By MELISSA GOLDIN, ALI SWENSON and ALEXANDRA OLSON Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump wasted little time this week trying to assign blame for the nation's deadliest air disaster in more than two decades. Among his chief targets: An FAA diversity hiring initiative he ...
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A top U.S. Justice Department official said a county sheriff's office in upstate New York would be investigated "for potential prosecution" because it released a Mexican citizen from jail even though a judge had signed a warrant for the man's arrest.
But Tompkins County ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will deliver his third budget proposal to lawmakers next week, a plan that's expected to seek substantially more aid for the poorest public schools, emphasize frugality and press the politically fraught ...
By JACK DURA Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's decades-long efforts to aid farmers by reshaping the weather through "cloud seeding" is facing fierce opposition in the state Capitol, where legislation could outlaw the practice, which is used across the West and has ...
By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta leaders are reconsidering how they dismantle homeless camps after a man was crushed inside a tent as a bulldozer destroyed makeshift homes in preparation for Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events.
Cornelius Taylor was living in the ...
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press
The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as interior secretary late Thursday after President Donald Trump tapped the former North Dakota governor to spearhead the Republican administration's ambitions to boost fossil fuel production.
The vote was 79-18. More than ...
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press
Robert Santos, who emphasized inclusivity and outreach to overlooked communities, has decided to resign as director of the U.S. Census Bureau, midway through his five-year term and in the midst of planning for the 2030 census, which will determine ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer
President Donald Trump said this week that tariffs on U.S. neighbors Canada and Mexico will arrive Saturday. The two nations are not only close geographically, but economically as well.
The business between the North American nations now exceeds China, ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The first U.S. parent to be held criminally responsible for a mass school shooting committed by a child asked a Michigan judge to throw out her conviction Friday, arguing that her trial was spoiled by the prosecutor's failure to disclose ...
TROY, Mich. (AP) — A pressurized oxygen chamber exploded Friday, killing a 5-year-old patient and injuring his mother at a suburban Detroit medical facility.
The hyperbaric chamber explosion occurred about 8 a.m. at the Oxford Center in Troy, north of Detroit.
The child, from Royal Oak, ...