By JOHN ANTCZAK and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press
Lightning strikes have sparked fast-moving wildfires in Idaho, prompting the evacuation of multiple communities, including one in which a man drove past a building and trees engulfed in flames as a tunnel of smoke rose over the ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gabrielle Giffords, the former Democratic congresswoman who was grievously wounded in a 2011 shooting in her Arizona district, took to the campaign trail Thursday for Vice President Kamala Harris, as Harris' nascent presidential campaign ...
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are moving quickly to emphasize Vice President Kamala Harris's role in the Biden administration's handling of the U.S. border with Mexico, passing a resolution Thursday that condemns her performance in the job.
The ...
By JOSH BOAK and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters on Thursday that she's "ready to debate Donald Trump."
She accused him of "backpedaling" away from a previous agreement for a debate hosted by ABC News on Sept. 10.
"I think the ...
By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered state agencies Thursday to start removing homeless encampments on state land in his boldest action yet following a Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in ...
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review rulings that found the state's refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, Republican Attorney ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are urging a judge to uphold Donald Trump's historic hush money conviction, arguing in court papers made public Thursday that the verdict should stand despite the Supreme Court's recent ruling on ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
Already more than a month late getting back, two NASA astronauts will remain at the International Space Station until engineers finish working on problems plaguing their Boeing capsule, officials said Thursday.
Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ...
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CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. (AP) — Thousands of people gathered in Virginia to watch the Chincoteague wild ponies make their annual swim across the Assateague Channel, the 99th year of the popular tradition.
The ponies made the short swim across the channel Wednesday as the crowd ...
By CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press/Report for America
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia sun scorched the slab of concrete beneath Juan Carlos Ramirez Bibiano's body when nurses found him in a puddle of his own excrement, vomiting, according to a complaint.
Officers left Ramirez in an ...