With a San Angelo local heading to Maryland for the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee, here is a list of the most misspelled ...

The U.S. military is backing off its usual talk of good governance and countering insurgencies’ underlying causes, instead ...

One program distributes laptops in rural Iowa. Another helped people get back online after Hurricane Helene washed away ...

The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what has ...

The following episode of The Story Behind the AP Story contains sound and descriptions that some listeners may find graphic ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally ...

In what had long been celebrated every May 30 to honor America’s fallen soldiers, Memorial Day officially became a federal holiday in 1971, observed on the last Monday in May. Businesses ...

Strauss’ “Blue Danube” is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king’s birth. The classical piece will be beamed into the ...

State legislative sessions around the country are coming to a close, and fights over public versus charter school funding and cell phones were among the biggest policy battles this year.

Religious services, concerts and vigils are set to mark Sunday’s fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer even as police reform and civil rights activists face ...

A driver had to be pulled from a wrecked pickup truck using the Jaws of Life after a crash at the intersection of Hillside ...

From 7 a.m. on Saturday, May 24, to 7 a.m. Sunday, May 25, 2025, 23 people were booked into the Tom Green County Detention Center. Below is a summary ...