House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City.

President Donald Trump heads to Asia on Friday for his first trip this term to the continent, where he’s expected to try to strike investment deals, work through trade talks and further some peace efforts.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is drawing blowback and praise for arguing that a Canadian government advertisement playing in U.S. markets misrepresented the 40th president’s words to blast President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.

The Trump administration says it won't use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown.

The CEO of the nonprofit managing the Alamo has resigned after a powerful Republican state official criticized her and suggested she has views that are not compatible with the Texas shrine's history.

U.S. officials have launched an investigation into whether China fulfilled its commitments under a 2020 trade pact.

A yearlong investigation into suspected fraudulent voter registration forms in Pennsylvania has led to criminal charges against six street canvassers and their leader.

It’s getting more expensive for Americans to get their caffeine fix.

The Pentagon has confirmed it's accepted an anonymous $130 million gift to help pay members of the military during the government shutdown.

R&B superstar Miguel is back with his latest album, “CAOS,” out now after a nearly decadelong hiatus, calling it his most “angry” project to date.

A judge in New Mexico halted legal proceedings in a federal death penalty case because the U.S. government shutdown is impeding the defendant’s right to legal representation.

The U.S. government now plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia.

President Donald Trump is set to speak at a telephone rally late Friday on the eve of early voting in support of Republican candidate for New Jersey governor, Jack Ciattarelli.

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family, and a government member over drug trade allegations.

The government shutdown likely means there won’t be an inflation report next month for the first time in more than seven decades, the White House said Friday, leaving Wall Street and the Federal Reserve without crucial information about consumer prices.

President Donald Trump pulled out of trade talks with Canada Thursday night, furious over what he called a “fake’’ television ad from Ontario’s provincial government that quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 38 years ago criticizing tariffs -- Trump’s favorite economic tool.

The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following requests from their state Republican parties.

The leader of Canada’s most populous province says he’ll pull the anti-tariff ad that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to end trade talks with Canada.

Procter & Gamble fiscal first-quarter performance managed to top Wall Street’s view and the consumer products maker now foresees less of an impact from tariffs for fiscal 2026.

A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to the legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial.

Law enforcement officers have fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had been the site of protests against federal immigration agents.

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America in the latest escalation of military firepower to a region.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has toured a U.S.-led coordination center in southern Israel.

Some seniors say the Social Security Administration's cost-of-living adjustment won’t help much in their ability to pay for their daily expenses.

President Donald Trump is going to Asia and will meet face to face with the leaders of Malaysia, Japan, South Korea and China.

Against the geopolitical backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, a consortium led by American private equity titans took the opportunity to acquire one of soccer’s crown jewels.

A new poll shows President Donald Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure his victory in the 2024 election.

Turkey is negotiating with Qatar and Oman to acquire used Eurofighter Typhoon jets to boost its air force capabilities.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the United States to expand sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies to the whole sector.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s military buildup and spending, and an early upgrading of the country's security strategy to allow more offensive roles and arms exports as tensions rise with China, North Korea and Russia.

Wall Street rose to records after an update said U.S. households are feeling a bit less pain from inflation than feared.

President Donald Trump says he agreed to halt a planned show of federal force in San Francisco after appeals from tech executives and the mayor.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is scheduled for trial in January after pleading not guilty to federal charges accusing her of lying on mortgage papers to secure favorable loan terms in a case pushed by President Donald Trump.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he’s pulling the TV ad that caused President Donald Trump to say he was ending trade negotiations with Canada.

As U.S. President Donald Trump makes his first trip to Asia since his return to office, speculation is rife that he may seek to meet Kim again during his stop in South Korea.

The U.S. military has flown a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela.

President Donald Trump will be in Japan and South Korea next week and he's expected to promote an epic windfall in investments for U.S. factories and projects.

Democrats in Virginia are joining the national redistricting battle over U.S. House seats.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is challenging U.S. President Donald Trump to make a friendly wager on the outcome of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services says it will temporarily bring all its furloughed employees back to work starting Monday to manage health insurance open enrollment.

In a story published Oct. 23, 2025, about state rules regarding driver’s licenses, The Associated Press erroneously reported about state rules for driver’s licenses.

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation’s most sensitive wilderness areas.

U.S. inflation remained elevated last month as gas prices jumped while the cost of rents cooled, painting a mixed picture of the expenses consumers are facing in a murky economy where growth appears steady but hiring slow.

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Some public figures carry threats to their livelihood in the palms of their hands.

Elon Musk literally left a government job with a black eye, has seen profits at his car company sink and must worry about federal regulators disrupting his plans to unleash a fleet of driverless taxis on America's roads in the next few years.

A federal food aid program that helps about one in eight Americans buy groceries stands to be paused Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown.

As federal agents ramp up an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, an increasing number of elected officials in the Democratic stronghold are getting caught in the crosshairs.

