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3:04 PM on Friday, August 29

Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes experiencing engine trouble dumped fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods east of Los Angeles

3:01 PM on Friday, August 29

The Transportation Department has canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects

2:49 PM on Friday, August 29

A grand jury refused to indict a man who was captured on video hurling a sandwich at a federal agent

2:30 PM on Friday, August 29

President Donald Trump's administration has told 40 states to remove references to what it calls “gender ideology” from federally funded sex education materials

2:25 PM on Friday, August 29

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has called a special election for a state Senate seat that has been vacant for nearly nine months

1:28 PM on Friday, August 29

A bookmaker of the former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani has been sentenced to just over a year in prison

12:43 PM on Friday, August 29

Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, President Donald Trump has openly mused about sending troops to some of the nation’s most Democratic cities — including Chicago and Baltimore — where he claims they are needed to crack down on crime

12:43 PM on Friday, August 29

US Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is expected to announce next month that she won't run for reelection in 2026, AP sources say

12:39 PM on Friday, August 29

Federal appeals court blocks Trump’s decision to end legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

12:29 PM on Friday, August 29

Texas governor signs into law redrawn voting map pushed by Trump that gives GOP five more winnable congressional seats

12:12 PM on Friday, August 29

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are concerned he can’t get a fair trial in his human smuggling case in Tennessee

12:09 PM on Friday, August 29

Some U.S. businesses verify applicants’ eligibility to work using an online government system called E-Verify

10:32 AM on Friday, August 29

Concerns about a banned gymnastics coach arrested amid allegations he abused girls he coached surfaced years before police or sports authorities took action

9:14 AM on Friday, August 29

New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is out courting Black voters, trying to do better with them in the general election than he did in the primary

8:39 AM on Friday, August 29

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge mostly held steady last month despite President Donald Trump’s broad-based tariffs, but a measure of underlying inflation increased

7:17 AM on Friday, August 29

The case of a Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities even though he was vetted by a government system called E-Verify is raising questions about what employers can do to make sure they’re employing people who can legally work

5:36 AM on Friday, August 29

Two U.S. senators have visited Taiwan, drawing criticism from China, which claims Taiwan as its own and opposes official contact between the two sides

12:16 AM on Friday, August 29

Trading Micah Parsons is a bold move only a general manager who happens to be the team owner can make

5:39 PM on Thursday, August 28

A case that could provide the Trump administration with new and expansive power over the traditionally independent Federal Reserve got its first court hearing Friday

1:20 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A decade after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, one Mississippi city began offering property tax breaks to encourage building near the waterfront