WASHINGTON (AP) — The impact of the massive spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law on Independence Day is expected to filter down to infants and toddlers — a segment of the population that's particularly vulnerable to cuts to the federal social safety net.
Many middle-class ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Two former West Virginia correctional officers were sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate.
Mark Holdren, 41, was sentenced to 20 years in prison and Johnathan Walters, 33, was sentenced to 21 ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As trash and tempers heat up across Philadelphia on Day 8 of a strike by blue-collar city workers Tuesday, some residents and small business owners are hiring pop-up hauling services to clear their blocks of garbage, even as they broadly support the union's quest for ...
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Scott Frost's celebrated return as coach at UCF comes with the backdrop of a failed tenure at Nebraska, the alma mater he said he didn't want to talk about at Big 12 football media days Tuesday.
Even though he did.
Frost said, "I really want to keep it about UCF," just ...
U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated again for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Trump on Monday that he recommended him for the prestigious award, handing the American leader the letter he said he sent the Nobel committee.
Trump has been ...
Stock indexes are mixed in midday trading Tuesday, coming off a broad sell-off following the Trump administration's decision to impose new import tariffs set to go into effect next month on more than a dozen nations.
The S&P 500 was up 0.1% a day after posting its biggest drop since June. ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Real estate investors are snapping up a bigger share of U.S. homes on the market as rising prices and stubbornly high borrowing costs freeze out many other would-be homebuyers.
Nearly 27% of all homes sold in the first three months of the year were bought by investors -- ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for the state to institute a ban on conversion therapy in a ruling that gives the governor more power over how state laws are enacted.
The court ruled that a Republican-controlled legislative committee's rejection of a ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, who was shot nine times by a gunman posing as a police officer who authorities say went on to kill another lawmaker, is out of the hospital and is now recovering in a transitional care unit, his family said.
"John has been moved to a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Her voice breaking, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that emergency responders in Texas are "still looking for a lot of little girls" who remain missing after a catastrophic flood during the holiday weekend.
Noem described the scene at Camp Mystic in ...