Space Force became the first new military service in the U.S. in more than 70 years. President Donald Trump signed it into law Friday as part of the 2020 national defense bill.| AP News
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The head of the U.S. Space Force is moving ahead with plans to pull talent from National Guard units to help build up the still new military service — but several governors remain opposed and argue it tramples on their rights to retain control over their state units.| AP News
Russia has celebrated the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, with President Vladimir Putin presiding over a massive parade of tanks, missiles and troops through Red Square.| AP News
A malicious software command that crippled tens of thousands of modems across Europe anchored the cyberattack on a satellite network used by Ukraine’s government and military just as Russia invaded.| AP News
Russian troops have launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin has cast aside international condemnation and sanctions, warning other countries that any attempt to interfere would lead to “consequences you have never seen.”| AP News
The U.S. National Security Agency says hackers working for Russian military intelligence tried to access the systems of Western technology and logistics companies involved in shipping assistance to Ukraine.| AP News
The first Australian-made rocket to attempt to reach orbit from the country's soil has crashed after 14 seconds of flight.| AP News
Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution calling on all countries to take urgent action to prevent putting weapons in outer space “for all time” a week after it vetoed a U.S.| AP News
The U.S. has gathered highly sensitive intelligence about Russian anti-satellite weapons that has been shared in recent weeks with the upper echelons of government.| AP News
ESPN film follows tragic trajectory of former Mets stars Darryl Strawberry and 'Doc' Gooden. But filmmakers Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio warn people not to expect a redemption tale.| AP News
The latest pardons by President Donald Trump are another example of him flexing his power to bestow clemency on political allies and prominent public officials, including those convicted of defrauding the public.| AP News
A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked the Trump administration from summarily cutting funding to the University of California over claims the school system allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination.| AP News
President Donald Trump has publicly ended his support for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her “Wacky Marjorie” and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in the next midterms “if the right person runs.”| AP News
The Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others is now in the hands of a new prosecutor.| AP News
House Republicans have released a long-promised report on former President Joe Biden's use of the autopen and the alleged cover-up of his mental state while in office.| AP News
President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons.| AP News
The conservative think tank that drew up a nearly 1,000-page guidebook on how the next Republican administration can remake the federal government is highlighting its policies while defending itself from Democratic criticism.| AP News
The shipwreck off southern Greece, involving a large boat carrying migrants that capsized after apparently rebuffing offers of help, is just the latest case of smugglers packing vessels full of desperate people willing to risk their lives to reach continental Europe.| AP News
Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an artificial intelligence system it says can help preemptively detect predatory language in game chats.| AP News
A 16-year-old’s Roblox game, Grow a Garden, has shattered records for the most concurrent players in history.| AP News
An airman stationed in Alaska has been charged with child exploitation. Prosecutors say David Ibarra paid a young girl in Long Island, New York, to send him explicit images.| AP News
A fake image purportedly showing an explosion near the Pentagon has been widely shared on social media, sending a brief shiver through the stock market. But police and fire officials in Arlington, Virginia, said Monday that the image isn't real and there was no incident at the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters. Misinformation experts say the viral image displayed telltale signs of an AI-generated forgery. Business analysts said the visual hoax underscores the damage that increasingly so...| AP News
U.S. wholesale inflation surged unexpectedly last month as President Donald Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports are pushing costs higher.| AP News
Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble offered an annual earnings outlook that was below analysts’ projections and said it would raise prices on about a quarter of its products in the U.S. in part due to costs of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.| AP News
U.S. hiring is slowing sharply as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyze businesses and raise doubts about the outlook for the world’s largest economy.| AP News
U.S. inflation was unchanged in July as rising prices for some imported goods were balanced by falling gas and grocery prices, leaving overall prices modestly higher than a year ago.| AP News
Donald Trump received a lavish royal welcome from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as he arrived in the kingdom.| AP News
President Barack Obama took credit once again Tuesday for the U.S. oil-and-gas boom, even though critics have argued that the upswing in oil and natural gas production occurred in spite of his policies.| AP News
