By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking a step toward granting the U.S. mining industry's biggest wishes by singling out one metal as a focus of his domestic minerals policy: copper. From talk of acquiring Greenland and its vast mineral ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Ongoing tariff threats from Washington and potentially sweeping government job cuts have darkened consumers' mood and may be weighing on an otherwise mostly healthy economy. Data released Friday showed that ...
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court accused the court's liberal majority, all women, of being "driven by their emotions" during oral arguments in an abortion rights case — comments his challenger's campaign on ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge is weighing whether to block a Florida law from going into effect that would ban social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental permission for 14- and 15-year-olds. The measure ...
By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011, which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online. The tech giant said Friday it will retire Skype in May and shift some of its ...
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania, have returned to the U.S. after authorities lifted travel restrictions on the siblings, who have millions of online followers. After the ...
By ISABELLA O'MALLEY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For years, Ed Yaker, treasurer of a New York City co-op with nearly 1,500 units, and fellow board members have dealt with gas leaks. It can mean the gas at an entire building is shut off, leaving residents unable to use a stove for ...
RENSSELAER, Ind. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy in northwestern Indiana will not face charges in the fatal shooting during a traffic stop of a man who days earlier had been pardoned by President Donald Trump for a misdemeanor related to the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. The Jasper County deputy was ...
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit mother has been arraigned Friday on murder and other charges in the killing of her 9-year-old son whose body was buried in the backyard of the westside home where they once lived. A 36th District Court judge ordered Brandee Pierce jailed without bond, the Wayne ...
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) — A school bus driver safely evacuated 15 students after the vehicle caught fire while headed to school in a Cleveland suburb, getting the children out moments before the bus became engulfed in flames in a residential area. No injuries were reported in Thursday ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed likely Wednesday to side with an Ohio woman who claims she suffered sex discrimination from her employer because she is straight. The outcome of the case could remove an additional requirement that some courts apply when members of a majority group, ...
DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Max Scherzer is embracing the long road back. The three-time Cy Young Award winner allowed one run over two innings in his spring training debut with the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday, flashing a little bit of the fire that has become his trademark during his 18-year ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The television reporter who died in New Orleans while on assignment to cover the Super Bowl had a sedative drug in his system, a police detective testified in court this week. Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old anchor and reporter for Telemundo in Kansas City, Missouri, was found ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A nurse who survived an armed man's attack on an intensive care unit in a Pennsylvania hospital said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that she was held against him as a shield at gunpoint, arms zip-tied behind her back, as they walked through a doorway and encountered a ...
Utah appears to be the first state ready to put a full ban on fluoride in public water systems under a bill that doesn't allow cities or communities to decide whether to add the cavity-preventing mineral. A bill sponsor and an organization opposed to fluoridating water said Utah's proposal ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A funeral service will be held later this week for a Pennsylvania police officer shot and killed while responding to a hospital intensive care unit where authorities said a gunman had shot three hospital employees and taken staff members hostage last weekend. West York ...
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked immigration agents from conducting enforcement operations in houses of worship for Quakers and a handful of other religious groups. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chang found that the Trump administration policy could violate their ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Monday that President Donald Trump 's administration has freed up billions in federal aid that the Democrat had accused it of withholding illegally and unconstitutionally. Shapiro said in a news conference that more than $2 billion ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Fabric and crafts retailer Joann Inc., which has been a destination for generations of quilters, knitters and lovers of crafts projects for more than 80 years, is going out of business and shuttering all its stores. The announcement comes after the Hudson, Ohio-based retailer ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Vivek Ramaswamy, the Cincinnati-born biotech entrepreneur who departed the Department of Government Efficiency initiative on President Donald Trump's first day, launched his bid for Ohio governor Monday with promises to institute work requirements for Medicaid and merit ...