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FILE - The entrance to the Labor Department is seen near the Capitol in Washington, May 7, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Inflation data threatened by government hiring freeze as tariffs loom

June 4, 2025

The Labor Department has cut back on the inflation data it collects because of the Trump administration’s government hiring freeze, raising concerns among economists about the quality of the inflation figures just as they are being closely watched for the impact of tariffs. The department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces the monthly consumer price index, said Wednesday that it is “reducing sample in areas across the country” and stopped collecting price data entirely in April in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Provo, Utah. It also said it has stopped collecting data this month in Buffalo, New York.

FILE - U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, speaks at an event at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Trump names nominees to take over commands in the Middle East and Africa

June 4, 2025

President Donald Trump is nominating Vice Adm. Brad Cooper to take over as the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East. If he’s confirmed, it would mark just the second time that a Navy admiral has held the job. It’s a crucial role as the region has been shaken by conflict, with the Trump administration pushing to broker a ceasefire deal after 20 months of war in Gaza and holding nuclear talks with Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement Wednesday that Trump also is nominating Air Force Lt. Gen. Dagvin Anderson to head U.S. Africa Command. Anderson would be the first Air Force general to lead Africa Command, which was created in 2007.

FILE - Cain Oulahan, Ramon Morales Reyes' immigration attorney addresses the media, May 30, 2025 in Milwaukee about the detention of his client Ramon Morales Reyes. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

What to know about Ramón Morales Reyes, a Wisconsin man falsely accused of threatening Trump’s life

June 4, 2025

A man falsely accused of threatening President Donald Trump’s life faces deportation even as Wisconsin authorities say the Mexican immigrant was framed and is a victim of a violent 2023 attack. Ramón Morales Reyes was thrust into the national spotlight last week when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused him of writing letters threatening Trump. Agency officials have quietly acknowledged that Morales Reyes is no longer a suspect in that threat a day after another man was charged in Wisconsin for forging the letters. But Trump administration social media posts blasting Morales Reyes as a potential presidential assassin remain online.

FILE - Kyleigh Thurman, one of the patients who filed a federal complaint against an emergency room for not treating her ectopic pregnancy, talks about her experience at her studio, Aug. 7, 2024, in Burnet County, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, a federal inquiry finds

June 4, 2025

A federal investigation has found that a Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law. The newly released findings are a small victory for 36-year-old Kyleigh Thurman. She lost part of her reproductive system after being discharged without any help from her hometown hospital for her dangerous ectopic pregnancy. A new policy the Trump administration announced Tuesday has thrown into doubt the federal government’s oversight of hospitals that deny emergency abortions. The administration said Wednesday that women will receive care for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and medical emergencies in all 50 states.

Pop singer Jessie J says she has been diagnosed with early breast cancer

June 4, 2025

The English pop singer Jessie J says she has been diagnosed with early breast cancer. She says she will undergo surgery after her performance at the London music festival Capital’s Summertime Ball next weekend. The news arrived in a video message shared to her social media accounts. The annual Summertime Ball will be held at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, June 15. She told her social media audience that she felt compelled to share her diagnosis. The Grammy-nominated Jessie J has long been celebrated for her robust soprano and R&B-informed pop hits, like the 2014 collaboration with Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande, “Bang Bang,” and 2011’s “Domino.”

People look on as an adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly-Dally, whose front flipper was amputated after she was rescued in January suffering from predator wounds, crawls into the Atlantic Ocean after being released, on the beach in front of Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Dilly Dally the sea turtle returns to the ocean after flipper amputation

June 4, 2025

An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital. The turtle was brought to Loggerhead Marinelife Center in January suffering from predator wounds to the front flipper. The veterinary crew at the Juno Beach facility assisted in Dilly Dally’s rehabilitation and care. A veterinary technician at the center says a satellite tracking device was attached to Dilly Dally’s shell that will allow the center and the public to follow her journey. The center partnered with the Smithsonian to get the satellite tag, which was attached on Tuesday.

A worker lays cables at Energy Vault, a company that is creating an emergency power system that relies on hydrogen and battery storage, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Calistoga, Calif. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

Napa Valley town that once rode out emergencies with diesel gets a clean-power backup

June 4, 2025

When the threat of wildfires has forced power to be cut in the tourist town of Calistoga, California, on the edge of Napa Valley, it’s meant firing up a bank of noisy, polluting diesel generators. But no longer. Calistoga is about to finish installing a first-of-its-kind system that combines hydrogen fuel cells and batteries for backup power. Experts say the technology has potential beyond simply delivering clean backup power in emergencies. They say it’s a steppingstone to supporting the electric grid any day of the year. As the system was undergoing its final tests recently, some residents of Calistoga said they were excited to have a clean and reliable energy solution that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels.

FILE - A Tariff Free sign to attract vehicle shoppers is at an automobile dealership in Totowa, N.J., on April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Trump’s tariffs would cut US deficits by $2.8T over 10 years and shrink the economy, CBO says

June 4, 2025

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plan would cut deficits by $2.8 trillion over a 10-year period while shrinking the economy, raising the inflation rate and reducing the purchasing power of households overall. That’s according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office in a letter sent to Democratic congressional leadership. Baked into the CBO analysis is a prediction households would ultimately buy less from the countries hit with added tariffs. The budget office estimates the tariffs would increase the average annual rate of inflation by 0.4 percentage points in 2025 and 2026. The budget office’s model also assumes the Republican president’s tariffs will be in place permanently.

FILE - White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Ex-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre left Democratic Party, publisher of her book says

June 4, 2025

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has a book out this fall that promises a close look at President Joe Biden’s decision not to run for reelection and calls for thinking beyond the two-party system. Legacy Lit says Jean-Pierre has switched her affiliation to independent after working in two Democratic administrations. The Hachette Book Group imprint will publish “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines” on Oct. 21. Jean-Pierre was the first Black woman and openly gay person to hold the position of White House press secretary.

FILE - The Federal Election Commission emblem is seen at the Federal Election Commission headquarters in Washington, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Judge tosses Democratic committees’ lawsuit over the Federal Election Commission’s independence

June 4, 2025

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing an executive order Democratic Party officials claim could undermine the independence of the Federal Election Commission. U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali in Washington ruled late Tuesday there’s insufficient evidence the Republican administration intends to apply a key portion of Trump’s executive order to the FEC or its commissioners. The Democratic Party’s three national political committees sued after Trump signed the executive order in February. Trump’s order was intended to increase his control of the entire executive branch. Congress established the FEC to independently enforce campaign finance law.

Broadway has found its Gen Z audience — by telling Gen Z stories

June 4, 2025

“John Proctor is the Villain” is about high schoolers studying “The Crucible” as the #MeToo movement arrives in their Georgia town. It earned seven Tony nominations, the most of any this season. It’s among a group of Broadway shows that have centered the stories of young people and attracted audiences to match. Producers reported that Sam Gold’s take on “Romeo + Juliet,” nominated for best revival of a play, drew the youngest ticket-buying audiences recorded on Broadway. The shows share some DNA: pop music, Hollywood stars with established fanbases and stories that reflect the complexity of young adulthood.

Highlights from The Associated Press’ interview with Stephen King

June 4, 2025

There’s a new Stephen King adaptation heading to theaters, and it’s one the prolific author endorses. “The Life of Chuck,” starring Tom Hiddleston, is an apocalyptic tale that includes moments of joy. King tells The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview that while dread and grief are very much a part of life (and his works), so is joy. King also recently released the mystery novel “Never Flinch,” which features private investigator Holly Gibney, the author’s recent favorite protagonist. King says he’s always happy writing. He’s also an avid moviegoer, though has adopted a rule to only talk about the adaptations of his work that he likes — hence his praise for “The Life of Chuck.”

