By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. says it wants to keep burning coal to meet what it forecasts as the state's increasing electrical demand. Georgia's only private electrical utility says electrical demand is forecast to grow rapidly in the state, with much of ...
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press An information technology expert who for decades assumed the identity of another man so convincingly that his victim was forcibly medicated and jailed for identity theft himself was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison. Matthew David Keirans, ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A second federal judge on Friday ordered a temporary pause in Trump administration efforts to freeze federal funding in the latest twist over the spending of trillions of dollars in grants and loans. Judge John McConnell sided with nearly ...
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — County elections officials in Pennsylvania rejected more than 11,000 mail-in ballots for technical reasons in the November election, including thousands that were determined to violate the much litigated requirement that voters ...
By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writers Stocks on Wall Street surrendered early gains and closed broadly lower Friday after the White House said President Donald Trump would impose promised tariffs on key U.S. trading partners. The S&P 500 fell 0.5% and the Nasdaq ...
By ZEKE MILLER, AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he would place 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods from China effective Saturday, raising the specter of swift price increases for U.S. ...
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A pro-Palestinian group at the University of Michigan has been suspended for two years and will lose its funding in connection with protesters' demands for divestiture from companies doing business with Israel. Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, ...
By MELISSA GOLDIN, ALI SWENSON and ALEXANDRA OLSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump wasted little time this week trying to assign blame for the nation's deadliest air disaster in more than two decades. Among his chief targets: An FAA diversity hiring initiative he ...
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A top U.S. Justice Department official said a county sheriff's office in upstate New York would be investigated "for potential prosecution" because it released a Mexican citizen from jail even though a judge had signed a warrant for the man's arrest. But Tompkins County ...
By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's decades-long efforts to aid farmers by reshaping the weather through "cloud seeding" is facing fierce opposition in the state Capitol, where legislation could outlaw the practice, which is used across the West and has ...
By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta leaders are reconsidering how they dismantle homeless camps after a man was crushed inside a tent as a bulldozer destroyed makeshift homes in preparation for Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events. Cornelius Taylor was living in the ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will deliver his third budget proposal to lawmakers next week, a plan that's expected to seek substantially more aid for the poorest public schools, emphasize frugality and press the politically fraught ...
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as interior secretary late Thursday after President Donald Trump tapped the former North Dakota governor to spearhead the Republican administration's ambitions to boost fossil fuel production. The vote was 79-18. More than ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer President Donald Trump said this week that tariffs on U.S. neighbors Canada and Mexico will arrive Saturday. The two nations are not only close geographically, but economically as well. The business between the North American nations now exceeds China, ...
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Robert Santos, who emphasized inclusivity and outreach to overlooked communities, has decided to resign as director of the U.S. Census Bureau, midway through his five-year term and in the midst of planning for the 2030 census, which will determine ...
TROY, Mich. (AP) — A pressurized oxygen chamber exploded Friday, killing a 5-year-old patient and injuring his mother at a suburban Detroit medical facility. The hyperbaric chamber explosion occurred about 8 a.m. at the Oxford Center in Troy, north of Detroit. The child, from Royal Oak, ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The first U.S. parent to be held criminally responsible for a mass school shooting committed by a child asked a Michigan judge to throw out her conviction Friday, arguing that her trial was spoiled by the prosecutor's failure to disclose ...
By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI, insisted to deeply skeptical Democrats on Thursday that he did not have an "enemies list" and that the bureau under his leadership would not ...
By DAVE SKRETTA and JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writers NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) — Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers, and two former world champions who were coaching at a historic Boston club were among the 14 members of the skating community killed when an American Airlines flight ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday that he wants to fast-track the construction of big power plants in Pennsylvania and offer hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for projects that provide electricity to the grid and use ...