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The Latest: Supreme Court likely to back Trump’s power to fire independent agency board members 12/08/2025 08:02pm • The Supreme Court seems likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump ’s firing of board members. During arguments on Monday, the court’s conservative majority suggested it would overturn a 90-year-old decision that has limi Trump is giving farmers $12B in aid. They've been hit hard by his trade war with China 12/08/2025 06:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package Monday — a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the president raised tariffs on China as part of a broader trade war. He unveiled the plan Monday afternoon Drone drops steak and crab legs for prisoner feast but South Carolina guards find it first 12/08/2025 06:01pm • BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) — ’Twas three weeks before Christmas, and in the prison yard, a drone-dropped package was found by a guard. With steak, weed and crab legs, and cigarettes for days. And to season it all, a tin of Old Bay. The illicit meal was dropped into the Lee Correctional Institu Bessent divests from soybean farmland ahead of Trump aid announcement for farmers 12/08/2025 02:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has proclaimed solidarity with U.S. farmers in recent months as they grappled with the loss of a major soybean buyer due to President Donald Trump's trade war with China. But now, Bessent says he's divested his holdings in North Dakota soybean far Trump is proposing a $12B farm aid package, White House official says, as sector grapples with China tariffs (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert incorrectly attributed the connection to tariffs to a White House official) 12/08/2025 11:53am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump is proposing a $12B farm aid package, White House official says, as sector grapples with China tariffs (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert incorrectly attributed the connection to tariffs to a White House official). ESPN's first baseball game next season will be Mets-Dodgers on MLB Jackie Robinson Day 12/08/2025 09:54am • BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — ESPN's first Major League Baseball game next season will be on April 15 when the two-time reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers host the New York Mets on MLB Jackie Robinson Day. The network also announced on Monday it will air a matchup between the New York Yank With 10 sacks and growing leadership, Chargers OLB Tuli Tuipulotu elevating all aspects of his game 12/07/2025 12:58pm • EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Tuli Tuipulotu leads the Los Angeles Chargers with 10 sacks and 16 tackles for loss. Those are not the only areas where Tuipulotu is guiding the Chargers, with their emerging star outside linebacker becoming more comfortable expressing himself in his third season. Defensi Trump meets Mexican President Sheinbaum in person for the first time at World Cup draw 12/05/2025 04:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has finally met with his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum. Their long-delayed first face-to-face discussion focused on next year's World Cup — and included side discussions about trade and tariffs — but immigration was not the top issue. That's d German parliament approves pension package after a rebellion in Merz's party 12/05/2025 10:08am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's parliament on Friday approved a pension reform package that had prompted a rebellion in the ranks of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party, averting a crisis for the government after a bumpy first seven months in office. Lawmakers in the lower house voted 318-224 in favor of t Putin says there are points he can't agree to in the US proposal to end Russia's war in Ukraine 12/04/2025 09:09pm • Russian President Vladimir Putin says some proposals in a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable to the Kremlin, indicating in comments published Thursday that any deal is still some ways off. U.S. President Donald Trump has set in motion the most intense diplomatic push to stop the fi Fiber is something most people could use more of. But experts advise caution with 'fibermaxxing' 12/04/2025 11:15am • U.S. consumers who have had their fill of finding protein added to everything from cereal to ice cream are about to meet the next big food fad: fiber. Americans have been boosting their protein intake for years; even Pop-Tarts and Starbucks are selling protein-enhanced products. But the number of ne Easing Holiday Isolation 12/03/2025 07:00pm • When Zita Christian's husband, Dick, passed away from Alzheimer's disease in July 2022, the first holiday season was profoundly difficult. Christian, of Manchester, Connecticut, felt like a zombie, moving through tasks on autopilot while her emotions were raw. She spent the holidays with her daughte The World Cup draw is usually a spectacle. This time, FIFA hopes bigger is better 12/03/2025 03:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A record 64 nations will be in Friday's World Cup draw, more than 30% of FIFA's members, as soccer's leaders insist a bigger tournament is better. FIFA expanded the field from 32 teams to 48, and just 42 spots have been determined going into the convoluted ceremony in which balls r Nearly 40 babies sickened in infant botulism outbreak tied to contaminated formula 12/03/2025 02:52pm • Nearly 40 babies have been sickened in an infant botulism outbreak tied to contaminated formula, federal health officials say. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday reported 39 cases of confirmed or suspected illness in 18 states among babies who consumed ByHeart formula since August. The m UPS put profits over safety before plane crash that killed 14, lawyer alleges 12/03/2025 02:26pm • A deadly UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky stemmed from from corporate choices that favored profits over safety, according to a lawyer who filed two wrongful death lawsuits Wednesday, which allege the company kept flying older aircraft without increasing maintenance beyond what’s regularly schedul