Stephen King on ‘The Life of Chuck,’ the end of the world and, yes, joy

June 4, 2025

So vividly drawn is Stephen King’s fiction that it’s offered the basis for some 50 feature films. For half a century, since Brian De Palma’s 1976 film “Carrie,” Hollywood has turned, and turned again, to King’s books for their richness of character, nightmare and sheer entertainment. Over time, King has developed a personal policy in how he talks about the adaptations of his books: Keep your mouth shut unless you have something nice to say. But King is such a fan of “The Life of Chuck,” Mike Flanagan’s new adaptation of King’s novella of the same name, that he’s supporting it in ways the author never has before.

Archaeologist Jack Gary holds up a photo of a church that once stood beside the gunpowder magazine at Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va., on Thursday, My 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

A Virginia museum found 4 Confederate soldiers’ remains. It’s trying to identify them

June 4, 2025

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War. The skeletons were found on the grounds of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The museum’s archaeologists were excavating a building from the American Revolution when it discovered the remains. They believe the men died at a field hospital that operated during a Civil War battle in 1862. The soldiers were reinterred this week at a Williamsburg cemetery. The museum’s effort to identify them will continue for several months. It will include trying to find living descendants and matching their DNA to the remains.

Federal officers in tactical gear went into a Latino community in Minneapolis. A protest followed

June 3, 2025

Dozens of protesters have converged in the heart of the Latino community in Minneapolis after a large force of federal and local authorities wearing tactical gear conducted what they called a law enforcement action. The protesters flocked Tuesday to the area near a Mexican restaurant and other Latino-owned businesses after seeing livestreams that claimed an immigration raid was underway. However, statements from local authorities said it was not an immigration enforcement matter, but a criminal case. Several dozen protesters remained at the intersection occupied by federal agents hours earlier, using cars to block traffic. The leader of one activist group called the law enforcement operation “jackbooted thuggery.”

A 4-year-old Mexican girl, who has short bowel syndrome, attends a news conference in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, after her and her mother's humanitarian parole was terminated and they were ordered to self-deport. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Mexican 4-year-old is granted humanitarian parole to continue receiving lifesaving care in US

June 3, 2025

A 4-year-old Mexican girl who receives lifesaving medical care from a Southern California hospital has been granted permission to remain in the country. Authorities said weeks prior she could be deported. An attorney for the girl’s family said Tuesday that U.S. immigration officials sent a letter granting the girl and her mother humanitarian parole for one year. The girl can continue to receive treatment she has been getting since arriving on the U.S.-Mexico border in 2023. The grant came after the family said they had received notifications in April and May that their humanitarian parole was being revoked. A message was sent to the Department of Homeland Security.

CORRECTS TO ANCHORAGE INSTEAD OF DEADHORSE - People hold a sign during a protest outside the annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Environmentalists criticize Trump administration push for new oil and gas drilling in Alaska

June 3, 2025

Top Trump administration officials on Tuesday headlined an energy conference led by the state’s Republican governor. Environmentalists criticized the event as promoting new oil and gas drilling and turning away from the climate crisis. Several dozen protesters were outside Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage. Inside, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin were featured speakers. The federal officials were continuing a multiday trip aimed at highlighting President Donald Trump’s push to expand oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in the state.

Arrest made in shooting that left 1 dead and 11 hurt around North Carolina house party

June 3, 2025

Authorities say a 20-year-old man has been arrested on an attempted murder charge in connection with a weekend shooting around a house party in North Carolina that led to the death of one person and injuries for 11 others. The Catawba County Sheriff’s Office says Garon Nathaniel Killian is being held without bond after his arrest Tuesday. The shooting early Sunday left some people with gunshot wounds and others with injuries from fleeing the gunfire. Sheriff’s officials say additional people could be arrested. Online records did not show booking or lawyer information for Killian and the county court clerk’s office’s phone did not accept voicemails Tuesday evening.

White House trade counselor Peter Navarro speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Justice Department drops lawsuit against Trump adviser Peter Navarro

June 3, 2025

The Justice Department is dropping a lawsuit it filed against White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, a case in which Navarro was accused of using an unofficial email account for government work and wrongfully retaining presidential records during the first Trump administration. A court filing Tuesday by department attorneys and a lawyer for Navarro doesn’t explain why they are abandoning a case that was filed in 2022, during President Joe Biden’s term in office. The one-page filing says each side will bear their own fees and costs. The lawsuit accused Navarro of using at least one “non-official” email account to send and receive government emails.

This combo of images provided by the Arkansas Department of Corrections shows an actual photo of inmate Grant Hardin, left, and a photo rendering of the convicted former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks" as the search for the escaped inmate headed into its second week. (Arkansas Department of Corrections via AP)

Arkansas authorities release photo rendering of ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ as manhunt continues

June 3, 2025

Arkansas authorities have released a photo rendering of a convicted murderer and former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” who escaped from prison. The Arkansas Department of Corrections said Tuesday the rendering shows what 56-year-old Grant Hardin may look like more than a week after his escape from the Calico Rock prison. Hardin was serving sentences for rape and murder when he escaped May 25. Authorities have said he donned an outfit designed to look like a law enforcement uniform. Police continued to search the north-central Arkansas region for Hardin.

Harvey Weinstein appears for his retrial at a Manhattan court, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith, Pool)

Weinstein retrial nears end as lawyers argue: sexual predator or #MeToo ‘poster boy’?

June 3, 2025

Closing arguments are underway at Harvey Weinstein’s New York sex crimes retrial. His lawyer portrayed Weinstein Tuesday as the falsely accused “poster boy” of the #MeToo era. A prosecutor, on the other hand, said the former movie mogul preyed on less-powerful women he thought would never speak up. Closing arguments are due to conclude Wednesday. The majority-female jury is expected to start deliberations at some point in the day. Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to raping a woman in 2013 and forcing oral sex on two others, separately, in 2006.

President Donald Trump talks to workers as he tours U.S. Steel Corporation's Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump promises to hike steel and aluminum tariffs to 50% starting Wednesday. Here’s what we know

June 3, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to hike nearly all of his tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to a punishing 50% on Wednesday, a move that would hammer businesses from automakers to home builders, and likely push up prices for consumers. Foreign-made steel and aluminum is used in household products like soup cans and paper clips as well as big-ticket items like a stainless-steel refrigerators and cars. Economists warn that the latest tariffs will significantly squeeze the wallets of both companies and shoppers alike.

Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought speaks to reporters at the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE

June 3, 2025

The White House has officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending. The process known as rescission will take funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. It requires President Donald Trump to get approval from Congress to return money that had previously been appropriated. Trump’s aides say the funding cuts target programs that promote liberal ideologies. The request to Congress is unlikely to meaningfully change the troublesome increase in the U.S. national debt. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the government is on track to spend roughly $7 trillion this year, with the rescission request equaling just 0.1% of that total.

‘King of the Hill’ voice actor Jonathan Joss fatally shot outside his Texas home

June 3, 2025

Authorities say a voice actor best known for his work on the animated television series “King of the Hill” was fatally shot near his Texas home. San Antonio police said Monday that Jonathan Joss was found about 7 p.m. the previous night on the street near his home after having been shot. He died at the scene. Joss’ husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, says in a statement the couple had been at Joss’ home checking mail when a man yelled homophobic slurs at them before opening fire. The home had been damaged in a January fire. Police have arrested Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez and charged him with murder in the fatal shooting.

