ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-friendly nightclub were remembered with the unveiling of a 44-foot (13.4-meter) -wide mural, the ringing of church bells and an…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday called off a vote on a contempt of Congress charge against FBI Director Christopher Wray, accepting a last-minute offer by the bureau to allow the full committee…
(AP) -- JPMorgan Chase announced a tentative settlement with the sex victims of financier Jeffrey Epstein, the bank said Monday, which had accused the bank of being the financial conduit that Epstein used to pay off his victims for several…
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents 10% of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi civil rights lawyer was arrested Saturday after filming a traffic stop conducted by officers from a police department she is suing in federal court, her attorney says. Jill Collen Jefferson is the president of…
By Michael R. Sisak AND Mike Balsamo and Jake Offenhartz undefined Ted Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," who carried out a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died by suicide, four people familiar with the…
MIAMI (AP) — Former UFC champion Conor McGregor knocked out the Miami Heat mascot in a midgame bit that went wrong. Burnie — more specifically, the man who occupies Burnie's costume — briefly sought medical attention Friday night after taking…
By Ron Todt - Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An elevated section of Interstate 95 collapsed early Sunday in Philadelphia after a vehicle caught fire, closing the main north-south highway on the East Coast and threatening to upend travel in…
By Lindsey Bahr - AP Film Writer It was Miles Morales and the Spider-Verse versus the "Transformers" at the box office this weekend and the bots came out on top. " Transformers: Rise of the Beasts," the seventh entry in…
DALLAS (AP) — Brittney Griner and her Phoenix Mercury teammates were confronted by a "provocateur" at a Dallas airport on Saturday, the WNBA said. The league said in a statement it was looking into the team's run-in with a "social…
By Nicolas Vaux-Montagny and Angela Charlton - Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Four young children stabbed in a playground in the French Alps are no longer in life-threatening condition but remain hospitalized, the regional prosecutor said Saturday, as the suspected…
By Michael Balsomo - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore "Ted" Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber," has died in federal prison, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press on Saturday. Kaczynski was found dead around 8…
By Manuel Rueda - Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Four Indigenous children survived an Amazon plane crash that killed three adults and then wandered on their own in the jungle for 40 days before being found alive by Colombian…
By Bill Barrow, Jeff Amy and Jill Colvin - Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday is set to make his first public appearances since his federal indictment, speaking to friendly Republican audiences in Georgia…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans hired Sarah Bailey as their new director of football research and development. The Titans announced the hiring Friday. Bailey spent the past six seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, starting as a football…
By Corrine S. Kennedy, Commercial Appeal BARTLETT, Tenn. (AP) — Next year, North America will see one of the largest and most impressive solar eclipses in living memory. And many people will be viewing that celestial phenomenon through specially designed…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to helping two other men charged with fatally shooting rapper Young Dolph in a daytime ambush at a Memphis bakery. Twenty-six-year-old Jermarcus Johnson pleaded guilty Friday to three counts of…
MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump says he’s been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate, igniting a federal prosecution that is arguably the most perilous of multiple legal threats against the former president as he seeks to reclaim…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ownership of the writings of a shooter who killed six people at a Nashville school earlier this year will be transferred to the families of students at the school, an attorney representing the shooter's parents announced…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is giving whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s a reason to raise a glass. The justices on Thursday handed the company a new chance to win a trademark dispute with the makers of a dog toy…
ATLANTA (AP) — After years of criticizing mail voting and so-called ballot harvesting as ripe for fraud, Republicans at the top of the party want to change course. They are poised to launch aggressive get-out-the-vote campaigns for 2024 that employ…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt will be celebrating its latest national bowling championship at the White House on Monday. The Commodores announced Wednesday the 10-women team will be attending the White House's College Athlete Day Celebration. Vanderbilt won its third national title in…
Flamin’ Hot Cheetos get an origin story worthy of any Marvel superhero with Hulu’s totally engrossing “Flamin' Hot.” It's the tale of how a struggling Mexican American janitor came up with the idea of adding spice to the cornmeal, forever…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal safety regulators are urging consumers to stop using baby pillows that have been linked to 10 infant deaths but are still being sold on Facebook Marketplace, despite being recalled two years ago. …
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Questions remain over how a law designed to limit drag shows in Tennessee will be enforced after a federal judge declared it unconstitutional while saying the decision only applied to the state’s most populated county. Last…
