Month: December 2023

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has begun flying migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago. Gov. Greg Abbot’s office says the first flight…

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The early signing period in college football opened Wednesday with just a little five-star drama.…

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City lawmakers have passed a bill meant to ban solitary confinement in the city’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says security officers found 17 bullets concealed inside a disposable baby diaper at New…

By The Associated Press Toyota Motor Co. said Wednesday it is recalling 1 million vehicles over a defect that could cause airbags not to deploy,…

By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Legalized sports betting continued its expansion this year. Six states either passed legislation…

By MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil companies have offered $382 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A leading Mexican business group says the U.S. decision to close two railway border crossings into Texas is costing $100 million…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission, for a second time, has unanimously rejected a…

By JILL COLVIN and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press AMES, Iowa (AP) — With less than a month to go before voting begins, Donald Trump’s…

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio prosecutor says it’s not within his power to drop a criminal charge…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer The Federal Trade Commission is proposing sweeping changes to a decades-old law that regulates how companies…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Fentanyl and methamphetamine drove a record number of homeless deaths last year in…

WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — A self-proclaimed white supremacist has been sentenced for making online threats toward the jury and witnesses at the trial…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has filed its first predatory mortgage lending case against a Texas…

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are urging the U.S. Supreme…

PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say an Arizona man has been arrested for allegedly making online threats against federal agents and employees. FBI…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Thousands of homeless people who died this year are being memorialized this week around the U.S.…

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The British filmmaker Andrew Haigh is accustomed to strong responses from his films. But his latest,…

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The social media platform Parler, which caters to right-wing voices and was temporarily booted offline following…

SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities have identified a teenage girl slain by the Green River serial killer in Washington state four decades ago. Lori Anne…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general has filed suit against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio service of making it intentionally…

By AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Joe Biden says it’s “self-evident” that Donald Trump…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An Austin, Texas, police officer has been indicted for deadly conduct in the fatal shooting of a man standing on his own front…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR AND JULIE WATSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Convicted defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis is facing…

By GEROLD ROZENBLAD Associated Press PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Suriname’s former dictator Desi Bouterse has been sentenced to 20 years in…

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie is outlining his plan for addressing the…

DALTON, Mass. (AP) — A U.S. Air Force staff sergeant from Massachusetts who was one of eight service members lost when a CV-22 Osprey crashed off…

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union finance ministers have sealed a deal to reform the 27-nation bloc’s fiscal rules after France and Germany finally…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An investigation has found that the hospital that initially treated a man who later died while being admitted to a Virginia…

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative law firm has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the State Bar of…

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Physicians and the former sole abortion provider in North Dakota are asking a state district…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Carey Mulligan recently realized that she’s spent much of her professional career holding back. But that changed in…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Zac Efron transformed himself into a mass of muscle and repressed emotion to play professional wrestler Kevin Von…