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the John Lewis-class replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) conducts a replenishment at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec. 13, 2024. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maxwell Orlosky/U.S. Navy via AP))

Hegseth orders the name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk scrubbed from Navy ship

June 3, 2025

U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move. The ship was named after the slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. The officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler, and that a new name is expected this month. It marks the latest move by Hegseth to purge diversity, equity and inclusion references, and it comes during Pride Month. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Phelan’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Santa Ono rejected for University of Florida presidency amid conservative backlash

June 3, 2025

Longtime academic Santa Ono has been rejected for the University of Florida presidency by the state university system board. The vote Tuesday came amid sharp criticism from political conservatives about his past support for diversity, equity and inclusion programs and other initiatives they view as unacceptable liberal ideology. The Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the state’s universities, voted 10-6 against Ono, who was most recently president of the University of Michigan. The University of Florida Board of Trustees had voted unanimously in May to approve Ono as the school’s 14th president, and it is unprecedented for the governors to reverse such an action.

FILE - A sign stands outside a branch of Wells Fargo bank Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Littleton, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Fed lifts restrictions placed on Wells Fargo in 2018 because of its fake-accounts scandal

June 3, 2025

The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that Wells Fargo is no longer subject to the restraints the Fed placed on the bank in 2018 for having a toxic sales and banking culture. It’s a win for Wells Fargo, which has spent nearly a decade trying to convince the public and policymakers that it had changed its ways. Faced with reaching unreasonable sales targets, branch employees had opened up millions of fake accounts in order to meet those goals. The Federal Reserve took the unusual step of placing Wells in a program where it could grow no larger than it was in 2018.

US says it broke up effort to bring toxic fungus to Michigan lab from China

June 3, 2025

Two scientists from China have been charged in Michigan in what the FBI says was an effort to bring a toxic fungus to the U.S. Investigators say the pathogen can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice and sicken livestock and people. The scientists are charged with conspiracy, smuggling and other crimes. Only one is still in Michigan. The other was turned away at the Detroit airport last July and sent back to China after red plant material was discovered in his backpack.

FILE - In this June 29, 2020 file photo, Anti-abortion protesters wait outside the Supreme Court for a decision, in Washington on the Louisiana case, Russo v. June Medical Services LLC. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)

Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions for some rape cases to abortion ban

June 3, 2025

Louisiana lawmakers have for the third consecutive year rejected a bill that would have added some rape cases to the narrow list of exceptions to the state’s abortion ban. Two Democrats sided with Republicans on Tuesday in rejecting the bill that would have allowed abortion in cases where the victim is under the age of 17 and impregnated as a result of the sexual offense. Adding exceptions to Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban has been an ongoing battle for advocates in the reliably red state that’s firmly ensconced in the Bible Belt. Tuesday’s legislative committee hearing was emotional and filled with religious themes. The measure failed on a 3-9 vote.

FILE - Attorney Tom Girardi smiles outside the Los Angeles courthouse, July 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Former celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi gets 7 years in prison for stealing millions from clients

June 3, 2025

A federal judge sentenced disbarred celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi to seven years and three months in prison for embezzling tens of millions of dollars from his clients, including several with severe physical injuries and families of people killed in accidents. The judge also ordered the 86-year-old Girardi to pay a $35,000 fine and $2.3 million in restitution to former clients. A jury in August found him guilty of four counts of wire fraud. He could have been sentenced to up to 80 years. Girardi is the estranged husband of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Erika Jayne and appeared on the show himself dozens of times.

FILE - Former CIA director William Burns speaks during a hearing, March 11, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Former CIA Director William Burns has a book deal for the memoir ‘Diplomat Spy’

June 3, 2025

Former CIA director and Biden cabinet official William J. Burns is working on a book about his years leading the intelligence agency. Random House announced Tuesday that it would publish Burns’ “Diplomat Spy: A Memoir of Espionage in Revolutionary Times.” The release date is still to be determined. Burns headed the CIA from 2021-25 and was elevated by President Joe Biden to a cabinet position. A veteran diplomat, he was a key adviser to Biden on Ukraine and other parts of the world. Random House is calling his book a “riveting firsthand account” about working in intelligence.

FILE - A Goodyear blimp flies over Michigan Stadium in the first half of an NCAA college football game between Michigan and Southern California in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

The iconic Goodyear Blimp is 100. To celebrate, a flight over Ohio

June 3, 2025

The iconic Goodyear airships are taking a “victory lap” over the skies of an Ohio city this week. The Akron-based company is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the inaugural flight of its first branded blimp, known as “Pilgrim,” which took flight just outside of the city on June 3, 1925. Goodyear began experimenting with lighter than aircraft in the early 1900s, and the dirigibles have since become one of the most lasting and iconic corporate brand assets in the world. For some, it evokes nostalgia, while for others it offers a glimpse into a larger-than-life advertising symbol.

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem meets with service members in Tel Aviv, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool,File)

Man accused of trying to get witness against him deported by writing letters threatening Trump

June 3, 2025

A Wisconsin man is facing charges accusing him of forging letters threatening President Donald Trump’s life in an effort to get another man who was a potential witness against him in a criminal case deported. Prosecutors said in a criminal complaint filed Monday that Demetric D. Scott was behind letters sent to state and federal officials with the return address of Ramón Morales Reyes. Scott was charged Monday with felony witness intimidation, identity theft and two counts of bail jumping. His attorney didn’t immediately return an email from The Associated Press seeking comment. Immigration agents arrested Morales Reyes in May after he dropped his child off at school in Milwaukee. He remains in custody.

FILE - The federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Federal prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to transgender inmates, a judge says

June 3, 2025

A judge says the federal Bureau of Prisons must keep providing hormone therapy to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that led to a disruption in medical treatment. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington said Tuesday a federal law prohibits prison officials from arbitrarily depriving inmates of medications the bureau’s own medical staff deems appropriate. The judge says the transgender inmates who sued to block Trump’s order are trying to lessen the anguish caused by their gender dysphoria. The Republican president’s order required the bureau to revise its medical care policies so federal funds aren’t spent for “conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.”

Kara Young, already on a Broadway streak, could make Tony history with her role in ‘Purpose’

June 3, 2025

Kara Young’s work in the play “Purpose” has earned her a Tony Award nomination and a chance to make history. Already the first Black person to be nominated four times consecutively, if she wins, she’ll be the first Black performer to win two Tonys in a row. “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama is about an accomplished Black family revealing its hypocrisy and fault lines during a snowed-in gathering. Young made her Broadway debut in 2021 in “Clyde’s,” was in “Cost of Living” the next year and co-starred opposite Leslie Odom Jr. in 2024’s “Purlie Victorious” winning a Tony.

A long-running experiment finds a tiny particle is still acting weird

June 3, 2025

Final results from a long-running U.S.-based experiment show a tiny particle continues to act strangely — but that’s still good news for the laws of physics as we know them. The mysterious particles called muons wobble like a top when inside a magnetic field. Previous experiments found the muons were behaving strangely, which didn’t fit well with the foundational rulebook of physics. New data adds fuel to that fire, but scientists have found a way to make the findings agree with the Standard Model of Physics. Results were announced Tuesday and were submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters.

`This House’ makes world premiere, exploring Black history through a family’s legacy in Harlem

June 3, 2025

“This House,” a rumination on love, aspiration, coping and the unyielding weight of history, made its world premiere Saturday night at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. The work was composed by Ricky Ian Gordon to a libretto by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and her daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber. It weaves impacts of the Civil War, Great Migration, Black Power movement, AIDS crisis and gentrification. There are five more performances through June 29. Gerber, 27, started “This House” in 2020, during her senior year at Brown.

