Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has unveiled her last budget, a $21.2 billion gross operating spending plan that is sure to erupt into battles on the District Council and Capitol Hill, where Republican lawmakers have shown a growing willingness to interject themselves into local affairs
April 11, 2026
Raskin calls for Trump to take cognitive test in wake of Iran threats as Democrats question president’s fitness
April 11, 2026
Kansas City, Missouri, would issue $600 million in bonds for a new stadium for Major League Baseball’s Royals under a proposal officials there are pursuing
April 11, 2026
Stepfather arrested 10 years after Virginia teen disappeared on way to airport
April 11, 2026
With the ceasefire in Iran still shaky, U.S. and Iranian negotiators are heading to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials
April 10, 2026
Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams has become a citizen of Albania
April 11, 2026
President Donald Trump says the only reason the Iranians are alive today “is to negotiate,” as he sends Vice President JD Vance overseas to work on a resolution to the war
April 10, 2026
Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar has brought about an end to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule
April 10, 2026
In his first 100 days in office, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has governed with a star power unusual in politics
April 10, 2026
The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s economic policy — sweeping taxes on global imports — is under legal assault again
April 10, 2026
Lawmaker uses satirical 'Spinachgate' video to address water pollution and cancer concerns
April 11, 2026
Office of the Child Advocate increasing oversight of youth detention center amid recent concerns of ‘illegal practices’
April 11, 2026
Former Vice President Kamala Harris says she’s actively considering another presidential bid
April 10, 2026
White House warns staff against insider trading on prediction markets
April 11, 2026
Both countries seem tired of the costs of war and ongoing risks, but successful negotiations will have to overcome deep distrust by both sides.
April 10, 2026
How Vance is navigating peace talks with Iran — and his own political future
April 10, 2026
A few US towns have banned cigarette sales to anyone born after a specific date, and several states are considering this path. A psychologist explains why such measures often face stiff resistance.
April 10, 2026
President Donald Trump's administration has admitted to a major error in data used to justify a federal fraud probe into New York’s Medicaid program
April 10, 2026
Friday marks six months since the ceasefire in Gaza took effect, but progress remains limited
April 10, 2026
Since the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. was announced, leaders in President Donald Trump's administration have been quick to say the Iranian military and its capacity have sustained significant damage during the weeks of fighting
April 10, 2026
The week that supercharged MAGA media feuds over the Iran war
April 10, 2026
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took a short and happy break as she hosted legendary British rock band Deep Purple in Tokyo as a longtime admirer
April 10, 2026
Russia’s Putin declares ceasefire with Ukraine for Orthodox Easter
April 10, 2026
An AP reporter describes how Israel's massive bombardment of Beirut stunned the city
April 10, 2026
Desperate for fuel, US allies in Asia are turning to its adversaries instead
April 10, 2026
Protests over high fuel prices in Ireland have entered a fourth day, sparking concerns about fuel shortages and emergency services as demonstrators clogged roads and blocked access to refining and distribution sites around the country
April 10, 2026
Taiwan's opposition leader has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, marking the first such encounter in over a decade
April 10, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian military personnel shot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones in multiple Middle Eastern countries during the Iran war, describing the operations as part of a broader effort to help partners counter the same weapons used by Russia in Ukraine
April 10, 2026
China’s Xi touts peace - and points to global conflicts - in rare meeting with Taiwan opposition leader
April 10, 2026
Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the early globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II
April 10, 2026
President Donald Trump's efforts to exit the war in Iran are causing tension within the Republican Party
April 10, 2026
Donald Trump is accustomed to criticism from coast to coast — Democrats, disaffected Republicans, late-night comedians, protesters
April 10, 2026
Agriculture secretary’s religious Easter message to all employees sparks internal backlash and a formal complaint
April 10, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors
April 09, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors
April 09, 2026
The Board of Immigration Appeals has denied Mahmoud Khalil's latest attempt to dismiss his deportation case
April 10, 2026
RFK Jr.’s HHS rewrites rules governing key CDC vaccine committee
April 10, 2026
With a fragile ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran holding for now, China is considering its role in helping find a durable endgame to the war in the Middle East
April 10, 2026
Judge blocks Pentagon’s latest bid to limit press access in scathing ruling
April 10, 2026
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking Massachusetts' voter rolls
April 10, 2026
The Trump administration is highlighting a 24% increase in individual tax refunds this season compared with those issued during the previous administration
April 10, 2026
What is Israel’s war in Lebanon, and why could it shatter the Iran ceasefire?