An electrical engineer in rural Vermont is reviving old pay phones to give people a free option for making calls in areas where cell service is unreliable or nonexistent.| AP News
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Susan Monarez is becoming the next director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Senate confirmed her on Tuesday in a 51-47 vote.| AP News
The Department of Health and Human Services under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken unprecedented steps to change how vaccines are evaluated, approved and recommended.| AP News
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. strode onto the stage at a Southern California church, radiating Kennedy confidence and surveying the standing ovation crowd with his piercing blue Bobby Kennedy eyes.| AP News
COVID-19 cases have nearly tripled in the U.S. over two weeks amid an onslaught of vaccine misinformation.| AP News
Across the country, more anti-vaccine and anti-mask demonstrations are taking scary and violent turns.| AP News
Police say a suspected shooter and a police officer are dead after law enforcement responded to an active shooter near the U.S.| AP News
A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a Georgia man who opened fire Friday on the U.S.| AP News
The Trump administration has sanctioned a Mexican rapper over his alleged ties with drug cartels. The U.S.| AP News
The Trump administration has imposed economic sanctions on five high-ranking members of Mexico’s powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel for their involvement in drug trafficking and killings.| AP News
Two close associates of the fugitive Jalisco New Generation boss known as “El Mencho” have been brought to justice in a U.S. courtroom as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on the cartel it recently designated a foreign terrorist organization.| AP News
Mexico is sending 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration.| AP News
The Army is trying to recover from its worst recruiting year in decades, and officials say those recruiting woes are the result of traditional hurdles.| AP News
New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law to prohibit book bans in the state and enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.| AP News
Millions of people living in mobile home parks don't enjoy the same drinking water protections that Americans are accustomed to.| AP News
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu denied widespread reports of starvation in Gaza on Sunday and blamed Hamas for stealing aid. "What a bold-faced lie.| AP News
Michigan authorities say a suspect is in custody and that investigators believe those hurt Saturday were not specifically targeted.| AP News
Matthew Kolakowski was shopping with his daughter at a Michigan Walmart when he heard screams and saw a man with a knife.| AP News
A Michigan prosecutor has filed a terrorism charge against a man accused of stabbing 11 people at a Walmart store.| AP News
Police say a gunman opened fire in a Target parking lot Monday in Austin, Texas, killing two adults and a child.| AP News
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Panama Canal faces threats from China but together the U.S. and Panama will keep it secure.| AP News
Thousands of Panamanians have marched in the capital in the largest protest yet against an agreement signed during last month's visit by the U.S. defense secretary.| AP News
Panama President José Raúl Mulino has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of lying when Trump said in his address to Congress the night before that his administration was “reclaiming” the Panama Canal.| AP News
A Hong Kong-based conglomerate has agreed to sell its controlling stake in a subsidiary that operates ports near the Panama Canal to a consortium including BlackRock Inc., effectively putting the ports under American control after President Donald Trump alleged Chinese interference with the operatio| AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy-five years after World War II ended, Congress is honoring thousands of Chinese Americans who served the United States in the war, earning citations for heroism — including the Medal of Honor — despite discrimination that included limits on numbers allowed in the U.S.| AP News
Brazilian students returned to class this week with a new task: staying away from their smartphones under a new law restricting the use of devices in schools.| AP News
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If you’re trying to get up to speed on Vice President Kamala Harris’ swift emergence as Democrats’ possible nominee this fall, you really need to know your memes.| AP News
Comments Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance made in 2021 questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ leadership because she did not have biological children have resurfaced.| AP News
Vice President Kamala Harris is beginning to vet about a dozen possible candidates to be her running mate as she approaches one of most consequential decisions of her new presidential candidacy.| AP News
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New research from a watchdog group reveals ChatGPT can provide harmful advice to teens. The Associated Press reviewed interactions where the chatbot gave detailed plans for drug use, eating disorders, and even suicide notes.| AP News
A Florida mother is suing a tech company over an AI chatbot that she says pushed her son to kill himself.| AP News
The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence.| AP News
Teenagers are increasingly turning to AI for advice, emotional support and decision-making, according to a new study.| AP News