FILE - Shoppers pass a Victoria's Secret store at a shopping mall in Scranton, Pa., May 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

Victoria’s Secret says it will postpone earnings report after recent security breach

June 3, 2025

Victoria’s Secret is postponing the release of its quarterly earnings following a security breach that disrupted the popular lingerie brand’s corporate operations and led it to take down its U.S. shopping site for several days last week. Victoria’s Secret said it first detected a “security incident involving its information technology systems” on May 24 — and temporarily shut down corporate systems and its retail website on May 26. The website in the U.S. stayed dark for several days after, sparking prolonged frustration among shoppers. It wasn’t back online until late Thursday. While not directly confirmed by Victoria’s Secret, the incident bore hallmarks of a cyberattack involving ransomware. Analysts note that more and more retailers are facing these kinds of attacks today.

Stabbing attack at Oregon homeless shelter injures a dozen people

June 2, 2025

Police say a dozen people were injured in a stabbing attack at an Oregon homeless shelter and a suspect was arrested. The Salem Police Department says a man with an eight-inch knife walked into the lobby of the Union Gospel Mission Sunday evening in Salem and stabbed several people. Other people were hurt when they tried to intervene. Police say the man then left the building and stabbed others who were sitting outside nearby. Police arrested the suspect across the street from the shelter. Five of the victims remained hospitalized on Monday.

FILE - Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli speaks during a news conference, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in Raritan, N.J. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Trump, pushing for Ciattarelli, says New Jersey ‘ready to pop out of blue horror show’

June 2, 2025

President Donald Trump implored voters in New Jersey’s primary for governor to vote for Republican Jack Ciattarelli when early in-person voting begins Tuesday and said the state was ready for a change from years of Democratic control. The president announced his endorsement for Ciattarelli last month and held a telephone rally for the candidate Monday. The phone call lasted about 10 minutes, with the president saying that voters will decide whether the state remains a “high-tax, high-crime sanctuary state.” Currently, the state attorney general has directed local law enforcement not to assist federal agents in civil immigration matters.

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump appears to undercut US proposal to Iran, declaring he won’t allow any uranium enrichment

June 2, 2025

President Donald Trump has appeared to undercut a proposal that was offered by his special envoy to Iran. Trump posted on social media Monday that he’ll insist that Tehran fully dismantle its nuclear enrichment program as part of any deal to ease crushing sanctions. Trump and Steve Witkoff, who is leading the negotiations for the U.S., have repeatedly offered inconsistent public messages about whether Iran would be allowed to retain the capacity to enrich uranium to lower levels for civilian purposes. Trump’s post comes after media reports that Witkoff’s latest proposal to Tehran would have allowed Iran to retain low levels of enrichment for civilian uses like nuclear medicine and commercial power.

FILE - Transportation Security Administration workers screen airline passengers at Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta,File)

Judge grants preliminary injunction to protect collective bargaining agreement for TSA workers

June 2, 2025

A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction to stop Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from killing a collective bargaining agreement for Transportation Safety Administration workers. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman of Seattle says an injunction is needed to preserve the rights and benefits TSA workers have enjoyed for years while being represented by the American Federation of Government Employees. Pechman’s order Monday says the union’s lawsuit shows that Noem’s directive to end the agreement “constitutes impermissible retaliations.” AFGE National President Everett Kelley says the court’s decision “is a crucial victory for federal workers and the rule of law.”

FILE - New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, left, holds his first news conference with Gov. Kathy Hochul after his swearing in ceremony, making him the state's first person of Latino heritage to serve in statewide office, May 25, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

New York governor’s No. 2 is challenging her in next year’s election

June 2, 2025

New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado says he will challenge his boss, Gov. Kathy Hochul, in the governor’s race next year, months after a feud between the two Democrats erupted into public view. Delgado announced his candidacy in a short campaign video released Monday. Delgado has been hinting at a primary challenge against Hochul for months and earlier this year said he would he would not run for reelection alongside the governor, ramping up speculation about his future and leading Hochul’s office to sideline him from the duties of his ceremonial post.

Protesters and security stand in front of Delaney Hall, a recently re-opened immigration detention center, in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Supreme Court to hear private prison company appeal in suit over immigration detainee $1-a-day wages

June 2, 2025

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from a private prison company facing a lawsuit claiming immigration detainees were forced to work and paid a $1 a day in Colorado. The high court took up the case Monday. The GEO Group appealed to the high court after a judge refused to toss out the 2014 lawsuit. The company says the lawsuits are really a back door way to push back against federal immigration policy and its pay rates are in line with Immigration and Customs Enforcement regulations. They say the immigrants can’t sue because they’re running the facilities on behalf of the government, which is immune from such lawsuits.

Attorneys Billy Murphy, left, and Janai Woodhouse look on as Collette Lee speaks about how a Baltimore special education teacher sexually abused her decades ago during a news conference Monday, June 2, 2025 at the offices of Murphy, Falcon Murphy in downtown Baltimore. (AP Photo/Lea Skene)

Baltimore schools sued by former students alleging the system protected a predatory teacher

June 2, 2025

Three women are suing Baltimore’s public school system, alleging they were sexually abused by a special education teacher decades ago. The plaintiffs accuse administrators of failing to protect students from the teacher’s predatory behavior. Their attorneys say school officials knew about the abuse and allowed it to continue. They say the teacher, Alvin Hunt, would lure students to his house for tutoring. A spokesperson for the school system declined to comment on the lawsuits but confirmed that Hunt worked as a teacher from 1975 until his retirement in 2005, then returned as a substitute from 2010 to 2019. Attempts to reach Hunt were unsuccessful.

FILE - Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department, Feb. 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Romanian man pleads guilty to ‘swatting’ plot that targeted an ex-US president and lawmakers

June 2, 2025

A Romanian citizen has pleaded guilty to engaging in a plot to use “swatting” calls to intimidate and threaten dozens of people with bogus police emergencies, including a former U.S. president and several members of Congress. Thomas Szabo, 26, is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 23 by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington. Szabo pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of making bomb threats. He was extradited from Romania in November 2024 after he was indicted with a co-defendant from Serbia.

FILE - A woman walks in the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria's Hasakeh province, where tens of thousands of mostly women and children linked to the Islamic State group have been living for years, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue,File)

US citizen who joined Islamic State in Syria is sentenced to 10 years in prison

June 2, 2025

A naturalized U.S. citizen who pleaded guilty to receiving military training from the Islamic State group has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Prosecutors say 49-year-old Lirim Sylejmani engaged in at least one battle against U.S.-led forces after he entered Syria in 2015. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington, D.C., on Monday imposed Sylejmani’s prison sentence followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Sylejmani, who was born in Kosovo and moved to Chicago roughly 25 years ago, pleaded guilty last December to one count of receiving military training from a foreign terrorist organization.

FILE - This Feb. 18, 2013, file photo shows the XL Center arena in Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, file)

Hartford home of UConn Huskies basketball renamed PeoplesBank Arena

June 2, 2025

The part-time home of the storied UConn men’s and women’s basketball teams in Hartford has a new name: PeoplesBank Arena. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont was among the officials announcing the new naming rights deal Monday at the arena. Terms of the multi-year deal were not released. The 16,000-seat arena opened in 1975 as the Hartford Civic Center and was renamed the XL Center in 2007. The UConn men’s and women’s basketball teams play half their home games in Hartford and the other half at Gampel Pavilion on the Storrs campus. The arena also was once home to the NHL’s Hartford Whalers and hosts concerts and other events.

