By MEG KINNARD and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that Darline Graham, the sister of the late Lindsey Graham, has his support to run for a full term to replace her brother in the U.S. Senate. He wrote on social media that she "has ...

By JOSH KELETY Associated Press A federal appeals court ruled Friday that New Jersey's bans on assault firearms and magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds are unconstitutional. This is the first time a federal appeals court has struck down a state ban on such weapons, and it comes as ...

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley plans to jump back into the Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor after Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez abandoned her campaign for the state's top office Friday amid a campaign finance scandal. Crowley will announce ...

By MIKELLA SCHUETTLER, THOMAS PEIPERT and GENE JOHNSON Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO CITY, Colo. (AP) — The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North Dakota hospital of robbing them of the lives ...

By JESSE BEDAYN, JAMIE STENGLE and JOHN HANNA Associated Press UVALDE, Texas (AP) — First responders in storm-battered Texas again rushed to save people trapped in high waters Friday, as more heavy rain widened the danger from floods that have killed at least two people and left hundreds ...

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Friday canceled a rule meant to protect plants and animals that are determined to be threatened with extinction, the latest step by President Donald Trump's administration to dismantle key provisions ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police discovered Friday the wreckage of a boat that sank this week in the San Francisco Bay after recovering the body of a missing person the day before. The body was identified as Tondra Madruga, 58, also known as Tondra Miller, the San Francisco medical examiner said ...

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A father and son are expected to face federal kidnapping charges after they zip-tied two U.S. Forest Service employees and held them at gunpoint inside a trailer in Northern California near Mt. Shasta. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said the two workers were ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah revoked another campus license on Friday for the boarding school where Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teenager, marking a major victory in the hotel heiress' yearslong effort to get the school shut down. The Utah Department of Health and Human Services' ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NFL coaching great Bill Belichick spent a bumpy debut season at North Carolina trying to blend a roster full of newcomers and adjusting to life in the college ranks. It was a learning experience even for someone with a résumé featuring six Super Bowl titles as a head ...

The presence of carbon monoxide was confirmed in a parked vehicle in Toledo, Ohio, where five people were found unresponsive and three of them died Wednesday in what an official described as an accident. The Ford Explorer had pulled over with a flat tire into a parking lot, and the victims ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Two of the eight men indicted in an alleged drone and sniper plot to attack President Donald Trump's UFC cage-fighting show on the White House lawn pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy charges. Clothed in jail garb and shackled, Tycen Proper, 19, of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people in the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states muddled through another day of unhealthy air from uncontrolled wildfires on Friday. The thick smoke enveloped the nation's capital in a gloomy, eerie haze and prompted Major League Baseball's Cleveland ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served at Taco Bell locations across five U.S. states as a source of a widespread outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Thursday warned consumers not to ...

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Legionnaires' disease outbreak that has sickened dozens of people in New York City has claimed its first life, health officials said Friday. Officials didn't release additional information about the person's identity, age or details ...

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was charged Friday with a misdemeanor hit-and-run over a collision with a parked car. Pelosi, 86, was driving his brown convertible July 3 in Yountville, California, a town in ...

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Friday ruled the Trump administration can't use an obscure clause relating to agency priorities to make billions of dollars in funding cuts. Twenty-three states had a filed a lawsuit last year accusing the ...

By JACK BROOK, MICHAEL R. SISAK, AMANDA SWINHART and CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press/Report for America AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health ...

By BILL BARROW and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Federal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served at Taco Bell locations across five U.S. states as a source of a widespread outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora. The Centers for Disease Control ...

By TRAVIS LOLLER and KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Ester, an activist who as a 20-year-old college student rushed to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s side when he was shot, has died. Ester, who died on July 9 at the age of 78, was among a few remaining ...