By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine officials said Friday the state will not comply with a ban on transgender athletes in high school sports in the wake of a Trump administration finding that the state violated antidiscrimination laws by allowing the students ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the struggling coal industry, a reliable but polluting energy source that's long been in decline.
Under the four orders, Trump uses his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired ...
By CORA LEWIS and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to overturn a rule that would have limited bank overdraft fees to $5, following the Senate in moving to dismantle the regulation that the Biden administration had estimated would save ...
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California youth soccer coach charged with killing a 13-year-old boy last month has also been accused of assaulting at least two other teens in recent years, prosecutors said.
Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino is charged with ...
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has launched tariff wars with almost all of America's trading partners. And his track record of on-again, off-again new levies continued Wednesday with a 90-day pause for most nations targeted by the latest ...
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is having early discussions about a grand military parade in the nation's capital this summer, something that is a long-held dream of President Donald Trump.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ...
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.
Using a piece of that ...
By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself in a familiar jam, with conservative Republican holdouts stalling action on President Donald Trump's "big" bill of tax breaks and spending reductions. Those House Republicans are ...
By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer
Indiana health officials announced a measles outbreak Wednesday, with six cases that have no known links to the outbreaks in several other states.
The U.S. has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024.
Texas is reporting the ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for President Donald Trump's administration to fire thousands of probationary workers, halting a judge's order requiring them to be reinstated in a legal win for Trump's effort to ...