April 09, 2026
First lady Melania Trump has delivered a statement at the White House denying ties to Jeffrey Epstein and knowledge of his crimes
April 10, 2026
The attorney for a man shot by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during an arrest in central California says his client is recovering after three surgeries for multiple gunshot wounds and that he denies being a gang member
April 10, 2026
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has told NBC News’ Meet the Press that he would not step down in his first interview with a U.S. network
April 10, 2026
California unveils hospice fraud arrests, pushing back on ‘kingdom of fraud’ claim by Trump official
April 10, 2026
Israel’s intense barrage of airstrikes on Wednesday hit without warning deep inside the Lebanese capital of Beirut, blowing buildings open to the elements and reducing apartment blocks to rubble in parts of the city that have traditionally escaped attack
April 10, 2026
Plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration's cost-cutting measures against a library funding agency have settled with the Justice Department
April 10, 2026
Automatic military draft registration takes effect in December. Here’s how it would work
April 10, 2026
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are saying President Donald Trump should be removed from office after he threatened Iranian civilization would “die” if it didn’t meet his demands
April 09, 2026
Many Iranian soccer fans in the U.S. have conflicting emotions about their homeland's beloved national team as the World Cup comes to North America
April 09, 2026
The Associated Press has learned an NCAA panel is scheduled to discuss potential changes to eligibility rules that would incorporate age into the process
April 09, 2026
Argentina's Congress has approved a bill that eases glacier protections to boost mining investments
April 09, 2026
Israeli government secretly approves over 30 new settler outposts
April 09, 2026
Republicans have had some setbacks this election year, with recent Democratic wins Wisconsin and Georgia
April 09, 2026
U.S. applications for unemployment benefits rose last week before Iran, Israel and the U.S. announced a two-week ceasefire deal that injected a degree of optimism into a still-clouded global economic picture
April 09, 2026
Britain and Norway have conducted a weekslong operation to deter Russian spy submarines near undersea cables in the North Atlantic
April 09, 2026
Iranian Americans are experiencing uncertainty as the Trump administration imposes deadlines and intermediaries seek paths to avoid escalation of the war in Iran
April 09, 2026
Elissa Slotkin is testing whether winning in Trump country is a winning message for Democrats
April 09, 2026
Would you go to the moon? Board an alien spacecraft? What nearly 80 years of polls say about US attitudes on space
April 09, 2026
Lebanon’s health ministry says that Israeli strikes during the day killed 182 people, the highest single-day death toll in the Israel-Hezbollah war
April 08, 2026
Anger and frustration is growing in Russia over government restrictions on the internet that have disrupted daily life, hurt businesses and brought condemnation from both Kremlin critics and supporters alike
April 09, 2026
The Democratic Party’s leading 2028 presidential prospects are warning African Americans that President Donald Trump is actively working to undermine their right to vote in 2026
April 09, 2026
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the rare European leader seeking President Donald Trump's approval
April 09, 2026
Australia has agreed to underwrite two companies buying fuel at inflated prices, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warning of extended supply disruptions even if the Iran ceasefire holds
April 09, 2026
Iran, the United States and Israel have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, an 11th-hour deal that headed off U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization
April 08, 2026
A ceasefire deal to pause the war in Iran appears to be hanging by a thread after the Islamic Republic closed the Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon
April 08, 2026
A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to block the Pentagon from blacklisting artificial intelligence laboratory Anthropic in a decision that differed from the conclusions reached in another judge’s ruling on the same issues
April 09, 2026
A U.S. Army veteran has been charged with sharing classified information about an elite commando unit with a journalist
April 09, 2026
President Donald Trump repeated his complaint about NATO after a private meeting with the alliance's Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday
April 08, 2026
A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for those users
April 09, 2026
Former Fort Bragg employee charged with leaking classified information to journalist
April 09, 2026
What to do when the president uses the word ‘Fuckin’’
April 09, 2026
Fired Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman tells The Associated Press in his first interview since the ouster that he was “blindsided” by the move but has no hard feelings and is unlikely to sue
April 08, 2026
Over the course of a single day, President Donald Trump went from threatening Iran with “annihilation” to proclaiming that Iran's leadership had presented a “workable” plan that led him to agree to a two-week ceasefire
April 08, 2026
Kehoe signs juvenile justice, sex trafficking and divorce bills into law
April 09, 2026
Oil plunges, Dow sees its best day in a year after US-Iran ceasefire, but ‘hurdles remain’
April 08, 2026
Jim Whittaker, who in 1963 became the first American to reach the top of Mount Everest, has died
April 09, 2026
Health Secretary Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ is launching a new podcast called “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.”
April 08, 2026
A ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran appears to be in jeopardy
April 09, 2026
U.S. Senator Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont, reacts to Trump's decision to suspend bombing of Iran for two weeks.