(AP) -- Canada is dealing with a series of intense wildfires that have spread from the western provinces to Quebec, with hundreds of forest fires burning. Wind has carried smoke from the fires southward, triggering air quality alerts throughout the…
(AP) -- Only minutes into a doomed journey, the pilot of a business jet wasn’t responding to air traffic control instructions and federal aviation officials say the situation was soon reported to a network that includes military, security and law…
(AP) -- Sounding the alarm about the current political climate, the Human Rights Campaign has declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. The civil rights group warns of what it calls an “unprecedented and dangerous” spike…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman has been accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill the wife of a man she met on a dating app, according to a federal criminal complaint. Melody Sasser is charged with…
By Michael Balsomo and Ashley Thomas - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A wayward and unresponsive business plane that flew over the nation's capital Sunday afternoon caused the military to scramble a fighter jet before the plane crashed in Virginia,…
By Michael Liedtke - AP Technology Writer Apple appears poised to unveil a long-rumored headset that will place its users between the virtual and real world, while also testing the technology trendsetter's ability to popularize new-fangled devices after others failed…
By Krutika Pathi, Sheikh Saaliq and Ashok Sharma - Associated Press BALASORE, India (AP) — The derailment in eastern India that killed 275 people and injured hundreds was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a…
By Jake Coyle - AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" opened in U.S. and Canadian theaters with a massive $120.5 million, more than tripling the debut of the 2018 animated original and showing the kind…
By Jennifer McNally, Chattanooga Times Free Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — If you hear the name Smelly Cat Café and instantly think of television's free-spirited Phoebe Buffay singing her beloved hit by the same name, you're on the right track.…
By Mauricio Munoz and Gabriella Molina - Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru's capital ahead of his pending extradition…
By Larry Neumeister- Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three women who claim Cuba Gooding Jr. sexually abused them — including one upset she never got her day in court when Gooding resolved criminal charges without trial or jail —…
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Two people were killed when their small twin-engine aircraft crashed Saturday near hangars at Tupelo Regional Airport in northeastern Mississippi, authorities said. The plane banked sharply after takeoff, witnesses told WCBI-TV, and came down beside the…
By Chris Megerian - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With just two days to spare, President Joe Biden signed legislation on Saturday that lifts the nation's debt ceiling, averting an unprecedented default on the federal government's debt. The White House…
By Mark Pratt - Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — While judges, lawyers and support staff at the federal courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire, keep the American justice system buzzing, thousands of humble honeybees on the building's roof are playing…
By Rafiq Maqbool, Ashok Sharma and Krutika Pathi -Associated Press BALASORE, India (AP) — Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and…
By Kimberlee Kruesli - Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge says Tennessee's first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional. In a 70-page ruling handed down late Friday night, U.S. District Judge Thomas…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man who was shot after wounding an officer in Tennessee has died at a hospital, authorities said. The officer, Metro Nashville Police Detective Donovan Coble, 33, was expected to recover after being shot in his side Thursday…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Documents obtained by The Associated Press show Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s administration accused the National Rifle Association of wanting to use involuntary commitment laws “to round up mentally ill people and deprive them of other liberties."…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon agreed Wednesday to pay a $25 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived parents by keeping for years kids' voice and location data recorded by its…
NEW YORK (AP) — The start of June marks the beginning of Pride month around the United States and some parts of the world, a season intended to celebrate the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ people and to protest against…
DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government is stepping up its quest to force ARC Automotive Inc. to recall 67 million potentially dangerous air bag inflators by ordering the company to answer questions under oath. The special order from the National…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A fire in a South Memphis neighborhood killed four children Wednesday afternoon, and police detained their father, authorities said. The blaze erupted shortly before 3 p.m. at a two-story apartment building in the Washington Heights area.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The prayers of a Tennessee church were answered when whoever stole a moving truck near its building didn't keep what they found inside: old organ pipes, and lots of them. Calvary Episcopal Church in downtown Memphis…
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence will officially launch his widely expected campaign for the Republican nomination for president in Iowa next week, adding another candidate to the growing GOP field and putting him in direct competition with his former boss.…
UPDATE: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Metro Nashville Police say a 4-year-old girl who was shot while riding with other children in the back seat of a car that was deliberately attacked has died. Police say the attack happened Tuesday evening…
