WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday reapproved the weed killer dicamba for use on genetically modified soybeans and cotton, a pesticide that has raised widespread concern over its tendency to drift and destroy nearby crops.The agency said dicamba was critical for...

A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must keep funds flowing to child care subsidies and other social service programs in five Democratic-controlled states — at least for now.U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick in New York, who was nominated by former Pr...

The Pentagon said Friday it is cutting ties with Harvard University, ending all military training, fellowships and certificate programs with the Ivy League institution.The announcement marks the latest development in the Trump administration’s prolonged standoff with Harvard over the White H...

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has become a shareholder in Kalshi, a major prediction market with a wide array of sports trading opportunities.Antetokounmpo announced the partnership Friday.“The internet is full of opinions. I decided it was time to make some of my own,” Antetoko...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice will allow members of Congress to review unredacted files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein starting on Monday, according to a letter that was sent to lawmakers.The letter obtained by The Associated Press says that lawmakers will be abl...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge says the federal government must return three families hurt by the first Trump administration’s policy of separating parents from the children at the border, saying their deportations in recent months relied on “lies, deception and coercion.”The order, issued Thursda...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A man allegedly tied to the killing of Colombian soccer player Andrés Escobar days after he scored an own goal during the 1994 World Cup was shot dead in Mexico, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Friday.Petro wrote on X that Santiago Gallón, an alleged Colombian drug...

Bangkok, Thailand – The orange campaign buses of Thailand’s opposition People’s Party have been hard to miss in recent weeks, winding through cities and villages carrying reformist politicians on what they call the “Choose the Future” tour.At rally stops, thousands have gathered to hear promises of change.Recommended Stories list o...

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has revealed it will continue to seek the deportation of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Conejo Arias, after their recent return to Minnesota.The department, however, denied it is seeking their expedited removal, as the family’s lawyer claimed.Recommended...

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

MILTON, Ga. (AP) — A person believed to be the son of rapper Lil Jon has been found dead in a pond north of Atlanta, police said Friday.Nathan Smith, known professionally as D.J. Young Slade, left his home in Milton “under unusual circumstances” early Tuesday morning, police said.Lil Jon sai...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury has found former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig guilty of obstruction of justice and lying to federal officials investigating an illegal gambling operation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday.The verdict came after a multiweek trial that featured testimony...

HAVANA (AP) — After a day spent selling books, Solanda Oña typically boards a bus from a wealthy seaside district in Havana to her home in the city’s working-class center.But on Thursday night, the bus never came. The 64-year-old bookseller spent the night sleeping in a nearby restaurant ins...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped the most serious assault charge against Penn State hockey star Gavin McKenna, considered a likely top pick in this year’s NHL draft, but he remains accused of less serious offenses.The Centre County prosecutor said Friday that aggravated ass...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Sofia Goggia had a key role in securing the hosting rights of the Milan Cortina Olympics for Italy.So it seemed fitting that the Italian downhiller lit the cauldron in Cortina to conclude Friday’s opening ceremony, while retired Olympic skiing champions Albert...

MILAN (AP) — American athletes received an enthusiastic welcome at the opening ceremony for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, but the mood shifted when cameras briefly turned to Vice President JD Vance.Led by speedskater and flag bearer Erin Jackson, Team USA was among the last delegations...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — At least three people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named Death Cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter. The California Department of Public Health is urging people to avoid mushroom foragi...

The Arizona Schools for the Deaf and the Blind will move to Oro Valley next school year, the Board of Directors voted Thursday — forcing many students, including those who are vision-impaired, to find a different school.The board vote to move was 5-2, with the two objections from Tucson resi...

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that her country will ship humanitarian aid to Cuba, as she continues to negotiate with United States President Donald Trump to relax the oil blockade he has imposed on the island nation.Speaking on Friday from Michoacan, Sheinbaum added that her government would be delivering the...

Yemen’s Saudi-backed presidential leadership council has issued a decree to form a new government, with Shaya Mohsen al-Zindani confirmed as the country’s prime minister.Al-Zindani will also continue to serve as foreign minister, the state-run news agency Saba reported on Friday.Last month, the council accepted the resignation of f...

