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Railroad companies fail to join safety program after toxic Ohio derailment 08/23/2025 12:52pm • Two and a half years after a derailed train spewed toxic gases across eastern Ohio, none of the nation’s largest freight railroads have fulfilled promises to join a voluntary federal close call program designed to reduce rail hazards and prevent accidents. Two railroads — BNSF and Norfolk Southe California bill would require restaurants to disclose food allergens on menus 08/23/2025 11:50am • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Braxton Kimura dreads eating at restaurants. The California teenager is severely allergic to peanuts, shellfish and most tree nuts. Consuming even a tiny amount could send him to the emergency room. “Eating out is definitely really dangerous. It’s something that I try t Trump was once a Republican Party outsider. Now it's his GOP and the MAGA faithful are in the lead 08/23/2025 10:11am • ATLANTA (AP) — Amy Kremer was an early tea party leader who supported Donald Trump for president in 2016. She ran for Congress from Georgia in 2017 and got less than 1% of the Republican primary vote. In 2021, she organized the rally near the White House that took place hours before hundreds of Tr Doctors in Gaza say patients' protruding ribs and bony limbs offer evidence of malnutrition 08/23/2025 10:00am • GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Not long after Texas surgeon Mohammed Adeel Khaleel arrived at a Gaza City hospital in early August, a 17-year-old was brought in with gunshot wounds to both legs and one hand, sustained when he went to collect food at an aid site. In the emergency room, Khaleel said h Kilauea's eruption is back as the Hawaii volcano shoots lava for the 31st time since December 08/23/2025 03:41am • HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten rock since December, an appropriately high frequency for one of the world's most a Rural Colorado mourns 6 who died from suspected gas exposure at dairy farm 08/22/2025 11:14pm • Six workers who died in what authorities suspect was exposure to gas at a dairy farm include a 50-year-old father and two sons, an incident that left rural Colorado communities in mourning. Weld County Chief Deputy Coroner Jolene Weiner on Friday confirmed the identities of the deceased — all Hisp Squirrel runs onto Yankee Stadium field during 4th inning of Red Sox-Yankees game 08/22/2025 10:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A squirrel ran onto the field during Friday night's game between the Yankees and the Red Sox and caused a brief delay. The speedy critter emerged from an area behind the plate in the fourth inning and stopped behind Boston rookie Jhostynxon Garcia’s left foot as the outfielder to The Latest: Justice Department releases transcript interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell 08/22/2025 09:40pm • The Justice Department on Friday released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton 08/22/2025 09:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said. Bolton, Tour bus rollover kills 5 on interstate highway in western New York 08/22/2025 08:52pm • A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 54 people aboard crashed and rolled on its side Friday on an interstate highway, killing five passengers and injuring many others, authorities said. The driver apparently became distracted, lost control and overcorrected before the bus we For the first time, the world's food crises authority announces a famine in Gaza 08/22/2025 08:41pm • GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The world's leading authority on food crises said Friday the Gaza Strip's largest city is gripped by famine, and that it's likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid. The Integrated Food Security Phase Class A judge has ordered 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Florida to wind down operations. What happens now? 08/22/2025 06:55pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has put a stop to further expansion of the immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz, ordering that its operations wind down within two months. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams in Miami wrote in her 82-p Don't fret: Air guitar world title returns home to Finland after 25 years 08/22/2025 06:16pm • OULU, Finland (AP) — Finnish air guitarist Aapo “The Angus” Rautio plucked victory from thin air on Friday night, grabbing the world championship title for his homeland for the first time since 2000. This year's Air Guitar World Championships reached the climax with a final Friday evening on Takeaways from Justice Department interviews of Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell 08/22/2025 05:35pm • In the hundreds of pages of transcripts from Justice Department interviews of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein spoke glowingly of President Donald Trump, called him a “gentleman in all respects” and describing him as “friendly” with Epstein. Bot HHS moves to strip thousands of federal health workers of union rights 08/22/2025 05:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights, according to a union that called the effort illegal. HHS officials confirmed Friday that the department is ending its recognition