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Biden and McCarthy reach a final deal to avoid US default and now must sell it to Congress
By LISA MASCARO, ZEKE MILLER, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With days to spare before a potential…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, ZEKE MILLER, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With days to spare before a potential…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Kevin McCarthy was never Washington’s bet to become House speaker. But the…
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM, ANDREW DALTON and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The critically acclaimed HBO drama “Succession” has…
Continue ReadingBy SUZAN FRASER and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection Sunday, extending…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — To pass their debt ceiling deal, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and…
Continue ReadingBy JIM VERTUNO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Legislature already made one historic move with its impeachment of…
Continue ReadingBy Josh Pennington and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — Russia launched its largest drone attack of the conflict yet on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv,…
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO, JIM VERTUNO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The historic impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Wind turbines are built to last. Their tall bodies are topped with long fiberglass blades, some more than half a…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING, FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The details of the deal between President Joe Biden and…
Continue ReadingBy Devon M. Sayers, Sharif Paget and Caroll Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — New surveillance video shows newlyweds Aric Hutchinson and Samantha Miller…
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Police in Pennsylvania arrested two parents after finding their seven children living in what authorities described…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Writer Ed Ames, the youngest member of the popular 1950s singing group the Ames Brothers, who later became a…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A timeline of key events that led to Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton being impeached by the state’s…
Continue ReadingLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two horses have died the past two days following injuries at Churchill Downs, the 11th and 12th fatalities over the past…
Continue ReadingBy SALAR SALIM IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister announced plans for a $17 billion regional transportation project intended to facilitate…
Continue ReadingBy Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Police in Pennsylvania arrested two parents after finding their seven children living in what authorities described…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A special, four-legged friend was among the thousands of graduates receiving a diploma at the commencement…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — A man from Corbin, Kentucky, ran into some bad luck after his car became critically low on gas but his…
Continue ReadingTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis are gathered for the relentless weekly protests against their government’s plans to…
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Your driver’s license is not the right place for a spicy selfie, according to Georgia officials. The Georgia…
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL BEIRUT (AP) — A group of Lebanese citizens detained in the United Arab Emirates have been released, according to Lebanon’s foreign…
Continue ReadingST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Florida man charged with human smuggling related to the deaths last year of four immigrants near the Canadian border has…
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man charged with fatally shooting an Indianapolis police officer when she responded to a domestic violence call in 2020 is…
Continue ReadingBy Olga Voitovych, Andrew Carey and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — With just a few words and a slickly produced piece of military…
Continue ReadingBy HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A passenger who opened an emergency exit door during a flight in South Korea told…
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has ruled for a Colorado school district after a student sued to wear a sash reflecting the…
Continue ReadingBy RIAZ KHAN Associated Press GILGIT, Pakistan (AP) — Tourism police say a snowy avalanche in northern Pakistan has killed 11 people, including a…
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong has criticized Amnesty International’s accusation that a Uyghur student disappeared after…
Continue ReadingVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis resumed regular appointments on Saturday, one day after canceling his schedule due to a fever. The pontiff held a…
Continue ReadingBy BABACAR DIONE Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Clashes between police and supporters of the opposition leader in Senegal have left one…
Continue ReadingBy RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer An Indiana man whose son is a member of the University of Cincinnati baseball team is the bettor at the…
Continue ReadingHONG KONG (AP) — One of the few remaining pro-democracy parties in Hong Kong has voted to dissolve itself, joining a growing list of organizations…
Continue ReadingBy SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Officials say Sudan’s military ruler has demanded in a letter to the U.N. secretary general that the…
Continue ReadingBy SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military intelligence has claimed, without offering evidence, that Russia is…
Continue ReadingBy JOVANA GEC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Huge crowds of anti-government protesters have encircled the Serbian state television…
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — A nationwide border system issue has hit electronic gates at British airports, causing chaos for…
Continue ReadingWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Aides to Poland’s President Andrzej Duda say that his experts have begun analyzing a highly contentious law on…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press Former diplomat and presidential adviser Henry Kissinger marks his 100th birthday on Saturday, outlasting many…
Continue ReadingLONDON (AP) — A man who was taken into custody after his car crashed into the gates of the British prime minister’s residence in central London…
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishermen in the U.S.’s only commercial-scale fishing industry for valuable baby eels…
Continue ReadingBy ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations has announced that it will suspend a plan to begin making aid payments to Syrian…
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says it detected three Chinese warships, including the Shandong aircraft carrier, passing through the…
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — One firefighter died and six others were injured fighting a blaze in Columbia, South Carolina, on…
Continue ReadingCAIRO (AP) — Egyptian antiquities authorities Saturday unveiled ancient workshops and tombs they say were discovered recently at a Pharaonic…
Continue ReadingBy Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN (CNN) — The drive takes us through unmarked roads and fresh…
Continue ReadingBy DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has condemned NATO-led peacekeepers stationed in neighboring Kosovo for their…
Continue ReadingBy KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Russia will start expelling German diplomats, teachers and employees of German cultural…
