Americans’ pride in US history and democracy drops, and fewer are proud to be American, polls find
WASHINGTON | Americans have grown less proud of their country’s history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Americans’ pride in the U.S. on several key attributes has dropped since 2017 — including the nation’s military and its political influence around the globe — according to […]
Supreme Court says Fed’s Cook can keep her job for now, but it upholds other Trump firings
WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception: the Federal Reserve. The justices allowed Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay in her job while she fights the Republican president’s effort to fire her over allegations of […]
Aurora Democratic primaries engulfed in claims of libelous, racists attack ads by outside money groups
AURORA | Harsh campaign attack ads targeting a handful of Democratic primary election races in Aurora have prompted allegations of racism and false information in the last few days leading up to the June election. Multiple Democratic primary races in Aurora are seeing a flurry of advertisements and messages from independent expenditure committees, which expressly […]
PERRY: Stop, you’re killing me — and thousands of other Colorado victims of the Big Beautiful Bill
Colorado healthcare and political leaders agreed last week that President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has become the bloated catastrophe experts warned it would be. During a press call held by accessible healthcare proponents, Colorado Democratic members of Congress and top health officials across the state detailed the damage inflicted so far after Trump and […]
Europe’s record heat has overwhelmed Paris mortuaries and left families in distress
PARIS | Every few minutes, the mortuary owner’s phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him mostly have the same question: Do you have room for one more? With all 32 places in his cold room […]
Israeli strike hits a tent in central Gaza, killing 3, including a child
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip | Israeli forces struck a tent sheltering displaced people in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least three Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy and his grandfather, medical officials said. Health authorities in the coastal enclave said the drone strike hit a neighborhood in Deir al-Balah, one of the least […]
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push to toss $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case
WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The high court declined to take up the case in […]
Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting Trump-led challenge
WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump. The 5-4 decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed ballots to arrive and be counted some […]
TIME TO DECIDE: Colorado primary election ends tomorrow with big and small races on the ballot
WASHINGTON | Democratic voters in Colorado will decide in a state primary Tuesday which of two well-known statewide officeholders to nominate to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Jared Polis. Republicans will also choose a nominee for governor, while voters across the state will finalize general election matchups for U.S. Senate and U.S. House. The Democratic gubernatorial […]
What to Stream: ‘Enola Holmes 3,’ Madonna and the ‘Legally Blonde’ prequel series ‘Elle’
“Enola Holmes 3” and a new album from Madonna are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also, among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: the “Legally Blonde” prequel series, a look at Ralph Lauren’s stamp collection […]