Military responds to reports of shooting at Pearl Harbor
HONOLULU — The military says security forces are responding to reports of a shooting at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.
Judge: Purdue workers should get bonuses, but maybe not CEO
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — More time is needed to sort out whether the CEO of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma should receive a $1.3 million bonus next year, b...
668,000 will lose food stamp benefits under new work rules
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of Americans who rely on the federal food stamp program will lose their benefits under a new Trump administration r...
Once-a-month birth control pill? Experiment works in animals
WASHINGTON — Birth control pills work great if women remember to take them every day but missing doses can mean a surprise pregnancy. Now scientists h...
Cavill: Door ‘hasn’t closed’ on Superman, but 1st, ‘Witcher’
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Henry Cavill is all-in on his Netflix fantasy series "The Witcher," but he says the “door hasn't closed”on a return as Superm...
Texas judge orders border wall fundraiser not to build
HOUSTON — A local judge in South Texas has ordered supporters of President Donald Trump not to build their planned private border wall on a section of...
Climate simulations are mostly accurate, study finds
WASHINGTON — The computer models used to simulate what heat-trapping gases will do to global temperatures have been pretty spot-on in their prediction...
Trump calls Trudeau ‘two-faced’ as palace gossip goes viral
WATFORD, England — NATO leaders professed unity on Wednesday at a summit near London — but a spat over off-the-cuff chit chat at a royal reception rat...
Iran leader calls for ‘Islamic mercy’ after bloody crackdown
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s supreme leader called Wednesday for those detained in recent gasoline price protests to be treated with “Islamic ...
Kim again rides horse up sacred peak as N. Korea raps Trump
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rode a white horse up a sacred mountain in his second symbolic visit in less than two months, sta...
AP Exclusive: 629 Pakistani girls sold as brides to China
LAHORE, Pakistan — Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to C...
Buffalo bishop resigns under fire for handling of misconduct
NEW YORK — Pope Francis on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Buffalo Bishop Richard Malone following widespread criticism from Malone’s staff, pri...
China and US clash over Xinjiang, Hong Kong bills
BEIJING — Already strained relations between China and the United States were further muddied after U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill targe...
Takeaways from House report on Trump impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee released a sweeping impeachment report Tuesday that asserts President Donald Trump misused his office to...
Report links Giuliani with top Republican on intel panel
WASHINGTON — A new report from Democrats compiling evidence on impeachment revealed contact between President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Gi...
Google co-founders step aside as antitrust scrutiny heats up
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s co-founders are relinquishing their executive positions just as state and federal regulators, not to mention the Department o...
Elon Musk tells jurors insult provoked ‘pedo guy’ tweet
LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk testified Tuesday that he was being insulting, not literally calling a British cave diver a pedophile when he lashed out on Tw...
Northern Mexico fears return to dark past after gunfights
VILLA UNION, Mexico — Mexico’s president says he wants to fight drug cartels with “hugs, not bullets,” but after 23 people were killed in a weekend gu...
Former prosecutor says corrupt congressman got ‘great’ deal
SAN DIEGO — California Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single charge of conspiring with his wife to use at least $150,000 in campaign f...
Wisconsin officers on front lines in 2 student shootings
OSHKOSH, Wis. — Wisconsin high school resource officers have found themselves on the front lines in two student shootings in the past two days, unders...
Trump takes bold stance at NATO as impeachment boils at home
LONDON — Thumping his chest on the world stage as he faces an impeachment inquiry at home, President Donald Trump claimed credit Tuesday for transform...
Domingo’s accusers: Nothing ‘chivalrous’ about groping women
SAN FRANCISCO — Two opera singers who accused Placido Domingo of sexual misconduct said Tuesday that it was disappointing and disturbing that the oper...
Cicely Tyson, Seth MacFarlane joining TV Hall of Fame
LOS ANGELES — Cicely Tyson, Seth MacFarlane and Walt Disney Co. chief executive Bob Iger will be joining the Television Academy’s Hall of Fame.
DeVos calls for making financial aid unit a separate agency
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says Congress should consider splitting her department’s financial aid operation into a separate federal agency with t...
Ex-chief says he didn’t intentionally ‘deceive’ anyone
CHICAGO — Ousted Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Tuesday that he didn’t “intentionally mislead or deceive” anyone about the mid-Octob...
Gun background checks are on pace to break record in 2019
Background checks on gun purchases in the U.S. are climbing toward a record high this year, reflecting what the industry says is a rush by people to b...
Report: Racial divide shrinks in US criminal justice system
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Racial disparities have narrowed across the U.S. criminal justice system over 16 years, though black people are still significant...
More pressure on Prince Andrew after alleged victim on TV
LONDON — Prince Andrew was missing when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, hosted NATO leaders at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening, but he was the fo...
The Latest: California’s Hunter doesn’t say when he’ll quit
SAN DIEGO — The Latest on California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter’s guilty plea to misusing campaign money (all times local):