Nation and World
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Bud Light maker Anheuser-Busch lays off hundreds of US corporate workers after sales slump
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Bud Light, confirmed this week is laying off hundreds of positions across its U.S. corporate staff. In a statement to The As...
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Trump says his lawyers have met with prosecutors ahead of possible 2020 election indictment
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Donald Trump met Thursday with members of special counsel Jack Smith's team ahead of a potential indictment over the former president's efforts ...
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Bluffing or not, Putin's declared deployment of nuclear weapons to Belarus raises tensions
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - Sometime this summer, if President Vladimir Putin can be believed, Russia moved some of its short-range nuclear weapons into Belarus, closer to Ukraine and onto NATO's d...
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DeSantis is defending new slavery teachings. Civil rights leaders see a pattern of 'policy violence'
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Civil rights activists cheered when Ron DeSantis pardoned four Black men wrongfully convicted of rape as one of his first actions as Florida's govern...
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Supreme Court allows construction to resume on the Mountain Valley Pipeline
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed construction to resume on a contested natural-gas pipeline that is being built through Virginia and West Virginia. Wor...
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Grimace campaign that went weirdly viral fuels McDonald's Q2, yet growth may slow as inflation cools
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - McDonald's is grinning thanks to Grimace after a marketing campaign to celebrate the "birthday" of its big purple mascot went viral and contributed to surprisingly stron...
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Judge sees dark writings of Michigan school shooter who could get life in prison
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - PONTIAC, Mich. - A teenager who killed four fellow students at a Michigan high school in 2021 wrote about his plans in a journal, detailing how he would target his victi...
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Biden announces an advanced cancer research initiative as part of his 'moonshot' effort
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced the first cancer-focused initiative under its advanced health research agency, aiming to help doc...
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Trump once condemned the Jan. 6 rioters. Now he's become one of their biggest supporters
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - The day after Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump denounced the rioters who violently stormed the Capitol building, breaking through barricades, battlin...
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A 'rolling recession' or a 'richcession' might spare the U.S. economy from a full-scale downturn
Jul 27, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Despite more than a year of widespread warnings that a recession was near, America's economy is, if anything, accelerating. Even as the Federal Reserve has ...