Employees work inside a franchise of "Sabor Venezolano," one of 18 businesses owned by Wilmer Escaray which employ scores of Venezuelan immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) who are now potentially exposed to deportation, in Doral, Fla., Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Judge blocks administration from revoking protected status for small subset of Venezuelans

June 2, 2025

A federal judge says an estimated 5,000 Venezuelans granted temporary protected status can continue to work and live in the U.S. despite a Supreme Court ruling revoking protections. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco ruled Friday that Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status was extended to October 2026 are not affected by the Supreme Court’s order. The Supreme Court last month gave the go-ahead for the Republican administration to strip TPS from an estimated 350,000 Venezuelans, exposing them to possible deportation. Chen’s court continues to hear the underlying claim that the revocations by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were unlawful.

Marc Maron to end his ‘WTF’ podcast after 15 years of interviewing comics, actors, musicians, Obama

June 2, 2025

Comic and actor Marc Maron says he’s ending his popular and influential podcast “WTF with Marc Maron” after nearly 16 years. Maron said on the show released Monday that the final episode will drop in the fall. Maron says he and longtime producing partner Brendan McDonald are “burnt out” but “utterly satisfied with the work” they’ve done. Maron was a veteran standup comic who had dabbled in radio when he started the show in 2009. It stood out with its thoughtful, probing longform interviews of cultural figures and reached a peak when then-President Barack Obama visited Maron’s makeshift Los Angeles garage studio for an episode in 2015.

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing plans

June 2, 2025

President Donald Trump’s administration has renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities proceeds. The high court filing Monday came after an appeals court refused to freeze a California-based judge’s order halting the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled last month that Trump’s administration needed congressional approval to make sizable cuts to the federal workforce. The administration initially asked the justices to step in last month, but withdrew its appeal for technical, legal reasons. The latest filing is one in a series emergency appeals arguing federal judges had overstepped their authority.

FILE - An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen in the night sky over the Tallinn bay of the Baltic sea in Tallinn, Estonia, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, file)

Northern lights could be visible again in some US states after weekend solar storms

June 2, 2025

Space weather forecasters say northern lights may be visible in parts of the northern United States following weekend solar storms. The sun burped out another burst of energy Monday that’s headed to Earth. Colorful auroras could be visible in Alaska, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Maine and parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Iowa, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. The sun is at the maximum phase of its 11-year activity cycle, making auroras more common and widespread. Last year, the strongest geomagnetic storm in two decades slammed Earth, producing light displays across the Northern Hemisphere.

Pulp is back for ‘More,’ their first album in 24 years. Even the Britpop band is surprised

June 2, 2025

The singular Britpop band Pulp has returned. On Friday, they will release their first new album in 24 years, the aptly titled “More.” Even the band is shocked there’s new Pulp music in 2025, as they told The Associated Press in a rare interview. “More” is the band’s first full-length since bassist Steve Mackey died in 2023. His death was a catalyst for the new record. “It made me realize that you don’t have endless amounts of time to create things,” the charismatic frontman Jarvis Cocker told the AP.

How Christopher Gattelli crafted Broadway’s ‘Death Becomes Her’ and made it a Tonys powerhouse

June 2, 2025

When he was first asked to lead the Broadway hit musical “Death Becomes Her,” director and choreographer Christopher Gattelli loved it, but refused to work on the big, splashy opening number. It was just too delicious. So Gattelli worked out everything else about how to put Robert Zemeckis’ 1992 comic cult classic onto a stage and only then turned to the brassy song, “For the Gaze,” a winking nod to gay men. What Gattelli crafted is an opening number for the ages: Mid-song costume changes, spangly jumpsuits, tuxedos, high-kicking Vegas showgirls, a body double doing somersaults and a Liza Minnelli cameo.

FILE - Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court will consider reviving Republican challenge to Illinois law on mail ballots

June 2, 2025

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reviving a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows mail ballots to be counted if they are received up to two weeks after Election Day. The justices said Monday will hear arguments in the fall over whether Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., and two former presidential electors have the legal right, or standing, to sue over the law in federal court. Lower federal courts ruled they lack standing. The case could serve to amplify claims made by President Donald Trump that late-arriving ballots and drawn out electoral counts undermine confidence in elections.

Old Dominion’s new album, ‘Barbara,’ won’t lean on band’s record-breaking laurels

June 2, 2025

Old Dominion will release their new album, “Barbara,” on Aug. 22. The 13-track project includes the previously released “Me Most Nights” and “Making Good Time,” along with the four-on-the-floor “Talk Country” and the R&B-infused “What Doesn’t Kill a Memory.” Lead singer Matthew Ramsey says the band has worked on the album for the last two years, calling it their most eclectic album to date. They won their eighth consecutive group of the year award at last month’s Academy of Country Music Awards, putting Old Dominion in the sole position of the record. The band is prepping for the “How Good Is That” world tour, which launches this month in South Carolina.

Eileen Lamb, left, who along with her son Charlie Lamb, has autism, works with her son and daughter Billie, bottom, at their home, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

AP PHOTOS: A mother’s journey with autism: Eileen Lamb’s life with her 3 children

June 2, 2025

AUSTIN, Texas By ERIC GAYAssociated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s

What we know about the suspect and victims in the Boulder, Colorado, attack

June 1, 2025

Six people calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza were injured at an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colorado, by a man who used a makeshift flamethrower and hurled an incendiary device into the crowd. The FBI immediately called it a “targeted terror attack.” Officials said the man yelled “Free Palestine” as he attacked people Sunday calling for the immediate release of Israeli hostages in Gaza. The FBI identified the suspect as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman. Charges were not immediately filed against him, but officials said they expect to hold him “fully accountable.”

FBI says 8 injured in Colorado attack by man with makeshift flamethrower who yelled ‘Free Palestine’

June 1, 2025

The FBI says a man with a makeshift flamethrower yelled “Free Palestine” and hurled an incendiary device into a crowd that had assembled to raise attention for Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Eight people were injured in the attack Sunday in Boulder, Colorado, that the FBI says it’s investigating as an act of terrorism. The suspect was identified as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman and officials believe he acted alone. The burst of violence at the popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall unfolded against the backdrop of a war between Israel and Hamas that has contributed to a spike in antisemitic violence in the United States.

Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan for his retrial on Friday, May 30, 2025 in New York. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Harvey Weinstein doesn’t plan to testify at sex crimes retrial

June 1, 2025

An attorney for Harvey Weinstein says he doesn’t plan to testify in his New York sex crimes retrial. Lawyer Arthur Aidala says trial will move on to closing arguments Tuesday without Weinstein taking the stand. The former Hollywood honcho is being retried in the New York rape and sexual assault case because the state’s highest court overturned his 2020 conviction. He denies the allegations. The 73-year-old didn’t testify at previous trials in New York and California.

Tulsa’s new Black mayor proposes $100M trust to ‘repair’ impact of 1921 Race Massacre

June 1, 2025

Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help. The proposal is a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history. The plan by Mayor Monroe Nichols would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. Nichols is the first Black mayor of Oklahoma’s second-largest city. He made the announcement in the once-thriving Greenwood District that was destroyed by a white mob.

Shooting leaves 1 dead, 11 hurt on a North Carolina street during a house party

June 1, 2025

Gunfire erupted around a house party in western North Carolina early Sunday and authorities say one person was killed and 11 others injured. A sheriff’s statement said some had gunshot wounds and others were hurt while running from the gunfire in a normally quiet neighborhood south of Hickory in western North Carolina. Deputies said at least 80 shots were fired in the shooting that began about 12:45 a.m. Hours later Sunday, law enforcement had made no arrests. They said earlier they believed there was more than one shooter. Officers are seeking tips from the public and seeking to interview those who attended the party.

