By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to slash the Medicare prices for 15 prescription drugs after months of negotiations, reductions that are expected to produce billions in savings for taxpayers and older adults, the Trump administration ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by a microphone on the ...
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — With Thanksgiving and the formal launch of the holiday shopping season this week, Americans will again gather for Turkey Day meals before knocking off items on their Christmas gift lists. Most big U.S. retailers are closed on Thanksgiving ...
By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — MacKenzie Scott, one of the world's wealthiest women and most influential philanthropists, is now known for her "no strings attached" surprise grantmaking. But, as a Princeton University sophomore, she learned what it was like to be on ...
By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As a general rule, it's difficult to sue the U.S. Postal Service for lost, delayed or mishandled mail. But a case before the U.S. Supreme Court involving a Texas landlord who alleges her mail was deliberately withheld for two years ...
HONOLULU (AP) — The on-and-off eruption that's been dazzling residents and visitors on Hawaii's Big Island for nearly a year resumed Tuesday as Kilauea volcano sent fountains of lava soaring 400 feet (122 meters) into the air. The molten rock was confined within Kilauea's summit caldera ...
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press BERNALILLO, N.M. (AP) — Unconditional love. That's what Vangie Randall-Shorty felt the moment she first held her son. She still feels it — even though Zachariah Shorty is now gone. "I carry him in my heart every day," she said, while trying to ...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson has been released from a Chicago hospital where he was treated for a rare neurological disorder, his son said Tuesday. The 84-year-old civil rights leader was discharged Monday from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, his son and family spokesperson Yusef ...
By BEN FINLEY and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a matter of days, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll vaulted from being the leader of a military bureaucracy — where he's been cutting red tape to quickly buy inexpensive drones — to a key negotiator in the Trump ...
By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump didn't bring much holiday cheer Tuesday when bestowing ceremonial pardons on two Thanksgiving turkeys, dispensing more insults than goodwill at the traditional White House ritual. He joked about sending the ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a social media video urging U.S. troops to defy "illegal orders" say the FBI has contacted them to begin scheduling interviews, signaling a possible inquiry into the ...
By GARY FIELDS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., announced on Tuesday that she will not be seeking re-election next year, a decision that came as she has had to confront a federal law enforcement intervention into her city launched by ...
By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that immigration officers in Colorado can only arrest people without a warrant if they think those people are likely to flee. U.S. District Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson issued the order in a legal challenge ...
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A health care proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue — a familiar struggle for a party that has been trying to scrap or overhaul the Affordable Care ...
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A week before Chancely Fanfan was scheduled to attend an immigration court hearing in San Diego, he received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security instructing him to show up for what he thought would be a ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man convicted of beating a San Francisco grandmother who later died is facing life in prison, a judge said Tuesday. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Eric Fleming said Keonte Gathron, 25, will likely be sentenced to prison without the possibility of parole in the ...
By SEJAL GOVINDARAO Associated Press Robert Dear, the man who was charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services, has died in federal custody, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday. Dear died Saturday at a ...
By HALLIE GOLDEN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press ERIE, Colo. (AP) — "Gus" the turkey has been spending Thanksgiving week much differently than millions of other unlucky gobblers across the U.S. As he trots in a sprawling animal sanctuary on the Colorado plains, he is stopped every ...
By GENE JOHNSON and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Oil company BP has found the source of a leak in a major Pacific Northwest pipeline system, allowing it to restart the flow of jet fuel to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Tuesday and help avoid any major ...
BIG STONE GAP, Va. (AP) — A Virginia high school football coach who disappeared days before his undefeated team's playoff game is being sought on charges of possessing child sexual abuse material and using a computer to solicit a minor, Virginia State Police said Tuesday. Police said Travis ...