By JANELLE D. JAMES/Bridge Michigan Bridge Michigan Michigan is once again sending millions of dollars in marijuana tax revenue back to local communities — though this year's payout is slightly smaller than last and spread across more governments. Nearly $94 million will be distributed ...

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Minnesota's governor and attorney general on Wednesday defended their efforts to combat fraud and told a U.S. House committee that their efforts have been hampered by President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in the state. Republicans on the House ...

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Artificial intelligence's dystopian specter has spawned a pair of documentaries dissecting a technology that's depicted in the films as a ravenous parasite devouring humanity's knowledge, creativity and empathy. The films, ...

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Former University of Montana President Seth Bodnar is launching an independent campaign to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines in November, after Democrats were broadly sidelined by the state's voters in recent ...

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee said Wednesday that it has opened an investigation of Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, over allegations that include having an affair with an aide. The top Republican and Democratic members on the committee said ...

By DAVID BAUDER, MEG KINNARD and ALI SWENSON Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — For President Donald Trump, some of the sharpest criticism he's faced in the early days of the Iran war has come from once-loyal media figures far more accustomed to singing his praises. Tucker ...

By HANNAH FINGERHUT, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait killed her and five other U.S. ...

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An operations center targeted by an Iranian drone strike that killed six American soldiers on Sunday was located in the heart of a civilian port in Kuwait, miles away from the main Army base, according to ...

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — State Rep. James Talarico topped Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in an expensive and fiercely contested Texas Senate Democratic primary that once again has the party dreaming of a big upset in November. Who Talarico will ...

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Republican challenger Steve Toth defeated U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Tuesday night, ousting the only House Republican in Texas who President Donald Trump didn't endorse heading into the nation's first big primary of 2026. Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL whose ...

By STEPHEN GROVES, LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate is headed towards a vote Wednesday on President Donald Trump's decision to embark on a war against Iran, an extraordinary test in Congress for a conflict that has rapidly spread ...

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. and Israel's joint war in Iran has already upended travel across the Middle East, stranding tens of thousands of people. And the future is anything but certain. Experts stress that flights scheduled in the coming ...

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Fewer U.S. women died around the time of childbirth in 2024, a government analysis shows, and provisional data suggests the trend may have continued last year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday reported that ...

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha will release on Wednesday findings from a multiyear investigation into child sexual abuse in the Diocese of Providence. According to the attorney general's office, the report will ...

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and ex-Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley each won their party's U.S. Senate nominations in North Carolina on Tuesday, setting them up for a fall campaign that could determine ...

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Prosecutors began presenting never-before-seen video depositions of Meta executives at a trial in New Mexico on Tuesday to bolster accusations that the social media conglomerate failed to disclose what it knows about harmful effects to ...

By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer Anthropic's moral stand on U.S. military use of artificial intelligence is reshaping the competition between leading AI companies but also exposing a growing awareness that maybe chatbots just aren't capable enough for acts of war. Anthropic's chatbot ...

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions flared as questions mounted at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday over the Trump administration's shifting rationale for war with Iran as lawmakers demand answers over the strategy, exit plan and costs to Americans in ...

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge clashed Tuesday with Minnesota's top federal prosecutor during an unusual contempt hearing that highlighted growing confrontations between increasingly frustrated judges and Department of Justice ...

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that "someone from within" the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the U.S.-Israel military campaign is completed — but said "most of the people we had in ...