Posted 11:37 AM 6/28/2026 by REGINA GARCIA CANO, JUAN PABLO ARRAEZ and MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press

LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Efforts by local and international rescue teams to pull survivors from the rubble grew increasingly desperate in Venezuela on Sunday, four days after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira.

The government reported more than 1,400 (More)

Posted 2:25 PM 6/26/2026 by PETER SMITH Associated Press

A new report by a Trump administration commission suggests replacing the idea of separating church and state with the idea of building bridges between them.

The assertion — challenging a longstanding concept in American law — comes amid a raft of recommendations in a draft (More)

Posted 11:33 AM 6/25/2026 by Jayme Lozano Carver

LUBBOCK — The New World screwworm has entered the country, and if history is any indication, the parasite’s devastating effects on the U.S. could last for decades.

The screwworm re-emerged following years of warnings from Central America and Mexico officials of the (More)

Posted 2:14 PM 6/24/2026 by MARY CLARE JALONICK, STEVEN SLOAN, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and LISA MASCARO Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump berated Senate Republicans during a visit to the Capitol Wednesday for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran, further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues and brought much of the chamber's (More)

Posted 4:54 PM 6/23/2026 by GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press

The federal government can't block benefits from the nation's largest food aid program from being used to buy candy, soda and other sugary drinks, a judge ruled.

Monday's ruling scuttles restrictions now in place or planned for the federally funded and state-run Supplemental Nutrition (More)

Posted 2:22 PM 6/22/2026 by JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents (More)

Posted 12:08 PM 6/21/2026 by AAMER MADHANI, SEUNG MIN KIM, and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press

OBBUERGEN, Switzerland (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Sunday there was an opportunity to "turn over a new leaf" with Iran as the sides held talks aimed at building out the interim deal to end the war in Iran reached by the two sides last week.

But even as Vance called on (More)