Author: Associated Press

Active shooter reported at Emory University in Atlanta, authorities say

Emergency vehicles line up near Emory University and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)ATLANTA (AP) — Police were responding Friday to a report of an active shooter on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, near the entrance to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta police…

Soldiers hailed as heroes for tackling armed assailant at Georgia Army base

By RUSS BYNUM and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press

This booking photo provided by the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office shows Sgt. Quornelius Radford, who is accused of shooting multiple soldiers at Fort Stewart, Ga., Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (Liberty County Sheriff’s Office via AP)FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — Sgt. Aaron Turner was helping lock down a supply warehouse on Fort Stewart after gunshots were reported in a neighboring office…

Army sergeant shot 5 soldiers before he was tackled and arrested at Fort Stewart, officials say

By RUSS BYNUM and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press

This image from video provided by the U.S. Army via DVIDS shows the entrance to Fort Stewart in Georgia on Nov. 18, 2021. (Staff Sgt. Daniel Guerrero/U.S. Army via AP)FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — A sergeant shot five soldiers Wednesday at one the country’s largest Army bases before he was quickly tackled by other Fort Stewart troops, forcing a brief…

Police arrest suspect in killings of 4 Tennessee family members

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press

This photo provided by Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025 shows Austin Drummond, moments after having been taken into custody. (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation via AP)The man wanted in the killings of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a front yard in western Tennessee last week has been arrested, police said. Austin…

Mitch McConnell’s legacy comes under fire in Kentucky race to replace him in the Senate

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his wife, Elaine Chao, acknowledge applause at the annual Fancy Farm picnic Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, in Fancy Farm, Ky. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)CALVERT CITY, Ky. (AP) — Republican Nate Morris had deftly warmed up a crowd of party faithful, gushing about President Donald Trump and recounting his own life’s journey — from hardscrabble childhood to…

Trump revives the Presidential Fitness Test, a rite of passage for schoolchildren for decades

President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order restarting the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools as professional golfer Bryson DeChambeau looks on, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children, a fixture of public…

Trump announces 25% tariff on India and unspecified penalties for buying Russian oil

By JOSH BOAK and RAJESH ROY Associated Press

FILE – President Donald Trump, right, speaks with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will impose a 25% tariff on goods from India, plus an additional import tax because of India’s purchasing of Russian oil,…

NTSB finds Army chopper in fatal midair crash with plane was above altitude limit

By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer

FILE – A piece of wreckage is lifted from the water onto a salvage vessel near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Feb. 4, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, file)WASHINGTON (AP) – Investigators probing the January midair collision…

Family of Kentucky Airman fatally wounded by Sig Sauer P320 Military Variant urges …

Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)

GREENVILLE, Ky. – Family members of beloved Air Force Airman Brayden T. Lovan, 21, who was fatally wounded in an inexplicable, unintended firing of a Sig Sauer P320-variant service pistol, are urging military service units, federal agents, and law enforcement departments to stop using all variations of the Sig Sauer P320. Brayden’s mother, Melinda Tucker, and family members are speaking…