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Bensenville, Ill. — Federal agents carried out seizures nationwide of illegal vaping products Wednesday as the Trump administration moved to crack down on products that are regularly used by teens in the U.S. after being smuggled in from China. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled to … Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Republican-led House turned aside Democratic objections Tuesday and passed a plan backed by President Donald Trump to redraw the state’s congressional districts so that Republicans could win an additional seat in the closely divided chamber. The rare mid-decade redistricting plan, which now heads to the state Senate, is aimed at … Read more

WASHINGTON — A divided appeals court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally remove and replace the director of the U.S. Copyright Office. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted 2-1 to temporarily block Trump’s Republican administration from firing Shira Perlmutter … Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s emergency order over the nation’s capital, which federalized its police force and launched a surge of law enforcement into the city, is set to expire overnight Wednesday after Congress failed to extend it. But the clash between Republicans and the heavily Democratic district over its autonomy was only set to … Read more

NEW YORK — The longtime head of a Mexican megachurch who is serving more than 16 years in a California prison for sexually abusing young followers has been charged with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking for allegedly victimizing members of the church for decades, authorities said Wednesday. A federal grand jury in New York returned … Read more

It sounded like freedom, like a world of possibility beyond the orphanage walls. Maria Pires was getting adopted. At 11 years old, she saw herself escaping the chaos and violence of the Sao Paulo orphanage, where she’d been sexually assaulted by a staff member. She saw herself leaving Brazil for America, trading abandonment for belonging. … Read more

WASHINGTON — A Princeton University graduate student who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 while doing research there has been freed and turned over to U.S. authorities, her family and officials said Tuesday. Elizabeth Tsurkov, who holds Israeli and Russian citizenship, spent more than 900 days in custody after disappearing in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, … Read more

NEW YORK — A New York City couple in their 70s was killed Monday in what the police commissioner said was a “horrific double homicide, robbery and arson” — the man tied to a pole and stabbed, the woman’s body severely burned as their home went up in flames. Frank Olton, 76, and Maureen Olton, … Read more

AUBURN, Ala. — Flowers and memorial messages were tied to the gate of Kiesel Park in Auburn to remember retired veterinary professor Julie Gard Schnuelle, who was attacked and killed there over the weekend. Gard Schnuelle’s killing at a city park has rattled the college town of 83,757 people. The sprawling green space, in a … Read more

The Trump administration is reviewing material about slavery, the destruction of Native American culture, climate change and more at federal parks after employees flagged information that could be “disparaging” to Americans, according to screenshots shared with The Associated Press. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March directing the Interior Department — which manages … Read more