FILE - A roll of police tape is left on the windshield of a Los Angeles County sheriff's vehicle in the parking lot of its training academy in Whittier, Calif., Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

1 officer killed, 1 wounded and another man dead in Los Angeles County shooting

June 1, 2025

A police officer was killed and another was injured in a shooting in a city east of Los Angeles. Another man was found wounded on a sidewalk and later died in the Saturday evening shooting. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the incident as a double homicide. An adult male suspect was wounded and has been taken into custody. Police officers in the city of Baldwin Park initially responded to a call at around 7 p.m. of someone shooting rounds with a rifle and an unresponsive person lying on a sidewalk

Police officer fatally shoots person at Atlanta apartment complex

June 1, 2025

Authorities say a police officer shot and killed a person at a southwest Atlanta apartment complex who was breaking into his police car. The officer confronted the individual on Sunday morning at the complex where he handles security. Officials say the person charged at the officer with a metal pipe. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting. It’s also investigating a separate incident last week in Bartow County, northwest of Atlanta, where a woman was shot and killed in an encounter with law enforcement officers who say she refused to drop a gun.

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is recognized as President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

List of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ removed from US government website following criticism

June 1, 2025

A list of more than 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” no longer appears in the Department of Homeland Security’s website after receiving criticism for including localities that have actively supported the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies. The department last week published the list of the jurisdictions. It said each one would receive formal notification that the government has deemed them uncooperative with federal immigration enforcement and whether they’re believed those jurisdictions to be in violation of any federal criminal statutes. The list was published Thursday on the department’s website. By Sunday. there was a “Page Not Found” error message in its place.

David Kim, a Catholic altar server, stands for a portrait before a Mass at the Princeton University chapel in Princeton, N.J., on Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Being a devout Catholic at a secular college can be challenging. Some call it a blessing.

June 1, 2025

A group of young Catholics attend Mass every weekday at noon at the Princeton University Chapel. The members of the Catholic campus ministry worship at a side altar reserved for these Masses. They see it as a sacred refuge amid a largely secular environment at the Ivy League school in New Jersey. News that the global Catholic Church would get its first U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholic students at Princeton and other U.S. universities. Some say they’re hopeful that Pope Leo XIV will help bring a revival for Catholicism in America.

FILE - Leonard Leo speaks at the National Lawyers Convention in Washington, Nov. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)

Trump, frustrated with some judges, lashes out at former ally and conservative activist Leonard Leo

June 1, 2025

President Donald Trump has lashed out at Leonard Leo, the conservative legal activist who has worked to dramatically reshape the country’s courts. Trump is blaming Leo and the group he used to head for encouraging him to appoint judges who are now blocking his agenda. Leo is the former longtime leader of the conservative Federalist Society, who, during Trump’s first term, helped the president transform the federal judiciary and closely advised him on his Supreme Court picks. He is widely credited as an architect of the conservative majority responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade.

Netflix reveals details about Lady Gaga on ‘Wednesday,’ ‘Squid Game’ and ‘Stranger Things’ finales

June 1, 2025

Netflix has unveiled unveiled details about its upcoming slate of offerings at a live event in Inglewood, California. The streaming giant announced release dates for the final episodes of its hits “Squid Game” and “Stranger Things” and revealed that Lady Gaga will play a teacher on “Wednesday.” The streaming giant assembled actors including Jenna Ortega, Oscar Isaac, Lee Jung-jae, Kerry Washington, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for its annual Tudum event. Musical performances bookended the show, with Hanumankind opening with “Run It Up” and Gaga closing with a medley and the announcement of her latest acting gig.

Rapid City Locals Featured In Manhattan Art Exhibition

May 31, 2025

NEW YORK, NY — While Rapid City focuses on elections and the beginnings of the tourism season, half a country

FILE - The Heritage of Pride group carry banners and balloons during the New York City Pride Parade on June 25, 2017 in New York. (AP Photo/Michael Noble Jr., file)

Pride events face budget shortfalls as US corporations pull support ahead of summer festivities

May 30, 2025

After years of sponsoring LGBTQ+ Pride events around the country, some companies are pulling their financial support. Some are donating but asking their names not be linked to the events. The scaling back by corporations has left some organizations of the largest Pride events in the country with hundreds of thousands of dollars in budget shortfalls ahead of the summer festivities. The shift has led organizers to ponder the role of corporate America in future Pride events. It also comes as President Donald Trump has shown antipathy for trans protections and drag shows. Experts also note that a growing slice of the public has grown tired of so-called brand activism.

FILE - Louisiana state police enter a house on North Galvez street as they pursue a fugitive that escaped from a New Orleans jail, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

A growing number of New Orleans fugitives’ friends and family arrested for aiding in jail escape

May 30, 2025

The 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail more than two weeks ago by cutting out a hole behind a toilet received help from at least 14 people, many of them friends and family who provided food, cash, transport and shelter according to court documents. Some are held on bonds $1 million or higher. Records reviewed by The Associated Press show how some of the fugitives received aid before and after their escape — including from a number of people named in police reports but not facing charges, such as an apparent former jail employee. Authorities upped the reward to $50,000 for each of the two remaining fugitives.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s next move: Energizing Democrats in South Carolina and California

May 30, 2025

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will seek to energize activists at Democratic state conventions in South Carolina and California on Saturday. The party’s 2024 vice presidential nominee is working to keep up the high national profile he gained when Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate. Walz will keynote the South Carolina gathering in Columbia, traditionally a showcase for national-level Democrats and White House hopefuls. South Carolina held the first Democratic presidential primary of the 2024 campaign, and the state hopes for a repeat in 2028. But the national party organizations haven’t settled their 2028 calendars yet.

Who is ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’? A historian searched for 25 years for the answer

May 30, 2025

A single photo sparked a 25-year search in Las Vegas. Historian Robert Friedrichs became obsessed with uncovering the true identity of Miss Atomic Bomb, the showgirl in a 1957 promo photo wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit who seemed to vanish from the public eye. Friedrichs dug through archives, interviewed showgirls, and followed countless leads. The breakthrough came in an obituary: her real name was Anna Lee Mahoney. A temporary exhibit highlighting the woman in the photo, the mystery behind her name and the man who solved it opens in June at the Atomic Museum.

FILE - Chiefs signs and logos are displayed Massapequa High School in Massapequa, N.Y., Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Trump’s education secretary threatens to pull funding from NY over its Native American mascot ban

May 30, 2025

President Donald Trump’s top education official says her department has determined that New York is discriminating against a school district that is refusing a state order to get rid of its Native American chief mascot. U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said on a visit to Massapequa High School on Long Island on Friday that the state could risk losing federal funding or face a Justice Department investigation. McMahon says her department will be asking the state to voluntarily sign a resolution rescinding its ban on Native American mascots and allowing districts to continue using the image and name of their choosing.

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Answering your questions about President Trump’s tariffs

May 30, 2025

President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January determined to overturn decades of American policy and build a tariff wall around a U.S. economy that used to be pretty much wide open to foreign products. In the process of making that a reality, he has rattled financial markets and worried consumers with an ever-changing lineup of import taxes. The pattern goes something like this: He’ll announce new tariffs, then suspend them, then come up with new ones. The uncertainty has paralyzed businesses who don’t know what to expect. And economists worry that the tariffs will push up prices and hurt economic growth. The Associated Press asked for your questions about Trump’s tariffs. Here are a few of them, along with our answers.

