The Associated Press

The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business.
Updated: 5 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press
The crash of a U.S. Osprey on Wednesday killed at least one crew member. A search was continuing for the aircraft and the seven others on board.
Updated: 14 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and SEAN MURPHY
Phillip Hancock, 59, is scheduled to receive a three-drug lethal injection at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester despite a clemency recommendation.
Truce in Gaza extended another day but talks over remaining hostages held by Hamas could get tougher
Updated: 21 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and MELANIE LIDMAN, NAJIB JOBAIN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press
As word of the extension came, gunmen opened fire on people waiting for buses near Jerusalem, killing at least three of them, according to police.
DeSantis and Newsom will face off in a Fox News event featuring two governors with White House hopes
Updated: 28 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and WILL WEISSERT
There won’t be an audience, but the moderator is Fox host Sean Hannity, who has sparred with Newsom during past television appearances.
Updated: 42 minutes ago
|By The Associated Press and COURTNEY BONNELL and JOSH BOAK
The question is how to split it among the 23 member countries, some of whom already accepted lower production targets at the last OPEC+ meeting in Vienna in June.
Updated: 1 hour ago
|By The Associated Press and MICHAEL PHILLIS
Millions of people consume drinking water from lead pipes, and the agency said tighter standards would improve IQ scores in children and reduce high blood pressure and heart disease in adults.
Updated: 7 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and MELANIE LIDMAN
Negotiations on extending the truce came down to the wire, with last-minute disagreements over the hostages to be freed by Hamas in exchange for another day of a halt in fighting.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Starting in the 1930s, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree tradition has drawn thousands of visitors to the city each year during the holiday season.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Former White House national security advisor and secretary of state Henry Kissinger has died at age 100.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Daryl Hall has accused his longtime music partner John Oates of committing the “ultimate partnership betrayal” by planning to sell his share of the Hall & Oates duo’s joint venture without the other’s permission, Hall said in a court declaration supporting his lawsuit to keep the transaction paused.
Updated: 11 hours ago
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The papers will override a handwritten will from 2010 that was found at Franklin’s suburban Detroit home around the same time in 2019.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ISABELLA VOLMERT
The dismissal is an apparent national first with similar lawsuits pending in Arkansas and Utah.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW BROWN
About 300 surviving animals in the contiguous U.S. live in fragmented, isolated groups at high elevations.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Sternhagen won a Tony for best featured actress in a play in 1974 for her role in Neil Simon’s “The Good Doctor."
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and FATIMA HUSSEIN and CHRIS MEGERIAN
The trip comes as Biden struggles with low approval ratings while he prepares for a likely 2024 rematch against former President Donald Trump, leaving Democrats eager for opportunities to score political points against Republicans.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The former first lady, who died Nov. 19 at the age of 96, had her intimate funeral at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where she and her husband spent decades welcoming guests and where a wooden cross Jimmy Carter fashioned in his woodshop is displayed.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press
Copper inductive charging coils allow vehicles equipped with receivers to charge up their batteries while driving, idling or parking above the coils.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and KEVIN FREKING
Rep. George Santos has survived two previous expulsion efforts in his first year in Congress and has said he will not seek reelection, but the hands-off approach this time could tip the scales against him.
UAW will try to organize workers at all US nonunion factories after winning new contracts in Detroit
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The organizing drive comes after a six-week series of strikes at factories run by Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis that ended with new contracts.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and Dee-Ann Durbin, The Associated Press
The Kraft Heinz Co. is bringing dairy-free macaroni and cheese to the U.S. for the first time.
GOP considers holding formal vote to authorize Biden impeachment as White House questions legitimacy
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Republicans are considering holding an official House vote next month to authorize their impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden as the party looks to formalize a process that has yet to yield any direct evidence of wrongdoing by the president.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The National Christmas Tree in front of the White House fell down during high winds but later was hoisted back upright, and its lighting ceremony will go ahead as scheduled.
Trump embraces the Jan. 6 rioters on the trail. In court, his lawyers hope to distance him from them
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Defense attorneys have made clear their strategy involves distancing the former president from the horde of rioters, whom they describe as “independent actors at the Capitol.”
