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

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 on Gaza as images of emaciated children have sparked renewed worries about hunger in the war-torn territory. Trump, speaking in Scotland on Monday, said the U.S. and other nations are giving money…

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

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press

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 said Thursday. In Clearwater, Florida, authorities responded to a call Thursday morning about a cardiac arrest. Hogan was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said in a statement on Facebook. Hogan, whose real…

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

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer

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 Tuesday, just weeks after his farewell show. He was 76. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has…

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

By BILL BARROW Associated Press

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 that he led until his 1968 assassination. The digital document dump includes more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered…

Justice Department asks court to unseal Epstein grand jury records

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press

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 financier. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche filed motions urging the court to release the Epstein transcripts as well as those in the case against convicted…

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

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 graduation parties. The delivery fees and tips she earns on top of $18 an hour mean it’s better than minimum-wage shift work, even though it’s not consistent. It helps her…

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

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press

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 domestic violence hearing on Monday, a local official said. In a chilling account of Sunday’s attack, Star Rutherford, a relative of the two slain women, said Guy House went to the Lexington-area church…