AP National News

By MATTHEW BARAKAT and BEN FINLEY Associated Press FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — One of America’s most conservative congressmen is facing a serious primary challenge in Virginia after his opponent was endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Voters in two other districts are nominating candidates to fill two open seats in the state’s primary election

By SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A report released by Human Rights Watch says authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party’s ideology. The report released Wednesday says the policy is part of

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution to prohibit discrimination based on “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” has been restored to the November election ballot by a state appeals court. A panel of midlevel appellate judges on Tuesday overturned an earlier decision by an upstate judge to strike the proposed Equal

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators approved a bipartisan plan Tuesday aimed at luring the Kansas City Chiefs away from Missouri by helping to finance a new stadium for the Super Bowl champions. The bill passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and sent to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly would allow Kansas

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing CEO David Calhoun defended the company’s safety record during a contentious Senate hearing Tuesday, while lawmakers accused him of placing profits over safety, failing to protect whistleblowers, and even getting paid too much. Relatives of people who died in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners were in

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A judge on Tuesday expelled from court the former partner of the conspiracy theorist charged with breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home in 2022, banning her from the public gallery as the man’s state trial wrapped up. Gypsy Taub, who has two children

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The pastor of a Texas megachurch has resigned after a woman said he had sexually abused her on multiple occasions in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12. Gateway Church’s board of elders said in a statement Tuesday that they’d accepted the resignation of Robert Morris, the

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged, for the first time, the harmful role it has played over the past century in building and operating dams in the Pacific Northwest — dams that devastated Native American tribes by inundating their villages and decimating salmon runs while bringing electricity,

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and JILL COLVIN The Associated Press RACINE, Wisconsin (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has insisted he loves the city of Milwaukee as he returned to the critical battleground state of Wisconsin just weeks before it hosts the Republican National Convention. “I love Milwaukee,” Trump told the crowd. Trump was playing cleanup

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would have outlawed bump stocks after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on the rapid-fire gun accessory used in the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history. Democrats tried to force a voice vote on the bill to ban

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports Tuesday that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue. “No, it is false,” she wrote Tuesday in response to an emailed query from The Associated Press. Noam Chomsky, 95, had been hospitalized in Brazil while

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Thousands of residents fled their homes as a wildfire swept into the mountain village of Ruidoso in southern New Mexico on Tuesday, destroying or damaging more than 500 structures. The governor declared a county-wide state of emergency that extended to neighboring tribal lands and deployed

By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer The Federal Trade Commission has referred a complaint against TikTok and its Beijing-based parent company to the Department of Justice. The FTC said in a statement on Tuesday that it investigated the two companies and “uncovered reason to believe” TikTok and ByteDance are “violating or are about to violate”

By SEUNG MIN KIM and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered expansive election-year action Tuesday to offer potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S., aiming to balance his recent aggressive crackdown on the southern border that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers. The