Arkansas brings back Bobby Petrino as offensive coordinator 11 years after he was fired amid scandal
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Petrino’s career has taken him all over college football and the NFL, often leaving a mess behind after some notable peaks.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Lawyer Randy Fishman told a Memphis probate judge that mentions of Oher being adopted by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy will be taken off advertising for public speaking engagements and the couple’s websites immediately.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
Coast guard aircraft and patrol boats found one person, who was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, and gray-colored debris believed to be from the aircraft, an official said.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
At the center of the dispute: Darlene Williams had two wills, according to records filed in Lincoln County, South Dakota.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2023 at 4:35 AM MST
|By The Associated Press and MIKE STOBBE
Even with the large increase, U.S. life expectancy is only back to 77 years, 6 months — about what it was two decades ago.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 10:01 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
She was charged with a count of murder and could face a sentence of 25 years to life in state prison if convicted.
Hunter Biden offers to testify publicly before Congress, setting up a potential high-stakes face-off
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 8:14 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Hunter Biden’s lawyer called the inquiry a “fishing expedition.”
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 7:36 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Expelling Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York, would require support from at least two-thirds of House members voting.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 7:08 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
Charlie Munger, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway into an investment powerhouse, has died. He was 99.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 6:57 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
The National Christmas Tree in front of the White House fell down Tuesday afternoon amid high winter winds.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 6:28 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and BILL BARROW
The former president, who is 10 months into home hospice care and hasn’t been seen in public since September, stayed Monday night at The Carter Center, CEO Paige Alexander said, steps from where the former first lady lay in repose.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 5:24 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and WAFAA SHURAFA, JACK JEFFERY and LEE KEATH Associated Press
Mediators are meeting in Qatar in hopes of extending the truce.
Ransomware attack prompts multistate hospital chain to divert some emergency room patients elsewhere
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 5:21 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and JONATHAN MATTISE
Ardent Health Services said it cannot yet confirm the extent of any patient health or financial information that has been compromised.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 2:39 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press
The Biden administration underscored to the Israelis that they must operate with far greater precision in southern Gaza than they did in the north, officials said.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 2:06 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr.
Revolt announced Combs’ decision on social media Tuesday, and it's not clear when he will return to his media company.
In new challenge to indictment, Trump’s lawyers argue he had good basis to question election results
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 1:06 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and ERIC TUCKER
A defense motion filed late Monday in federal court in Washington asserts that Trump was not obligated to accept at face value the judgments of government officials who found no widespread fraud in the election.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 12:11 PM MST
|By The Associated Press
The woman is seeking unspecified monetary damages.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 11:30 AM MST
|By The Associated Press and JENNIFER PELTZ
The loans are a focus of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit contending that Trump and his company deceived lenders and insurers by giving them financial statements that baldly overstated his asset values and overall net worth.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 11:04 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
Sytch, who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011, pleaded no contest in August to driving under the influence, manslaughter and other charges.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 10:49 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
They got trapped on Nov. 12, when a landslide caused a portion of the 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) tunnel they were building in Uttarakhand state in India to collapse about 200 meters (650 feet) from the entrance.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 5:01 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
The list of the accused contained many familiar names from past #MeToo scandals and a few new ones.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 12:46 AM MST
|By The Associated Press
Gershkovich is the first American reporter to be charged with espionage in Russia since 1986.
Suspect in shooting of 3 men of Palestinian descent near the University of Vermont pleads not guilty
Updated: Nov. 27, 2023 at 8:39 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and KATHY McCORMACK
He appeared in court Monday by video from jail, speaking only to confirm his identity.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2023 at 8:35 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
“Magic, Wonder and Joy” is the theme this year, the Bidens’ third in the White House.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2023 at 7:56 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and SARA CLINE
Family, friends, fans and veterans of the music world mourned the loss of the Grammy-nominated singer who was considered a musical powerhouse and an integral part of New Orleans’ music legacy.
Blinken will return to Israel and the West Bank to discuss further extensions of the Gaza cease-fire
Updated: Nov. 27, 2023 at 6:27 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and MATTHEW LEE
Blinken will travel to Israel and the West Bank after attending Ukraine-focused meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday in Brussels and Skopje, where foreign ministers from NATO and the Organization for Peace and Security in Europe are gathering.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2023 at 6:04 PM MST
|By The Associated Press and TIA GOLDENBERG, JACK JEFFERY and SAMY MAGDY
The deal for two additional days of cease-fire, announced by Qatar, raised hopes for further extensions, which also allow more aid into Gaza.