By VALERIE GONZALEZ and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said Thursday that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking about the ...

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court may be deeply conservative, but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday. Kagan, one of the court's three liberal justices, told an audience of lawyers and ...

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Will President Donald Trump 's name grace one of the most famous -- and sometimes maligned -- landmarks in his hometown of New York City? The Republican administration this week urged leading U.S. Senators to rename Penn Station as it ...

By NOELLE FUJII-ORIDE/Honolulu Civil Beat Waves gently roll over a reef in Hā'ena as Kanoe Alapa'i-Hashimoto and his father, Keli'i Alapa'i, search for limu in the ankle-deep water with fishing nets wrapped around their waists and shoulders. The seaweed is food for manini, a small ...

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (AP) — Two people have died in flash floods caused by torrential rains in West Virginia this week, the governor's office said Thursday. An emailed statement from Lars Dalseide, communications director for Gov. Patrick Morrisey, did not provide details on where the bodies ...

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — More than two dozen states on Thursday sued the Trump administration for requiring them to comply with election and immigration conditions to receive billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters. The lawsuit, filed in Rhode Island ...

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Republican lawmaker says he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have made false statements to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department should consider ...

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, KAITLYN HUAMANI and MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writers It is the kind of development once seen only in science fiction: An artificial intelligence system, trained to probe for digital vulnerabilities, breaks free of human control and acts on its own to hack another ...

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, MAE ANDERSON and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Already feeling pinched since the start of the Iran war, consumers are likely to feel more pain ahead as oil prices pushed past $100 a barrel Thursday amid renewed fighting and military strikes ...

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press Ford and Chinese automotive company Geely Auto announced plans on Thursday to jointly manufacture low- and zero-emission vehicles at Ford's Valencia, Spain factory. The partnership is a bid to reignite Ford's offerings for the European auto market as the ...

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Senate health committee delayed a planned vote Thursday on whether to advance the nomination of Dr. Erica Schwartz to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The committee plans to vote next week on whether to ...

By MARY LANDERS/The Current The Current The Okefenokee swamp is poised to join awe-inspiring U.S. landscapes including the Grand Canyon and the Everglades as the nation's 27th World Heritage Site, a designation a United Nations committee will vote to formalize early Saturday in South ...

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press Some Democrats are squaring off with President Donald Trump's administration over one of the most potent political issues in the country ahead of this year's midterm elections: Social Security. The social safety net program that financially supports more ...

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated and the future of the conflict is increasingly ...

POWELL, Ohio (AP) — The skies were mostly clear and weeks of sweltering heat had finally broken as 33-year-old Jose Mario Pineda Dias and his 28-year-old wife, Marina Suyapa Regalado, set out with their two children for some leisurely fishing in an Ohio river. A second Honduran couple and an ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Torrential rains caused flash floods in West Virginia that inundated homes and businesses, washed out bridges and led to numerous water rescues. The state's governor said that some residents were unaccounted for as search operations continued Wednesday. Gov. Patrick ...

BICKNELL, Utah (AP) — Five family members who had set out for a day of hiking were killed after a flash flood swept through canyons of southern Utah on Friday, law enforcement officials said. The victims were a captain in the Provo, Utah, fire department, his wife and their sons, according ...

The federal government took a major step forward Friday toward opening more than 2,800 acres of Ohio's only national forest to oil and gas development. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a lease sale scheduled for Sept. 15 of 41 parcels of land in the Wayne National Forest totaling ...

POWELL, Ohio (AP) — Five people have died on a river in Ohio after several of them went into the water to help another person who was struggling to swim, authorities said Monday. The group had gathered Sunday along the Scioto River in the Columbus suburb of Powell when one of them went into ...

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — On a pristine Rhode Island beach teeming with noisy seabirds, a group of biologists armed with nets sneak up on a pair of American oystercatcher chicks. But just as they move in to capture them, one of the football-size ...