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|By The Associated Press and MORGAN LEE Associated Press
The couple's partially mummified bodies were discovered last week at their home in the hills of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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|By The Associated Press
The FBI has added 43-year-old Ryan Wedding to its 10 Most Wanted list.
Updated: 6 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and LEA SKENE and BRIAN WITTE
The judge agreed to reduce Adnan Syed’s sentence to time served under a relatively new state law that provides a pathway to release for people convicted of crimes committed when they were minors.
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|By The Associated Press and MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down.
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|By The Associated Press
Pope Francis recorded a pained and labored audio message Thursday to thank people for their prayers for his recovery, the first public sign of life from the 88-year-old pope since he was hospitalized three weeks ago with double pneumonia.
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|By The Associated Press and ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press
A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Monday to pay nearly $2 billion in debts to partners of the U.S. Agency for International Development and State Department.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
President Donald Trump signed an order that will delay new tariffs on Canada for 1 month, similar to the reprieve announced earlier for Mexico.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ALAN SUDERMAN
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order establishing a government reserve of bitcoin, a key marker in the cryptocurrency’s journey towards possible mainstream acceptance.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
America’s butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and LAURAN NEERGAARD and MICHAEL CASEY
A federal judge is preventing the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A privately owned lunar lander touched down near the moon’s south pole Thursday.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and RAF CASERT and LORNE COOK
European Union leaders on Thursday committed to working together to bolster the continent’s defenses and to free up hundreds of billions of euros for security after U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated warnings that he would cut them adrift to face the threat of Russia alone.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ERIC TUCKER and DAKE KANG
12 Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with global cybercrime campaigns targeting dissidents, news organizations, U.S. agencies and universities, the Justice Department says.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The “Office” actor and comedian said Tuesday in an Instagram video that he was working with the Alice’s Kids charity to pay for prom for seniors at six high schools in Pasadena.
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|By The Associated Press
The Toy Association's president says retail prices are expected to go up 15% to 20% by the back-to-school shopping season.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press
Detectives say a suspected thief gulped down two pairs of diamond earrings during his arrest on the side of a Florida highway.
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|By The Associated Press
The House on Thursday voted to censure an unrepentant Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Pamela Bach, an actor and the ex-wife of “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff, has died at 62.
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
La medida del presidente de Estados Unidos estará en efecto por cuatro semanas.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
A second federal judge on Thursday extended a block barring the Trump administration from freezing grants and loans potentially totaling trillions of dollars.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Hamas brushed off Trump’s latest threat and reiterated that it will only free the remaining hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM MST
|By The Associated Press and AAMER MADHANI and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press
The White House said Wednesday that U.S. officials have engaged in “ongoing talks and discussions” with Hamas officials.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press
Powerful storms charged eastward, spawning tornado warnings while heavy snow struck the Midwest and dry, windy weather fanned wildfires in Texas.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Seven people accused of killing a 24-year-old man in upstate New York subjected him to weeks of torture, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and LISA MASCARO
Elon Musk has visited Capitol Hill for private meetings with Republicans about his Department of Government Efficiency's budget slashing.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and JOSH BOAK and ROB GILLIES Associated Press
President Donald Trump is granting a one-month exemption on his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
There were five children and two adults in a van parked in a casino garage.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and LINDSAY WHITEHURST and REBECCA BOONE
The Trump administration is dropping an emergency abortion case in Idaho in one of the administration’s first moves on the issue since President Donald Trump's second term began.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and JILL COLVIN and MICHAEL R. SISAK
The Trump administration published a list of more than 440 federal properties it identified to close or sell after deeming them “not core to government operations.”
Mayors from Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York defend ‘sanctuary’ policies, call their cities safe
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Mayors from four major cities testified Wednesday in Congress as Republicans take aim at “sanctuary cities."
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated a lower-court order for the Trump administration to release frozen foreign aid.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and DAVID KLEPPER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press
Intelligence from the U.S. and other allies helps Ukraine prepare for Russian attacks.
Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm Todd Blanche as deputy attorney general, placing President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense attorney in a key Justice Department post at a time of turmoil in the agency.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW DALY and MICHAEL PHILLIS
Sources say the Trump administration plans to drop a federal lawsuit against a synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of worsening cancer risks for residents near its Louisiana plant.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and DANICA KIRKA and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press
President Donald Trump declared in his speech to a joint session of Congress that he intended to gain control of Greenland “one way or the other.”
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and ERIC TUCKER and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press
A suspected participant in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members has arrived in the U.S. to face criminal charges in connection with the attack.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and DAVID BAUDER
NBC News appointed Tom Llamas on Wednesday to replace Lester Holt as anchor of “Nightly News."
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Farmers and meat producers across the U.S. can expect the new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China and the retaliation to hurt their bottom lines by billions of dollars if they stay in place a while.
Trump dice que dará exención de un mes a automotrices de EE.UU. ante aranceles sobre México y Canadá
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Noticia de ÚLTIMA HORA.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
El Departamento de Asuntos de Veteranos (VA, por sus siglas en inglés) planea una “agresiva” reorganización que incluye la eliminación de 80,000 empleos, según un memorando interno obtenido por The Associated Press.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
The nation’s capital city will remove the large painting of the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street one block from the White House as Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser struggles to fend off threats of encroachment from both President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
A cybercrime crew stole and then resold more digital tickets to Taylor Swift concerts and other pricey events.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
Su discurso del martes por la noche fue implacablemente partidista, alardeando de su victoria electoral y criticando a los demócratas por no reconocer sus logros.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
Columbia University has become the first target in President Donald Trump’s campaign to cut federal money to colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM MST
|By The Associated Press and LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent
The Speaker of the House is calling for Green to be censured — among the more severe reprimands his colleagues could mete out.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
Several hospitals across the country halted gender-affirming health care for minors in the days after Trump's order to avoid losing federal funding.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM MST
|By The Associated Press and GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer
James surpassed the mark with a 3-pointer early in the first quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the New Orleans Pelicans.
Zelenskyy calls Oval Office spat with Trump ‘regrettable,’ says he’s ready to work for Ukraine peace
Updated: Mar. 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday the Oval Office blowup with U.S. President Donald Trump was “regrettable."
Updated: Mar. 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and JOSH BOAK, PAUL WISEMAN and ROB GILLIES Associated Press
President Donald Trump’s long-threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday.