By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fossil fuel executive Chris Wright, Donald Trump's choice for Energy secretary, is a strong supporter of oil and gas development, including fracking, a key pillar of the president-elect's quest for U.S. "energy dominance" in the global ...
By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Deadly shootings at a signature New Orleans cultural event — a neighborhood "second-line" parade — left authorities pleading with witnesses to come forward with information or cell phone video while seeking to reassure the public ...
SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing said in a notice filed with Washington's Employment Security Department on Monday that it has so far laid off 2,199 workers in the state, among job cuts that will eventually total about 17,000 across the company.
The aerospace giant announced in October that it planned ...
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Twenty years since Bill Clinton opened his presidential library and museum before a rain-soaked crowd, the area around the glass and steel facility has been transformed.
The museum fueled development around Little Rock's ...
By JOSH BOAK and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump's decision on a treasury secretary is about far more than whose name will be printed on America's money.
The choice of how to fill his highest-profile outstanding Cabinet selection will be ...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — More than 100,000 residents in western North Carolina were allowed to drink and bathe using water from their home faucets on Monday, nearly two months after Hurricane Helene destroyed much of the local water system.
Clay Chandler, a spokesman for the city of ...
YEMASSEE, S.C. (AP) — Six monkeys were still on the loose early Monday after dozens escaped earlier this month from a South Carolina compound that breeds the primates for medical research, according to authorities.
Two more Rhesus macaques were trapped Sunday outside the Alpha Genesis ...
WEDDINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A house exploded and caught fire in suburban Charlotte, North Carolina, injuring two people, authorities said.
Reports came in Sunday morning of an explosion at a home in Weddington that was felt across Union County, the sheriff's office said. First responders found ...
MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — A man who was 15 when he was involved in a gunbattle outside a high school football game that ultimately led to the death of an 8-year-old girl has been sentenced to 14 to 28 years in prison.
Nineteen-year-old Angelo Ford was sentenced Friday in Delaware County in several ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Jason Stephens, who has presided for the past two years over one of the most tumultuous periods in recent Ohio House history, said Monday that he will not seek another term as speaker.
Stephens, 53, announced his decision during a Statehouse news conference ...
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Two people were taken to hospitals after a small plane struck an unoccupied plane at an eastern Pennsylvania airport, authorities said.
Police in Bucks County's Buckingham Township said first responders were sent to Doylestown Airport shortly before 12:30 p.m. Monday ...
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Louisiana-based rap artist pleaded guilty Monday to his role in a large-scale prescription drug fraud ring that operated out of his multimillion-dollar home in Utah.
Rapper NBA YoungBoy, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden, walked into a courtroom in Logan, Utah, with ...
WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) — Herlda Senhouse, who founded a jazz dance group to raise money for Black students in the 1950s and lived to become the second-oldest person in the United States, has died at age 113.
Senhouse died "peacefully in her sleep" on Saturday, said Stephanie Hawkinson, public ...
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer
Spirit Airlines said Monday that it has filed for bankruptcy protection and will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused swoon in travel and a failed attempt to sell the airline to JetBlue.
Spirit, the biggest U.S. budget ...
By WILL WEISSERT and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, ...
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. said Sunday that any pushback from the Washington establishment around his father's unconventional choices for Cabinet proves they are just the kind of disruptors that voters are demanding.
The younger Trump ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two people were killed and 10 others were wounded in two separate shootings along a New Orleans parade route and celebration attended by thousands on Sunday, authorities said. There were no immediate arrests.
Officers responding to reports of gunfire shortly after 3:30 ...
By AAMER MADHANI, GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Speaking from the Amazon rainforest, President Joe Biden declared Sunday that there's no going back in America's "clean energy revolution" even as the incoming Trump administration vows to spur ...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A bodyless head that washed ashore in South Florida has been identified as that of a 19-year-old swimmer who went missing in Miami Beach after he tried to rescue his younger sister from a rip current, authorities said.
Victor Enrique Castaneda Jr. was reported ...
POMONA, Calif. (AP) — Three people were hurt aboard a single-engine plane that crashed Sunday near a Southern California dragstrip where fans were gathered for the finals of a racing event, authorities said.
At least two parked vehicles on the ground were struck when the Piper PA-32 crashed ...