Families of victims of thedeadly 2025 midair collision over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport gathered with lawmakers outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, making an impassioned appealfor Congress to passair safety legislation.

NEW YORK (AP) At least three supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran’s tour after Macklemore is dropped over pro-Palestinian comments onstage.

Jeriel Martin, 35, was convicted of second-degree murder and a weapons charge in the shooting death of 34-year-old Jamar Jenifer. Martin faces up to 60 years in prison.

San Francisco Police Department investigators had questions for one of their own. But Officer Riley Bandy didnt want to talk. A family had complained about how Bandy had handled a missing persons case. But for over four years, Bandy dodged the internal investigation, and he resigned rather than cooperate surrendering his police certification in...

BOSTON (AP) New parents in Massachusetts should receive better support and postpartum care, Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday, following the high-profile murder trial of Lindsay Clancy who, her attorneys argued, was suffering from unresolved postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children in 2023. Healey proposed providing free home visits by nurses ...

Police forces at Californias K-12 schools have quietly been purchasing and using military equipment for decades and some have yet to comply with a state law requiring them to disclose that to the public. In 2014, public records revealed the Pentagon had armed California public school police agencies with surplus military gear. The Los...

The loved ones of the 67 people who died last year when an airliner and Army helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., urged Congress and regulators Tuesday to do more now to prevent other families from being left clutching belongings and memories instead of their wives and children. Several of the victims’ families joined with top...

WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. war against Iran has cost the Department of Defense more than $38 billion through Aug. 1, and will continue costing up to $3 billion a month or more depending on the intensity of the conflict, according to an assessment released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. CBO said the...

For Native communities in northwest New Mexicos Grants mineral belt, one of the central concerns with the idea of resumed uranium mining is the potential harm to Mount Taylor. That concern led the state to designate Mount Taylor as a traditional cultural property nearly two decades ago. But as uranium mining companies hoping to operate...

NEW YORK (AP) Pennsylvania officials have reported a fourth measles-associated death. The latest death involved an 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County, in the center of the state, the county coroner’s office said in a Facebook post. The cause was acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare and severe neurological complication of measles, it said. On ...

NEW YORK (AP) As Black Panther cofounder Bobby Seale nears his 90th birthday, he is set to reissue his 1970 jailhouse memoir Seize the Time and follow it up with a new book, I, Bobby. Every time somebody tells my story wrong, a piece of the movement gets buried with the lie,” Seale said...

The federal government broke environmental laws when it leased 179 square miles in Wyoming for oil and gas drilling, threatening already-diminished migrating big game herds, two conservation groups assert in a lawsuit filed this week. The Wilderness Society and Wilderness Workshop sued Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the BLMs acting Wyoming Director Kris ...

CAIRO (AP) Saudi Arabias crown prince sought backing Tuesday from the president of Egypt, his ally across the Red Sea, as the kingdom faces increased attacks by Yemens Houthi rebels on Saudi shipping and infrastructure that have helped drive a surge in global oil prices. Saudi Arabia has largely been on its own in...

LONDON (AP) Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have moved their two children to a new school over security concerns, a spokesperson said Tuesday, just weeks after the family returned to the U.K. to make a fresh start. The decision for the children to move school was taken following a discussion with the familys...

A federal jury in D.C. was scheduled to hear attorneys' opening statements for Trayon White's trial on one count of bribery.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) A New Hampshire judge declared a mistrial Tuesday in the case of a former youth detention center worker charged with repeatedly raping a teenage boy after his accuser briefly testified about allegations involving other staff. Jeffrey Buskey, 60, of Litchfield, is charged with 21 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault against...

Students at the University of Texas at Austin said they were dismayed but unsurprised by the racist attacks lobbed at them online after a Republican candidate for statewide office suggested white Americans were being displaced. Bo French, the Republican running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the states oil...

NEW YORK (AP) Federal authorities charged a dozen people Tuesday for fraudulently collecting more than $10 million in government childcare payments, when the operators had few or even no actual children attending their facilities. The charges, jointly announced in San Diego by the Justice Department and the criminal investigations division of the IRS, ...

Oregon billionaires Phil and Penny Knight committed $1.1 billion to the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center and the Providence Heart Institute to build Oregons first hospital dedicated to womens health, the medical center announced Tuesday. Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike, and his wife, have supported the institute for more than a decade, previously ...

WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. military said Tuesday that it opened fire and destroyed two small Iranian boats this week trying to steal a drone ship in the waters off Iran. Capt. Tim Hawkins, U.S. Central Command spokesman said that Iranian small boats recently attempted to take possession of a U.S. unmanned surface vessel, but...

Aperol spritzes. Dubai chocolate. Dill pickle, well, everything. Thanks to Instagram and TikTok, food trends have never been more of-the-moment, with even seemingly mundane ingredients like cottage cheese enjoying a sudden resurgence. Why not the flounder? The first-of-its-kind Flat is Back campaign, spearheaded by the Massachusetts Division of Marine ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) Prosecutors said Tuesday that they won’t pursue the death penalty for Nick Reiner in the killings of his parents, actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, who were stabbed at their Los Angeles home late last year. Nick Reiner, 32, was charged with first-degree murder on Dec. 16, two...

WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. household income finally topped pre- pandemic levels last year, a stark sign of how the past five years of rising prices have limited Americans earnings and purchasing power. Median U.S. household income rose a healthy 2.6% in 2025, after adjusting for inflation, to $87,460, the Census Bureau said Tuesday. That is...

MIAMI (AP) A close ally of ousted Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single count of money laundering tied to an alleged bribery conspiracy to win lucrative government contracts in the South American country. As part of the plea deal, Alex Saab agreed to cooperate in continuing federal investigations and forfeit...

WASHINGTON (AP) A trial in the U.S. for a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland is on track to start in January after a delay caused by the discovery of new evidence in the decades-old case. A federal judge presiding over the case against...