Nation and World
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Trump sues Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over reporting on Epstein ties
Jul 18, 2025 8:07 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Friday against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, a day after the newspaper published a story rep...
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Trump signs new stablecoin regulations into law, a major milestone for crypto industry
Jul 18, 2025 8:02 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law new regulations for a type of cryptocurrency, a major milestone for an industry that has spent heavily to st...
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Health insurance through Affordable Care Act faces big premium hikes
Jul 18, 2025 7:37 pm - Health insurers are proposing double-digit price hikes for plans sold through Affordable Care Act marketplaces, as extra federal subsidies for premiums expire at the end ...
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Venezuela releases jailed Americans in deal that also frees migrants deported to El Salvador by US
Jul 18, 2025 4:37 pm - CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela released 10 jailed Americans Friday in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago...
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Christian patriarchs make rare visit to Gaza after deadly Israeli strike on church
Jul 18, 2025 4:32 pm - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Top church leaders visited Gaza on Friday after its only Catholic church was struck by an Israeli shell the day before, an attack that killed ...
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Most US adults think the GOP tax bill will help the wealthy and harm the poor, AP-NORC poll finds
Jul 18, 2025 4:09 pm - WASHINGTON — Republican elected officials are promoting their recently passed tax and spending bill as a win for working Americans, but a new survey shows that Americans ...
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Iran bomb damage intel suggests two nuclear sites not ‘obliterated’
Jul 18, 2025 3:55 pm - The United States has assessed that only one of Iran’s three principal nuclear facilities was destroyed in U.S. strikes last month, officials and people familiar with ong...
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Trump administration seeks release of Epstein grand jury records but not Justice Department files
Jul 18, 2025 2:26 pm - WASHINGTON — Under intense pressure from President Donald Trump's own supporters, his administration on Friday asked a federal court to unseal secret documents related to...
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Training facility blast kills 3 LA deputies in one of sheriff’s department’s worst losses of life
Jul 18, 2025 11:24 am - An explosion early Friday at a law enforcement training facility in Los Angeles that left three people dead was being investigated as a possible training accident, officials said.
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Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern discuss merger to create transcontinental railroad, AP source says
Jul 18, 2025 8:53 am - Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are in merger talks to create the largest railroad in North America that would connect the East and West Coasts.