By MICHAEL CASEY and ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Looking to cut pollution from its fleet of diesel-burning school buses, an Oklahoma school district last year doubled its electric vehicles.
The Shawnee Public Schools, a 3,300-student district about 35 miles (56 ...
BOSTON (AP) — A commercial fishing boat hit ground and capsized, leading to the rescue of three people and a fuel spill in Boston Harbor.
The 86-foot scallop fishing boat became stuck in shallow water and tilted over near Green Island with three people on board, Coast Guard officials said. ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday sided with the Trump administration in allowing immigration agents to conduct enforcement operations at houses of worship for now, despite a lawsuit filed by religious groups over the ...
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks jumped Friday in another manic day on Wall Street, while the falling value of the U.S. dollar and other swings in financial markets suggested fear is still high about escalations in President Donald Trump's trade war with ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.
It's a significant shift in policy for ...
By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that a convicted killer who was mistakenly released from a Georgia jail has been caught two weeks later in Florida — ending days of anxiety for the victim's family outside Orlando who feared he might ...
By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine officials said Friday the state will not comply with a ban on transgender athletes in high school sports in the wake of a Trump administration finding that the state violated antidiscrimination laws by allowing the students ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the struggling coal industry, a reliable but polluting energy source that's long been in decline.
Under the four orders, Trump uses his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired ...
By CORA LEWIS and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to overturn a rule that would have limited bank overdraft fees to $5, following the Senate in moving to dismantle the regulation that the Biden administration had estimated would save ...
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California youth soccer coach charged with killing a 13-year-old boy last month has also been accused of assaulting at least two other teens in recent years, prosecutors said.
Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino is charged with ...
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 ...