By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has launched tariff wars with almost all of America's trading partners. And his track record of on-again, off-again new levies continued Wednesday with a 90-day pause for most nations targeted by the latest ...

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is having early discussions about a grand military parade in the nation's capital this summer, something that is a long-held dream of President Donald Trump. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ...

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages. Using a piece of that ...

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself in a familiar jam, with conservative Republican holdouts stalling action on President Donald Trump's "big" bill of tax breaks and spending reductions. Those House Republicans are ...

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer Indiana health officials announced a measles outbreak Wednesday, with six cases that have no known links to the outbreaks in several other states. The U.S. has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024. Texas is reporting the ...

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After eight years of trying to persuade his fellow lawmakers in the South Carolina House to require hands-free cellphone use while driving, a little pain might have helped Rep. Bill Taylor get his bill passed Wednesday. Taylor ...

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for President Donald Trump's administration to fire thousands of probationary workers, halting a judge's order requiring them to be reinstated in a legal win for Trump's effort to ...

By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America Four people were charged Wednesday in connection with a shooting that killed three people and wounded three others in Virginia, authorities said. Three suspects have been arrested on charges of malicious wounding and felony firearm use. ...

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil prices swung wildly on Wednesday, sinking to a four-year low in anticipation of slowing economic growth due to a burgeoning trade war, before jumping 2% after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on most of his ...

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as the Trump administration's ambassador to Israel, two days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's White House visit. The 53-46 vote installs a ...

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Soil and rocks returned from the moon's mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, Chinese scientists reported Wednesday. But they cautioned more samples are needed for a clearer ...

By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — By declaring a trade war on the rest of the world, President Donald Trump has panicked global financial markets, raised the risk of a recession and broken the political and economic alliances that made much of the world stable for ...

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in New Mexico's largest city, saying that a significant increase in crime in Albuquerque warrants the help of the New Mexico National Guard. She signed ...

SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (AP) — Three people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting in northeastern Virginia on Tuesday evening, and one or more shooters was on the loose, authorities said. At about 5:30 p.m., 911 calls came in about a shooting at a town house complex in ...

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed four executive orders aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that's long been in decline. Under the orders, Trump will use his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power ...

By NADIA LATHAN Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for the U.S. Senate in a primary challenge against Republican Sen. John Cornyn, setting up what is likely to become one of the GOP's most contentious and expensive contests of ...

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than half of families who applied for Alabama's new school voucher program have children attending a private school or are home schooling, numbers that buoy school choice advocates who say the flood of applications proves the ...

By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Northern Virginia leaders urged lawmakers on Tuesday to enact emergency legislation to help stabilize their local economy as the White House cuts federal jobs, which they said has sharply impacted the dense cluster ...

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Pentagon official said Tuesday that special operations forces do not have the authority to launch drone attacks at drug cartels in Mexico, even though President Donald Trump has designated them foreign terrorist ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 20-year-old Connecticut man accused of causing a car crash that killed a Hartford police officer and seriously wounded that officer's partner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to several charges, including manslaughter. Richard Barrington, an 18-year-old high school junior ...