Senate hearing for Trump’s surgeon general pick is postponed after she goes into labor

A Senate hearing for President Donald Trump’s surgeon general pick, Dr. Casey Means, has been postponed because she went into labor.

Louisiana and Virginia take steps toward redistricting in a growing battle for US House power

Democrats hold a 6-5 edge over Republicans in Virginia’s U.S. House delegation. A new map could allow them to expand that ...

Google’s corporate parent posts first-ever quarter with $100B in revenue in latest show of its power

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s corporate parent on Wednesday announced its first-ever quarter with more than $100 billion in revenue, a milestone that illustrates the unwavering power of its internet ...

Judge says Greenpeace must pay $345 million in pipeline lawsuit, cutting jury amount nearly in half

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge has ordered Greenpeace to pay damages of $345 million, reducing an earlier jury award after it found the environmental group and related entities were liable ...

Search is on for 3 escaped monkeys after truck overturns on Mississippi highway

HEIDELBERG, Miss. (AP) — Three monkeys remained on the loose Wednesday as searchers in masks, face shields and other ...

Food aid at risk of expiring as effort to fund SNAP benefits fails in Senate

Almost two dozen states have filed a lawsuit arguing that President Donald Trump’s administration has the money to continue ...

Amnesty says US strike on a Yemen prison that killed dozens of African migrants may be a war crime

Airwars, a United Kingdom-based group studying casualties in aerial warfare, believes strikes in the Operation Rough Rider at ...

A man who spent 43 years in prison before his conviction was overturned now faces deportation

As his sister prepared to bring him home on Oct. 3, the thin, white-haired Vedam was instead taken into federal custody over ...