• Lutnick will appear before a House panel to answer for his changing story on Epstein
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is appearing Wednesday before a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as lawmakers seek answers for Lutnick’s contact with him in the years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. Lutnick, a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, is the latest powerful political […]
  • ADL reports a sharp drop in US antisemitic incidents in 2025, driven by a steep fall on campuses
    NEW YORK (AP) — The number of antisemitic incidents in the United States tallied by the Anti-Defamation League declined sharply in 2025 — the first drop in five years — due in part to what the ADL said was a dramatic decrease of incidents on college campuses. The ADL tallied 1,694 antisemitic incidents on U.S. […]
  • A late spring snowstorm slams Colorado, closing schools and disrupting commuters
    FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A late spring snowstorm picked up over parts of Colorado on Wednesday, closing schools, delaying flights and creating slushy conditions for commuters. The storm, which swept over the Rocky Mountains and into the High Plains on Tuesday, was expected to weaken before wrapping up Wednesday afternoon, but not before leaving […]
  • Takeaways from investigation showing Georgia officials knew carpet mills polluted local water
    CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) — Starting in the 1970s, the textile mills of northwest Georgia relied on chemicals known as PFAS to add stain resistance to the carpets they manufactured. Some of the chemicals that didn’t stick were flushed with the multibillion-dollar industry’s wastewater into local sewer pipes and, eventually, the region’s rivers. Decades later, the […]
  • Georgia officials knew chemicals from carpet mills were polluting local water. The people did not
    CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) — Growing up in northwest Georgia, Stormy Bost lived her life in the water. During summers she plucked crawdads from the neighborhood creek and played in its cool depths, racing home for dinner to beat the setting sun. Waiting for her were pitchers of sweet tea, which her family brewed using tap […]