Brownie brittle, chocolate lava cake and more recipes to help celebrate Valentine’s Day, or just any old Wednesday.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Nearly two weeks after an ice storm knocked out power to her home, Barbara Bishop still finds herself trying to flip the lights on and looking in her fridge for food that has since spoiled.Bishop, 79, and her 85-year-old husband, George Bishop, live in a rural area near...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday that its use of emergency orders to keep aging coal-fired plants operating helped prevent a major blackout from power shortages during the brutally frigid weather that has gripped most of America for the past two weeks.Scattered outages...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona must stop enforcing abortion restrictions that predate and contradict a 2024 voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, a judge ordered in a ruling released Friday.Maricopa Superior Court Judge Greg Como found that the older laws present unne...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday reopening a huge swath of protected sea in the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing.Trump said the order would reestablish fishing in Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the New England...

CHICAGO (AP) — A soft layer of white snow blankets the grounds of the Chicago Botanic Garden. The air is chilly, the sky gray.Inside, however, the air is warm and lights illuminate more than 10,000 vividly colored orchids. Staff members move in and out of greenhouses, preparing to open the g...

British police are searching two properties linked to former ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson as they investigate allegations of misconduct in public office over links to late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.As the fallout from the scandal continued to engulf Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday, police said they were...

Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Milan to reject the presence of United States immigration agents in the city before the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina Winter Games.The student-led demonstration on Friday featured banners reading “ICE should be in my drinks, not my city” in reaction to the reported presence of Immigr...

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

United States President Donald Trump has again stoked outrage over his online posts, this time for sharing a video depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as apes.The reposted clip came as part of a flurry of late-night messages on Trump’s Truth Social account.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1...

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

The United States has sanctioned 14 nautical vessels as part of what it calls a “shadow fleet” circumventing restrictions on the transport of Iranian oil and petroleum products.In addition, the country’s Department of State also announced sanctions against two people and 15 entities — including ship management companies based in co...

LONDON (AP) — A 76-year-old retired British veterinarian was sentenced on Friday to 23 years and 10 months in prison on charges of child abuse after lacing candy he gave his victims with sedatives at a summer camp in England last year.Jon Ruben was arrested in July after eight boys between t...

BEIRUT (AP) — Iran-backed groups in the Middle East should exercise the “greatest restraint” if there is regional escalation between Iran and the United States to avoid destabilizing the region, France’s foreign minister said Friday.Jean-Noël Barrot made his comments in Beirut, where he arri...

BEIRUT (AP) — U.N. peacekeepers patrolling southern Lebanon have faced a dramatic surge of “aggressive behavior” by Israeli forces over the last year, including drone-dropped grenades and machine-gun fire, according to an internal report seen by The Associated Press.The report by one of the...

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PREDAZZO, Italy (AP) — The regulatory body for skiing on Friday dismissed as a “wild rumor” reports that ski jumpers are enhancing their groin area to gain distance as the Winter Olympics begins.A report by the German tabloid Bild last month suggested some ski jumpers were injecting hyaluron...

A district attorney has turned over to a special prosecutor the criminal cases accusing members of a secretive North Carolina religious group of holding down and beating a one-time member 13 years ago.The victim asked a judge to kick District Attorney Ted Bell off the case just days before a...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer was convicted Friday of second-degree manslaughter after he tossed a picnic cooler filled with drinks at a fleeing suspect, causing him to fatally crash his motorized scooter. Judge Guy Mitchell handed down the guilty verdict Friday in Bronx cri...

Just over 100 years ago, a prosperous West Oakland family bought a home in Piedmont. The small East Bay enclave, carved out of the center of Oakland by a few hundred voters who didn’t want to be annexed by the East Bay’s expanding metropolis, had already garnered the nickname “city of millio...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The sheriff investigating the apparent abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother said Friday he was frustrated that a camera at Nancy Guthrie ‘s home wasn’t able to capture images of anyone the day she went missing.Investigators have found that the home’s...

