By KRYSTA FAURIA and JESSIE WARDARSKI Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — For some evangelical Christians, faith is about having a personal relationship with Jesus. At $1.99 per minute, the tech company Just Like Me is taking that concept to a new level. Users of the platform can ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II's astronauts returned from the moon with a dramatic splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity's first lunar voyage in more than a half-century. It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press Former U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, a New York Democrat who chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee and played an influential role in matters from the Balkans to the Beltway, including President Donald Trump's first impeachment, has died. He was 79. Engel died ...
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump's seemingly out-of-the-blue statement Thursday denying affiliation with disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein left people still wondering Friday what prompted the public declaration at a time when the case had receded ...
By THOMAS HEATON/Honolulu Civil Beat Honolulu Civil Beat State officials are surveying parts of Maui and Molokaʻi for evidence of coconut rhinoceros beetles, and residents near detection sites are being asked to check palm trees for signs of damage after the highly invasive pest was ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury finished its first day of deliberations Friday without reaching a verdict in an antitrust case pitting 34 states against the concert giant Live Nation Entertainment. The states argue in the civil case that the company and its ticketing arm, Ticketmaster, are ...
By REBECCA BOONE and KAITLYN HUAMANI Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officers arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home on Friday and then making threats at the company's headquarters, police and the company ...
By MAE ANDERSON and PAUL WISEMAN AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The centerpiece of President Donald Trump's economic policy — sweeping taxes on global imports — is under legal assault again. The U.S. Court of International Trade, a specialized court in New York, heard oral ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Marine heat waves are supercharging damage caused by hurricanes and tropical cyclones across the globe, a new study found. Researchers looked at 1,600 tropical cyclones — the broader category of storms that includes hurricanes — ...
NEW YORK (AP) — After chants of "run again!" filled the room, former Vice President Kamala Harris told African American activists on Friday that she's actively considering another presidential bid. "I might. I am thinking about it," Harris told Rev. Al Sharpton after he asked directly ...
By LAURA HERBERG/Bridge Michigan Hunters are divided over a proposed "one buck rule" that some hope would help balance the buck-to-doe ratio, curb overpopulation in the Lower Peninsula and make deer hunting better for future generations by leaving more prize bucks on the table. The ...
By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer A Frontier Airlines jet nearly collided with two trucks that crossed in front of it earlier this week at Los Angeles International Airport, but unlike last month's deadly crash in New York while a plane was landing, this incident happened on a taxiway ...
By ANNIKA HAMMERSCHLAG Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the planet's most vital ecosystems, from California's towering redwoods to the seagrass meadows along its coast, both of which ...
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press A federal judge on Friday extended an emergency restraining order on a $6.2 billion merger between Nexstar Media Group and Tegna for one week while he decides whether a longer block on the deal is needed. Eight state attorneys general and DirecTV sued to ...
By BILL BARROW Associated Press Donald Trump is accustomed to criticism from coast to coast — Democrats, disaffected Republicans, late-night comedians, massive protests. Yet in his second presidency, Trump's most influential American critic doesn't live in the country but at the ...
RAINELLE, W.Va. (AP) — Every month, Rebecca Michalski takes a deep breath before opening her electric bill. She lives on a fixed income, and heating her small house this winter has been staggering: Her February charge was $940.08 — more than her check. It makes no sense. She turns the ...
Two months after the deadliest avalanche in modern California history, an analysis by leading U.S. experts is questioning the decisions by the guides to lead such a large group through dangerous terrain amid avalanche warnings. The backcountry skiers were traveling in a tightly packed line, ...
Eleanor Middlin was 15 when her family sent her to a Missouri boarding school, an 11-hour drive from her mid-Michigan home. It was the worst thing that ever happened to her. It also saved her life. "I'm alive because of it, and I will never be able to forget it," Middlin, now 20, told Bridge ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department said Monday it has terminated agreements with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding protections for transgender students, backing away from requirements negotiated by previous administrations that took a different interpretation of ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The parents of a toddler who suffered a minor injury at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after squeezing through a fence near a wolf enclosure and making contact with one of the animals have been charged with endangering the welfare of children, police said. Evidence ...