Posted 9:33 AM 12/4/2025 by ALI SWENSON, LINLEY SANDERS and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty-two-year-old Dinam Bigny sank into debt and had to get a roommate this year, in part because of health insurance premiums that cost him nearly $900 per month.

Next year, those monthly fees will rise by $200 — a significant enough increase that the (More)

Posted 4:04 PM 12/3/2025 by SAFIYAH RIDDLE Associated Press

An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the "belief in multiple genders" was "demonic."

Samantha Fulnecky, 20, filed a complaint with the administration (More)

Posted 3:37 PM 12/2/2025 by GEOFF MULVIHILL and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration said Tuesday that it will move to withhold SNAP food aid from recipients in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week unless those states provide information about those receiving the assistance.

Agriculture (More)

Posted 4:16 PM 12/1/2025 by CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — One of the sons of notorious Mexican drug kingpin "El Chapo" pleaded guilty on Monday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, months after his brother entered a plea deal.

Known locally in Mexico as the "Chapitos," or "little Chapos," Joaquin Guzman Lopez and brother Ovidio (More)

Posted 12:04 PM 11/30/2025 by BEN FINLEY and GARY FIELDS Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly over a video that urges American troops to defy "illegal orders" has raised a slew of questions, and some criticism, from legal experts.

Some say the Pentagon is misreading military law to go after Kelly as a retired (More)

Posted 12:03 PM 11/29/2025 by WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Despite wider economic uncertainty hovering above this year's holiday season, shoppers turned out in big numbers for Black Friday — spending billions of dollars both in stores and online.

Adobe Analytics, which tracks e-commerce, said U.S. consumers spent a (More)

Posted 4:35 PM 11/27/2025 by JOSH BOAK, BEN FINLEY, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the White House had died, calling the shooter who had worked with the CIA in his native country a "savage monster."

As part of his (More)