Nevada fell well short of its greenhouse gas emission-cutting goals in 2025, and it’s poised to be much further behind when the bar raises again in 2030. According to the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection (NDEP), the state’s carbon emissions are projected to stay nearly the same...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Repairs on a pipe rupture that has sent sewage flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington, D.C., will take weeks more to repair because of an unexpected blockage, according to the local water authority.In a release posted on its website Thursday, DC Water, which...

Alvin Jardine spent more than a third of his life in prison for a rape he did not commit. After his release, he spent another decade fighting the state for money he was entitled to through Hawaiʻi’s wrongful conviction compensation law. Legislators are now poised to approve a $600,000 paymen...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will resume staff cuts that were briefly paused during January’s severe winter storm, according to two FEMA managers, stoking concern across the agency over its ability to address disasters with fewer workers.FEMA at the start of January abruptly stopp...

Vermont is missing out on huge opportunities for federal money for child welfare services — perhaps millions of dollars, lawmakers fear — because of a 43-year-old IT system. And due to flaws in that very system, officials say it’s also impossible to know how much funding Vermont has lost out...

At 93, Anna Lee Pettit lives alone in a first-floor apartment at Morgantown’s Unity House Apartments, where she can get her mail indoors and avoid hauling garbage outside in the winter. She survives on Social Security benefits and said she wouldn’t have made it without affordable housing aft...

MIAMI (AP) — Winged babies shooting heart-shaped arrows might get most of the credit on Valentine’s Day, but the real magic behind millions of romantic bouquets happens in a cargo warehouse at a South Florida airport.Agricultural specialists at Miami International Airport will process about...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Elon Musk’s “Vegas Loop,” a network of underground tunnels to ferry passengers in Teslas, was under fresh scrutiny this week from Nevada lawmakers who raised concern about alleged workplace safety and environmental violations.Lawmakers spent hours grilling state safety offic...

Gallo signaled Friday that it sees wine and whiskey as a good mix for business. The wine giant said it plans to add a prominent Kentucky bourbon brand to its portfolio in a deal to purchase Four Roses Distillery from Japanese-based Kirin.The deal, valued at up to $775 million, is expected to...

TOKYO (AP) — Toyota reported a 43% drop in quarterly profit on Friday and announced that its chief financial officer, Kenta Kon, will become its new chief executive and president.Kon, a Toyota veteran, will replace Koji Sato in both roles in April. Shareholder approval is expected in June.“T...

Since the Trump administration slashed foreign aid to Afghanistan a year ago, child malnutrition has risen to levels not seen in 25 years.Two recent deadly earthquakes have killed thousands.Some 2.8 million Afghan refugees have been forced to return from neighboring countries.The economy has taken a severe blow, with all those shoc...

Thomas Caron has performed as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, but Othello, the fourth of Shakespeare’s great tragic heroes, was out of reach for the American actor without resorting to blackface — until he got to China.“There was no way I was ever going to play Othello in the United States,” said Mr. Caron, 7...

The first time Cortina d’Ampezzo, a ski resort town in northern Italy, was scheduled to host the Winter Olympics, it was 1944. Because of World War II, the Games were canceled.Now, eight decades later, the Winter Games are returning to several locations in Italy, including Cortina, during one of the greatest periods of geopol...

For weeks, Hikaru Fujita, a candidate in Japan’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, wrestled with a secret. She was pregnant with her first child — a joyous milestone for her and her husband.But Ms. Fujita, 35, a Harvard-educated former diplomat, worried that publicizing her pregnancy could hurt her campaign. In late Ja...

Amid a rolling purge of officials and generals accused of corruption, the Chinese authorities have detained two investigative journalists — for writing about corruption.China’s leader, Xi Jinping, warned after taking power in 2012 that graft would spell “the end of the party and the end of the state” if left...

Thousands of Pakistanis who lived along their nation’s tense border with Afghanistan have been left stranded after being driven from their homes last month to make way for a military campaign against Islamist fighters that their government now says it never planned.Local and national officials have given conflicting accounts...

