The rise of online betting has led the commercial gambling industry to balloon worldwide, posing a significant threat to public health, according to a new report.The report, published Thursday, comes from a public health commission on gambling…
Nearly 1,000 hurricane-impacted households in North Carolina and Florida will benefit this week from a new disaster aid program that employs a model not commonly used by philanthropy in the United States: Giving people rapid,…
In this photo illustration, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburger meal is seen at a McDonald's on October 23, 2024 in the Flatbush neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty…
BILLINGS, Mont. -- The White House says President Joe Biden will apologize on behalf of the U.S. government Friday for its 150-year campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Louisville police officer who used a battering ram to smash through Breonna Taylor's front door testified in federal court Thursday that the gunshots that went off shortly after were the “loudest…
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Conservatives could capture majorities on the Kansas and Nebraska state school boards in this year's elections, making it easier for them to shape what's taught in classrooms. At issue are familiar efforts…
LEWISTON, Maine -- With flags lowered across the state, Maine residents whose sense of safety was shattered last year by a mass shooting planned to mark the anniversary Friday in ways big and small, including…
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- The candidates to represent Virginia’s 7th Congressional District both say democracy is in trouble. Republican Derrick Anderson and Democrat Eugene Vindman each make the case that the government has failed voters in…
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. -- The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch is expected to be arraigned Friday on federal sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges in a New York court.Prosecutors allege that for nearly two…
HONG KONG -- Asian stocks were mostly higher Friday aside from in Japan, where investors were awaiting the outcome of an election on Sunday. U.S. futures fell and oil prices rose. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru…
NEW ORLEANS -- After Candice Henderson-Chandler moved to New Orleans and bought her first house in 2021, she learned it had played a key role in the city's civil rights history and was the childhood…
The United States has brought hundreds of thousands of children from abroad to be adopted by American families. But along the way it left thousands of them without citizenship, through a bureaucratic loophole that the…
The parent company of WWE and UFC is buying Professional Bull Riders, On Location, and IMG from Endeavor Group in an all-stock deal valued at $3.25 billion.The sale to parent company TKO is part of…
WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump said Thursday that China's leader would handle Vice President Kamala Harris “like a baby” if she's elected to the White House, as the former president and his top…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event on the company's Redmond, Washington, campus on May 20, 2024. Nadella is betting a new generation of computers with specialized artificial intelligence chips and faster performance will…
Scout Terra pickup truck and Scout Traveler SUV conceptsScoutNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Volkswagen-backed Scout Motors revealed its first electric vehicles Thursday and announced plans for the brand to expand its lineup to include an emerging type…
A western Nebraska school superintendent who wanted a student to remove his cowboy hat is facing a felony charge after the boy fell to the ground during a scuffle over the hat.The Maywood School District…
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk speaks during an unveiling event for Tesla products in Los Angeles, California, U.S. October 10, 2024Source: Tesla | YoutubeTesla CEO Elon Musk, already the world's richest person, added…
NEW YORK -- A pilot program testing AI-powered weapons scanners inside some New York City subway stations this summer did not detect any passengers with firearms — but falsely alerted more than 100 times, according…
OpenAI is disbanding its "AGI Readiness" team, which advised the company on OpenAI's own capacity to handle increasingly powerful AI and the world's readiness to manage that technology, according to the head of the team.On…
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Chairman Vince McMahon appears in the ring during the WWE Monday Night Raw show at the Thomas & Mack Center August 24, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Ethan Miller | Getty ImagesVince…
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Since the war in Ukraine began, Yaroslav Pyzh, a Baptist pastor in Lviv, has worn many hats.He runs the large and growing Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary, while overseeing a network of 18…
Since it started as a hashtag in 2012, GivingTuesday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, has become one of the biggest fundraising days of the year for nonprofits in the U.S. In 2022 and 2023, GivingTuesday raised…
Steve Christo - Corbis | Corbis News | Getty ImagesNovo Nordisk's blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, suggesting its potential to delay or prevent the memory-robbing condition, according to…
TKO CEO Ari Emanuel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson speak to CNBC at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 23, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | ReutersTKO Group, the company that owns…
NORTH AURORA, Ill. -- DNA found on the clothing of a suburban Chicago woman who was kidnapped and killed 45 years ago matches that of a suspected serial killer who died two years later, authorities…
