A shooting at a midtown Manhattan office building, in photos
July 29, 2025
NEW YORK By ANGELINA KATSANIS and YUKI IWAMURAAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A shooting at a midtown Manhattan office
NEW YORK By ANGELINA KATSANIS and YUKI IWAMURAAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A shooting at a midtown Manhattan office
A powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Russia has generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake registered a magnitude of 8.8 and was centered off the coast of Kamchatka peninsula. If you get a tsunami warning, move to higher ground if you are in a tsunami hazard zone. Some communities have buildings designated as meetup points during tsunami warnings, such as a school. Others might simply urge residents to retreat up a hillside.
No team has been playing better since the All-Star break than the Los Angeles Sparks and they’ve been doing it with a stellar offense. The Sparks won five straight games, including three on the road, before falling at home to Las Vegas on Tuesday night. It’s only the third time in the past five years that Los Angeles has won five or more games in a row. The Sparks had a nine-game winning streak in 2020 and a six-game one in 2023.
Tens of thousands of Deadheads are pouring into San Francisco for three days of Dead & Company concerts in honor of the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary. Fans say it’s appropriate that the jam band nearly synonymous with psychedelic San Francisco celebrate in their city of origin, and in Golden Gate Park. Members lived in a dirt-cheap Victorian in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and became a significant part of the Summer of Love. San Francisco has planned a long weekend of events, including renaming a street for city native and guitarist Jerry Garcia, who died in 1995.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to headline a major Republican event in South Carolina. Rep. Sheri Biggs announced Sanders as the featured speaker for her Salute to Liberty event on Aug. 18 in Anderson. This venue has historically been a platform for Republican White House hopefuls. Sanders, a potential 2028 presidential contender, has deep ties to South Carolina, where her father Mike Huckabee stumped for president in 2008 and 2016. She served as press secretary for President Donald Trump, who remains popular in the state. Biggs, who won her district last year, aims to create a new identity for the event while maintaining its significance for national-level Republicans.
Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. is heading for the 10-day injured list. Acuña was removed from Tuesday night’s loss at Kansas City with tightness in his right Achilles tendon. Acuña experienced the discomfort after chasing down a ball in right field. He’ll be evaluated further on Wednesday. Acuña said he initially felt pain while running the bases on Monday night. The discomfort returned after he ran for a foul ball in the sixth inning Tuesday night. Later in the inning, a ball was hit over his head and he gave chase. He left the game after the sixth.
Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani had another first in his MLB career. Ohtani struck out in his first four plate appearances Tuesday night against the Cincinnati Reds, the first time he has done that in his eight seasons in the majors. It is the sixth time the Japanese superstar and reigning NL MVP has struck out four times in a game. It is the second time this season, with the other coming against San Diego on June 17. Despite Ohtani’s tough night at the plate, the Dodgers rallied for a 5-4 victory on an RBI double by Will Smith in the ninth inning.
The man charged with ordering the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas is asking the Nevada Supreme Court to dismiss his murder charges. Duane “Keffe D” Davis filed an appeal with the court Tuesday after a lower court judge upheld his charges. Davis, the only man ever to be charged in Shakur’s killing, was arrested in September 2023. The 62-year-old has admitted in interviews and in his memoir that he provided the gun used in the shooting. His attorney said he had immunity from prosecution for statements made during interviews with federal and local authorities.
The Baltimore Orioles have traded reliever Seranthony Domínguez to the Toronto Blue Jays. The trade happened Tuesday between games of a doubleheader between the teams. Domínguez didn’t pitch in the Orioles’ 16-4 win in the opener. He was exchanged for minor league pitcher Juaron Watts-Brown. Then he pitched an inning for Toronto in the nightcap, which Baltimore won 3-2. The Orioles, currently in last place, have also traded other relievers recently. The AL East-leading Blue Jays hope Domínguez can bolster their bullpen.
A federal appeals court panel has ruled that private individuals and organizations cannot bring voting rights cases under a section of the law that allows others to assist voters who are blind, have disabilities or are unable to read. It’s the latest ruling from the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, saying only the government can bring lawsuits alleging violations of the Voting Rights Act. The findings upend decades of precedent and will likely be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Monday’s ruling followed the reasoning of another 8th Circuit panel in a previous case from 2023.