It has been 25 years since the striking of the Good Friday Agreement, the landmark peace accord that ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland, a period known as “the Troubles.” The agreement gave formal recognition to Northern Ireland’s multiple identities, allowing residents to identify as British, Irish or both. It ended direct U.K. rule and set up a Northern Ireland legislature and government with power shared between unionist and nationalist parties. But despite sporadic ...| AP News
LONDON (AP) — A former British soldier will be charged in the slayings of two civil rights protesters 47 years ago on Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland.| AP News
LONDON (AP) — U.K. authorities on Friday halted the prosecution of two former British soldiers over the killing of three people almost 50 years ago in Northern Ireland, including two who died on Bloody Sunday — one of the deadliest days in the conflict known as The Troubles.| AP News
Hundreds of people have gathered in Northern Ireland to mark 50 years since “Bloody Sunday,” one of the deadliest days in the conflict known as The Troubles.| AP News
Months of relative calm in the long-simmering trade war between the U.S. and China may be coming to an end.| AP News
President Donald Trump is planning big tariffs on pharmaceuticals, kitchen counters, bathroom vanities, upholstered furniture and heavy trucks.| AP News
The Federal Reserve just cut its benchmark rate for the first time since last year, but that doesn't guarantee mortgage rates will keep dropping.| AP News
The American job market, a pillar of U.S. economic strength since the pandemic, is crumbling under the weight of President Donald Trump’s erratic economic policies.| AP News
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes accelerated in September as declining mortgage rates and a pickup in available properties on the market encouraged home shoppers.| AP News
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in 2024 to a nearly 30-year low for the second year in a row as elevated mortgage rates, rising home prices and a low level of properties on the market kept many prospective homebuyers out of the market.| AP News
The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point and projected it would do so twice more this year as concern grows at the central bank about the health of the nation’s labor market.| AP News
Large crowds of protesters have gathered in cities across the United for “No Kings” demonstrations against what they see a drift into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.| AP News
Multiple people have been arrested after protesters tried to block vehicles at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement site outside Chicago.| AP News
Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed at a Utah college event in an act that the state’s governor called a “political assassination.”| AP News
The White House is criticizing Democrats' lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections.| AP News
The Supreme Court has restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution.| AP News
With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump.| AP News
Canadian privacy authorities say TikTok’s efforts to keep children off the platform and prevent the collection and use of their sensitive personal information are “inadequate” but the company is taking steps to address concerns.| AP News
China is accusing the U.S. of spreading disinformation amid reports the Biden administration is calling for TikTok's Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the company.| AP News
The European Union has reached a landmark deal to take aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content online.| AP News
The European Union and United States made a breakthrough in their yearslong battle over the privacy of data that flows across the Atlantic with a preliminary agreement that paves the way for Europeans’ personal information to be stored in the U.S.| AP News
LONDON (AP) — EU regulators must make more effort to stop tech companies from transferring data to countries with weaker data-protection standards, an advisor to the European Union’s top court said Thursday.| AP News
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order designed to allay European concerns that U.S. intelligence agencies are illegally spying on them.| AP News
Authorities say that social media platforms should not require age verification for all users when a ban on children under 16 having accounts goes into effect in December in Australia.| AP News
Apple wants the European Union to repeal its Digital Markets Act, arguing it delays new features like live translation for AirPods.| AP News
The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that an agreement that allows thousands of companies — from tech giants to small financial firms — to transfer data to the United States is invalid because the American government can snoop on people's data.| AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has written a memoir, telling his life story in detail for the first time and explaining why he chose to risk his freedom to become perhaps the most famous whistleblower of all time.| AP News
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.| AP News
Tesla announced the launch of cheaper versions of two of its electric vehicles Tuesday in hopes of reviving flagging sales.| AP News
A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 million in damages.| AP News
The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.| AP News
Elon Musk promised hundreds of thousands of self-driving Teslas will be on the road requiring no human intervention by the end of next year.| AP News
Federal auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into why Tesla has repeatedly broken rules requiring it to tell them quickly about crashes involving its self-driving technology that may soon be deployed in millions of its cars on U.S. roads.| AP News
Hamas says its top leaders survived the Israeli strike on Qatar and that five lower-ranking members died.| AP News
