Trump will ...

By WILL WEISSERT and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, Americans have a dimmer view of his presidency than they did at the end of Donald Trump's first term or Barack Obama's second, a new poll finds. Around one-quarter of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump doesn't have to go to jail, pay a fine or perform community service as a result of his New York hush money conviction. A judge ended the case Friday with a sentence of an unconditional discharge, closing the case with no punishment. But unless the ...

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press Major fires across Los Angeles this week have killed at least 10 people, forced 180,000 to flee their homes, and destroyed more than 10,000 structures. Here are some of the organizations accepting support for those impacted: Children Project Camp: ...

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At the very top of Republicans' 100-day agenda with President-elect Donald Trump in the White House and GOP lawmakers in a majority is the plan to renew some $4 trillion in expiring tax cuts. On Friday, the U.S. Treasury released a ...

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The Honda Civic hybrid won the 2025 North American Car of the Year award, while the Ford Ranger took the crown for the truck honors, and Volkswagen ID. Buzz won the utility award. The honors, announced Friday morning during an Automotive ...

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer Look at their faces — formal, etched with experience, laden with the weight of momentous decisions. Add up their years: 379 to be exact, enough time to take you back into the mid-1600s, when the notion of the American nation was still more than a century ...

Associated Press The Kremlin has welcomed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's readiness to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a senior Moscow official said Friday. Russia attaches no conditions to the possibility of face-to-face talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The parent company of one of West Virginia's largest internet providers has reached a settlement with the state to resolve thousands of consumer complaints. Under the settlement announced Friday by Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, Altice USA will make $40 million ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation Wednesday that boosts the rights of parents to know when schools are changing their child's health care or preparing to present lessons involving "sexuality content," as conservatives nationally increasingly criticize public ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a long-running public records case pitting the state's top law enforcement officer against a national watchdog group that is digging into his ties with the Republican Attorneys General Association. At issue is ...

Kentucky will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation's largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic, the state's attorney general said Thursday. The state will use the money it is getting in its settlement with The Kroger Co. to combat an addiction ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two staff members at a northern West Virginia long-term care facility have been charged in the death of a patient who was left in a scalding hot bathtub a year ago, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday. Registered nurse Delilah Clyburn-Hill and certified ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia delegate-elect was ousted Wednesday while confined to his house on charges related to terroristic threats against his colleagues. Joseph de Soto, who recently became a Democrat, was elected in November to represent the southern part of Berkeley County ...

Two hundred Utah ski patrollers returned to work Thursday after voting to accept a new labor contract and end a nearly two-week strike that closed many trails and caused long lift lines at the ones that remained open during a busy time of year at the country's biggest ski resort. The Park City ...

By JACK BROOK and SARA CLINE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Women dressed as angels, hands clasped in prayer, passed through New Orleans to celebrate the first parade of Carnival season, just blocks from where 14 people were killed five days earlier by a rampaging driver. Hundreds ...

By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer's property, a renewed quest is playing out in laboratories to solve a long-running mystery: Who were they? A ...

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Vowing to stop machines from taking their jobs, 45,000 U.S. longshoremen are threatening to go on a strike that would shut down ports on the East and Gulf coasts and could damage the American economy just as President-elect Donald ...

By LINLEY SANDERS, HUMERA LODHI and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans say immigration should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2025, as the country heads toward a new Republican administration in which President-elect Donald Trump has promised ...