AP National News

By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House has passed a proposal to reduce the state’s personal income tax by 50 percent and sent it to the Senate. House lawmakers passed the bill overwhelmingly Wednesday. They also rejected a rival plan from Democrats that would have completely eliminated the tax

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government’s star witness in a corruption trial over the broadcasting rights to some of soccer’s biggest events testified Wednesday how he and two former Fox executives paid millions of dollars in bribes to undermine competing bids. The trial in New York City is

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Turkey are looking to brush aside differences that have strained relations for years, but have yet to report progress in resolving disagreements over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and NATO expansion that have soured ties between the allies. At a meeting in Washington,

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says it has opened a civil rights investigation into the arrest of Tyre Nichols, who died days after a confrontation with Memphis Police Department officers during a traffic stop. The U.S. attorney’s office released a statement saying the FBI’s field office in

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new report released this month in Nevada says state auditors in 2022 found a troubling pattern of lax oversight at five child care facilities. Unsecured chemicals and knives, clogged toilets and broken electrical outlets were just some of the issues the auditors say they found

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government’s star witness in a big-money bribery case engulfing the world of soccer has begun testifying at the trial of two former Fox executives and a marketing company accused of paying millions of dollars to rig the bidding process for broadcasting rights to

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stocks turned broadly lower on Wall Street in afternoon trading Wednesday after a key Federal Reserve policymaker said the central bank needs to keep raising rates to tame inflation. The remarks followed new data showing consumers reined in retail spending last month. The S&P 500

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Growing evidence that high inflation is finally easing shows that the Federal Reserve’s sharp interest rate hikes are working as intended, says Loretta Mester, a key Fed policymaker. But further rate hikes are still needed, she says, to decisively crush the worst inflation bout in four

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told political leaders at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that supplies of Western weapons must come quicker than Russia’s attacks, urging the world to move faster because “tragedies are outpacing life; the tyranny is outpacing democracy.” Zelenskyy, speaking by video

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say they killed a man who shot and injured a Georgia state trooper as law enforcement officers tried to clear protesters from the site of a planned public safety training center just outside Atlanta. Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Mike Register says authorities were trying to clear people out of the

By MARK PRATT Associated Press The husband of a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year’s Day went online to look up ways to dismember and dispose of a body, and items belonging to the woman with her DNA were found at a trash processing facility, a prosecutor said at his arraignment Wednesday

By PAOLA FLORES and DANIEL POLITI Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Protesters in Bolivia have lifted the blockades that had largely isolated the rich eastern region of Santa Cruz from the rest of the country for more than 15 days. But leaders said Wednesday that the roadblocks could resume as they continue to

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — When a 6-year-old shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in this shipbuilding city near Virginia’s coast, the community reacted with collective shock. But the sentiment has percolated into rage from parents and particularly from teachers, with many lambasting school administrators Tuesday night

By DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Lawyers for sprinter Usain Bolt say more than $12.7 million is missing from his account with a private investment firm in Jamaica that authorities are investigating. Attorney Linton P. Gordon on Wednesday provided The Associated Press with a copy of a letter sent to

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to Florida on Sunday to speak about abortion on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. It’s a bitter historical milestone for the Biden administration after the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back the national right to abortion last year. Harris has

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden stepped to the lectern in the shadow of the Brent Spence Bridge in northern Kentucky this month, he couldn’t stop showering praise on the state’s senior Republican senator, who had fought to repair the ramshackle span for decades. It was quite a contrast

BROVARY, Ukraine (AP) — A helicopter crash that killed Ukraine’s interior minister and about a dozen other people is the latest in a series of devastating developments in the nearly yearlong war that began with Russia’s invasion. Wednesday’s crash came just four days after a Russian missile struck an apartment building in Ukraine’s southeastern city

By TIA GOLDENBERG and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must fire a key ally from the country’s new Cabinet. The decision Wednesday by 10 of the 11 judges presents the Israeli leader with a potential coalition crisis and deepens a rift over the

By ERIC TUCKER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian national who founded a cryptocurrency exchange the Justice Department says evaded U.S. regulations and became a haven for proceeds of criminal activity has been arrested. Federal officials say Anatoly Legkodymov was arrested Tuesday in Miami and was due in court Wednesday on

The latest survey by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources shows gray wolves are holding their own in the state. An analysis of data collected last year produced an estimate of about 630 wolves in the state’s Upper Peninsula. That’s down from nearly 700 two years ago. But biologists say that the difference is insignificant