The Golden Globes had its share of surprises and sweet moments.

For thousands of Venezuelans living in the U.S., the days since the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have brought a mixture of joy and trepidation.

Five years after video of George Floyd's killing on a Minneapolis street, video of another law enforcement action in the northern city is central to another American debate.

U.S. futures have fallen while markets in Asia advanced after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the Department of Justice had served the central bank with subpoenas.

Nikki Glaser opened Sunday's Golden Globes with a sharp monologue.

President Donald Trump's motorcade took an unusual route to the airport in Florida due to a "suspicious object.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about the Fed’s building renovations.

A Minneapolis church opened its doors for a special Sunday service of ‘Lament and Hope’ amid the ongoing federal immigration crackdown in the city.

Some celebrities have donned anti-ICE pins at the Golden Globes ceremony in tribute to Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis this week.

Hollywood’s awards season is underway with the 83rd Golden Globe Awards.

Longtime New Jersey legislator and former acting governor Richard “Dick” Codey has died.

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” continues to dominate the box office, holding the top spot for a fourth consecutive week.

References to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments have been removed from his photo portrait display at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

Thousands of nurses at major New York City hospitals could soon go on strike, three years after a walkout scrambled operations at some of the same facilities.

Federal agents are carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman.

Authorities have taken a person into custody after a fire heavily damaged a historic synagogue in Mississippi.

Prediction markets let people wager on anything from a basketball game to the outcome of a presidential election — and recently, the downfall of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

A group of Buddhist monks is getting viral attention with their 2,300-mile Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C. The monks say their aim is to promote mindfulness and healing and finding inner peace.

A Virginia man who had a relationship with a Brazilian au pair is going on trial in the killings of his wife and another man.

The next U.S. census is four years away, but two lawsuits playing out this year could affect how the head count will be done and who'll be counted.

Becky Pepper-Jackson is a 15-year-old in West Virginia who knows the upcoming sports season could be her last.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another” and Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare drama “Hamnet” took top honors at Sunday’s 83rd Golden Globes, where the up-for-sale Warner Bros.

Bob Weir, guitarist, singer and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at age 78.

Michael McKee was charged in connection with the murders of his ex-wife and her husband, according to court and county records.

A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Adam Johnson, known for grabbing Nancy Pelosi's podium during the Capitol riot, is running for a county office in Florida.

Members of Congress are considering the possible consequences for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and even Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after an ICE officer shot Renee Good to death in Minnesota.

Doctors fear this week’s unprecedented changes to federal vaccine recommendations will stoke vaccine hesitancy even more, pose challenges for pediatricians and parents and ultimately lead to more illness and death among children.

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of America.

Authorities in Mississippi have charged a 24-year-old man with murder after six people were killed in a series of related shootings Friday night.

Prisoners are now taking regular trips to far-flung, exotic locales such as Thailand.

Authorities in New Mexico have issued an arrest warrant for director and Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield to face a child sex abuse charge.

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest blow to Trump’s efforts to require documentary proof of citizenship to vote and to require that all ballots be received by Election Day.

Wounded veterans cycled along the Overseas Highway, including the Seven Mile Bridge, as part of the annual Florida Keys Soldier Ride.

Opening statements began Friday in the trial of five current and former Stanford students who overtook a university building during 2024 pro-Palestine protests.

President Donald Trump gathered House Republicans this week at Washington’s Kennedy Center for a pep rally that kicked off the year.

Lyft and Uber drivers protested Waymo’s self-driving taxis in San Francisco.

A rare copy of the comic book that introduced the world to Superman and also was once stolen from the home of actor Nicolas Cage has been sold for a record $15 million.

A federal judge has dismissed Salt-N-Pepa's lawsuit to reclaim ownership of their master recordings from Universal Music Group.

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month.

Rapper Fetty Wap has been released from a federal prison to home confinement after serving just over half a six-year sentence for drug trafficking.

A huge black bear has finally been evicted from a crawl space under a Los Angeles area house where it had been living since Thanksgiving.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has asked the public to send any video or other evidence in the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis directly to her office.

Facebook parent Meta has reached nuclear power deals with three companies as it continues to look for electricity sources for its artificial intelligence data centers.

U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea.

General Motors will be hit with charges of about $6 billion in its fourth quarter after sales of electric vehicles sputtered when the U.S. cut tax incentives to buy them and also eased auto emissions standards.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is now restricting image generation and editing to paying users.

Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

A Minnesota prosecutor is calling on the public to share with investigators any recordings and evidence connected to the fatal shooting of Renee Good as new video emerged showing the final moments of her encounter with an immigration officer.

