By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for President Donald Trump's administration to fire thousands of probationary workers, halting a judge's order requiring them to be reinstated in a legal win for Trump's effort to ...
By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America Four people were charged Wednesday in connection with a shooting that killed three people and wounded three others in Virginia, authorities said. Three suspects have been arrested on charges of malicious wounding and felony firearm use. ...
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil prices swung wildly on Wednesday, sinking to a four-year low in anticipation of slowing economic growth due to a burgeoning trade war, before jumping 2% after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on most of his ...
By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as the Trump administration's ambassador to Israel, two days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's White House visit. The 53-46 vote installs a ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Soil and rocks returned from the moon's mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, Chinese scientists reported Wednesday. But they cautioned more samples are needed for a clearer ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — By declaring a trade war on the rest of the world, President Donald Trump has panicked global financial markets, raised the risk of a recession and broken the political and economic alliances that made much of the world stable for ...
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in New Mexico's largest city, saying that a significant increase in crime in Albuquerque warrants the help of the New Mexico National Guard. She signed ...
SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (AP) — Three people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting in northeastern Virginia on Tuesday evening, and one or more shooters was on the loose, authorities said. At about 5:30 p.m., 911 calls came in about a shooting at a town house complex in ...
By NADIA LATHAN Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for the U.S. Senate in a primary challenge against Republican Sen. John Cornyn, setting up what is likely to become one of the GOP's most contentious and expensive contests of ...
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed four executive orders aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that's long been in decline. Under the orders, Trump will use his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power ...
