AP - U.S. News

  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
  • warning: Undefined property: stdClass::$ftitle in /home3/votekans/public_html/reform/f/modules/aggregator.module on line 1361.
Syndicate content
AP Top U.S. News At 1 p.m. EDT
Updated: 12 years 44 weeks ago

Edwards trial judge limits key defense testimony

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of John Edwards will sharply curtail the testimony of a key defense witness who could have raised doubt about whether the former presidential candidate broke campaign finance laws....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

NJ airport: Security supervisor used dead man's ID

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A Nigerian man used the identity of the victim in an unsolved murder to hide his status as an illegal immigrant while working undetected for two decades as a security guard and then a security supervisor at one of the United States' busiest airports, authorities said Monday in announcing his arrest....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

NJ airport: Security supervisor used dead man's ID

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A Nigerian man used the identity of the victim in an unsolved murder to hide his status as an illegal immigrant while working undetected for two decades as a security guard and then a security supervisor at one of the United States' busiest airports, authorities said Monday in announcing his arrest....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama trying to undermine Romney's record on jobs

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama tried Monday to tarnish Mitt Romney as a corporate titan who got rich by cutting rather than creating jobs, opening a new effort to undercut the Republican's claims that his background of business success is just what America needs in a time of deep economic uncertainty....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Famed FAMU marching band suspended another year

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida A&M University's prestigious marching band, scarred by the hazing death of one of its drum majors, won't be taking the field for at least another year....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Famed FAMU marching band suspended another year

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida A&M University's prestigious marching band, scarred by the hazing death of one of its drum majors, won't be taking the field for at least another year....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Native American women seek protections from abuse

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diane Millich's ex-husband was never arrested for any of the more than 100 times he slapped, kicked or punched her before showing up at her Colorado workplace and firing a 9 mm pistol, wounding the co-worker who pushed her out of the way....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Native American women seek protections from abuse

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diane Millich's ex-husband was never arrested for any of the more than 100 times he slapped, kicked or punched her before showing up at her Colorado workplace and firing a 9 mm pistol, wounding the co-worker who pushed her out of the way....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Native American women seek protections from abuse

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diane Millich's ex-husband was never arrested for any of the more than 100 times he slapped, kicked or punched her before showing up at her Colorado workplace and firing a 9 mm pistol, wounding the co-worker who pushed her out of the way....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Minnesota grand jury indicts right-to-die group

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) -- A Minnesota grand jury has indicted a national right-to-die group and several members for their actions in the 2007 suicide of a suburban Minneapolis woman, prosecutors announced Monday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

McNamee: First gave Clemens steroids in 1998

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaking softly, nervously and in detail, Brian McNamee testified about the life-changing moment when, he said, he first gave Roger Clemens a "booty shot" of steroids....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Flesh-eating germ rare, especially for the healthy

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
ATLANTA (AP) -- Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago. One of her legs was amputated and her fingers will be too, her father says, because of the spreading infection....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Senate nears vote on Export-Import Bank renewal

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is nearing a final vote on legislation to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank for three years and raise its lending cap from the current $100 billion to $140 billion....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Greek, European woe could cause problems for US

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Your 401(k) could sink again. A plummeting euro may make it harder for American companies to sell goods overseas. Credit could be tightened....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Accuser tells tale of 2 wives at Clemens trial

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Amid his year-by-year narrative of his complex relationship with Roger Clemens and performance-enhancing drugs, Brian McNamee weaved in a tale of two wives. He said it was his own wife who nagged him into keeping evidence that has become crucial in the trial of the storied pitcher, and it was a request from Clemens' wife that led to what McNamee called a "creepy" injection scene in a bathroom....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

'Avengers' rules with record $103M second weekend

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "The Avengers" followed a record-shattering $200 million opening with another Hollywood high - a $100 million-plus second weekend....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Maine man who cared for famed old tree dies at 103

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Frank Knight's decades-long battle to save New England's tallest elm served as an inspiring tale of devotion, so it is fitting that he will be laid to rest in a coffin made from the tree he made famous....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Reality TV, religion give birth to top baby names

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reality TV is giving birth to some of the most popular baby names. No, not Snooki. But Mason, as in Kourtney Kardashian's son, jumped 10 spots to become the second most popular name for newborn boys in 2011....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

New generation challenges some blacks in Congress

Wed, 2025-04-23 07:59
DALLAS (AP) -- For two decades, Texas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US