HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Philadelphia prosecutor who became a campaign trail punching bag for Republicans amid rising crime in U.S. cities during the coronavirus pandemic is running for reelection on the back end of a withering effort to oust progressive district attorneys ...

Harvard University is the latest in a growing list of higher education institutions that had its federal funding targeted by the government in order to comply with the Trump administration's political agenda. The series of threats — and subsequent pauses in funding — to some of the top ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A political battle fit for the gridiron is underway in Ohio, where state Republican leaders are clashing over whether to single out the Cleveland Browns for help building a new suburban domed stadium or impose tax hikes to fund stadium upgrades for the Cincinnati Bengals ...

By ANNIE MA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Several international students who have had their visas revoked in recent weeks have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly took away their permission to be in the ...

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Gen. Dan Caine has been sworn in as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after a flurry of paperwork was finished to allow him to fill the job nearly two months after President Donald Trump fired his predecessor. A formal ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The municipal clerk in Wisconsin's capital city has quit amid investigations into how she failed to count nearly 200 absentee ballots in the November elections. Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway's office announced City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl's resignation on Monday. ...

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday to close a $2.8 billion budget gap in the state's Medicaid services and ensure coverage through June for 15 million people, including immigrants, who receive health care ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — The search has been suspended for five people missing after a boat capsized during a "failed suspected smuggling venture" off of Florida's Atlantic Coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday. On Sunday, Coast Guard crews rescued four people from the ocean some 29 ...

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — For the first time in over a decade, Chicago's public school teachers have a new contract without a strike or threat of a walkout. The four-year agreement includes pay hikes, hiring more teachers and class size limits. While negotiations ...

By SARAH PARVINI AP Technology Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nvidia announced Monday that it will produce its artificial intelligence super computers in the United States for the first time. The tech giant said it has commissioned more than one million square feet of manufacturing space to ...

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro angrily called for an end to rising political violence just hours after a man broke into the governor's mansion and set it on fire, forcing Shapiro and his family to flee into the night. It was the latest in a string of ...

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Venezuelan man facing misdemeanor charges in New Hampshire was apprehended in a courthouse by federal agents who also knocked over a bystander as they tackled him. Recently released security camera footage from Nashua Circuit Court ...

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday urged Congress to "push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day" in his latest dig at the semiannual changing of clocks. Trump, in a post on his Truth Social media network, said it would be "Very ...

CONWAY, Ark. (AP) — Two people were killed and nine injured in a shooting at a city park in Arkansas Sunday night, authorities said. It happened at 5th Avenue Park in Conway, about 27 miles (43 kilometers) north of Little Rock. Conway Police said in a Facebook post Sunday night that the nine ...

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press A private plane that crashed in upstate New York over the weekend was carrying six members of a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished student-athletes on a trip to the Catskills for a birthday celebration and the Passover holiday. The ...

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate, once again, was working into the early morning hours Friday with its new majority leader, Republican John Thune, setting the pace. It wasn't until just after 2 a.m. that the last of the senators had straggled into the ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A political battle fit for the gridiron is underway in Ohio, where state Republican leaders are clashing over whether to single out the Cleveland Browns for help building a new suburban domed stadium or impose tax hikes to fund ...

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — This "yo-yo" of a year continues for America's nutritional peanut paste manufacturers, nonprofits that have found their lifesaving food packets disrupted by the U.S. State Department's sudden pause in foreign assistance. Georgia-based ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Boxing is ready for a reboot — "Boots" is more like it — in the welterweight division. Not only did Atlantic City get new life for its long storied, yet stagnant, big-fight history, Jaron Ennis cashed in as the undisputed best in the 147-pound division. Ennis ...

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and SARAH RAZA Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — With egg prices stubbornly high, the internet has offered up a host of alternatives, with crafters painting rocks and influencers dyeing everything from marshmallows to potatoes. "Finally a use for B sized ...