ATLANTA -- Voting machines reversing votes. More voters registered than people eligible. Large numbers of noncitizens voting.With less than two weeks before Election Day, a resurgence in conspiracy theories and misinformation about voting is forcing…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A famous grizzly bear beloved for decades by countless tourists, biologists and professional wildlife photographers in Grand Teton National Park is dead after being struck by a vehicle in western Wyoming.Grizzly No.…
LOS ANGELES -- A California man is facing new federal charges after being arrested in a courthouse bomb attack that injured five people last month, prosecutors said Wednesday. Nathaniel McGuire, 20, has been charged with…
McDonald’s worked Wednesday to reassure customers that its U.S. restaurants are safe as federal investigators tried to pinpoint the cause of a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to the fast-food giant's Quarter Pounder hamburgers.McDonald's pulled…
The top election official in one of the nation’s most politically important counties said Wednesday she was forced out of her role just weeks before the November presidential election, disputing an official statement that she…
PHILADELPHIA -- Vice President Kamala Harris plans to lay out her campaign's closing argument by returning to the site near the White House where Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol…
NEW ORLEANS -- In anticipation of three Taylor Swift concerts, which could draw around 150,000 visitors to New Orleans' Superdome this weekend, state authorities on Wednesday began clearing a nearby homeless encampment.Roughly 75 people who…
Chinese companies are aggressively developing autonomous vehicles. In August, China announced that it had issued 16,000 test licenses for driverless cars and opened up about 20,000 miles of roads nationwide for autonomous vehicle testing.But Chinese…
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna appears at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 16, 2024.Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIBM shares moved 4% lower in extended trading on Wednesday after the hardware,…
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk stands with Republican presidential nominee former U.S. president Donald Trump during a campaign rally, on the day Trump returns to the site of the July assassination attempt against…
A customer walks out of a McDonald’s restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, on Oct. 23, 2024.Mario Tama | Getty ImagesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told McDonald's late last week about a potential link to…
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 10, 2024.Bloomberg | GettyApple on Wednesday released a beta version…
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk participates in a town hall-style meeting to promote early and absentee voting at Ridley High School on October 17, 2024 in Folsom, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesTesla is set…
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Louisiana's 2020 Teacher of the Year has filed a lawsuit against the state challenging a new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by…
Boxes of Ozempic and Wegovy made by Novo Nordisk are seen at a pharmacy.Hollie Adams | ReutersNovo Nordisk on Tuesday asked the Food and Drug Administration to prevent compounding pharmacies from making unapproved and often…
Coca-Cola President and CEO James Quincey attends a press conference with International Olympic Committee (IOC) president and China Mengniu Dairy CEO and Executive Director, as part of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee…
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are courting key constituencies just two weeks before Election Day — and they’re hoping popular public figures will help them make the case.Follow the AP’s Election 2024 coverage at: https://apnews.com/hub/election-2024.Here’s…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the training base of the special operations armed forces of the Korea's Army, at an undisclosed location, in North Korea, in this handout picture released by North Korea's…
Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation expert and vice president at the Centre for Information Resilience, gestures during an interview with AFP in Washington, DC, on March 23, 2023.Bastien Inzaurralde | AFP | Getty ImagesNina Jankowicz's dream…
Millions of Americans can’t afford to buy a home or rent a suitable apartment, making housing a central issue for voters in the upcoming presidential election.The biggest single reason homeownership is out of reach for…
ATLANTA -- Georgia's highest court on Tuesday reversed a judge's contempt ruling against a lawyer for rapper Young Thug who refused to tell the judge how he found out about a meeting between the judge,…
HONG KONG -- Asian stocks were mixed on Wednesday under pressure from a rising U.S. dollar and the uncertainties over the U.S. election. U.S. futures and oil prices fell due to escalating geopolitical tensions after…
EVERETT, Wash. -- Wednesday is shaping up as one of the most significant days in a volatile year for Boeing, which is expected to report a huge third-quarter loss, introduce its new CEO on his…
ATLANTA -- The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by national and state Republicans to immediately reinstate recently passed election rules that a judge had ruled were invalid.Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas…
UNITED NATIONS -- Gangs in Haiti have escalated their violence and expanded operations outside the capital, even attacking small boats and kidnapping personnel from cargo shipping companies, the top U.N. official in the country said…
STERLING, Va. -- A former employee of a propane supplier has been charged in the death of a volunteer firefighter who died while responding to a house explosion in Virginia in February, officials said Tuesday.Roger…
CONCORD, N.H. -- President Joe Biden tore into his predecessor on Tuesday, suggesting that global leaders are terrified of what Donald Trump 's return to the White House could do to democratic rule around the…
Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks to the press as he leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse on December 11, 2023 in Washington, DC.Drew Angerer |…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A judge has tossed three more lawsuits filed against lawmakers who shared social media posts that falsely accused a Kansas man of being among the shooters who opened fire at a…
Amazon Flex driver Ricardo Escalona works to deliver his same day orders during Cyber Monday from an Amazon fulfillment center on November 27, 2023 in Tampa, Florida. Octavio Jones | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAmazon…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Regina Brinson heard a crack before the metal walkway gave way beneath her feet, plunging her into the water beneath the state-operated ferry dock on Georgia's Sapelo Island. As strong currents swept…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence startup Anthropic.Chesnot | Getty ImagesAnthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced Tuesday that it's reached an artificial intelligence milestone for the company: AI…
Jeff Smith, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Starboard Value LP.Chris Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSalesforce shares jumped 98% in 2023 in part after the business software maker increased its adjusted operating…
The U.S. election is about two weeks away – and who winds up in the White House and in Congress could have an impact on key corners of the stock market, according to Bank of…
Ryan Bergh, a machinist at Boeing's factory in Everett, Washington for 10 years, cheers during a strike rally for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) at the Seattle Union Hall in Seattle,…
Women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a report…
A general view of atmosphere during 'Sonic Desert' presented by Coca-Cola Spiced and Topo Chico in partnership with BPM Music on April 13, 2024 in Thermal, California. Randy Shropshire | Getty ImagesThe hottest food and drink…
WASHINGTON -- Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump see economic policy as their best chance to win Latino voters. But their approaches are very different.In an interview with Telemundo on Tuesday afternoon, Vice President Harris…
WASHINGTON -- Two weeks out from Election Day, the crisis in the Middle East is looming over the race for the White House, with one candidate struggling to find just the right words to navigate…
MADISON, Wis. -- In-person early voting kicks off Tuesday across battleground Wisconsin, with former President Barack Obama and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz hosting a rally in liberal Madison and Republicans holding events to…
SWANNANOA, N.C. -- Surveying storm damage in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump on Monday blasted federal emergency responders whose work has been stymied by armed harassment and a deluge of misinformation, but he said…
MINNEAPOLIS -- Police arrested an unknown number of pro-Palestinian protesters Monday at the University of Minnesota after a group of students briefly occupied an administrative building, protest organizers said. The Monday afternoon protest prompted an…
PHOENIX -- One of two rural Arizona county supervisors who faced criminal charges for refusing to canvass the 2022 midterm results pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor count of failing to perform her duty as…
Former President Donald Trump's tax reform ideas could offer total or partial income tax exemptions to roughly 93.2 million Americans, or just under half of the U.S. electorate, according to CNBC's analysis of several estimates.As…
Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson poses at the Nasdaq MarketSite as Lucid Motors (Nasdaq: LCID) begins trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange after completing its business combination with Churchill Capital Corp IV in New York…
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden is “deeply concerned” about the release of classified documents on Israel's preparation for a potential retaliatory attack on Iran, according to a White House spokesman.U.S. officials confirmed on Saturday that…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday blocked votes from being counted for a ballot initiative that would have expanded medical marijuana in the state, ruling that the proposal's language was misleading.…
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump works behind the counter during a visit to McDonalds in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania, U.S. October 20, 2024. Doug Mills | Via ReutersThough President Donald Trump visited a Pennsylvania…
Vice President Kamala Harris is campaigning for president against Elon Musk at least as much as she is against former President Donald Trump, Mark Cuban said Monday, as he advocated for the Democratic nominee as…
A sign hangs outside of a Chick-fil-A restaurant on May 06, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty ImagesChicken sandwiches, waffle fries, milkshakes – and now TV shows and podcasts?Chick-fil-A plans to launch a new…
With just over two weeks to go before the 2024 presidential election and the race in a dead heat, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are hitting the campaign trail in strategic battleground states.Follow the AP’s…
Disney has tapped James Gorman to replace Mark Parker as the company's next chairman, effective in January, as the media giant lays the groundwork to name a successor for CEO Bob Iger in early 2026,…
PHILADELPHIA -- Democrat Kamala Harris is out to win over suburban voters uneasy about Republican Donald Trump as she touches down in three Midwestern battleground states on Monday to hold moderated conversations with Republican Liz…
SAYLORSBURG, Pa. -- Fethullah Gülen, a reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing accusations he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey, has died.Abdullah Bozkurt, the former editor…
BANGKOK -- Asian shares were mixed on Monday after U.S. stocks rose to records to close out their latest winning week. U.S. futures also were mixed and oil prices climbed. Hong Kong's Hang Seng sank…
