ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States could purchase Argentine beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers.

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — John Bolton pleaded not guilty Friday to charges accusing the former President Donald Trump national security adviser of emailing classified information to family members and keeping top secret documents at his Maryland home.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The house rocked as if an earthquake had struck, and suddenly it was floating. Water seeped in through the front door, and waves smacked the big glass window.

For the first time in more than a decade, the number of states with rates of obesity of 35% or more has dropped, an encouraging sign that America's epidemic of excess weight might be improving. 

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — One of the "most significant" airlifts in Alaska history is underway to evacuate hundreds from villages on the state’s southwest coast that were inundated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong last weekend, officials said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) —The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared inclined to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act to force states to draw race-based electoral districts.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — More rain and wind were forecast Wednesday along the Alaskan coast, where two tiny villages were decimated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong and officials were scrambling to find shelter for more than 1,500 people driven from their homes.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday posthumously awarded America's highest civilian honor to Charlie Kirk, the assassinated activist who inspired a generation of young conservatives.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare October storm pummeled parts of Southern California with heavy rain and strong winds Tuesday, threatening wildfire-scarred neighborhoods with the possibility of mudslides and prompting some evacuations.

LELAND, Miss. — Three people have been arrested on murder charges and a fourth person on an attempted murder charge in a weekend shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen injured in a small Mississippi town, the FBI announced Monday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County officials will vote Tuesday on whether to declare a state of emergency that would give them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids.

LELAND, Miss. — FBI agents are seeking the public's help identifying four people seen near a shooting in a Mississippi Delta town that left six killed and more than a dozen injured over the weekend.

More than 30 people were rescued and three people remain unaccounted for in western Alaska after the remnants of Typhoon Halong brought hurricane-force winds and flooding strong enough to sweep away entire homes in coastal communities, authorities said.

Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stubborn stalemate in Congress.

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — A shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials said.

A nor’easter churned its way up the East Coast on Sunday, washing out roads and prompting air travel delays as heavily populated areas of the Northeast braced for excessive rain, lashing winds, and coastal flooding.

McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant left multiple people dead and missing on Friday, authorities said, as secondary blasts forced rescuers to keep their distance from the burning field of debris.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — National Guard troops were patrolling in Tennessee's second-largest city for the first time Friday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday in a mortgage fraud case. James was charged with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a home purchase in Norfolk, Virginia, in 2020.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 29-year-old man has been charged with sparking California’s deadly Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive wildfires in its history, authorities said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Wednesday that it has fired a U.S. diplomat over a romantic relationship he admitted having with a Chinese woman alleged to have ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday to allegations that he lied to Congress five years ago. The two-count indictment alleges that Comey misled the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, 2020, when he was asked whether he had authorized any associate to serve as an anonymous source to the news media related to investigations of either President Donald Trump or 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Every night, some 74,000 gallons of water are frozen at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. The hospital used to get all of its air conditioning from a conventional system found in most U.S. buildings, but now 27 tanks of ice sustain a network of cold-water pipes keeping operating rooms at safe temperatures and patients comfortable.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tours at the Capitol have come to a standstill. The House is keeping its doors closed, while the Senate is stuck in a loop of failed votes on a rejected plan to reopen the government. As the government shutdown enters a second week, there's no discernible endgame in sight.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed likely to side with a Christian counselor challenging bans on so-called “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights.