Author: Associated Press

Trump says he wants Netanyahu to ‘make sure they get the food’ in Gaza amid humanitarian crisis

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press

President Donald Trump and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer exit Air Force One as they arrive at Royal Air Force Lossiemouth en route to Aberdeen, Scotland Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday expressed concern over the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza and urged Israel to get people food, seemingly recalibrating his stance…

Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press

FILE – Hulk Hogan rips his shirt before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing icon in the world of professional wrestling, has died at the age of 71, Florida police and WWE…

Bryan Kohberger sentenced to life in prison for murdering 4 Idaho students

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press

FILE – Bryan Kohberger, right, is escorted into a courtroom for a hearing in Latah County District Court, Sept. 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool, File)BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger, the masked man who sneaked into a rental home near the University of Idaho campus and stabbed four students to death in late 2022, faced…

Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer

FILE – Singer Ozzy Osbourne performs during halftime of an NFL football game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Buffalo Bills in Inglewood, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died…

Trump administration releases FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition

By BILL BARROW Associated Press

FILE – The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis, Tenn., March 28, 1968. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, File)The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group…

Justice Department asks court to unseal Epstein grand jury records

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks to the media, Friday, June 27, 2025, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked a federal court on Friday to unseal grand jury transcripts in Jeffrey Epstein’s case amid a firestorm over the Trump administration’s handling of records related to the wealthy…

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ is canceled by CBS and will end in May 2026

By DAVID BAUDER, ALICIA RANCILIO and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press

CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next May, shuttering a decades-old TV institution in a changing media landscape and removing from air one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent and persistent late-night critics. CBS said “Late Show” was canceled for financial reasons, not for content. But the timing — three days after Colbert criticized the settlement between…

Trump says Coca-Cola will use real sugar in its US flagship drink. The company isn’t confirming that

WASHINGTON (AP) — Make American Coke Great Again? President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Coca-Cola has agreed to use real cane sugar in its flagship soft drink in the U.S. at his suggestion — though the company didn’t confirm such a move. Any switch from high-fructose corn syrup in Coke sold in the United States would put Coca-Cola more in…

1.4M of the nation’s poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump’s proposed HUD time limit

By SALLY HO and CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press/Report for America

Havalah Hopkins, a single mother who lives in government-subsidized housing with her teenage son, poses for a portrait outside her apartment Thursday, July 10, 2025, in Woodinville, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)WOODINVILLE, Wash. (AP) — Havalah Hopkins rarely says no to the chain restaurant catering gigs that send her out to Seattle-area events — from church potlucks to office lunches and…

Suspected Kentucky church shooter had a domestic violence hearing the next day

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press

Police stand at the front of the Richmond Road Baptist Church as other officers maintain a perimeter following a shooting at the church in Lexington, Ky., Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)The man accused of killing two women in a shooting rampage at a Kentucky church after wounding a state trooper had been expected in court for a…