Shakira performance for World Pride opening concert abruptly canceled due to technical issues

May 30, 2025

One day before the kickoff concert for World Pride 2025 in the nation’s capital, headlining performer Shakira has abruptly canceled due to equipment difficulties. The multiplatinum singer had been scheduled to headline the opening celebrations Saturday night at Nationals Park. The reasons are apparently an extension of equipment issues related to her Thursday night concert in Boston’s Fenway Park, which was also canceled hours before it was set to begin. A Friday night concert at Fenway for country star Jason Aldean was also canceled.

FILE - A person carries a sign in support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers, as they carry their personal belongings after retrieving them from the USAID's headquarters in Washington, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce

May 30, 2025

An appeals court is keeping in place a court block on the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce. The order was issued Friday. The Republican administration had sought an emergency stay of a California judge’s order freezing personnel reductions and reorganizations. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said voters gave him a mandate to remake a federal government he calls bloated and expensive. But U.S. Judge Susan Illston of San Francisco said the president must get the cooperation of Congress to do so. The Trump administration has previously appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court.

Alf Clausen, Emmy-winning composer who wrote music for ‘The Simpsons’ for 27 years, dies at 84

May 30, 2025

Al Clausen, the Emmy-winning composer who provided the music for “The Simpsons” for 27 years, has died at age 84. Clausen’s daughter says he died in Los Angeles on Thursday. Clausen began providing the music for the animated antics of “The Simpsons” in its second season in 1990, and wrote the scores for nearly 600 episodes. He won two Emmys and was nominated for 30. He also composed the music for the TV series “Moonlighting” and “Alf.” “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening once called Clausen “one of the unacknowledged treasures of the show.”

FILE - Members of immigration advocacy groups react as Los Angeles City Council votes to enact an ordinance to prohibit city resources from being used for immigration enforcement in anticipation of potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump, inside Los Angeles City Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

US communities spanning from red to blue blast Trump administration’s sanctuary list

May 30, 2025

Officials in communities from rural to urban and red to blue have blasted the Trump administration’s recently-published list of “sanctuary jurisdictions.” Many say they’ve been outspoken supporters of the president and his stringent policies on immigration yet their communities somehow wound up on the list. Others note several spelling mistakes. And those with policies protecting immigrants also pushed back, saying they are doing right by their communities. The list was published as the Trump administration ramps up efforts to increase immigration arrests.

Yurong "Luanna" Jiang, center, who delivered a speech at her Harvard University commencement, jokes with her college friends Helen Ji, left, and Cynthia Luo, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Chinese student struck a chord emphasizing humanity during Harvard commencement speech

May 30, 2025

A day after her emotional speech at Harvard University’s commencement, Yurong “Luanna” Jiang kept running into classmates who praised her for recognizing everyone’s humanity. The master’s student from China addressed the crowd as the Trump administration expands its criticism of the Ivy League school into a nationwide campaign to control higher education by restricting the enrollment of international students. Jiang tells The Associated Press that she had hoped to remain in the United States, but now may go overseas to work in international development. She says it’s difficult to say what will happen in her immediate future.

The Rev. James Talbot is shown in Suffolk Superior Court Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, in Boston. (Matt Stone/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

Convicted former Catholic priest exposed by Spotlight investigation dies at 87

May 30, 2025

James Talbot, a former Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting boys in Maine and Massachusetts after he was exposed by The Boston Globe, has died. He was 87. Talbot appeared on a list provided by the religious order of northeastern Jesuits who faced credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor. Jesuits USA East confirmed on Friday that Talbot died on Feb. 28 at a hospice center in St. Louis. Talbot was one of the subjects of an investigation into priest sex abuse by The Globe’s Spotlight team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003. The reporting was later adapted into the movie “Spotlight.”

William Duplessie, charged with kidnapping and torture for trying to steal a man's Bitcoin password, appears in Manhattan Criminal court, Friday, May 30, 2025. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

2nd suspect in Manhattan crypto kidnapping and torture case indicted

May 30, 2025

A second man charged in the kidnapping and torture of an Italian man for his Bitcoin has been indicted. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said a grand jury handed up the indictment Friday against William Duplessie. The indictment will remain sealed until his arraignment June 11. Prosecutors say Duplessie and fellow crypto investor John Woeltz lured the victim to a posh townhouse in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood on May 6 by threatening to kill his family. They then held him captive for 17 days, torturing him until he finally relented and gave them his computer password.

Trump says China ‘violated’ agreement on trade talks and he’ll stop being ‘nice’

May 30, 2025

President Donald Trump said Friday that he will no longer be “Mr. NICE GUY” with China on trade, declaring in a social media post that the country had broken an agreement with the United States. Hours later, Trump said in the Oval Office that he will speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping and “hopefully we’ll work that out,” while still insisting China had violated the agreement. What deal Trump was referring to was not clear. But the president’s rhetoric was a sharp break from the recent optimism when he lowered his 145% tariffs on Chinese goods to 30% for 90 days to allow for talks. China also reduced its taxes on U.S. goods from 125% to 10%.

Yurong "Luanna" Jiang, center, who delivered a speech at her Harvard University commencement, takes a selfie with her college friends Cynthia Luo, right, and Helen Ji, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Career pathways in the US dim for international students as Trump cracks down on visas

May 30, 2025

Many international students come to the U.S. with hopes of gaining work experience, either before returning to their home countries or pursuing a longer-term career in the U.S. But the administration’s intensifying scrutiny of international students — and signs that formal career pathways for them may be closed off — are leading some to reconsider their plans. The administration already has expanded the grounds for terminating students’ permission to study in the U.S., added new vetting for student visas, and moved to block foreign enrollment at Harvard. Students and educators also fear the potential end to a program that allows international students to stay and gain work experience.

Trump picks right-wing lawyer and podcaster who promoted 2020 election lies as watchdog agency head

May 30, 2025

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency is a former right-wing podcast host who has praised criminally charged influencer Andrew Tate as an “extraordinary human being.” If confirmed by the Senate, Paul Ingrassia would lead the Office of Special Counsel. The agency is dedicated to protecting whistleblowers and responsible for enforcing the Hatch Act, which restricts the partisan political activities of government workers. Trump described Ingrassia in a social media post as a “highly respected attorney, writer and Constitutional Scholar.”

What to watch for at the Tony Awards, Broadway’s biggest night

May 30, 2025

The Tony Awards this year will be held Sunday, June 8, from Radio City Music Hall in New York City. It will be broadcast live to both coasts on CBS and Paramount+. Tony-, Emmy- and Grammy-winner and three-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo will host. There are new six new musicals hoping to win: “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Dead Outlaw,” “Death Becomes Her,” “Maybe Happy Ending” and “Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical.” For new plays, it’s “English,” “The Hills of California,” “John Proctor Is the Villain,” “Oh, Mary!” and “Purpose.” Audra McDonald, the most recognized performer in the theater awards’ history, could possibly extend her lead as most decorated actor.

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

FAA demands an accident investigation into SpaceX’s latest out-of-control Starship flight

May 30, 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding an accident investigation into the out-of-control Starship flight by SpaceX. The world’s biggest and most powerful rocket blasted off from Texas on Tuesday. The test flight lasted longer than the previous two failed demos, which ended in flames over the Atlantic. This latest spacecraft made it halfway around the world to the Indian Ocean, but not before going into a spin and breaking apart. The FAA said Friday no injuries or public damage were reported. The agency will oversee SpaceX’s investigation, which is required before another Starship can launch.