Toyota Motor is tapping a new chief executive to steer the company through an era of rising protectionism and geopolitical frictions.The world’s largest automaker announced on Friday that Kenta Kon, its chief financial officer, will become C.E.O. on April 1. He succeeds Koji Sato, who was given the top job three years ago and...

Three Democratic senators have accused the credit-rating company Equifax of price gouging states for a service many will use to comply with the new work requirements for Medicaid and food assistance passed by Republicans in Congress last year.In a letter to the company’s chief executive, Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachus...

A daring attempt to study Antarctica’s fast-melting Thwaites Glacier collapsed over the weekend after the scientists’ instruments became entombed within the half-mile-thick ice.A team of British and South Korean researchers was trying to install instruments beneath the immense glacier, where they would collect data, the...

A week before the 2024 election, Idaho’s largest electric utility struck a 35-year deal to buy power from a wind farm under development in Wyoming.The Jackalope Wind project would span an area the size of Chicago, with hundreds of wind turbines generating clean electricity by 2027.But the wind farm soon became a casualty of P...

A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, killing 31 people and injuring dozens, according to the police and hospital officials, adding to worries that insurgent violence is increasingly targeting Pakistan’s capital.The attack occurred during Friday Prayers at a Shiite mosque in Tar...

For the first time, two major medical groups have backed limitations on gender-related surgical treatments for minors in the United States.The American Medical Association, the nation’s largest organization representing doctors, on Wednesday said these procedures generally should be deferred until patients reach adulthood. Th...

President Trump announced the debut of a website on Thursday night to help Americans use their own money to buy prescription drugs.The government website, TrumpRx.gov, will not sell medications. Instead, it provides an entry point for consumers to search for their drugs and then buy them elsewhere, either from pharmacies or website...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday announced the Food and Drug Administration was relaxing its enforcement of federal food additive regulations, making it easier for manufacturers to claim that they are not using artificial dyes in their products.The F.D.A. has barred food makers from advertising that products conta...

The deadline has been looming over Washington and Moscow for years.On Thursday, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia expired. For the first time since 1972, it leaves both superpowers with no limits on the size or structure of their arsenals, at the very moment both are planning new generations...

The government website TrumpRx.gov gives Americans a new option for getting their medications. But it also adds to the complexity of a system that can make it extraordinarily difficult for people to compare prices and figure out where to find the least expensive drug.Introduced on Thursday, the website does not sell prescription dr...

Members of the federal vaccine panel chosen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are setting their sights on the next targets: the mRNA Covid shots, and vaccines offered to pregnant women.The panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, already has imposed some limits on access to Covid vaccines and has resc...

It’s not every day that one gets to hold a chunk of hide from an extinct woolly rhinoceros in their hands.“I don’t think I will ever forget that,” said Sólveig Guðjónsdóttir, who studied the specimen in 2022 and 2023 while she was a graduate student in evolutionary genomics at Stockh...

The Trump administration has sought to pressure Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, to help name New York’s Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after President Trump in exchange for releasing billions of dollars he has frozen for a rail tunnel under the Hudson River.Top ad...

As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, frequently finds herself needing to hold many objects at once.“I constantly have tons of things under my arms and in my fingers,” she said, adding: “I use my entire body to grasp things.”In these situations, Dr. Bi...

Many of the snazziest decorations in the animal kingdom are charm offensives, put on by creatures trying to mate.While some of these adornments, like a peacock’s tail feathers or a moose’s antlers, are obvious even to humans, others can be perceived only with sensory capabilities that we don’t have.A new study, pu...

Lawyers for the federal government have filed a motion to expedite the deportation of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in a bunny hat whose image rocketed around the world after he was detained by federal agents in Minnesota last month during an immigration enforcement operation.In an interview on Friday morning, Danielle Moll...

Months before immigration agents flooded into Minnesota, the Trump administration outlined its grievances against state and local officials in a lawsuit that accused them of engaging in “an active and deliberate effort to obstruct federal immigration enforcement.”The claims in that lawsuit, which remains unresolved, hav...