By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions flared as questions mounted at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday over the Trump administration's shifting rationale for war with Iran as lawmakers demand answers over the strategy, exit plan and costs to Americans in ...

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TIM SULLIVAN Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A federal judge clashed Tuesday with Minnesota's top federal prosecutor during an unusual contempt hearing that highlighted growing confrontations between increasingly frustrated judges and Department of Justice ...

By AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that "someone from within" the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the U.S.-Israel military campaign is completed — but said "most of the people we had in ...

Frustrated by the slow adoption of one of his signature efforts to get Californians with severe mental illness off the streets, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday threatened to take funding from counties he said aren't doing enough. Newsom called out 10 counties that he said are underperforming when ...

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is ordering one of Manhattan's largest hospitals to resume providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth, weeks after the hospital ended such treatments amid funding threats from the ...

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press WINDER, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man who gave his teenage son the gun he's accused of using to kill two students and two teachers at a high school was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Jurors took less than two hours to ...

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into allegations that Rep. Nancy Mace overcharged a congressional program intended to help defray housing costs for lawmakers who have residences in Washington. Mace, a South ...

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to halt New York's first-in-the-nation congestion fee meant to reduce traffic and pump revenue into the region's aging transit system. U.S. District Judge ...

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest U.S. diplomatic drawdown in the Middle East since the Iraq War began more than two decades ago is creating an apparently unplanned-for crisis for the Trump administration as the United States and Israel strike Iran in a ...

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to end trade with Spain, citing a lack of support over the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and the European nation's resistance to increase its NATO spending. "We're ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop is set to be executed Tuesday evening in Florida. Billy Leon Kearse, 53, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near ...

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil prices jumped Tuesday for the second straight day and gas prices moved higher in the United States, underscoring the threat of rising inflation posed by the Iran war. Coming after nearly five years of elevated costs, even ...

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The average price for a gallon of gasoline jumped 11 cents overnight in the U.S., and some drivers in Europe waited in line to fill their tanks with fuel, as war engulfed the Middle East and shipments of oil and ...

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Target is investing another $2 billion in its business this year to spruce up and remodel stores among other projects as it tries to turn around a persistent sales malaise and reclaim its authority on style. The investment, ...

By PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — One of two men arrested Monday in connection with a weekend shooting that wounded nine people inside a Cincinnati nightclub appeared in court Tuesday morning. Franeek Cobb, 24, who is charged with ...

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Justice Department lawyer told jurors at a civil antitrust trial Tuesday that the concert industry is broken because Ticketmaster and its parent Live Nation Entertainment have monopolized the market, driving up prices for ...

By JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press Residents of Syracuse, New York — America's snowiest city — once barraged a service hotline with street neglect complaints during blizzards, even if plows had passed two hours earlier but the work was hidden by fresh snow. Now public trust seems to be ...

By JIM VERTUNO and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A gunman in Texas opened fire on a crowded bar in Austin's busy nightlife district over the weekend before being fatally shot by police in an attack that authorities are investigating as a possible act of ...

By TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press Throughout his political career, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steered his country along two pillars of foreign policy: an ironclad partnership with the United States and a relentless diplomatic and covert battle against the rulers of the ...

MIAMI (AP) — A mistrial was declared Monday in a case where former Miami football player Rashaun Jones was accused of killing teammate Bryan Pata nearly 20 years ago, though court proceedings will continue and another trial is possible. Jurors could not unanimously offer a verdict in the ...