Donald Trump

A member of the Seattle Fire Department inspects a burned Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla lot in Seattle, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

A member of the Seattle Fire Department inspects a burned Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla lot in Seattle, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Violent attacks on Tesla dealerships spike as Musk takes prominent role in Trump White House

Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk’s electric-car company are cropping up from coast to coast and even overseas.

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Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in ‘green bank’ grants

Europe and Canada are eyeing alternatives to American-made fighter jets. Here’s why

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from banning transgender people from military service

Demonstrators gather outside of the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, on Friday, March 14, 2025, before a hearing regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's access to Social Security data. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Social Security Administration to require in-person identity checks for new and existing recipients

AP Top Stories March 19 A

Here’s the latest for Wednesday March 19th: Hundreds killed in Gaza airstrikes; Trump and Putin agree to pause strikes on energy infrastructure in Ukraine war; Judge says dismantling of USAID likely unconstitutional; Thousands of documents on JFK assassination released.

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Trump says he and Putin did not discuss aid to Ukraine during their phone call

AP Explains conflict between Trump and Roberts

Trump administration guts board of US Institute of Peace. Group says DOGE arrives

Trump visits the Kennedy Center as he puts his mark on the national arts institution

Former UFC Champion Conor McGregor praises Trump at White House

Changing tariffs leave Indiana robotic parts manufacturer in uncertainty

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FILE- Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Maika Elan, File)

Takeaways from the AP’s report on how USAID cuts are imperiling Agent Orange cleanup

FILE- Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Maika Elan, File)

Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts critical to ties with Vietnam jeopardized by USAID cuts

Taiwan’s president hails Arizona chips project in meeting with visiting governor

Taliban fighters stand near the closed Torkham border with Pakistan, where Pakistani and Afghan forces exchanged fire overnight, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Monday, March 3, 2025.(AP Photo/Shafiullah Kakar, file)

Rights group says Pakistan steps up pressure on Afghans to return home where they risk persecution

A scallop fishing boat leaves the dock, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Yarmouth, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Fishermen say Trump’s DOGE budget cuts are preventing them from adopting climate-friendly technology

People stand in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street falls back ahead of Fed rate decision

A container ship is loaded and unloaded at a container terminal at a port of Kawasaki near Tokyo on March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan’s exports surge in February, leaving a trade surplus as worries persist over Trump’s tariffs

Attendees sit during a town hall with U.S. Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Columbus, Neb. Many attendees demanded answers over Flood's support for President Donald Trump's policies. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)

Rep. Mike Flood of Nebraska is the latest GOP member of Congress to face angry crowds back home

President Donald Trump waves from the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday, March 17, 2025 (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

CBS’ ‘60 Minutes’ is unflinching in its White House coverage in the shadow of Trump’s $20B lawsuit

This combo of phots shows Republican state Rep. candidate Chuck Davis left, on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Clairton, Pa.; and Democrat state Rep. candidate Dan Goughnour in McKeesport, Pa., on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Majority control of Pennsylvania House hinges on special election in steel region near Pittsburgh

A member of the Seattle Fire Department inspects a burned Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla lot in Seattle, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Vancouver International Auto Show removes Tesla, citing safety concerns at event

This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows President John F. Kennedy riding in motorcade with first lady Jacqueline Kenndy in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo, file)

JFK assassination files released, sending history buffs hunting for new clues

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington on Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump fires 2 Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission, seeking more control over regulators

Vice President JD Vance, center, speaks at a rally about "America's industrial resurgence," Friday, March 14, 2025, at Vantage Plastics in Bay City, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

Vance to serve as RNC’s finance chair in sign of his growing influence

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro arrives at a rally on Copacabana Beach in support of a proposed bill to grant amnesty to those arrested for storming government buildings in an alleged coup attempt in 2023, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Lawmaker son of Brazil’s Bolsonaro announces relocation to the US as father faces legal woes

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Irina Gekht, the newly appointed governor of Nenets Autonomous District, during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

What the White House and Kremlin said about the Trump-Putin call

The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

A look at the judge who blocked Trump’s deportations and is now facing calls for impeachment

How major US stock indexes fared Tuesday, 3/18/2025

President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump and Putin discuss a US-Russia hockey series during their call, the Kremlin says

U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont, left, and Marie-Claude Bibeau, a Canadian member of parliament representing Compton-Stanstead, talk at a roundtable event about the Trump administration's tariffs with U.S. and Canadian business owners, Tuesday, March 18, 2025 in Newport, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)

Breweries and maple syrup producer among Vermont businesses hit by Trump’s tariffs on Canada

The Department of Homeland Security seal is pictured as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, Monday, March 17, 2025, in Kodiak, Alaska. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

They worked to prevent violence and terrorism at the agency created after 9/11. Then they got fired

This undated photo provided by Johanny Sanchez shows Sanchez, right, and her husband Franco Caraballo, who was sent over the weekend to El Salvador accused by the Trump administration of belonging to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. (Johanny Sanchez via AP)

Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights

President Donald Trump responds to reporters as he arrives at the White House after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Appeals court hears arguments over Trump’s bid to fire 2 board members

A sign on the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency is photographed Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

EPA plans to cut scientific research program, could fire more than 1,000 employees

This screenshot made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Sept. 16, 2016. (AP Photo, File)

Jury convicts thief who stole golden toilet from English palace

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, and Greece's President Constantine Tassoulas arrive at the opening ceremony of the 144th IOC session, which will elect the new IOC President, at the Olympic Academy in ancient Olympia, western Greece, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Ancient Olympia hosts IOC candidates and voters two days ahead of presidential contest

The Voice of America building, Monday, June 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump’s cuts to Voice of America may be welcomed by China’s government

Italian Prime minister Giorgia Meloni, center middle row, addresses the Senate ahead of European Council meeting on 20-21 march, Rome, Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s Meloni calls for ‘pragmatism’ on tariffs, supports Trump’s ceasefire efforts for Ukraine

FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a ceremony to raise the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag at the State Department, Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

FBI applauds Mexico’s arrest and handover of ’10 Most Wanted’ gang figure

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, meets with Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok at the Nunavut Commissioner's official residence in Iqaluit, Nunavut, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada’s new leader announces $4.2 billion Australian radar purchase