Luigi Mangione’s federal death penalty trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson could begin before the end of the year.

U.S. stocks rose to more records following a mixed report on the U.S. job market.

The Minnesota Timberwolves have held a moment of silence before their game for Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot in her car by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Federal officials say an immigration officer acted in self-defense when he shot through the window of a car, killing the driver, Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis.

Helen Mirren has received the Cecil B.

CES 2026 showcased futuristic tech, from paper-thin screens to AI-driven gadgets.

Fights over which agencies will be involved in the investigation into the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis are roiling as calls for a thorough investigation and accountability mount.

Federal immigration officers have shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon.

The U.S. Transportation Department says North Carolina could lose nearly $50 million in federal funding if the state doesn’t revoke commercial driver’s licenses from immigrants who aren't qualify to hold them.

Police say a Pennsylvania man who had about 100 sets of human remains is charged with stealing from a graveyard at the edge of Philadelphia.

The Senate has agreed to display a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.

Vice President JD Vance is blaming a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed.

Sluggish hiring last month closed out a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers even as layoffs and unemployment have also been low.

The top United Nations official says the United States has a “legal obligation” to keep paying its dues that fund U.N. agencies after the White House announced that it's withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body.

Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.

This week's fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an immigration agent had grim echoes in Minnesota.

The House has passed legislation that extends expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

President Donald Trump is causing some commotion for investors in U.S. defense contractors this week.

Investigators say a shooting outside a church in Salt Lake City that killed two people and injured six others grew out of a dispute between people who knew each other and were attending a funeral.

Miami will head back home for a shot at its first national championship since 2001 after beating Mississippi 31-27 in an exhilarating College Football Playoff semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl.

A judge has disqualified a federal prosecutor from overseeing investigations into New York Attorney General Letitia James.

The IRS will start accepting 2025 tax returns on Jan. 26, marking the official start of the 2026 tax filing season.

The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court orders they describe as outdated.

In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue.

The head of Minnesota’s state investigations agency says the U.S. attorney’s office has barred it from taking part in the investigation into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman.

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House has passed legislation that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

The White House says structural issues and decay had made it unfeasible to save the East Wing.

More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most used email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarize far-flung information buried in inboxes and deliver daily to-do lists.

As a shooting unfolded at Brown University on Dec. 13, students turned to the anonymous app Sidechat to document fear, confusion and grief in real time — often before receiving official alerts.

New York City parents may soon have access to free child care for their 2-year-olds, under a plan unveiled by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that about 2 in 10 U.S. adults donated money to a crowdfunding campaign over the last year, with medical expenses proving most common.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has delivered his final State of the State address to lawmakers in Sacramento.

State lawmakers and governors will have decisions to make in 2026 about the budgets for their biggest social safety net programs.

The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis was a U.S. citizen and mother of a 6-year-old.

A Wisconsin man accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to fund his plan to assassinate President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to homicide.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is running for a second term in the pivotal battleground state after a first term that put him on the Democratic Party’s radar as a potential presidential contender in 2028.

A judge says Harvey Weinstein is weighing a potential guilty plea to resolve an undecided rape charge and avoid going to trial for a third time in New York.

Modest moves for Wall Street overall masked some big swings underneath the surface, including for makers of weapons and other military equipment.

Police say a shooting outside a church building in Salt Lake City has killed two people and injured six others.

Gadgets promoting a wide array of health benefits are on display at the annual CES trade show in Las Vegas.

Federal prosecutors are slamming Luigi Mangione’s lawyers for making what the government said were “meritless” and “misleading” claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ties to a lobbying firm and her decision to seek the death penalty against Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The fatal shooting Wednesday of a woman by an immigration and customs enforcement agent in Minneapolis is raising questions about when law enforcement officers are justified in using lethal force against someone in a moving vehicle.

President Donald Trump is seeking over $6.2 million in attorney fees from the Fulton County District Attorney's office.

Georgia is the latest state to consider eliminating its personal income tax, with Republican leaders in the Senate backing a proposal to phase it out by 2032.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down in May after its owners cited financial losses.

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations.

U.S. transportation officials say California will lose $160 million for delaying the revocations of 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants.

A motorist fatally shot by an immigration officer in Minneapolis is at least the fifth person to die since the Trump administration launched its aggressive immigration crackdown last year.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown in a major U.S. city — a shooting that federal officials claimed was an act of self-defense but that the city’s mayor described as “reckless” and unnecessary.