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Updated: 36 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and JOHN LEICESTER
Wet weather could make the ceremony a more fatiguing experience for the thousands of Olympians parading on boats on the River Seine and the hundreds of thousands of spectators on its banks and bridges.
Updated: 46 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and BILL BARROW Associated Press
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid.
Updated: 57 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and THOMAS ADAMSON and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER
Government officials denounced the incidents hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
Updated: 1 hour ago
|By The Associated Press and JOHN ANTCZAK and HOLLY RAMER
A burning car pushed into a gully sparked California’s largest wildfire of the year, authorities said Thursday as they announced the arrest of a suspect. Meanwhile other blazes scorched the Pacific Northwest.
Updated: 2 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ELLEN KNICKMEYER
Trump broke off with Netanyahu in early 2021. That was after the Israeli prime minister became one of the first world leaders to congratulate Biden for his presidential election victory.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas on Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Updated: 6 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
China and Russia confirmed Thursday that they had conducted a joint air patrol over the Bering Sea, which divides Russia and Alaska.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The preliminary investigation indicates that speed was a factor in the crash, the highway patrol said.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
An 11-year-Virginia boy is charged in Florida with calling in more than 20 bomb or shooting threats to schools and other places.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Former film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been transferred from a New York City jail to a hospital to undergo treatment for a variety of health problems including COVID-19 and pneumonia in both lungs, his representatives said Thursday.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and AAMER MADHANI
Netanyahu’s White House visit, his first since before President Donald Trump left office in 2020, comes at a time of growing pressure on all three to find an endgame to the nine-month war that’s left more than 39,000 dead in Gaza.
Uvalde school police officer pleads not guilty to charges stemming from actions during 2022 shooting
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Adrian Gonzales was one of the nearly 400 law enforcement personnel who responded to the scene but then waited more than 70 minutes to confront the shooter inside the school.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JUAN A. LOZANO and JAMIE STENGLE
Most Houston residents had their electricity restored last week after days of widespread outages during sweltering summer temperatures.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and KATHY McCORMACK
Alexandra Eckersley, daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley, is accused of abandoning her baby after giving birth in the woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
While Southwest has used an open seating model for 50 years, the company said that it understands that preferences have changed.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MARCIA DUNN
Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to visit the orbiting lab for about a week and return in mid-June, but thruster failures and helium leaks on Boeing’s new Starliner capsule prompted NASA and Boeing to keep them up longer.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The previous record was set in 1997 when 15 California condor chicks hatched at the zoo.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
A federal judge in California is threatening to sanction Hunter Biden’s lawyers, saying they made “false statements” in a court filing asking the judge to throw out the tax case against President Joe Biden’s son.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JOSH BOAK
Vice President Kamala Harris is propelling her presidential push by speaking Thursday to the American Federation of Teachers, the first labor union to formally endorse her candidacy.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Newsom’s order would direct state agencies on how to remove the thousands of tents and makeshift shelters across the state.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and GRAHAM DUNBAR
It is now nearly 2 1/2 years and multiple layers of Court of Arbitration for Sport appeals since the American skaters left the Beijing Winter Games without a medal of any color.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and PAUL WISEMAN
Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department said the gross domestic product — the economy’s total output of goods and services — picked up in the April-June quarter.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and SIBI ARASU and SETH BORENSTEIN
Global temperatures dropped a minuscule amount after two days of record highs, making Tuesday only the world’s second-hottest day ever.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 9:03 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and ZEKE MILLER
The Democratic Party could make Harris its nominee as soon as Aug. 1 in a virtual vote, and could formalize the nomination of her running mate soon after.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 8:59 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and ZEKE MILLER, SEUNG MIN KIM and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
As Vice President Kamala Harris moves to take his place as the Democratic standard-bearer, Biden’s accomplishments remain very much at risk should Republican Donald Trump prevail.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 8:52 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and JOSH BOAK
Harris will address the biennial gathering of the historically Black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in Indianapolis.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 8:40 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and ELLEN KNICKMEYER, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ASHRAF KHALIL
Lawmakers of both parties rose repeatedly to applaud the Israeli leader, while security escorted out protesters in the gallery.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 8:38 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The House voted Wednesday to form a task force to investigate the security failures surrounding the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on July 13.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 8:29 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MEG KINNARD and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press
Donald Trump is expected to turn his full focus on Harris as he stops Wednesday in North Carolina.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 7:22 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and TIM REYNOLDS and JOE REEDY
The NBA said Wednesday that it is not accepting Warner Bros. Discovery’s $1.8 billion per year offer to continue its longtime relationship with the league.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 5:07 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Democratic National Convention delegates can make Vice President Kamala Harris their presidential nominee — and even start approving her yet-to be-named running mate — in online voting beginning next week, as the party races to coalesce around a new top of its ticket heading into November.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 4:55 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The FBI recovered the drone and a controller from the car of 20-year-old shooter Thomas Matthew Crook and is analyzing it as agents investigate his background and motive.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 3:31 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and KEN MILLER Associated Press
Janet Yamanaka Mello, a former civilian employee of the U.S. Army, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty in March.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 3:18 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Last week’s global tech outage grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 12:18 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The recall covers certain X3 SUVs from the 2018 through 2023 model years.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 12:01 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Gauff, the reigning US Open champion, is set to make her Olympic debut and will be the first tennis athlete to carry the U.S. flag.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 10:15 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Paris prosecutors said Wednesday that they had arrested a 40-year-old Russian-born man Tuesday at his Paris apartment man on suspicion of planning to “destabilize the Olympic Games.”
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 9:56 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
The horses on the U.S. eventing team began their journey to France for the Paris Olympics from a farm in Pennsylvania
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 8:50 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Four people were taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening, an official said.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 8:11 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
The capital city of Utah was the only candidate since the International Olympic Committee gave Salt Lake City exclusive negotiating rights last year.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2024 at 7:41 AM CDT
|By The Associated Press and SIBI ARASU and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press
Average temperatures have not been this high since long before humans developed agriculture.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2024 at 8:07 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, CLAUDIA LAUER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
The testimony before a congressional hearing raises questions about whether a key post was left unattended as the gunman climbed on a roof.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2024 at 4:43 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer
On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2024 at 4:31 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and COLLEEN LONG
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned after the assassination attempt against former President Trump at a rally.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and CHRIS MEGERIAN and ZEKE MILLER
The vice president planned to lean into her resume as a former district attorney and California attorney general, seeking to draw a contrast with Trump who is the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2024 at 3:48 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press
Video from the crash scene shows that the yellow and orange Wienermobile was later hauled away on a flatbed truck.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2024 at 3:31 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and MIKE CATALINI and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey is resigning Aug. 20 after his federal bribery conviction, an AP source says.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2024 at 2:09 PM CDT
|By The Associated Press and AAMER MADHANI
Biden posted on X that he would speak “on what lies ahead” and how he will “finish the job for the American people.”