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WASHINGTON — Kuwait has released a group of American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors jailed for years on drug-related charges, in a move seen as a gesture of goodwill between two allies, a representative for the detainees told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The release follows a recent visit …

A pair of jurists vying to be Wisconsin’s next Supreme Court justice sparred Wednesday night ahead of the first major statewide race in a battleground since the 2024 election. The tense one-hour debate in Milwaukee between liberal judge Susan Crawford and conservative judge Brad Schimel focused in large part on …

VINTON, La. — In House Speaker Mike Johnson’s backyard, many residents rely on anti-poverty programs to help make ends meet — and are pleading with the Louisiana Republican to protect those benefits as Congress weighs steep federal spending cuts.  Pastor Leroy McClelland, who lives in Johnson’s southwestern Louisiana district and volunteers at …

With a mobile app and an expansive ad campaign, the Department of Homeland Security is ramping up its efforts to convince immigrants who don’t have legal status to self-deport. The efforts come as the number of deportations is lower than what President Donald Trump expected in his first couple of …

Price growth was set to have cooled slightly in February, forecasters said in advance of the latest Consumer Price Index report, but President Donald Trump’s tariff policies are already threatening to derail things. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its monthly inflation report early Wednesday. A survey of analysts …

A new NASA observatory launched into space Tuesday on a mission that could help scientists unravel what happened in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang. The SPHEREx mission (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) is designed to …

A Texas man charged with murder in the death of his fiancé searched online what the legal consequences were for a “legal citizen” who killed an “illegal immigrant,” according to a court document. Ty Vaughn, 31, has been charged with the murder of Luis David Banos Norberto, 21, nearly two …

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will double the tariffs imposed on steel and aluminum imported from Canada, an escalation of the brewing economic feud between the U.S. and its largest trading partner. Trump posted to his Truth Social platform that the tariffs would go from 25% to 50% starting …

Ukrainian forces targeted Moscow in the early hours of Tuesday with what Russian authorities are describing as the largest ever drone attack on the Russian capital.  Russia’s defense ministry said that it downed 337 drones overnight with 91 one of those unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) coming down in the Moscow …

Four people were arrested and charged Monday in connection with the death of a 5-year-old boy who was killed in a hyperbaric chamber in Michigan this year, police said. Thomas Cooper died in a fiery explosion on Jan. 31 while he was undergoing treatment at the Oxford Center, an alternative …