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Touring Trump’s Washington: How the president is putting his imprint on the nation’s capital
WASHINGTON | America is celebrating its 250th year. And what better way to mark that anniversary than with an American summer staple — a trip to Washington, D.C.? But visitors to the nation’s capital will find that it is undergoing tremendous change, courtesy of President Donald Trump’s takeover makeover. Since returning to office 17 months […]
AP Exclusive: NATO deputy commander wants Turkey summit to spur more defense spending and show unity
LONDON | NATO’s deputy commander told The Associated Press that he wants a summit in Turkey to spur member countries to spend more on defense, reaffirm support for Ukraine and underline the unity of the alliance. Air Chief Marshal John Stringer, NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, spoke to AP in London less than […]
Key inflation gauge jumps to 3-year high in latest sign of affordability challenges
WASHINGTON | The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rose to a new three-year high in May as gas prices peaked, a sign rising costs could pose political problems for President Donald Trump and his political party as midterm elections near. Consumer prices rose 4.1% in May from a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Thursday, […]
Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller
WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court sided with the maker of the Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer. The case came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar verdicts against the global agrochemical […]
Trump turns America 250 kickoff into a campaign-style rally on the National Mall
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump formally kicked off celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary on Wednesday night by working to get the country excited again — about himself. The president hosted a rally on Washington’s National Mall, including a series of booming flyovers by stealth bombers, music from military bands, and Lee Greenwood singing “God Bless […]
A member of the cultlike Zizians group is charged in the killings of her parents in Pennsylvania
A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians has been charged with murder in the shooting of her parents at their Pennsylvania home on her 30th birthday, and a prosecutor said Wednesday she wasn’t acting alone. Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said evidence from a neighbor’s doorbell camera, ballistics and analysis of cellphone […]
8 convicted in Texas immigration center shooting and protest are sentenced to decades in prison
FORT WORTH, Texas | A former U.S. Marine reservist and seven others were sentenced Tuesday to decades in prison over a shooting last year that wounded a police officer during a demonstration at a Texas immigration detention center. Prosecutors called the crime an act of terrorism and said the eight were linked to the leftist […]
All the world’s a robot-staging ground for tech entrepreneurs building ‘physical AI’
PROVIDENCE, R.I. | Computer scientist Louis Castricato was in his eighth year studying large language models — the artificial intelligence technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude — when he started to feel like he was hitting a dead end. “We basically have passed the point of doing real fundamental LLM research,” Castricato said. “Now […]
Trump abruptly cancels signing a housing bill, blindsiding Republicans
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump ratcheted up tensions with Senate Republicans on Wednesday, abruptly canceling plans to sign a bipartisan measure that could help spur more home construction. Republicans had been hoping to use the housing bill as a selling point to voters ahead of critical November midterm elections. But the president declared on social […]
How Americans are feeling about the country’s 250th anniversary, according to new polls
WASHINGTON | Duane Mitchell has big plans for the United States’ 250th anniversary. Mitchell, a 78-year-old veteran in Montana, plans to take a red, white and blue 1954 Chevrolet pickup that he restored and drive it in local parades for the Fourth of July. In honor of the country’s milestone anniversary, he bought a decorative […]