By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pitched voters on a series of populist economic policies — floating proposals to hand out free money, slash taxes and fight hedge funds — in a speech Tuesday aimed at cleaning up the kitchen table ...
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Former first lady Michelle Obama will skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the second time in two weeks that she is not attending a gathering of former U.S. leaders and their spouses, but former ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Jack Smith said his team "stood up for the rule of law" as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, writing in a ...
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's Democratic governor on Tuesday created a new office dedicated to preventing gun violence, a month after a school shooting not far from the state Capitol and an idea that drew immediate opposition from Republicans who said ...
By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota could become the first state to eventually end property taxes on people's homes under a proposal from the state's new governor that combines conservative fiscal policy with the state's enormous oil wealth. The plan by ...
By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Before plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the man who carried out the Islamic State group-inspired attack had researched how to access a balcony on the city's famed Bourbon ...
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Hegseth tried to convince members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that he should be the next secretary of defense, as lawmakers peppered him with questions about his character and views on a range of military ...
By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than a week before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office, a report from special counsel Jack Smith is refocusing attention on the brazen steps he took to cling to power at the conclusion of his ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday released a "roadmap" for maintaining government defenses against infectious diseases, just as President-elect Donald Trump pledges to dismantle some of them. The 16-page report recaps steps taken in the last four years against COVID-19, ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A former Northeastern University employee who lied to the FBI about a package blowing up in his arms at the Boston campus has been sentenced to just over a year in prison for the hoax. Jason Duhaime, 47, from San Antonio, Texas, was ...
