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2:30 PM on Friday, August 29

President Donald Trump's administration has told 40 states to remove references to what it calls “gender ideology” from federally funded sex education materials

2:25 PM on Friday, August 29

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has called a special election for a state Senate seat that has been vacant for nearly nine months

1:28 PM on Friday, August 29

A bookmaker of the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani has been sentenced to just over a year in prison

12:43 PM on Friday, August 29

Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, President Donald Trump has openly mused about sending troops to some of the nation’s most Democratic cities — including Chicago and Baltimore — where he claims they are needed to crack down on crime

12:43 PM on Friday, August 29

US Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is expected to announce next month that she won't run for reelection in 2026, AP sources say

12:39 PM on Friday, August 29

Federal appeals court blocks Trump’s decision to end legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

12:29 PM on Friday, August 29

Texas governor signs into law redrawn voting map pushed by Trump that gives GOP five more winnable congressional seats

12:12 PM on Friday, August 29

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are concerned he can’t get a fair trial in his human smuggling case in Tennessee

12:09 PM on Friday, August 29

Some U.S. businesses verify applicants’ eligibility to work using an online government system called E-Verify

11:56 AM on Friday, August 29

As the National Weather Service scrambles to hire up to 450 people to restore deep cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, potential applicants are being asked to explain how they would advance President Donald Trump’s agenda if hired

11:35 AM on Friday, August 29

Concerns about a banned gymnastics coach arrested amid allegations he abused girls he coached surfaced years before police or sports authorities took action

10:32 AM on Friday, August 29

Concerns about a banned gymnastics coach arrested amid allegations he abused girls he coached surfaced years before police or sports authorities took action

9:14 AM on Friday, August 29

New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is out courting Black voters, trying to do better with them in the general election than he did in the primary

8:39 AM on Friday, August 29

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge mostly held steady last month despite President Donald Trump’s broad-based tariffs, but a measure of underlying inflation increased

7:17 AM on Friday, August 29

The case of a Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities even though he was vetted by a government system called E-Verify is raising questions about what employers can do to make sure they’re employing people who can legally work

5:36 AM on Friday, August 29

Two U.S. senators have visited Taiwan, drawing criticism from China, which claims Taiwan as its own and opposes official contact between the two sides

12:16 AM on Friday, August 29

Trading Micah Parsons is a bold move only a general manager who happens to be the team owner can make

8:33 PM on Thursday, August 28

New Jersey’s governor is asking federal officials to impose restrictions on nonessential helicopter flights in his state after a New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair in April, killing six people

5:39 PM on Thursday, August 28

A case that could provide the Trump administration with new and expansive power over the traditionally independent Federal Reserve got its first court hearing Friday

1:20 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A decade after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, one Mississippi city began offering property tax breaks to encourage building near the waterfront