By MATTHEW LEE and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France (AP) — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries showed divisions with the United States over the Iran war but agreed Friday during a meeting in France to call for an immediate halt to attacks against ...
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A pro-Iranian hacking group claimed Friday to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work resume and other personal documents dating back more than ...
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Friday held the inaugural meeting of a new anti-fraud task force he's leading as the Trump administration seeks to show it's cracking down on potential misuse of social programs. Vance, speaking Friday ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts set to become the first lunar visitors in more than half a century arrived at their launch site Friday, joining the towering rocket that stands poised to blast off next week and send them around the moon. Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman flew in ...
By STEPHEN GROVES and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards, the House Ethics Committee found Friday in a ruling that could add weight to Republicans' potential ...
By MATTHEW BROWN and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Thousands of striking workers at one of the nation's largest meatpacking plants will extend their walkout to a third week as they push for higher wages and better health care. Industry experts said it's too early to know ...
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Republican Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, announced Friday that he won't seek reelection, joining a wave of retirements ahead of the midterm elections. Graves, 62, has represented a ...
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level in more than six months, driving up borrowing costs during what's typically the busiest time of the year for prospective homebuyers. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronaut who prompted NASA's first medical evacuation earlier this year said Friday that doctors still don't know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station. Four-time space flier Mike Fincke said he ...
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents. Arctic sea ice levels, especially in the summer, are crucial to ...
By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press A judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration can convene a meeting next week to seek an exemption from the Endangered Species Act on the basis of national security for expanded oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. District of Columbia ...
By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press A United Airlines flight came within a few hundred feet of a military helicopter near John Wayne Airport in Southern California earlier this week, triggering an alarm directing the airline pilots to change course. The Federal Aviation Administration said ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout designed to be a friendly addition to social spaces like homes and schools. The e-commerce giant is already a robotics powerhouse, having boasted of deploying ...
By AMANDA SWINHART Associated Press STOWE, Vt. (AP) — Looking back, gubernatorial candidate Dean Roy says his political ambitions started in the eighth grade. And by that he means, last year. After working as a legislative page at the Vermont Statehouse, the 14-year-old freshman at ...
By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the United States is winning the war with Iran even as thousands of additional American troops deploy to the Middle East. He has pilloried other countries for not helping the U.S., only to say later he does ...
By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has listed five objectives that the U.S. wants to achieve before ending its war with Iran. Now, one month into the conflict, he has suggested the U.S. may soon be "winding down" the operation, even though some ...
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An Iranian missile attack Friday wounded at least 10 U.S. service members and damaged several planes at a military base in Saudi Arabia, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the situation. Two of the troops were seriously ...
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the war in Iran pushes U.S. gas prices toward $4 a gallon nationally, some lawmakers are pushing to suspend the federal gasoline tax in the latest attempt to try to control surging energy costs. Lawmakers say the action would provide ...
By EMILY LEAYMAN/ARLnow ARLnow Prominent voting rights advocates are applauding a new executive order returning Virginia to a multistate voter roll program and limiting when voters can be removed from the rolls before elections. An executive order signed earlier this week by Gov. Abigail ...
By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Four of the current seven law enforcement officers in a rural Colorado county, including the sheriff, as well as a former deputy have been indicted in an investigation into allegations of misconduct, prosecutors said Friday. A grand jury ...