By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Criticized by a federal judge for sloppy legal work, the government on Thursday grudgingly withdrew subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for ...

By DAVID A. LIEB and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press A federal judicial panel has allowed Tennessee to use a new congressional map that splits apart a majority-Black district in Memphis, providing another legal victory for Republicans who hope to gain an additional seat in this year's ...

By JOSH BOAK and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday had governors and electricity companies join a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers from higher utility bills from data centers — a sign of how the artificial intelligence build-out ...

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has acknowledged in court documents that it canceled $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects "based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state" — in this case, 16 ...

By ELLEN SCHMIDT and CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to her murder failed to eliminate her legacy but caused ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...