What to Stream: Nintendo’s Switch 2, Addison Rae album, ‘Presence’ and Ariana Madix returns to Fiji

May 30, 2025

A Shaquille O’Neal docuseries about his time at Reebok’s basketball division and Mario Kart World on Nintendo’s Switch 2 are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time for the week of June 2 as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Ariana Madix returns to Fiji as host of a new season of “Love Island USA.,” TikTok star Addison Rae offers her debut album “Addison” and then there’s “Presence,” Steven Soderbergh’s movie entirely from the perspective a ghost.

What to Stream: ‘Mountainhead,’ Bono documentary and Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel play sisters

May 30, 2025

“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong’s satirical drama “Mountainhead” and Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel playing dysfunctional siblings in the murder thriller series “The Better Sister” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time for the week of May 26 as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: A new concert special featuring Aretha Franklin, U2’s frontman revealing all in the documentary “Bono: Stories of Surrender” and multiplayer gamers get Elden Ring: Nightreign, sending teams of three warriors to battle the flamboyant monsters of a haunted land.

FILE - A sale sign stands outside a home on the market Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in the east Washington Park neighborhood of Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Sellers outnumber prospective homebuyers as high prices and mortgage rates skew the housing market

May 30, 2025

Homeowners eager to sell may have to wait a while before a buyer comes along. As of April, the U.S. housing market had nearly 34% more sellers than buyers shopping for a home, according to an analysis by Redfin. Aside from April 2020, when the pandemic brought housing activity to a standstill, there haven’t been this few buyers in the market for a home before, based on records that date back to 2013. The shift should help home shoppers who can afford to buy, but it changes little for those who remain priced out of a home.

In this photo provided by the Horry County Police Department, police officers respond to the scene of a shooting on Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Little River, S.C. (Horry County Police Department via AP)

Teen arrested in South Carolina party boat shooting that hurt 11 people

May 30, 2025

Authorities say a 19-year-old has been taken into custody in Illinois and they plan to charge him in a shooting that hurt 11 people after a party boat cruise in South Carolina. Horry County Police say the shooting happened Sunday night on a dock in Little River after a fight on the boat during the three-hour cruise. Investigators say the suspect is expected to be charged with several counts of attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Then officials will seek to extradite him back to South Carolina. Authorities say the investigation into the shooting continues and more people could be charged.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, right, and FBI Director Kash Patel speak during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump has long warned of a government ‘deep state.’ Now in power, he’s under pressure to expose it

May 30, 2025

President Donald Trump has built a coalition by promising to demolish a so-called deep state that he claims is behind dark government conspiracies. But four months into his second term, his administration hasn’t arrested hordes of corrupt officials or revealed massive crimes from within its ranks. As a result, some of the president’s supporters who took him at his word are getting restless. They are asking why his administration, which now holds the keys to chasing down these alleged government secrets, is denying them the evidence and retribution they expected. One conservative commentator lamented: “People are tired of not knowing.”

Ralph Rodriguez poses for a portrait at his pawn and gun shop in Fayetteville, N.C., Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

What’s in a name? A small fortune for businesses around Fort Bragg

May 30, 2025

Businesses around Fort Bragg in North Carolina are facing a challenge now that the Trump administration has once again renamed the military post. Fort Bragg and other military installations that were once named for Confederate figures from the Civil War were rebranded under the Biden administration. Fort Bragg became Fort Liberty. But a couple of months after Ralph Rodriguez opened Fort Liberty Pawn & Gun, the Defense Department changed the name back to Fort Bragg. Now he is having to change signs, uniforms, stationery and government paperwork, costing about $30,000. Several other businesses are facing the same problem. And the name change is costing taxpayers, too. The state expects to spend about $200,000 changing all the highway signs back.

A periodical cicada flies up from the grass pursued by a cardinal, Friday, May 23, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

AP PHOTOS: Cicadas swarm parts of US as the screaming insects emerge in Brood XIV’s 17-year cycle

May 30, 2025

CINCINNATI By CAROLYN KASTERAssociated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Another cicada invasion is here. The large Brood XIV, which emerges every

Faizan Zaki, 13, of Dallas, holds the trophy after winning the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Faizan Zaki overcomes a shocking, self-inflicted flub and wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee

May 29, 2025

Faizan Zaki has seized the title of best speller in the English language at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, was runner-up last year after he lost in a lightning-round tiebreaker. He ousted eight other accomplished spellers to win the title on Thursday night, including two that he let back into the competition after his own careless flub. Told to take a deep breath before his final word, “eclaircissement,” he didn’t ask a single question before spelling it correctly. He pumped his fists and collapsed to the stage after saying the final letter.

Former Creedence Clearwater front man John Fogerty celebrates 80th with show in Manhattan

May 29, 2025

As he turned 80 this week, John Fogerty was in a mood to honor his past and to revise it. Fogerty played a rowdy 100-minute set Thursday night to an adoring, near-capacity audience at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre. Crowd members spanned from those likely to remember “Proud Mary,” “Fortunate Son” and other Creedence Clearwater Revival hits when first released a half-century ago to those looking young enough to have heard about them through their grandparents. At least from a distance, Fogerty didn’t look or sound much different from his prime with Creedence.

Chicago risks severe cuts to transit. Its poorest suburbs could be hit even harder

May 29, 2025

The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend without plugging a $770 million hole in the transportation budget. Transit agencies across the country have been grappling with a fiscal cliff spurred by a post-pandemic decline in ridership and the sunset of federal COVID-19 relief funding. Four of the city’s eight L train lines and more than half its bus lines could close. The impact could be even more severe in the suburb of Harvey, where 1 in 4 residents live in poverty. Harvey won federal and state funding for a major new transit hub, but service cuts could send it reeling in the opposite direction.

FILE - Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaks during a taping of "Fox News Sunday" at Fox News headquarters in Washington, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Maryland’s Wes Moore says he’s not running for president but high-profile stops keep chatter alive

May 29, 2025

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has been saying for months that he does not plan to run for president in 2028. That isn’t stopping persistent talk about his future political plans, though. He’s often mentioned as a potential candidate for national office. While Moore says he’s focusing on being governor, he is still making appearances that get him national attention outside Maryland. On Friday, he is set to travel to speak at the Blue Palmetto Dinner in the early primary state of South Carolina. Moore says he’s keeping focused on being the state’s governor during a challenging time.

FILE - A train transports freight on a common carrier line near Price, Utah, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Supreme Court scales back a key environmental law in a ruling that could speed development projects

May 29, 2025

The Supreme Court has backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah in a ruling that scales back a key environmental law and could speed development projects around the country. The ruling Thursday involves the Uinta Basin Railway, a proposed 88-mile expansion that would connect oil and gas producers to the broader rail network and allow them to access larger markets. In their 8-0 decision, the justices endorsed a limited interpretation of a key environmental law. Justice Neil Gorsuch didn’t participate in the case. The Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision and restored a critical approval from regulators. But the project could face additional legal and regulatory hurdles.

FILE - This photo shows the entrance of the Honolulu Police Department in Honolulu, Hawaii, on March 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Marina Riker, File)

A lawsuit says Honolulu police are arresting people for impaired driving even when they are sober

May 29, 2025

The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii has filed a lawsuit alleging Honolulu police officers are arresting sober drivers in an overzealous focus on making drunk-driving arrests. The lawsuit says Honolulu officers have arrested “scores” of drivers who show no outward signs of impairment, perform well on field sobriety tests and whose breath tests often show no alcohol. ACLU Hawaii says officers are focusing on arrests even if they don’t result in convictions in an attempt to show they are protecting the public and to use arrest numbers to gain federal funding. In response, Honolulu police said they are reviewing all impaired driving arrests dating to 2021.

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