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U.S. lifts blockade of Iran and Iranian supreme leader endorses direct talks with American officials
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and WILL WEISSERT and SEUNG MIN KIM, Associated Press
Vice President JD Vance has embraced the role of being the chief defender of the agreement he and President Donald Trump signed with Iran over the weekend.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
The rapper Mystikal, who received multiple Grammy nominations in the early 2000s, will serve 20 years in prison for raping a woman at his Louisiana home in 2022.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
British television personality Jeremy Clarkson revealed on his farm reality show that he has prostate cancer.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
U.S. gas prices fell below $4 a gallon on average Thursday, but just barely.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Tropical Storm Arthur is drenching the southern United States with intense rain that’s expected to cause dangerous flash flooding.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and JAKE OFFENHARTZ, Associated Press
A teenager thrown to the ground Wednesday when a Central Park carriage horse bolted away from its driver has died.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
Pakistan says that the deal to end the war in Iran is taking ‘immediate effect’ after both sides have signed it, but that there will still be a formal signing ceremony on Friday.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and MEG KINNARD
An Oklahoma megachurch minister has withdrawn from a U.S. House runoff after reports that he sent romantic texts to a woman who isn't his wife.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By The Associated Press
El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional indicó que todos los detenidos en la instalación, administrada por el estado de Florida, habían sido trasladados, pero no precisó cuántos ni adónde fueron llevados.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and CHRISTOPHER WEBER and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, Associated Press
Military officials identified all eight people killed in this week’s fiery crash of a B-52 in California.
Updated: 23 hours ago
|By The Associated Press and HALLIE GOLDEN, DAVE COLLINS and RUSS BYNUM
Local officials in Laredo said Wednesday the toll in the fiery crash could have been much worse and credited bystanders for helping police rescue passengers and crew.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 3:42 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press and GISELA SALOMON, Associated Press
All detainees at an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” have been transferred.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press and ALI SWENSON and MIKE STOBBE
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she is being held.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 2:44 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Luigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Leaders at the Group of Seven summit have backed U.S. President Donald Trump's tentative agreement with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and extend a ceasefire.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 2:04 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Aseguran que fue otro factor, y no los inmigrantes, el que provocó el repunte en los precios.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 12:06 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Health officials are trying to raise awareness about a life-threatening allergy to meat triggered by tick bites.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 9:51 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
A Long Island architect who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer has been sentenced to to life in prison without parole.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 9:19 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
El fenómeno traerá intensas lluvias y amenaza de inundaciones a estados como Texas y Luisiana, informan meteorólogos.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 3:52 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
The president says he’s delaying Jay Clayton’s nomination to lead the U.S. intelligence community in a bid to force Congress to act on a voter ID bill.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2026 at 12:54 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press and HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press
A business jet crashed on a highway in Texas, and caught fire, killing one person.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press and CHRISTOPHER WEBER and JOSH FUNK
All eight people aboard were killed in Monday’s crash of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 10:02 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press and DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer
The incredible trio of goals came 20 years to the day that Messi made his World Cup debut for Argentina.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 8:59 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Officials say the suspect in a fatal shooting inside a Delaware hospital has been taken into custody.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 6:44 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Iran’s top diplomat said Tuesday that the tentative deal to end the war with the United States would require Israel to withdraw from Lebanon.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 6:08 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
FBI Director Kash Patel says law enforcement officials disrupted “planned attacks” meant to target the UFC cage-fighting show at the White House this past weekend and multiple people are in custody.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 4:20 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
El ICE indicó que las normas, que se aplican a contratistas con fines de lucro y a cárceles que albergan a detenidos, se revisaron para “reducir la carga sobre nuestros operadores de detención”.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, SYLVIE CORBET and AAMER MADHANI
President Donald Trump and G7 leaders are focusing on the Ukraine war and Trump is considering reimposing sanctions soon on Russian oil shipments.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press and LISA MASCARO
The effort to stop President Donald Trump’s war against Iran comes as the administration is floating the contours of an agreement that might end the fighting.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 2:36 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
A Wisconsin beagle breeding and research facility that’s been the site of recent violent protests is closing, and its remaining dogs are being taken in by a Florida rescue group.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 1:47 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Yum! Brands is selling Pizza Hut in two deals worth $2.7 billion.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 11:03 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Major League Baseball has warned players about writing on their uniforms after San Francisco starter Landen Roupp and two other pitchers added Bible verses to their Pride Night caps last week.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Even after oil starts flowing again from the Middle East, it could take awhile for consumers to see a difference at local fuel pumps, supermarkets and other places they shop, according to economists and industry analysts.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 9:44 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
An endorsement from President Donald Trump is worth a lot in Republican primaries. But is it worth more than $100 million in campaign spending in Georgia?
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 8:48 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Authorities say two people are dead after a BASE jumping accident in a Utah canyon.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2026 at 7:13 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
No se reveló de inmediato la naturaleza de la posible amenaza.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 10:51 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press and Graham Dunbar
A World Cup video review official says his hand gesture resembling a white supremacist sign was caused by an involuntary twitch.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer
Fox and Roku said that the combined company will become the third-largest player in U.S. television by share of viewing.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Several of the skydivers killed when their plane crashed moments after taking off from a Missouri airfield were experienced jumpers who belonged to a community with a unique bond.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 6:26 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat and longtime political rival of Republican President Donald Trump, said Monday the president ordered the Justice Department to investigate him and his wife.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 6:26 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press, Christopher Weber and Konstantin Toropin
A B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff Monday morning at a U.S. Air Force base in California, officials said.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 5:46 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
A teenager charged with sexually assaulting and killing his 18-year-old stepsister on a Carnival Cruise ship surrendered Monday after a federal judge reversed his decision on pretrial release now that the teen is charged as an adult.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 3:59 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press and JON GAMBRELL, ELENA BECATOROS and MICHELLE L. PRICE
An initial agreement between the United States and Iran to extend their shaky ceasefire is inching toward a formal signing.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Britain will ban children aged under 16 from using a range of social media apps, including Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, to protect them from harmful content and excessive screen time, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 12:24 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
El oficial disparó su arma, posiblemente alcanzando el vehículo de la que persona que perseguía.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 12:15 PM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Legislation in two of the nation's most populous states could force 3D printers to come equipped with technology blocking them from making guns.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 9:18 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
High oil and gasoline prices and energy supply problems won’t be solved overnight, despite an agreement to end the Iran war and open the Strait of Hormuz announced Sunday.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 7:57 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
President Donald Trump celebrated turning 80 by announcing a preliminary agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a UFC cage-fighting event on the White House lawn.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 4:54 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press
Tyra Banks has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix and the directors of “Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model.”
Updated: Jun. 15, 2026 at 2:54 AM MDT
|By The Associated Press and JON GAMBRELL and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press
The U.S. and Iran reached an initial agreement that would extend their shaky ceasefire and lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but challenges immediately loomed.
























































