HOUSTON (AP) — About half a million Houston-area homes and businesses will still be without electricity next week, the city’s largest utility said Thursday, stoking the frustration of hot and weary re...

Leaders of the alliance offered assurances that Ukraine will eventually be granted membership. WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to NATO membership, the military alliance said Wed...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas baked Wednesday in its record fifth consecutive day of temperatures sizzling at 115 degrees Fahrenheit or greater amid a lengthening hot spell that is expected to broil much...

The assault on Gaza City shut down medical facilities. DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An apparent Israeli airstrike on a schoolturned- shelter in southern Gaza killed at least 25 Palestinians on Tue...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — For Ukrainian hurdler Anna Ryzhykova, each stride on the Paris Olympic track will have meaning far beyond the time she clocks. Her competitions are no longer strictly an individua...

The strikes resulted in at least seven deaths, including two staff members at the hospital. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles blasted cities across Ukraine on Monday, damaging the country’s larges...

About 36 million people are under an excessive heat warning. LOS ANGELES (AP) — A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. will persist, baking parts of the W...

A hurricane warning has been issued for much of the state’s shoreline. MATAGORDA, Texas (AP) — Texas officials are telling coastal residents to expect power outages and floodings as Beryl was forecast...

Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead. Beryl smashed storm records e...

By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER, MICHAEL BALSAMO, AAMER MADHANI AND SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s conduct behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force On...

By TOM KRISHER AND MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — General Motors will pay nearly $146 million in penalties to the federal government because 5.9 million of its older vehicles do not c...

By MARK SHERMAN AND LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ended its term by ruling for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, a d...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s hard to refer to someone as “Hitler” and end up in their good graces, let alone potentially become the person they choose to help lead the country. But Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s shif...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sound you might have heard after the presidential debate this past week was of voters falling between a rock and a hard place. Apart from the sizable and pumped-up universe of Do...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be impl...

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Did Karen Read kill her police officer boyfriend by slamming into him with her Lexus and then leaving him to die in a brewing snowstorm after a night out drinking? Or did John O’K...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Children in sandals trudge through water contaminated with sewage and scale growing mounds of garbage in Gaza’s crowded tent camps for displaced families. People relieve the...

Associated Press This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Richard Rojem, a death row inmate housed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., Feb. 11, 2023. Okl...

WASHINGTON (AP) — What people remember from Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s first debate four years ago are likely the interruptions, the shouting and the “will you shut up, man?” Then-President Trump ar...

By KIRILL ZARUBIN AND JIM HEINTZ Associated Press YEKATERINBURG, Russia (AP) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich went on trial behind closed doors in Yekaterinburg on Wednesday, 15 months ...