Excessive heat rolls east, bakes much of central, eastern US
More than 100 million Americans are being warned to stay indoors if possible as a heat wave settles over states stretching through parts of the Gulf…
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Compounding pharmacy agrees to stop distributing some drugs
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says a Vermont compounding pharmacy has agreed to stop producing adulterated and misbranded…
Continue ReadingSpaceX closer to launching giant rocketship after FAA review
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has cleared a key hurdle for its plan to launch a gigantic, futuristic…
Continue ReadingPhilly DA seeks contempt charge for Vets for Trump cofounder
By CLAUDIA LAUER The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia prosecutors asked a judge on Monday to hold a Virginia man in contempt of…
Continue ReadingBiden signs bill for national Asian Pacific history museum
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed a bill creating a commission to study establishing a…
Continue ReadingJudge again delays Fort Worth ex-cop’s murder trial
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge has again delayed the murder trial of an ex-police officer who fatally shot a Black woman through a window…
Continue ReadingTitle IX timeline: 50 years of halting progress across U.S.
By The Associated Press It has been 50 years since Title IX was signed into law by President Nixon. The measure barred discrimination against women…
Continue ReadingThieves make off with 20 freight containers at Mexican port
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican Employers Federation says thieves broke into a freight storage area at the Pacific coast seaport of Manzanillo and…
Continue ReadingRight-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A few weeks before 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested for allegedly…
Continue ReadingNorth Carolina man dies after shootout with officers
LENOIR, N.C. (AP) — Investigators say a suspect has been fatally wounded in a shootout with a trooper and a deputy along a highway in western North…
Continue ReadingAutopsy: Teen died of blunt trauma in Florida ride death
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An autopsy says a Missouri teenager died of blunt force trauma after falling from a 430-foot (130-meter) Florida drop-tower…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea says North completed prep for new nuclear test
By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — South Korea’s top diplomat said Monday that North Korea has completed preparations for a…
Continue ReadingCouncilor proposes Boston apologize for its role in slavery
BOSTON (AP) — A city councilor in Boston is proposing the Massachusetts capital acknowledge and apologize for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave…
Continue ReadingUS sanctions 93 Nicaraguan officials for crackdown
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. State Department has imposed visa restrictions on 93 more Nicaraguan officials for their role in supporting the regime…
Continue ReadingYellowstone floods wipe out roads, bridges, strand visitors
By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Massive floodwaters ravaged Yellowstone National Park and nearby communities Monday,…
Continue ReadingNo bartender required: Premixed Jack and Coke going on sale
By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Coca-Cola Co. says it’s partnering with Brown-Forman Corp., the maker of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, to…
Continue ReadingGraffiti found on dozens of Yosemite National Park sites
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Yosemite National Park officials are seeking witnesses who saw vandals tag more than 30 sites in the…
Continue ReadingPhilip Baker Hall, of ‘Hard Eight,’ ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 90
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theater who starred in Paul Thomas…
Continue ReadingState Department officials meet with Griner’s WNBA team
WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department officials have met with representatives of Brittney Griner’s WNBA team about the Phoenix Mercury star’s…
Continue ReadingOhio governor signs bill allowing armed school employees
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and MARK GILLISPIE Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio school districts could begin arming employees as soon as…
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