By JACK BROOK, REBECCA SANTANA and SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Around 250 federal border agents are expected to launch a monthslong immigration crackdown on Monday in southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi dubbed "Swamp Sweep." The deployment, which ...
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has become the latest state to launch sports betting. The state began allowing bets Monday with some limitations, including that people won't be allowed to make prop bets for games involving Missouri college players. Prop ...
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A new type of lens approved by the FDA promises to slow nearsightedness in children. These specialized glasses, available in the U.S. for the first time, aim to reduce the progression of myopia in kids aged 6 to 12. The lenses use ...
By SOPHIE AUSTIN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are appealing to the public for tips, cellphone video and witness accounts as they search for a suspect in the killing of three children and an adult at a child's birthday party in California. ...
By JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — U.S. and Ukrainian officials completed roughly four hours of talks Sunday aimed at finding an endgame to the war between Russia and Ukraine, just days before a U.S. envoy is due in Moscow for talks with Russian ...
By ADAM SCHRECK and NAM Y. HUH Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Travelers at the end of the Thanksgiving holiday on Sunday were finding hundreds of flights delayed and canceled into and out of Chicago following a winter storm in the Great Lakes region. In Wisconsin, utility crews worked to ...
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press President Donald Trump says he's invited the family of a National Guard member fatally shot last week to the White House. Trump says he spoke to her parents and they are "devastated." U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom died after the shooting on Wednesday in ...
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties say they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea. Their comments in Sunday news show interview follow a Washington Post report that ...
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of a former investment manager convicted of defrauding investors. It's the latest in a series of clemency actions Trump has taken in white-collar criminal cases. David Gentile ...
By SEJAL GOVINDARAO Associated Press Republican U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas announced Saturday that he will retire from Congress after his term ends in 2026 to focus on family. Nehls, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump who has sported his mug shot on a T-shirt, said he called ...