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...

SAINT-ETIENNE, France (AP) A Paris court on Tuesday awarded 1 euro ($1.15) to Kim Kardashian for having been the victim of an armed robbery in the French capital in 2016, the amount of compensation she had asked for, according to a lawyer involved in the case. Kardashian has sought to move on since the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) Prosecutors won’t pursue death penalty for Nick Reiner in killing of his parents Rob and Michele Reiner.

ISTANBUL (AP) Police on Tuesday detained dozens of demonstrators who staged a protest outside a courthouse in Istanbul to demand the release of LGBTQ+ activists taken into custody during a sweeping crackdown days earlier. Police surrounded the demonstrators outside the Caglayan courthouse before detaining them. On Sunday, Turkish authorities cracked down ...

Federal authorities are investigating whether Hayden Panettiere obtained counterfeit oxycodone before her death, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

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CHICAGO (AP) _ Grain futures were mixed in early trading Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Dec. corn was unchanged at $5.33 a bushel. Dec. wheat was unchanged at $7.22 a bushel. Dec. oats fell by 1.25 cents at $3.92 a bushel. Nov. soybeans was off 1 cent at $13.03 a bushel. Beef was...

Virginias U.S. Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, both Democrats, announced the DCA Air Safety Act on Thursday

Fairfax County, Virginia, prosecutor Steve Descano says a House committee plans to subpoena him and broaden an immigration-related inquiry into his office.

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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) Belarus authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko met with a U.S. envoy on Tuesday to push for the lifting of the remaining U.S. sanctions against his country. Speaking at a meeting with John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, Lukashenko said that we have reached quite a few agreements related to our...

ROANOKE, Ind. (AP) ROANOKE, Ind. (AP) Vera Bradley Inc. (VRA) on Tuesday reported profit of $4.5 million in its fiscal second quarter. The Roanoke, Indiana-based company said it had net income of 15 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to 11 cents per share. The handbag and accessories...

BEIJING (AP) New Chinese border control rules taking effect Tuesday could ban citizens from leaving the country if they engage in illegal activity that endangers national or industrial security. The rules, part of a broader overhaul of border regulations, reflect in part heightened government concern about the export of technology at a time of...

JERUSALEM (AP) An Israeli documentary about the civilian death toll in the war in Gaza has sparked fierce backlash at home after being awarded the special jury prize last week at the Venice Film Festival, drawing anger from top officials and even calls to strip the filmmakers of Israeli citizenship. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

WASHINGTON (AP) The United States has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the Air and Space Cyber Conference in Maryland on Monday that the U.S. has fielded on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action. Meink...

Children's National Hospital in D.C. is ranked among the nation's best children's hospital, according to U.S. News and World Report.

LONDON (AP) An English judge issued a scathing report Tuesday blaming dysfunctional management and a complete failure at all levels to protect babies at the hospital where neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies. The inquiry into baby deaths found the Countess of Chester Hospital could have saved some newborns from...

LONDON (AP) Judge blames UK hospital for “complete failure” to protect babies after nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of 7 murders.

MANZINI, Eswatini (AP) Soldiers in the African nation of Eswatini accidentally shot two U.S. government personnel last week, the country’s government said. The U.S. personnel were shot during an anti-smuggling operation by the Eswatini army in a rural region in the northeast of the country late Friday, Eswatini’s government said in a statement late...

NEW YORK (AP) Quentin Tarantino has stepped back from directing in recent years, but he continues to build upon his career as an author. The upcoming spinoff from his Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood will be accompanied by Tarantino’s novelization of the new film. The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s second novelization, The Adventures of...

HONG KONG (AP) As the rapid development of artificial intelligence triggers a renewed debate about its risks, the United States and China keep racing to develop increasingly powerful models even as they express their own concerns. The U.S. has outpaced China and other countries for years in AI model capabilities, research, citations and other...