Continue ReadingBy Abeer Salman and Hadas Gold, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank Friday left a man in critical…
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Taliban and Iran exchanged heavy gunfire Saturday on the Islamic…
Continue ReadingBy KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Sursock Museum has reopened to the public, three years after a deadly explosion in…
Continue ReadingBy Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Turkey’s long-term leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan is going up against opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in…
Continue ReadingBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Travelers arriving in the U.K. faced long delays Saturday after a technical problem shut electronic…
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT and MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Gwendolyn Dean Schofield hoped to live to 100, and she was nearly there. But on…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BILLER Associated Press SAO GONCALO, Brazil (AP) — The chants of “monkey!” at the Spanish soccer stadium echoed across the Atlantic,…
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has been at the forefront of the fight against climate change and the…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A social media influencer died soon after live-streaming himself drinking several bottles of strong alcohol…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — “Murderers.” “Criminals.” “We are watching you.” These are just a handful of the threats and abuse…
Continue ReadingBy GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Oakland Athletics are asking Nevada for $380 million for a…
Continue ReadingBy GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Two soccer teams exiled from cities in war-battered eastern Ukraine play each other Sunday in the…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — As Elizabeth Holmes prepares to report to prison next week, the criminal case that…
Continue ReadingBy ACACIA CORONADO, JIM VERTUNO and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ Republican-led House of Representatives impeached…
Continue ReadingBy NATACHA PISARENKO and DÉBORA REY Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Anastasia Domini and wife Anna are part of an increasing…
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK Associated Press RENK, South Sudan (AP) — Tens of thousands of exhausted people are heading home to the world’s youngest…
Continue ReadingOYAMA, Japan (AP) — The 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s most famous endurance race, will be open to hydrogen-powered vehicles starting in 2026.…
Continue ReadingBy Jonny Hallam and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Al-Shabaab fighters launched a deadly attack on an African Union military base in Somalia on…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer It’s among the world’s busiest container shipping routes — a stream of vessels packed with…
Continue ReadingBy BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman to deliver a commencement speech at West…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press There’s no Iron Throne, but the stakes feel just as high. “Succession,” the critically acclaimed drama…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Teens have long been vital to filling out the summertime staffs of restaurants, ice cream stands,…
Continue ReadingBy CNN’s Rafael Romo (CNN) — Scott Lieberman, an American who lives in San Francisco, always knew that he was adopted from Chile. What he…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK, ZEKE MILLER and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin…
Continue ReadingBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in a ceremony…
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Conlon, Maxime Tamsett and Alta Spells, CNN (CNN) — A Mississippi grand jury has indicted three former Jackson police officers in the…
Continue ReadingBy Angus Watson and Chris Lau, CNN Sydney/Hong Kong (CNN) — A hostage video released by West Papuan independence fighters Friday includes a…
Continue ReadingBy Radina Gigova, CNN (CNN) — Firearms manufacturer Kalashnikov has unveiled an upgraded AK-12 assault rifle, with modifications based on the…
Continue ReadingBy JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday that a rural Colorado school district can bar a high…
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — Federal investigators say a Navy contractor’s aircraft caught fire before it crashed off the California coast earlier this…
Continue ReadingBY SONIA PÉREZ D. Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan police arrested the country’s prosecutor for crimes against migrants Friday,…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. authorities have arrested two suspected Chinese government agents in connection with an…
Continue ReadingBy Richard Roth and Heather Law, CNN (CNN) — United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres was “shocked,” according to his spokesman,…
Continue ReadingBy Cheri Mossburg and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — The family of Banko Brown, a transgender man shot and killed by a security guard in San…
Continue ReadingJEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The director of a southern Indiana funeral home where 31 decomposing bodies and the cremains of 17 others were found…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, Caroll Alvarado and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Graduates from the University of Massachusetts Boston left their graduation…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors have deliberated for more than a week without reaching a verdict in the rape retrial of “That ’70s Show” star…
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi could have a Democratic primary for governor in August. A judge ruled…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The mother of the man who killed Gabby Petito told her son in an undated letter that she…
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — It’s a day seared into America’s collective memory: December 7, 1941. The day Imperial Japanese warplanes…
Continue ReadingBy AARON MORRISON AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A national Black Lives Matter nonprofit, whose philanthropic fortunes grew almost overnight…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For all the concern over when the government might run out of money to cover all its bills, it…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles jury has found a man guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a…
Continue ReadingBy KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Preempted for coverage of the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix. __ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Sen.…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government has announced that a U.N. Latin America regional group has endorsed a Brazilian city in the…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Boyette and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A small high school in rural Texas has postponed its graduation ceremony after an end-of-year…
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, on Thursday indicted a man on a murder charge in connection…
Continue ReadingBy VALERIE GONZALEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A court-appointed monitor said in January that child migrants held in…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN and MORGAN LEE Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Hundreds of frantic calls poured in to dispatchers about a barrage…
Continue ReadingBy DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All of the past drama and sore feelings associated with Louisiana State’s invitation…
Continue ReadingBy MARK PRATT Associated Press A lawsuit brought by a former altar boy who said he was raped as a child in the 1960s by a now-deceased Roman Catholic…
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