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Louisiana cancels $3B repair coastal restoration funded by Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana is officially halting a $3 billion coastal restoration funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement money, state and federal agencies confirmed Thursday. The Mid-B...

Jul 17, 2025

Man who sent Facebook message about committing a campus sexual assault pleads guilty

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - An American accused of sexually assaulting a fellow Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said "So I raped you" has pleaded guilty m...

Jul 17, 2025

Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice sentenced to 30 days in jail over Dallas high-speed crash

DALLAS (AP) - Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Thursday after authorities said he and another speeding driver caused a chain-reaction crash that left mu...

Jul 17, 2025

Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice sentenced to 30 days in jail over Dallas high-speed crash

DALLAS (AP) - Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Thursday after authorities said he and another driver traveling at high speeds in sports cars caused a ch...

Jul 17, 2025

Caitlin Clark pulls out of All-Star weekend because of groin injury

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Caitlin Clark is out of All-Star weekend. The Indiana Fever guard injured her right groin on Tuesday night in the final minute of the team's win over the Connecticut Sun. She said ...

Jul 17, 2025

An Idaho judge has lifted a sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger's quadruple murder case

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - An Idaho judge has lifted a sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger's quadruple murder case. Kohberger avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty earlier this month to the...

Jul 17, 2025

Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE

WASHINGTON (AP) - Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation's 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to tr...

Jul 17, 2025

Just 1 in 4 US adults say Trump's policies have helped them, a new AP-NORC poll finds

WASHINGTON (AP) - Only about one-quarter of U.S. adults say that President Donald Trump's policies have helped them since he took office, according to a new poll that finds underwhelming marks for him...

Jul 17, 2025

Zelenskyy shakes up Ukrainian Cabinet, appointing new prime minister to reinvigorate war effort

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine's economy minister and the key negotiator in the mineral deal with the U.S, Yuliia Svyrydenko, has been appointed as new prime minister, becoming its first new head of gov...

Jul 17, 2025

A parish priest and several injured as airstrikes hit a Gaza church

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Strikes hit the Holy Family Church in northern Gaza on Thursday morning, injuring several people including the parish priest, officials with the Catholic Church said. ...

Jul 17, 2025