The Associated Press has learned that the Taiwanese government has called off a plan for its president to transit through the United States on his way to Latin America. The decision has led to conflicting accounts of the reason for the cancellation. Amid speculation that the Trump administration had opposed a proposed stopover by Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te in New York, Taipei said Lai had no overseas travel plans due to domestic issues. The other proposed stop on Lai’s itinerary was Dallas, Texas. Whatever the reason, the cancellation is certain to hand a major diplomatic victory to Beijing. It also has drawn concerns from experts that the White House is setting a bad precedent for U.S.-China relations.
Arkansas police have released a photo of a man wanted for questioning in their investigation into the killing of a married couple at Devil’s Den State Park. The attack happened over the weekend, and the couple were killed in front of their children. Police say the killer was likely injured during the attack. Authorities have asked the public to review photos and videos from the park on Saturday. The FBI is assisting with the investigation. Trails at the park remain closed, and rangers have increased patrols. The couple had recently moved to Arkansas from South Dakota.
Amanda Lounsbery (left) and her son Hayden Lounsbery survey damage to their family’s soybean fields on July 29, 2025. Their
PHOENIX By SEJAL GOVINDARAOAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Historically dry conditions have combined with gusty winds to make it harder
In a rare public outburst on the Senate floor Tuesday, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker took his Democratic colleagues to task, saying the party “needs a wake up call!” Booker angrily screamed at two of his shocked Democratic colleagues and blocked the passage of several bipartisan bills that would fund police programs, arguing that President Donald Trump’s administration has been withholding law enforcement money from Democratic-leaning states. The surprise Senate spat over police bills that have broad bipartisan support strikes at the heart of the beleaguered Democratic party’s dilemma in the second Trump era as they try to find a way back to power.
Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during
Five people have been charged after a violent brawl in downtown Cincinnati over the weekend. A video of the fight, which happened early Saturday, shows several people throwing punches. One man was repeatedly punched and kicked while on the ground. A woman was also punched and left bleeding. Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval called the incident “unacceptable.” Police Chief Teresa Theetge said more charges are expected. The brawl has sparked political debate, with some blaming city leadership for safety issues. The incident has also drawn attention online.
Trey Hendrickson is ending his holdout and will report to the Cincinnati Bengals on Wednesday. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the move had not been announced. Hendrickson is an All-Pro defensive end who led the NFL in sacks last season with 17 1/2. He is seeking a long-term extension with guaranteed money that matches what the league’s top pass rushers are earning. Even after he reports to camp, he is unlikely to participate in practice until a deal is in place.
The chief of police in a resort town in Maine has called for an investigation into the arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of one of its officers. The chief says the officer was federally approved to work in the country in May. ICE on Friday arrested Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve officer Jon Luke Evans, of Jamaica. The agency says Evans was illegally present in the U.S. and unlawfully attempted to purchase a firearm. ICE says Evans legally entered the U.S. in September 2023 and violated the terms of his admission by overstaying his visa. Old Orchard Beach Police Chief Elise Chard says federal officials authorized Evans to work.
A group of more than 20 states are suing the Trump administration over efforts to cut Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood. The lawsuit challenges part of President Donald Trump’s big tax law that cut reimbursements to major providers of family planning services. The states argue the provision’s language is unclear about which organizations it applies to. They also say it violates free speech by targeting Planned Parenthood for its advocacy for abortion access. But the Trump administration says states should not be forced to fund groups that it says prioritize political advocacy.
U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, fields questions during a roundtable discussion at Avera Behavioral Health Hospital in Sioux Falls
Players and coaches around the NFL reacted with shock and sadness Tuesday after a gunman killed four people at the New York office building housing the league’s headquarters. Brian Daboll of the New York Giants, Aaron Glenn of the Jets, Ben Johnson of the Chicago Bears and Raheem Morris of the Atlanta Falcons offered their thoughts and prayers to the victims of Monday’s shooting. Mayor Eric Adams said the gunman was trying to target NFL headquarters but took the wrong elevator. Tennessee Titans NFLPA representative Jeffery Simmons cited the importance of mental health in conversations with fellow players.