New satellite images taken Thursday show the scale of the demolition of the White House East Wing as President Donald Trump moves forward with the construction of a new ballroom at the White House.

Members of Congress are divided largely along party lines on the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make room for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that President Donald Trump wants to build.

The Senate on Thursday rejected dueling partisan bills to pay federal workers during the government shutdown, with both Republicans and Democrats deflecting blame as many employees are set to miss their first full paycheck at the end of this week.

Associated Press photos show the entire White House East Wing has been demolished as President Donald Trump moves ahead with building a ballroom.

Oil prices spiked Thursday after the U.S. announced massive new sanctions on Russia’s oil industry in an attempt to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and end Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine.

A man suing the District of Columbia claims police officers violated his free speech rights when they detained him for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars” on his phone.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral race.

An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.

President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.

President Donald Trump is suggesting he could call on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader.

Both Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern delivered solid profits Thursday as the railroads continued to make the case for their proposed merger.

President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.

President Donald Trump’s attempts to impose a proof-of-citizenship requirement to vote in the U.S. have stalled in Congress and been blocked by the courts.

The hundreds of National Guard troops still deployed to Washington, D.C., have unnerved some residents.

A new poll finds that as the United States rapidly builds massive data centers for the development of artificial intelligence, many Americans are concerned about the environmental impact.

European Union leaders are seeking a more active role in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after being sidelined from a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

The government shutdown has reopened debate on the future of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

The European Union has heaped more economic sanctions on Russia, adding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s new punitive measures the previous day against the Russian oil industry.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation.

U.S. stocks rose to the cusp of their records.

A growing number of people protesting against President Donald Trump's administration are wearing inflatable costumes at rallies.

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced it is providing a base for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the San Francisco area.

Less than two weeks from Election Day, a potentially decisive edge in California's fight over new U.S. House districts has emerged: advertising.

Author Michael Wolff claims in a lawsuit that First Lady Melania Trump threatened to sue him for over $1 billion in damages if he didn't retract Jeffrey Epstein-related statements he recently made about her.

President Donald Trump has suggested he’s entitled to compensation from the federal government over investigations he faced that he claims were politically motivated.

The U.S. Justice Department has announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military has launched its eighth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel.

Sellers are noticeably scarce on Manhattan's Canal Street a day after a mass of federal agents questioned street vendors and sparked spontaneous protests on Manhattan’s Canal Street.

The NFL is not considering dropping Bad Bunny as its Super Bowl halftime headline performer.

Less than a day after gold soared to another record high, prices for the precious metal plunged — marking the biggest sell-off in years.

The Agriculture Department will reopen about 2,100 county offices all across the country Thursday despite the ongoing government shutdown to help farmers and ranchers get access to $3 billion of aid from existing programs.

President Donald Trump's administration is preparing for a visit to the United States by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next month.

Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon is staging a marathon speech to protest what he calls President Donald Trump’s “tightening authoritarian grip on the country” amid the government shutdown.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is seeking to ease concerns in Israel that the Trump administration is dictating terms to its closest ally in the Middle East.

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, tells The Associated Press that he's covered a tattoo on his chest to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol that he got nearly 20 years ago.

The American Civil Liberties Union is alleging that pregnant detainees being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Louisiana and Georgia are being mistreated and receiving inadequate care.

North Carolina lawmakers have given final approval to a new U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches.

So far this year, billions of dollars have flowed into companies that have reinvented themselves by making the buying and holding of cryptocurrency their main focus.

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has emphasized that his country controls its own security and is not a U.S. protectorate.

A lawyer representing a Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini says he is on a hunger strike after being held at a maximum-security prison for more than three months without charge or access to legal counsel.

Japan’s new foreign minister said Wednesday his country plans to show its determination to further build up its defense power to rapidly adapt to changing warfare and growing tension in the region when U.S. President Donald Trump visits Tokyo next week.

U.S. stocks and the price of gold fell, as momentum on Wall Street reverses.

U_S_ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced new sanctions against Russia’s two biggest oil companies and blasted Moscow’s refusal to end its “senseless war.”.

North Carolina lawmakers have given final approval to a new U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump.

Ukraine's top Olympic sliding contender is frustrated with the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation's potential decision to allow Russian athletes to compete in the Milan-Cortina Games.

Prince Harry and Meghan have joined a diverse group, including Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck, to call for a ban on AI "superintelligence" that threatens humanity.

North Korea has performed its first ballistic missile tests in five months, days before U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders are expected to meet in South Korea.

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a federal watchdog agency has withdrawn from consideration after his offensive text messages were made public and GOP senators revolted.

President Donald Trump says the federal government owes him “a lot of money” for prior Justice Department investigations into his actions and insists that any decision on a payout would “have to go across my desk.”.

New Jersey Republicans have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to send election monitors to oversee the handling of mail ballots in a county that is key to the state’s Nov. 4 governor’s race between Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill.