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Vice President JD Vance is set to visit the Dachau concentration camp memorial. He's making a stop at one of the most powerful symbols of World War II on the eve of critical talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the…

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and is fielding its first candidate to lead the country. The party is highly unlikely to take a share of power soon. But it has become a…

President Donald Trump has just started his second term, his last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he's already started making quips about serving a third one. “Am I allowed to run again?” Trump joked during the House…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been sworn in as President Donald Trump’s health secretary. The Senate on Thursday confirmed him, voting 52 to 48. It puts the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — When Angelica Delgado took a one-way flight to Mexico as she fled Cuba in December, she was set on seeking asylum in the United States. But after President Donald Trump effectively slammed the door on asylum-seekers…

A New Hampshire town and a bakery owner are scheduled for trial in a First Amendment dispute about a painting of a sun and pastries. The artwork atop Leavitt’s Country Bakery in Conway shows sunbeams shining on a mountain range made of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Linda McMahon on Thursday sketched out how key functions of the Education Department could be carved up to achieve President Donald Trump's goal of dismantling the agency, vowing to “reorient” the department while…

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death row to threaten a lawmaker, was executed…

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple’s toddler was put to death Thursday in the state's first execution of the year. James Dennis Ford, 64, was…

Fire authorities in Taiwan say a gas explosion at a department store killed four people and injured 26, fire authorities said. The blast occurred at the food court on the 12th floor of the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store in Taichung…

Elon Musk has called for the United States to “delete entire agencies” from the federal government. Musk has consolidated control over large swaths of the government with President Donald Trump’s blessing since assuming leadership of the…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s power industry began construction on nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal plant capacity last year, the most in nearly a decade, a report from two clean-energy groups said Thursday. The development raises concerns about…

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a candidate last year, Donald Trump suggested he could easily conquer inflation and ease voters' fears about the economy. “I will very quickly deflate,” he promised at a California rally. “We are going to take…

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Zvonimir Ivisic scored 25 points shooting 10 for 13 and Johnell Davis scored 11 points and Arkansas beat LSU 70-58 on Wednesday night. D.J. Wagner scored 10 point for Arkansas, which shot 51.9% (28 for 54). After…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Mark Mitchell scored 19 points in the first half and finished with a career-high 25 to help No. 21 Missouri rout Oklahoma 82-58 on Wednesday night. Caleb Grill had 15 points and Tony Perkins added 12 for the Tigers…