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FILE - The Austin Police Department and the FBI investigate a shooting at Buford's on 6th Street on Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Jack Myer, File)

FBI probe finds Austin bar shooter was 'lone actor' in deadly March attack that killed 3

12:56 PM on Thursday, May 7

The FBI says the man who killed three people and wounded more than a dozen others in a mass shooting at a downtown Austin, Texas, bar in March was a “lone actor, and there's no evidence he was supported or directed by a foreign terrorist group

Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI

12:53 PM on Thursday, May 7

Tech companies are increasingly seeking guidance from faith leaders to shape artificial intelligence

Logan Branch eats a hotdog as he sits among the debris of what is left of his home at Gene's Mobile Home Supply, a trailer park in Bogue Chitto, Miss., Thursday, May, 7, 2026, after a tornado cut across the state. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Photos of Mississippi communities reeling after tornadoes

12:39 PM on Thursday, May 7

FILE - Former FBI Director James Comey speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Comey seeks to cancel upcoming court appearance in North Carolina in Trump threat case

12:33 PM on Thursday, May 7

Former FBI Director James Comey is seeking to cancel his upcoming court appearance in North Carolina

FILE - Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, walks to the chamber after meeting behind closed doors with fellow Republicans on the Homeland Security budget stalemate, at the Capitol in Washington, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republican Sen. Susan Collins discloses her longtime tremor after scrutiny in Maine's Senate race

12:31 PM on Thursday, May 7

Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she has long had a condition called an essential tremor

FILE - A trailer with a sign supporting President Donald Trump stands adjacent to the Smoky Hills wind farm, Sept. 30, 2024, near Ellsworth, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)

Wind projects are stalled because the Pentagon isn't completing its reviews, industry group says

12:28 PM on Thursday, May 7

A clean energy group says the Pentagon is holding up the development of more than 250 new onshore wind farms on private lands by failing to complete its national security reviews

FILE - Attorney Ron Bamieh, left, listens to his client Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji in Ventura County Superior Court on Nov. 17, 2023, in Ventura, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Pro-Palestinian protester pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in death of Jewish man

12:23 PM on Thursday, May 7

A former Southern California college professor has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counterprotester during demonstrations in 2023 over the Israel-Hamas war

Artist Alma Allen poses outside the United States pavilion 'Call Me the Breeze' at the Venice 2026 Biennale Art, in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

An outsider artist takes the world's biggest stage with the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

12:05 PM on Thursday, May 7

U.S. artist Alma Allen had just months to prepare his exhibition for the Venice Biennale after a fraught selection process came down to the wire

President Donald Trump adjusts his microphone while speaking during an event for military mothers in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The Latest: Rubio meets with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican after Trump’s criticism over Iran

7:23 AM on Thursday, May 7

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed “efforts to achieve a durable peace in the Middle East” in talks at the Vatican aimed at easing tensions following U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticisms of Pope Leo XIV

FILE - Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Thomas was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Justice Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Clarence Thomas becomes the second longest-serving Supreme Court justice in American history

6:11 AM on Thursday, May 7

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln

People stand among debris at Gene's Mobile Home Supply, a trailer park in Bogue Chitto, Miss., Thursday, May, 7, 2026, after a tornado cut across the state. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Tornadoes cut across Mississippi as severe storms damage 500 homes

5:28 AM on Thursday, May 7

Powerful storms that spawned at least three tornadoes tore through several Mississippi counties

A police boat patrol the waters of the Moskva River near Red Square decorated for the celebrations of the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany at World War II during the Victory Day military parade rehearsal in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 7, 2026, backdropped by the St. Basil's Cathedral. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia says Ukraine launched a major drone attack after Moscow shunned ceasefire offer

3:38 AM on Thursday, May 7

Russia's Defense Ministry reports that air defenses shot down 347 Ukrainian drones overnight

Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship into an ambulance at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Health officials track dozens who left hantavirus-stricken ship after 1st fatality

3:05 AM on Thursday, May 7

Oceanwide Expeditions has revealed that 30 passengers disembarked from one of its cruise ships hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24

An Emirati patrol boat, left, is near a tanker anchored in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from a coastal road near Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Friday, May 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Iran creates new agency to control shipping in Strait of Hormuz while reviewing peace deal with US

2:41 AM on Thursday, May 7

Iran has created a government agency to control and tax vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and wife Victoria arrive at a polling station in central London, Thursday, May 7, 2026 to cast their votes in the local elections.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

British voters cast ballots in local elections seen as a verdict on Keir Starmer's leadership

1:00 AM on Thursday, May 7

British voters are casting ballots in local and regional elections that could determine the fate of Prime Minister Keir Starmer

FILE - The Eisenhower Executive Office Building is seen at the White House complex, April 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Trump wants to paint the Eisenhower office building white. Now a key federal agency considers it

11:11 PM on Wednesday, May 6

President Donald Trump's plan to put a coat of white paint on the granite exterior of a historic building that's part of the White House complex is getting a hearing by a key federal agency

FILE - Bouquets of flowers stand along a makeshift memorial for victims of an attack outside of the Boulder County courthouse on June 3, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)

Man pleads guilty to murder, other charges, for firebomb attack on Colorado demonstrators

11:09 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A man accused of a firebomb attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year has pleaded guilty to murder and other charges

FILE - Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov attends a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Vladyslav Musiienko, File)

Russia is ramping up its attempts to kill opponents in Europe, intelligence officials say

11:07 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Three Western intelligence officials from different countries have told The Associated Press that a campaign of targeted killings they blame on Russia has ramped up since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine

A woman protests outside the House chamber before a special session of the state legislature to redraw U.S. Congressional voting maps Thursday, May 7, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Tennessee lawmakers to vote on new US House map sought by Trump that carves up Memphis

11:02 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are debating a plan to reshape a majority-Black congressional district

Robert Finnerty, Jr., foreground right, works with colleagues on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

US stocks hover just below records as oil slips on hopes of an Iran deal

8:31 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The U.S. stock market is hanging just below its records as oil prices keep dropping on hopes that a deal may be nearing to allow tankers to deliver crude once again from the Persian Gulf to customers

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