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Los Angeles County leaders want to prohibit law enforcement officers from concealing their identities while on duty, a response to recent immigration raids during which some federal agents refused to identify themselves or covered their faces. The Board of Supervisors voted 4—0, with one abstention, on Tuesday to direct county counsel to draft an ordinance that bars officers, including federal agents, from wearing masks, with limited exceptions such as for medical protection or during undercover operations. Officers would also be required to visibly display identification and agency affiliation while out in public.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is asking a judge to release him on a $50 million bond while he awaits sentencing in October. Combs was acquitted of the most serious federal charges he faced, but convicted of lesser prostitution-related offenses. His lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, argued on Tuesday that conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn are dangerous. Agnifilo noted that others convicted of similar offenses were typically released before sentencing. In July, Combs was denied bail after being acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Judge Arun Subramanian said Combs hasn’t shown he is not a danger to the community.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, center, announces his agency’s plans for deregulation from an Indianapolis trucking facility on Tuesday, July 29,
PIERRE, S.D.—The South Dakota Bar Foundation is one of five winners announced by the U.S. Department of Justice for its
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she won’t run for governor in Georgia. The staunch ally of President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that she isn’t running with a long social media post saying she is turned off by Georgia’s “good ole boy” system and alleging that it is endangering Republican control of the state. Greene chose earlier not to run for Senate under pressure from Republicans who feared she would hand a second term to Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff. Greene had been saying she was considering running for governor. She appeared at the Georgia Republican Party convention in Dalton in June wearing a “Make Georgia Great Again” hat and discussing state issues.
Union Pacific is seeking to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, and potentially trigger a final wave of rail mergers across the country. The proposed merger, announced Tuesday, would marry Union Pacific’s rail network in the West with Norfolk’s rails that snake across Eastern states. The nation was first linked by rail in 1869, when a golden railroad spike was driven in Utah to symbolize the connection of East and West Coasts. Yet no single entity has controlled that coast-to-coast passage that so many businesses rely on. Regulators will take a close look at the impact of this deal before considering whether to approve it.
Fans are reeling following the successive deaths of celebrities including “The Cosby Show” actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, jazz performer Chuck Mangione, wrestler Hulk Hogan, heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne and baseball star Ryne Sandberg. Social media has been swamped with outpourings of love, regret and sadness. Syracuse University television and pop culture professor Robert Thompson says when celebrity deaths come in quick succession “it reminds people of their own mortality.” Indigo Watts, a 23-year-old Black Sabbath fan, says, “When you’re a celebrity and you die, you leave an impact on the world.”
Democrats are again trying to revive the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. But they face long odds in the Republican-controlled Congress. Senate Democrats reintroduced legislation Tuesday that would renew and expand parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 amid renewed debate over the future administration of American elections. Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia was joined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and four other senators during a news conference outside the Capitol. The push for the bill comes at a precarious moment for the Voting Rights Act. The enforcement mechanisms of the original law have been removed or hampered by two decades of court rulings and lapsed congressional reauthorizations.
The Baltimore Orioles tied a major league record with five sacrifice flies in their 16-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. This happened in the opener of Tuesday’s doubleheader. Tyler O’Neill and Cedric Mullins hit sac flies in the first inning. Ramón Urías and Mullins added two more in the third. Jackson Holliday’s flyout in the eighth tied the record. The sacrifice fly became official in 1954, and Baltimore is the fourth team to achieve this feat. The Orioles also hit four home runs in the game.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. will partner with Israel to run new food centers in Gaza. This move aims to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in the region. Trump mentioned that Israel would oversee the centers to ensure proper distribution. The announcement comes amid pressure for the U.S. to do more about hunger in Gaza, but details were scant and it was unclear how the new food centers would differ from existing centers. The Trump administration recently withdrew from ceasefire talks, accusing Hamas of bad faith. Democrats in Congress have urged the administration to resume talks and criticized the existing food aid system.
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If you’re a Microsoft Authenticator user, you’ve probably received at least one notice that the app’s password management features are no longer usable and that your stored passwords will be inaccessible starting Aug. 1 unless you have the Edge browser. Authenticator has been a staple in providing multi-factor authentication, one-time passwords and biometric logins for services and some websites. Although the app will continue to provide authentication for passkey-compatible services, it is pushing its password management and autofill functions out to the company’s Edge browser instead.
The Trump administration is pressing for a deal with Harvard University that would require the Ivy League school pay far more than the $200 million fine agreed to by Columbia University, according to two people familiar with the matter. Harvard would be expected to pay hundreds of millions of dollars as part of any settlement to end investigations into antisemitism, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Harvard leaders have been negotiating with the White House as they battle in court to regain access to billions of dollars in funding terminated by the Trump administration.
A new poll shows support for Israel’s military action in Gaza has dropped among U.S. adults, with only about one-third approving. This marks a decline from the beginning of the war with Hamas, when about half of Americans approved of Israel’s action. The Gallup poll shows about half of U.S. adults now have an unfavorable view of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The rising disapproval is driven by Democrats, independents and younger Americans, who are much less likely to approve of Israel’s actions than they were in November 2023, just after Israel expanded its ground offensive in Gaza. Republicans remain largely supportive of both Israel’s military actions and Netanyahu.
