By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL and MICHAEL TACKETT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots outside Rihanna 's gated home, according to authorities and news reports on Monday. No one was injured, police said. It wasn't immediately clear whether the singer was at home when the shooting happened ...

PAOLI, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania State Police trooper was shot and killed by a man he had pulled over in a traffic stop Sunday night, authorities said. Cpl. Tim O'Connor was killed as he approached the car when the driver fired from inside the vehicle, the state's acting police commissioner, ...

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is criticizing lower court judges who have slowed its efforts to strip legal protections from a broad swath of migrants living in the U.S. It's asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for moves that could ...

By JESSICA PRIEST/The Texas Tribune After two legislative sessions in which Republican lawmakers hammered universities as bastions of liberal indoctrination, campuses across Texas are restricting how race and gender can be taught and requiring instructors to present controversial subjects in ...

By JUSTIN A. HINKLEY/Bridge Michigan Carl Druskovich, a seventh-generation southwest Michigan fruit farmer who still has to work full-time as a dentist to make ends meet, is tempted by the frequent offers to buy pieces of his land for as much as $20,000 an acre. "I can see why some people ...

By ALLEN G. BREED and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — Vice President JD Vance joined the grieving family of a Kentucky man who was the seventh U.S. service member to die in combat during the Iran war as his remains were brought back to the U.S. Monday evening. The ...

By HANNAH FINGERHUT, MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, MICHAEL CATALINI and BILL BARROW Associated Press DE SOTO, Iowa (AP) — Standing alongside his son's Ford pickup truck at a central Iowa gas station off Interstate 80, Francisco Castillo was not happy. He had voted for President ...

PAOLI, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania State Police trooper was shot and killed by a man whom he had pulled over in a traffic stop Sunday night, authorities said. Cpl. Tim O'Connor was killed as he approached the car when the driver fired from inside the vehicle, the state's acting police ...

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two men who brought explosives to a protest outside New York City's mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group, a court complaint said. Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi are awaiting ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State President Walter "Ted" Carter Jr. resigned on Monday after disclosing "an inappropriate relationship" with a woman seeking public resources for her private business. Carter, 66, said in a statement that he had ...

By TREVOR MITCHELL/MinnPost Across the Twin Cities, residents and leaders alike are calling for rental support for the thousands of immigrant families most impacted by Operation Metro Surge, staring down the threat of eviction. But despite the clear objective, the solutions are murky. Does ...

By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer Anthropic is suing the Trump administration for what it calls an "unlawful campaign of retaliation" against the artificial intelligence company over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology. Anthropic asked federal courts on ...

By ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Uber launched a feature Monday to allow both women riders and drivers across the U.S. to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its riding-hailing ...

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — When his parents were about his age, they bought their first home. But for 27-year-old Brian Torres Suazo, that milestone feels like a distant dream, despite a secure job with union wages and down payment assistance. Torres Suazo ...

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Monday that it has tentatively settled its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment, striking a deal to ultimately lower ticket prices ...

By ALEX VEIGA and ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writers Oil prices continued to soar on Monday as the Iran war intensified, threatening production and shipping in the Middle East and pummeling financial markets. The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, surged to as ...

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the U.S. federal trial of four men charged in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and James Solages are charged with ...

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — "Exercise your brain," experts advise people hoping to stave off dementia. But how? Stretching your brain might be the better description. Do a crossword puzzle a day and you may just get good at crosswords. Instead, research ...

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress responds to President Donald Trump's attack on Iran, lawmakers who served on the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan are making their voices heard in a war debate that has taken on intensely personal meaning. Many admit ...