April 08, 2026
New evidence introduced in former New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell, former NOPD officer Jeffrey Vappie's fraud case
April 09, 2026
Wichita City Council approves purchase of robotic police dog, Spot
April 09, 2026
More Federal Reserve policymakers were willing to consider an interest rate hike this year at their March meeting than in January, as higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war threatened to worsen inflation in the coming months
April 09, 2026
The California Supreme Court has ordered a Republican county sheriff who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots to pause his probe into election fraud allegations while the judges review the legal challenge against it
April 08, 2026
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced plans to tap into unconventional natural gas deposits to reduce reliance on foreign energy
April 08, 2026
President Donald Trump threatened to jail a journalist as part of a hunt for the “leaker” behind initial reports Friday that a second Air Force officer from a downed US fighter jet was missing. Trump did not specify which media outlet he was referring to, and a White House official declined to answer questions about his remarks.
April 07, 2026
Justice Department says Bondi won’t appear for Epstein deposition now that she’s no longer attorney general
April 08, 2026
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday defended his decision to repeal the legal determination that serves as the basis for federal rules to slow climate change
April 08, 2026
China’s government says Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed not to escalate their conflict and to “explore a comprehensive solution” after several weeks of cross-border fighting that has killed hundreds of people
April 08, 2026
The Diamond League track meet in Qatar has been postponed from next month to June 19 if conditions allow amid ongoing uncertainty caused by the conflict in the Middle East
April 08, 2026
An enduring sense of ownership led businesses and citizens to defend the country’s public health system.
April 08, 2026
Former federal prison officer convicted in bribery scheme to smuggle drugs into Atlanta prison
April 08, 2026
A historian explores how religious congregations, activists and city officials have supported undocumented immigrants in Philadelphia over the past 40 years.
April 08, 2026
Turkish authorities have detained nine people in connection with an attack on police outside the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul
April 08, 2026
Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia
April 07, 2026
Suspects in ISIS-inspired attack outside NYC mayor’s residence believed they could kill up to 60 people, prosecutors say
April 08, 2026
The US and Iran have agreed a ceasefire, with talks to bridge the gulf between them. Here’s what to know
April 08, 2026
Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun has arrived in China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, in what she's calling a “journey for peace” as Beijing pushes for the self-governed island to come under its control
April 07, 2026
South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing several short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea
April 08, 2026
California Rep. Eric Swalwell is vowing to aggressively push back on federal immigration officers if elected governor
April 08, 2026
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war
April 07, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump pulls back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate
April 07, 2026
Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin is in Iowa to support Democratic congressional candidates and gather insights on how Democrats could win over President Donald Trump's supporters
April 08, 2026
Hundreds of Cuban women have gathered in Havana to decry a U.S. energy embargo and other measures imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump that are strangling the Caribbean island
April 07, 2026
Rubio says kidnapped American journalist has been released by pro-Iran militia in Iraq
April 08, 2026
Republican Clay Fuller wins Georgia special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene
April 07, 2026
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that American journalist Shelley Kittleson, who was kidnapped last week in Iraq, has been released
April 07, 2026
Oil prices plunged below $100 a barrel and Asia markets and U.S. stock futures jumped after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz
April 07, 2026
Iran-linked hackers have disrupted multiple US industrial sites
April 08, 2026
Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz
April 07, 2026
The president who yearned for a Nobel Peace Prize and once reveled in the appearance of solving conflicts turned to the language of annihilation as he struggled to find a resolution to his war in Iran
April 08, 2026
Amid lawmakers’ calls for the president’s removal from office, Americans may be wondering what would come next.
April 08, 2026
Visualizing the US-Israeli war with Iran and retaliation in maps and charts
March 01, 2026
Tehran residents are rushing to stock up on bottled water and charge cellphones, flashlights and portable power banks as the hours tick down to Trump’s latest ultimatum for a deal in the war with Iran
April 08, 2026
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has toured North Carolina areas devastated by Hurricane Helene in 2024
April 08, 2026
Missouri governor signs bill banning judges from delaying divorces when a spouse is pregnant
April 08, 2026
Tanner Horner pleads guilty in killing of 7-year-old Athena Strand, case moves to sentencing phase
April 08, 2026
The Justice Department’s new leader says “nobody” except President Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was replaced as attorney general last week
April 08, 2026
'It's saving his life': FDA approves new drug for rare disease, helping Kansas family
April 08, 2026
The British government has blocked the rapper formerly known as Kanye West from entering the U.K. as the controversy over his antisemitic statements led to calls for planned headline performances at a major music festival to be canceled
April 07, 2026
Donald Trump Jr. has lashed out at the European Union
April 07, 2026
'Race-baiting' letter from group tied to Sapulpa candidate's spouse draws outrage
April 08, 2026
President Donald Trump is suspending his threatened attack against Iran less than two hours before the deadline the president set for Tehran
April 07, 2026
Aviation safety bill based on deadly midair collision near Washington faces a House vote
Race for California governor moves on after dramatic downfall of Rep. Eric Swalwell
Tom Holland says new 'Spider-Man' is the most emotional, most mature, yet
China’s exports grew 2.5% in March in a sharp slowdown as Iran war raises uncertainty
Prince Harry and Meghan arrive in Australia for a low-key, privately funded visit