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold three days of hearings on the fatal midair collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter. The goal of the hearings is to pinpoint exactly what went wrong and how to avoid similar accidents. The crash occurred in January in the skies above Washington. It killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft. The NTSB’s hearings will be in Washington and will start Wednesday. They come at a time of heightened scrutiny of the safety of air travel amid the growing list of aircraft tragedies, mishaps and near misses in 2025, and as federal officials raise concerns over the nation’s overtaxed and understaffed air traffic control system.
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A judge has ordered that eight university board members tapped by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin should be removed from their posts. His order is a victory for Virginia Senate Democrats who rejected the appointees in a June committee vote. Now the appointees will be immediately severed from their board seats at the University of Virginia, George Mason University and the Virginia Military Institute. The case comes amid the White House’s effort to reshape higher education, with a focus on DEI. Universities in Virginia have become a groundswell for political tension between academic leaders and the federal government, with boards at the center of those battles.
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Netflix’s animated musical film “KPop Demon Hunters” has become the surprise hit of the summer. Fans, culture critics and filmmakers theorize there are a few reasons the movie is connecting. It is because the film blends cultures, utilizes the best and brightest in K-pop music, features interesting animation and is based on original intellectual property. Fans are hungry for new animated and musical stories. And K-pop fans feel as though they have been accurately represented in “KPop Demon Hunters.” The movie follows the fictional K-pop girl group HUNTR/X as they fight demons and save their fans.
Employers posted 7.4 million job vacancies last month, a sign that the American job market continues to cool. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that job openings in June were down from 7.7 million in May. Layoffs were little changed. But the number of people quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence in their prospects elsewhere — dropped last month. The U.S. job market has lost momentum this year, partly because of the lingering effects of 11 interest rate hikes by the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve in 2022 and 2023 and partly because President Donald Trump’s trade wars have created uncertainty that is paralyzing managers making hiring decisions.
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Americans’ view of the U.S. economy improved this month, but Americans remain concerned about the impact of tariffs on their economic futures. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose two points to 97.2 in July, up from 95.2 the previous month. In April, American consumers’ confidence in the economy sank to its lowest reading since May 2020, largely due to anxiety over the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. A measure of Americans’ short-term expectations for their income, business conditions and the job market rose 4.5 points to 74.4, however that’s still well below 80, the marker that can signal a recession ahead.
Pennington County is moving forward with the relocation of its Administration Building to 900 Concourse Drive. The county anticipates the
The Federal Reserve is expected to leave its short-term interest rate unchanged on Wednesday for the fifth straight meeting, a move that will likely underscore the deep divide between how Chair Jerome Powell and President Donald Trump see the economy. The Fed itself is increasingly divided over its next steps, and many economists expect that two members of the Fed’s governing board could dissent on Wednesday in favor of cutting rates. Trump says that because the U.S. economy is doing well, the Fed should cut rates but Fed officials, and most economists, say a solid economy means rates should be relatively high to prevent overheating and a burst of inflation.
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Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble offered an annual earnings outlook that was below analysts’ projections and said it would raise prices on about a quarter of its products in the U.S. in part due to costs of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The assessment comes a day after the Cincinnati-based maker of such products as Crest toothpaste, Tide detergent and Charmin toilet paper, named Shailesh Jejurikar, currently chief operating officer, to succeed Jon Moeller as the company president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2026. Moeller, who has been at the company’s helm since November 2021, will become P&G’s executive chairman.
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A new analysis suggests President Donald Trump’s tariffs could increase factory costs by 2% to 4.5%. The analysis highlights potential challenges for domestic manufacturers relying on global supply chains just as the Republican president prepares to announce tariff hikes he says will boost the U.S. economy. While the U.S. stock market shows relief tariffs aren’t as high as initially threatened, concerns remain about higher prices and slower growth. Tuesday’s analysis by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth warns of economic and political costs, especially in swing states with significant manufacturing sectors, like Michigan and Wisconsin.
Congressional leaders are already starting to trade blame for a government shutdown, two months before the funding deadline. The posturing sends a signal the threat of a stoppage is more serious than usual. Democratic leadership from both chambers and the two panels responsible for drafting spending bills met behind closed doors recently to discuss the strategy ahead. The Democrats emerged asserting Republicans need to work with them. But the Democrats carefully avoided spelling out red lines if Republicans opt not to go that route. Republican lawmakers view the Democrats as itching for a shutdown after a series of political losses this year.
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