By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A California resident who attempted to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his Maryland home was sentenced Friday to over eight years in prison by a federal judge, who imposed a punishment that is ...

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with two organizations that for decades have tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias, a move that follows complaints about the groups from some conservatives and ...

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and BEN FINLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being "weaponized" and says he's overhauling the inspector general's office, upending the way that service members report abuse ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Universal Orlando Resort plans to reopen its Stardust Racers ride at Epic Universe more than two weeks after a 32-year-old man died of blunt force injuries after going on the high-speed roller coaster. Signs will be updated to reinforce existing warnings and eligibility ...

By BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer The parents of two college students killed in a Tesla crash say they were trapped in the car as it burst into flames because of a design flaw that made it nearly impossible for them to open the doors, according to lawsuits filed Thursday. The parents ...

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A young New Hampshire man who was 16 when he killed his sister-in-law and two young nephews was sentenced Friday to 60 years to life in prison for crimes his lawyer said he doesn't remember committing. Eric Sweeney, now 19, had been ...

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday that it would pay migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport. U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A white Kansas sheriff's deputy charged with murder in the death of a Black jail inmate shoved his knee into the cuffed man's back for one minute and 26 seconds after he was wheeled back to his cell from the infirmary, ...

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Boston ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily, adding to the mounting legal setbacks for the president's ...

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation's nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic bomb to the arms race that fueled the Cold ...

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be "pro-life." Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about ...

By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — Shutdowns of the federal government usually don't leave much economic damage. But the one that started Wednesday looks riskier, not least because President Donald Trump is threatening to use the standoff to ...

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department fired a top national security prosecutor amid criticism from a right-wing commentator over his work during the Biden administration, further roiling the prominent U.S. Attorney's Office for ...

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Constellation Energy has agreed to spend more than $340 million to improve water quality at Maryland's Conowingo Dam, which flows into the Susquehanna River and eventually ends up in the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary, ...

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Berkshire Hathaway is buying Occidental Petroleum's chemical division for $9.7 billion in what may be the last big acquisition involving the consummate dealmaker, Warren Buffett. Buffett wasn't mentioned anywhere in materials released by ...

By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer OpenAI could now be the world's most valuable startup, ahead of Elon Musk's SpaceX and TikTok's parent company ByteDance, after a secondary stock sale designed to retain employees at the ChatGPT maker. Current and former OpenAI employees sold $6.6 ...

By SOPHIE BATES Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 25-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by police is suing the officers involved, the Mississippi Capitol Police and the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, among others. Arkela Lewis' son, Jaylen Lewis, was ...

By COLLIN BINKLEY and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump's political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money. A document sent to the universities encourages them ...

By BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Months after Elon Musk left the Trump administration to the relief of Tesla investors worried about boycotts, the world's richest man has announced some good news: Sales of Tesla cars are back. Well, maybe. The electric vehicle maker ...

A woman who was inside a Michigan church when her father and three other people were killed says she and the gunman locked eyes during the chaos and she was able to look into his soul, seeing his pain and a feeling of being lost. She said she instantly forgave him "with my heart." "He let me ...