U.S. President Donald Trump says he would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages” if the Islamic Republic doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz. Trump's remarks in a Truth Social post Wednesday come a day after he said he was nearly ready to wind down…

NASA has begun filling its moon rocket gas tank for humanity's first lunar trip in more than half a century. The 32-story rocket is due to blast off with four astronauts Wednesday evening from Florida's Kennedy Space Center. First, the launch…

Stocks are climbing worldwide, and oil prices are easing as hopes build that the war with Iran could end soon. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Wednesday and added to its leap from the day before, its biggest since May. That followed even larger gai…

President Donald Trump is at the Supreme Court to sit in on birthright citizenship arguments in a first such appearance by a president. The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, Trump’s order declaring that ch…

Megan Thee Stallion left a Broadway performance after she started feeling very ill and went to a hospital. Her representative says staff quickly transported her Tuesday night from the theater to a local hospital where doctors are evaluating h…

Launch preparations have begun for the Artemis II mission, NASA’s planned lunar fly-around by four astronauts that will be the first moon trip in 53 years. Tensions were high as hydrogen fuel started flowing into the rocket. The 32-story Spac…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is pausing the purchase of new warehouses intended to house immigrants as it scrutinizes all contracts signed under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, according to a senior Ho…

Democrats have run California for years. But in a nationally critical election, the party is being confronted by the limits of its own power: the race for governor is out of control. Barely a month before the start of mail-in voting, Democrat…

LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump has said he is strongly considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO, ratcheting up his criticism of European allies and exposing a wider rift in the transatlantic alliance — this time over America's war along…

When pollution gets bad enough in the rivers supplying Iowa's largest city with drinking water, it costs Des Moines around $16,000 a day to run a special system to filter out dangerous nitrates. It’s a fact of life in the agriculture-dependen…

Trump expressed frustration with allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort, telling them to “go get your own oil.”

The birthright citizenship order is part of the Trump administration’s broad immigration crackdown. 

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — When a hiker fell from a 55-meter (180-foot) waterfall in wild New Zealand bush, rescuers were forced to evacuate the badly hurt woman without her dog, which couldn't be found. After strangers raised thousands o…

NASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Ricky Brinkley has lived in rural North Carolina nearly all of his 65 years, and he likes it “out in the county,” past the street lights and bustle of the small towns that carpet the landscape.

With volatile gasoline prices rising in recent weeks, Edmunds has seen increased shopper interest in hybrids, plug-in hybrids and fully electric vehicles. If you’re thinking about going 100% electric, there’s a way to save even more money: Bu…

BEIJING (AP) — Some robotaxi passengers were left stranded in the middle of fast-moving traffic in a major Chinese city after their driverless vehicles stopped running, according to police and media reports on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Global leaders have been scrambling to contain the rising cost of oil and gasoline since the start of the Iran war, which took a record amount of oil off the market when tankers full of crude were stranded in the Persian Gulf …