By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An appeals court has paused lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal officers' use of tear gas during protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland. A three-judge panel at the 9th U.S. ...
By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's high court on Thursday overturned the use of automatic life sentences without parole for people convicted of second-degree murder, saying it violates the state's constitutional ban on cruel punishment ...
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press It's finally peak bloom for the airy pink cherry blossoms in Washington, a welcome sign of spring in a city of concrete and granite continuously weighed down by the necessary heft of the nation's decision-making. The thousands of blooming cherry trees that ...
By MELISSA GOLDIN The Associated Press As the Senate debates the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE America Act, misleading claims about the bill's impact on voter registration are spreading on social media, with elected officials on both sides of the aisle putting their own ...
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A May 20 execution has been scheduled for an Arizona man convicted of murder for fatally setting a man on fire during a 2002 attack, marking what would be the state's first use of the death penalty this year. The Arizona Supreme Court ...
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people's mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide. For the ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Below Cleveland, in a subterranean world many surface dwellers don't know exists, miners extract a crucial winter mineral — salt. The Whiskey Island salt mine, owned by food giant Cargill, helps supply road salt across the Northeast and Great Lakes, where a colder, ...
By LINLEY SANDERS and MICHAEL CATALINI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans believe recent U.S. military action against Iran has gone too far, and many are worried about affording gasoline, according to a new AP-NORC poll. As the war launched by the U.S. and Israel ...
By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING, MUNIR AHMED and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has received an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East, officials said Wednesday — a proposal sent even as Washington deploys paratroopers and more Marines ...
By JON GAMBRELL, LEE KEATH and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump's surprising claim this week that talks with Iran were yielding great progress has only raised more confusion over a war whose goals were already unclear. The most ...
By AAMER MADHANI, JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Trump administration offered a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran, a person briefed on the contours of the proposal said late Tuesday, even as the U.S. military prepared to ...
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is preparing to deploy at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East in the coming days, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. The unit is considered ...
By MIKE CATALINI and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press It's costing more and more to gas up the hot rods that Donnie Beson has spent a lifetime tinkering with. He's not questioning his support for President Donald Trump, but he feels as though the war in Iran has distracted the Republican ...
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is preparing to deploy at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East in the coming days, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. The unit is considered ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortion clinic doctor sentenced to life for killing three babies who had been delivered alive, died earlier this month at a Pennsylvania hospital, prison officials said Monday. Gosnell's grimy West Philadelphia clinic became known as the "house of ...
FAIRFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Although President Donald Trump is the top Democratic nemesis, some of the party's most ambitious leaders are increasingly looking past him and at Vice President JD Vance. In the latest example, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear traveled to Vance's home county in Ohio, where ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A year ago, federal environmental regulators told West Virginia officials that their plan to clear sulfur and smog from skies over the state's national wilderness areas wasn't good enough because a dozen coal plants didn't analyze whether they needed better pollution ...
By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is on track to confirm Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary, President Donald Trump's nominee to take over the embattled department after firing Kristi Noem amid a public backlash over the administration's ...
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Closing arguments are scheduled Monday in a landmark trial in New Mexico where social media conglomerate Meta is accused of misleading its users about how safe its platforms are for children. Jurors will take up the case after the ...
By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rahm Emanuel, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, is proposing a far-reaching ban on betting in prediction markets by federal employees and their families as part of an effort to call attention to what he says is a ...