By RIO YAMAT AP Airlines and Travel Writer A shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that took effect early Saturday impacts the agency responsible for screening passengers and bags at airports across the country. Travelers with airline reservations may be nervously recalling ...

By TY ONEIL Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Law enforcement investigating the disappearance of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie 's mother sealed off a road near Nancy Guthrie's home in Arizona late Friday night. A parade of sheriff's and FBI vehicles, including forensics ...

By MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For years, it was a daily McDonald's trip for a cup of coffee with 10 sugars and five creams. Later, it was Starbucks caramel macchiatos with almond milk and two pumps of syrup. Coffee has been a morning ritual for Chandra Donelson ...

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — When Donald Trump fought his way back to the White House in 2024, he capitalized on simmering economic discontent in political battlegrounds such as Michigan. Now Democrats are trying to harness those same concerns, which have ...

By SAFIYAH RIDDLE Associated Press Two golfers in Washington, D.C., sued the federal government on Friday to try to prevent the Trump administration from overhauling a more than 100-year-old public golf course, accusing the administration of violating environmental laws and polluting a ...

By ED WHITE and TY ONEIL Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona sheriff's department got more than 4,000 calls within 24 hours after the release of videos of a masked person on Nancy Guthrie's porch. Many tips will be worthless. Others could have merit. Experts say one thing's ...

By JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press A federal law requiring impairment-detection devices inside all new cars survived a recent push to strip its funding but remains stalled by questions about whether the technology is ready. Rana Abbas Taylor lost her sister, brother-in-law, nephew and two ...

By JACK BROOK Associated Press/Report for America MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minnesota winds down, Minneapolis will need to decide how to manage makeshift memorial sites for two U.S. citizens killed by federal agents last month. Piles of ...

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Federal immigration officials plan to spend $38.3 billion to boost detention capacity to 92,600 beds, a document released Friday shows, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly purchases warehouses to turn into detention and processing ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Friday that it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea. U.S. Southern Command said on social media that the boat "was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was ...

By MICHAEL BIESECKER, JIM MUSTIAN and JACK BROOK Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges were dropped against two Venezuelan ...

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four people have been indicted on federal charges stemming from clashes with federal officers in Minneapolis, including one woman who is accused of biting off an immigration officer's fingertip. The three others ...

By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — An au pair who schemed with her employer-turned-lover to kill his wife and another man received a 10-year prison sentence on Friday. Prosecutors had recommended Juliana Peres Magalhães walk free after she pleaded ...

By MICHAEL CASEY and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A college student deported to Honduras while traveling for Thanksgiving in November must be returned to the United States within two weeks, a federal judge in Boston ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns ...

By KATHY McCORMACK and SARAH BRUMFIELD Associated Press Two men were killed and another was wounded in a shooting in a dorm room at South Carolina State University just four months after another deadly shooting at the campus. Henry L. Crittington, 19, died at the scene of the Thursday ...

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathy Ruemmler has had a storied legal career. As a federal prosecutor, she helped successfully prosecute Enron executives including Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. She was part of President Barack Obama's ...

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROGUE, La. (AP) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana on Friday downplayed the impact of President Donald Trump backing a GOP rival in a race that will test whether the the two-term senator can survive the president's quest to rid the party of ...

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A judge sentenced an 18-year-old who acknowledged killing five people in a North Carolina mass shooting to life in prison without parole Friday, rejecting arguments that he deserved the chance for release decades from ...

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A Connecticut judge on Friday dismissed criminal charges against three current and former New Haven police officers who were accused of mistreating prisoner Richard "Randy" Cox after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van in 2022. Judge David Zagaja ...

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of killing four relatives in what prosecutors said was a murder and arson plot spawned by a soured business relationship between the man and his younger brother. Paul Caneiro, 59, was found guilty on four counts of ...