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FILE - Passengers wait in long security checkpoint lines outside a terminal at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

What to know if your flight is canceled amid rising jet fuel costs

12:30 AM on Friday, April 24

Airlines around the world are canceling flights as the war in the Middle East squeezes global jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices

Shown is marijuana at NJ Weedman's Joint dispensary in Trenton, N.J., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug might only be the first step for Trump

12:27 AM on Friday, April 24

President Donald Trump’s decision to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug is a boon for the industry

A burned trailer sits near a destroyed home as the Brantley Highway 82 fire burns, Thursday, April 23, 2026, near Nahunta, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Georgia blaze shows how climate change has led to more wildfires in the East

12:05 AM on Friday, April 24

Wildfires are often thought to be a problem for Western North America, but climate change and other factors are making fires nastier in the East, especially this year

Apollo astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt talks about having to acclimate to gravity after his moon mission in 1972 while being interviewed at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, N.M., on April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Q&A: Apollo astronaut Schmitt talks about getting back to the moon and life in the universe

12:04 AM on Friday, April 24

Apollo astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt knows what the Artemis II crew was feeling when it rocketed into space earlier this month for a historic lunar flyby

FILE - Fremont County coroner Randy Keller, center, and other authorities survey the area where they plan to put up tents at the Return to Nature Funeral Home where over 100 bodies have been improperly stored, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. (Parker Seibold/The Gazette via AP, File)/The Gazette via AP)

Corpse abuse cases force changes on Colorado's scandal-plagued funeral industry

12:03 AM on Friday, April 24

A former funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies while giving families fake ashes faces sentencing after pleading guilty to corpse abuse

FILE - The crowd reacts to Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro while he speaks at a Centre County Democratic Party event at the Penn Stater hotel, April 11, 2026, in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File)

Democrat Josh Shapiro tests political muscle in swing-state Pennsylvania's midterms

Friday, April 24

Josh Shapiro may be heavily favored to win reelection as Pennsylvania governor, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot on the line for him this year

FILE - Firefighters and investigators examine the site, March 23, 2026, where an Air Canada jet came to rest after colliding with a Port Authority firetruck at LaGuardia Airport, after landing Sunday night in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Key takeaways from a report into the deadly plane crash at LaGuardia Airport

7:40 PM on Thursday, April 23

Federal investigators have released a preliminary report on last month's deadly airplane crash at a New York City airport

Chris Klomp, director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, right, speaks as President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listen during an event on health care affordability in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

'Two ways of calculating': Trump defends his mathematically impossible calculations on drug prices

6:54 PM on Thursday, April 23

President Donald Trump, known for popularizing the term "fake news," seems to have shifted focus to a healthy dose of fake math in defending impossibly large cuts to prescription drug prices

The top photos of the day by AP photojournalists

5:04 PM on Thursday, April 23

Baton Rouge police and Sheriff deputies respond to a mass shooting at the Mall of Louisiana, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

Exchange of gunfire inside Mall of Louisiana leaves 1 person dead and 5 wounded

3:12 PM on Thursday, April 23

Police say one person died and five more were wounded after a shooting inside the food court at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge

FILE -The ICE South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, is seen, Aug. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Federal judge orders release of family of man charged in Colorado firebomb attack

3:03 PM on Thursday, April 23

A federal judge has ordered the release from immigration custody of the family of a man charged in a fatal firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, last year

A damaged building is seen following Russia's missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Why the European Union's wartime loan is a vital lifeline for cash-strapped Ukraine

11:23 AM on Thursday, April 23

Ukraine has secured a crucial European Union loan to support the country's wartime efforts

A burned vehicle sits near a destroyed home as the Brantley Highway 82 fire burns, Thursday, April 23, 2026, near Nahunta, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Debris from Hurricane Helene is helping fuel Georgia's wildfires

10:38 AM on Thursday, April 23

Fallen trees and limbs scattered across Georgia by Hurricane Helene more than a year ago are now helping fuel destructive wildfires in the state

A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo)

Trump orders US military to 'shoot and kill' Iranian small boats choking Strait of Hormuz

7:54 AM on Thursday, April 23

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines to choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz

Pope Leo XIV arrives to celebrate the Holy mass at the Malabo stadium, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Thursday, April 23, 2026, on the last day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Pope urges US and Iran to return to peace talks and condemns capital punishment

6:07 AM on Thursday, April 23

Pope Leo XIV is urging the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war

FILE - A general view of a pumping station at the end of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the east German refinery PCK in Schwedt, Jan. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner, File)

EU approves a $106 billion loan package to help Ukraine after Hungary lifts its veto

2:39 AM on Thursday, April 23

The European Union has approved a $106 billion loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for the next two years

This photo released by the Lebanese Civil Defense, show Lebanese Red Cross volunteers and a Civil Defense worker sit on a excavator carrying the body of the Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil working for the daily Al-Akhbar newspaper killed in an Israeli airstrike, in al-Tiri village, south Lebanon, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (Lebanese Civil Defense via AP)

The Latest: Trump orders military to ‘shoot and kill’ Iranian small boats choking Strait of Hormuz

2:31 AM on Thursday, April 23

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” Iranian small boats choking the Strait of Hormuz

Emergency personnel work at the site where two trains collided near Hilleroed, Denmark, on Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

2 trains collide in Denmark, critically injuring 5 people

2:17 AM on Thursday, April 23

Two trains have collided in Denmark, critically injuring five people

A minibus drives past an empty checkpoint where a mannequin dressed as a soldier stands in downtown Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Photos of daily life in Sudan as war enters its fourth year

10:28 PM on Tuesday, April 21

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