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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on television advertising in select metro areas around the country, an Associated Press tally found, aimed at recruiting local officers frustrated with their cities’ restrictions on immigration enforcement into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts. “You took an … Read more

Fifth Third Bancorp is buying Comerica for $10.9 billion in an all-stock deal, tying up two big regional banks. The buyout will create the 9th largest U.S. bank with approximately $288 billion in assets, the companies said Monday. The combined company will have operations in the Southeast, Texas and California, and will greatly solidify Fifth … Read more

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — The economic boom promised by President Donald Trump centers on a single number: $17 trillion. That’s the sum of new investments that Trump claims to have generated with his tariffs, income tax cuts and aggressive salesmanship of CEOs, financiers, tech titans, prime ministers, presidents and other rulers. The $17 trillion … Read more

WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — A food aid program that helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, forcing states to use their own money to keep it afloat or risk it shutting down, experts say. The $8 billion … Read more

A federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon, after a legal whirlwind that began hours earlier when the president sent California troops to Portland to protect federal buildings from ongoing protests. During a hastily called evening telephone hearing, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut granted the … Read more

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children play next to Sukkahs, a temporary structures built for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) The Associated Press Source link

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Ka’Von Wooden loved trains. The 15-year-old had an encyclopedic knowledge of New York City’s subway system and dreamed of becoming a train operator. Instead, on a December morning in 2022, Ka’Von died after he climbed to the roof of a moving J train in Brooklyn and then fell … Read more

RICHMOND, Va. — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general has apologized for widely condemned text messages from 2022 that revealed him suggesting that a prominent Republican get “two bullets to the head.” The texts put the Democratic challenger, Jay Jones, on the defensive in what has been a hard-hitting campaign. Early … Read more

CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — A Georgia man has been indicted on manslaughter charges in Alabama after an April boat wreck during a professional fishing tournament killed three people and injured two others. Flint Andrew Davis, 22, was indicted Thursday in Cullman County on three counts of reckless manslaughter and two counts of first degree assault, … Read more

PORTLAND, Ore. — PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, ruling in a lawsuit brought by the state and city. U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued the order pending further arguments in the suit. The plaintiffs say a deployment would … Read more