By MATT OTT AP Business Writer
Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite higher interest rates imposed by the Federal Reserve in its bid to curb inflation.
The Labor Department reported Thursday that unemployment claims for ...
By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has a great economic story to tell voters a decade from now, less so in 2024.
On Thursday, the Democratic president will head to upstate New York to celebrate Micron Technology's plans to build a ...
By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births fell last year, resuming a long national slide.
A little under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023, according to provisional statistics released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's about 76,000 ...
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden showed off his putting during a campaign stop at a public golf course in Michigan last month, the moment was captured on TikTok.
Forced inside by a rainstorm, he competed with 13-year-old Hurley "HJ" Coleman IV ...
By JACQUES BILLEAUD, JONATHAN J. COOPER and JOSH KELETY Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump 's chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others for their roles in an attempt to overturn Trump's loss to Joe Biden in ...
By JIM VERTUNO, ACACIA CORONADO and NICK PERRY Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police peacefully arrested student protesters at the University of Southern California on Wednesday, hours after police at a Texas university aggressively detained dozens in the latest clashes between law ...
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Senate approved its budget Wednesday after debating items like requiring school children use the bathrooms of their sex assigned at birth and whether universities can spend state money to move to another athletic ...
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican legislative leaders in Ohio say they are negotiating with Democrats to assure President Joe Biden appears on the state's November ballot, but the exact shape of the solution remains murky.
GOP Ohio Senate President Matt ...
By ANNIE MA AP Education Writer
Columbia University president Minouche Shafik is no stranger to navigating complex international issues, having worked at some of the world's most prominent global financial institutions.
At the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, for example, ...
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press
Some public school teachers in Tennessee could gain new powers to carry concealed guns into the classroom, a year after a deadly school shooting in the state's capital city stirred impassioned debate about the best ways to curb such violence.
The ...
By NICK PERRY and KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University averted another confrontation between students and police early Wednesday, but the situation remained tense with campus officials saying it would continue talks with pro-Palestinian protesters for another ...
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old girl when he was robbed at a Houston ATM in 2022 has been indicted for murder in her death.
Tuesday's indictment against Tony Earls comes nearly two years after another grand jury declined ...
By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer
Dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for the bird flu virus, U.S. agriculture officials said Wednesday as they try to track and control the growing outbreak.
The federal order was announced one day after health officials said they had detected ...
By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Arizona doctors could give their patients abortions in California under a proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom to circumvent a ban on nearly all abortions in that state.
It would apply only to ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER, JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent to four years in prison for leaking DEA intelligence to defense lawyers in a $100,000 bribery scheme that ...
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr., a New Jersey Democrat and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who replaced his father in the seat, died Wednesday after a heart attack this month that left him hospitalized, officials said. He was 65.
Gov. Phil Murphy called his fellow ...
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the department of "brutally violent" policing tactics.
The ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Wednesday that state abortion bans after their sweeping ruling overturning Roe v. Wade violate federal healthcare law, though some also questioned the effects on emergency care ...
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For the first time in more than a year, the monthly board meeting of Walt Disney World's governing district on Wednesday was back to being what many municipal government forums often are — boring.
There were no rants against Disney ...
By CORA LEWIS Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — When Anna Branch, 37, had her hours at work reduced at the start of the pandemic in 2020, she suddenly noticed ads for an app called EarnIn.
"You know how they get you — the algorithms — like they're reading your mind," Branch said. "The ...