The Supreme Court is considering a possible TikTok ban. Here’s what to know...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court on Friday, with the justices largely holding the app’s fate in their hands....
View ArticleEarth records hottest year ever in 2024 and the jump was so big it breached a...
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, weather monitoring agencies...
View ArticleAmericans have dimmer view of Biden than they did of Trump or Obama as term...
By WILL WEISSERT and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, Americans have a dimmer view of his presidency than they did at the end of Donald...
View ArticleDelta Air Lines says 4 passengers injured after flight was aborted at Atlanta...
By KATE BRUMBACK and TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A powerful winter storm that dumped heavy snow and glazed roads with ice across much of Texas and Oklahoma lumbered eastward into...
View ArticleWhat to know about the devastation from the Los Angeles-area fires
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fires raging in the Los Angeles area reduced some 10,000 structures to ash and rubble, killed at least 10, displaced thousands of others and spread over an area larger than the size...
View ArticleTrump tax cuts, if made permanent, stand to benefit highest income earners,...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At the very top of Republicans’ 100-day agenda with President-elect Donald Trump in the White House and GOP lawmakers in a majority is the plan to...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Maduro takes new oath amid protests and international rebuke
By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in Friday for a new term, extending his increasingly repressive rule...
View ArticleBiden lets 800,000 Venezuelans and Salvadorans stay 18 months as Trump...
By GISELA SALOMON, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — About 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 200,000 Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of...
View ArticleUS finds no link between ‘Havana syndrome’ and foreign power, but two spy...
By DAVID KLEPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence has found no evidence linking a foreign power to the mysterious “Havana syndrome” injuries reported by some U.S. diplomats and...
View ArticleTrump can still vote after sentencing, but can’t own a gun and will have to...
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t have to go to jail, pay a fine or perform community service as a result of his New York hush money conviction. A judge ended the case Friday with a...
View ArticleNew Orleans attacker fired at police before they shot and killed him, bodycam...
By JACK BROOK NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Islamic State group-inspired attacker who killed 14 people in a truck rampage on New Year’s Day in New Orleans shot at police from inside his truck before officers...
View ArticleProsecutors seek 15 years in prison for former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be imprisoned for 15 years for a “grave abuse of his power,” after the New Jersey Democrat became the first...
View ArticleTikTok could be banned this month. Here’s what users can do to prepare
By HALELUYA HADERO, AP Business Writer TikTok has cemented itself as a quintessential entertainment app, offering everything from funny skits and makeup tutorials to social commentary and news. The...
View ArticleSchools around the US are weighing responses to possible immigration raids
By CAROLYN THOMPSON Schools around the country are reviewing what to do if immigration agents come knocking as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office after campaigning on a pledge to...
View ArticleHere’s the advice Biden’s top health official has for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
By AMANDA SEITZ WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people were dying from COVID-19 every day. Americans were still being ordered to stay-at-home or mask in public. Millions of people were eager to line up...
View ArticleBiden to deliver a capstone address on his foreign policy legacy as he makes...
By AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to deliver a capstone address Monday on his foreign policy legacy, according to the White House. Related Articles National Politics | Judge...
View ArticleSupreme Court seems likely to uphold a federal law that could force TikTok to...
By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold...
View ArticleJudge will weigh holding Giuliani in contempt of court after jury’s $148...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is set to hear arguments Friday on whether to hold Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for continuing to spread lies about two Georgia election...
View ArticleBiden climate adviser says California wildfires show ‘you have to take the...
By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) — The massive wildfires that have killed 10 people in the Los Angeles area and caused billions of dollars in property damage are the latest sign of the growing threat...
View ArticleMaura Healey admin was not conducting criminal background checks for...
Gov. Maura Healey’s administration confirmed it was not conducting full criminal background checks on residents in emergency shelters after months of the first-term Democrat telling the public that...
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