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Demonstrators hold signs during a protest in response to the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis earlier in the day Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Caroline Brehman)

Trump White House says the latest Minnesota shooting victim had a gun. None of the video footage shows that

By Hannah Fingerhut and The Associated Press

Ian Roberts

Iowa’s largest school district chooses to hire superintendent who lied about a doctorate as he sits in jail after immigration detention

By Hannah Fingerhut, Ryan J. Foley, and others

Water rises from severe flooding along the Guadalupe River.in Kerr County, Texas on Friday, July 4, 2025. (KSAT via AP)

At least 13 dead in Texas floods and more than 20 children missing from a girls summer camp

By Hannah Fingerhut, Jim Vertuno, and others

FILE – Supporters of former President Donald Trump with signs and t-shirts that read “Blacks for Trump” gather near the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Federal Courthouse, Aug. 3, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Young Black and Latino men say they chose Trump because of the economy and jobs

By Matt Brown, Fernanda Figueroa, and others

This drone photo provided by AW Aerial shows a home as it teeters before partially collapsing into the Blue Earth River at the Rapidan Dam in Rapidan, Minn., Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (Andrew Weinzierl/AW Aerial via AP)

Minnesota family that lost home to devastating Midwest floods vows to keep store open: ‘The Dam Store has not sold its last burger or sold its last slice of pie’

By Hannah Fingerhut, Dave Collins, and others

Onlookers take in the catastrophic damage to the Rapidan Dam site in Rapidan, Minn., Monday, June 24, 2024. Debris blocked the dam forcing the heavily backed up waters of the Blue Earth River to reroute along the bank nearest the Dam Store. (Casey Ek/The Free Press via AP)

Tornado warnings, flash flooding and large hail add insult to injury in the Midwest: ‘Nature doesn’t care whether you believe in climate change or not’

By Hannah Fingerhut, Dave Collins, and others

Flooding from the Big Sioux River damage buildings in North Sioux City, S.D., on Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Josh Jurgens)

Midwest flooding kills 2 as surging river forces evacuations and rescues: ‘7,000 square feet of very pretty, pretty things. And it’s all gone’

By Margery A. Beck, Hannah Fingerhut, and others

Julie Su

Labor watchdogs fine a janitorial company for using children to clean meat processing plants

By Hannah Fingerhut and The Associated Press

Bill Anderson listens at a conference.

3 states consider Bayer-written legislation giving it immunity for Roundup cancer claims as it reels from $10 billion in verdicts and counting

By Hannah Fingerhut, David A. Lieb, and others

Iowa accuses TikTok of ‘misrepresenting the severity of its content’ as it joins handful of states suing Chinese firm over kids’ access

By Hannah Fingerhut and The Associated Press

Donald Trump

Trump tightens grip on Republican Party with victory in Iowa caucuses

By Steve Peoples, Thomas Beaumont, and others

Donald Trump

Trump claims he never read Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ as he seeks to defend comments about immigrants ‘poisoning the blood’ of America

By Hannah Fingerhut, Ali Swenson, and others

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during an interview in Redmond, Washington, US, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Microsoft Corp.’s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the companys oldest and best-known products: its Office apps. Photographer: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply

By Matt O'Brien, Hannah Fingerhut, and others

Chris Groninger

Iowa weatherman quits after 18 years on TV because audience harassed him off the air for reporting on climate change

By Hannah Fingerhut, Heather Hollingsworth, and others

FILE – A motorist charges his electric vehicle at a Tesla Supercharger station in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. About half of U.S. adults say they are not likely to go electric when it comes time to buy a new vehicle, a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago shows. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Americans aren’t loving EVs yet—less than half say their next car will be electric

By Tom Krisher, Matthew Daly, and others