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The economy was a strength for Trump in his first term. Not anymore, according to recent polling 09/24/2025 11:22am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s second-term strengths look different from his first, according to recent polling. Once strengthened by economic issues, Trump's approval is now relatively low on the economy and he's leaning on his stronger issues of crime, border security and immigrat DC residents can now get a COVID-19 shot without a prescription 09/24/2025 04:35am • Emergency legislation signed this week by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will authorize licensed pharmacies to administer COVID-19 vaccinations without a prescription. Changes in federal recommendations this year made it a requirement for those who wanted the COVID-19 vaccine to get a prescription firs Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, dies 09/24/2025 04:09am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia 's grand mufti who served the kingdom's top religious figure over a quarter century that saw the ultraconservative Muslim nation socially liberalize, died Tuesday. He was in his 80s. Sheikh Abdulaziz's role as Spectacular lake festival in Myanmar shines despite political upheaval and natural disasters 09/23/2025 10:22pm • INLE LAKE, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival, a major Buddhist celebration and world-class tourist attraction, has seen some of its celebratory spirit diminished, with locals and visitors citing a confluence of challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic, political upheaval a Dr. Trump? The president reprises his COVID era, this time sharing unproven medical advice on autism 09/23/2025 12:21am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump isn’t a doctor. But he played one on TV Monday, offering copious amounts of unproven medical advice that he suggested -- often without providing evidence -- might help reduce autism rates. Trump repeatedly implored pregnant women to avoid taking the paink Trump's economic promises to Black voters fall short after a modest shift in support for him in 2024 09/20/2025 03:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — At one of his final rallies before the 2024 election, then-candidate Donald Trump warned that Black Americans were losing their jobs in droves and that things would get even worse if he did not return to the White House. “You should demand that they give you the numbers of how Kennedy's vaccine advisers change COVID shot guidance, calling them an individual choice 09/19/2025 07:10pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers added confusion Friday to this fall’s COVID-19 vaccinations — declining to recommend them for anyone and leaving the choice up to those who want a shot. Until now, the vaccinations had been recommended as a routine Gen Z's credit scores are dropping. Here's what to do if yours is too 09/19/2025 12:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Gen Z has seen its credit scores drop more than any other generation over the past year, largely because of student loan debt, according to a new report out this week. The total national average credit score dropped two points this year to 715, according to the report from credit No more for SMU and TCU after the most nonconference meetings among former SWC teams 09/18/2025 09:34am • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — TCU coach Sonny Dykes grew up around Southwest Conference football as the son of a coach. As a head coach himself, he has won on both sides in the rivalry between the Horned Frogs and SMU that, at least for now, is about to end after 104 games played over 110 years. Arkans Cubs soak in the moment after clinching first postseason berth since 2020 09/17/2025 07:02pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — The wait was five years. It seemed longer. In the middle of a darkened visitors clubhouse at PNC Park, the Chicago Cubs embraced each other. Champagne flowed and flew. They clinched a postseason berth for the first time since 2020, but celebrated for the first time since 2017. Ev Republican Brad Raffensperger to run for Georgia governor after defying Trump over 2020 election 09/17/2025 10:44am • ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Brad Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state who rejected Donald Trump’s call to help overturn the state’s 2020 election results, said Wednesday that he’s running for governor in 2026. The wealthy engineering entrepreneur might appeal most to business-orie MLB drops plan for London games in 2026, says nearing TV deals with NBC, ESPN, Netflix 09/16/2025 06:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has abandoned plans to play two games in London next season because of scheduling issues with West Ham's Olympic Stadium and the sport's television partner. MLB had hoped to have the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays meet in London on June 13 and 14, but A car-free stretch of highway in San Francisco leads to recall vote and warning to politicians 09/16/2025 12:02am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — During the coronavirus pandemic, the city closed a stretch of a four-lane highway along San Francisco’s Pacific Coast and made it an automobile-free sanctuary where bicyclists and walkers flocked to exercise and socialize under open skies and to the sound of crashing waves. Kennedy's vaccine committee plans to vote on COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox shots 09/15/2025 08:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisory committee meets this week, with votes expected on whether to change recommendations on shots against COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox. The exact questions to be voted on Thursday and Friday in Atlanta are unclear. Of Pilgrims turn Spain's Santiago de Compostela into the world's latest overtourism flashpoint 09/15/2025 04:24am • SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) — While some Barcelona residents sought to repel a tsunami of tourists with plastic water pistols, a neighborhood association in Santiago de Compostela opted for a friendlier approach: a guide to good manners for visitors to their town, the endpoint of the Cathol