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Appeals court throws out massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump 08/21/2025 06:32pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A New York appeals court on Thursday threw out President Donald Trump���s massive financial penalty while narrowly upholding a judge���s finding that he engaged in fraud by exaggerating his wealth for decades. The ruling spares Trump from a potential half-billion-dollar fine but ba Prince George's Co. police cadets learn to navigate traffic stops with people with autism 08/21/2025 06:14pm • The lights were real and so were the sirens, and there were tons of cops around. But those driving the squad cars were cadets, and it was all happening in an Upper Marlboro parking lot where the "road" was lined with orange cones. On Thursday morning, the class of cadets on their way to becom Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere 08/21/2025 05:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� With electricity prices rising at more than twice the rate of inflation, President Donald Trump has lashed out at renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, blaming them for skyrocketing energy costs. Trump called wind and solar power ���THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY!��� in Brent Hinds, former Mastodon singer-guitarist, dies at 51 in motorcycle crash 08/21/2025 05:25pm • Brent Hinds, the former singer-guitarist for the Grammy-winning heavy metal band Mastodon, has died in a motorcycle accident in Atlanta, the band and authorities said. He was 51. Hinds was killed while riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle late Wednesday night when the driver of a BMW SUV failed to y Jury acquits Memphis man charged with organizing the daytime ambush killing of rapper Young Dolph 08/21/2025 05:24pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) ��� A jury found a man not guilty Thursday of organizing the daytime ambush killing of rapper Young Dolph at a Memphis bakery in November 2021. A Memphis jury deliberated about three hours before finding Hernandez Govan, 45, not guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to com Can empathy lead to sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can 08/21/2025 05:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice. For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left: It can manipulate caring people into accepting all m Georgia man may have tried to enter CDC campus two days before he attacked agency 08/21/2025 05:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Georgia man who shot at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention buildings on Aug. 8 apparently tried to enter the campus two days earlier but was turned away by security, according to an internal CDC email. Security video indicates ���a very high likelihood��� that the 30-ye Orlando officials denounce removal of rainbow crosswalk near Pulse nightclub mass shooting site 08/21/2025 04:42pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� Orlando officials on Thursday denounced the overnight removal of a rainbow-colored crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub where 49 people were gunned down, saying it was part of an attack on LGBTQ lives by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer s Former top aide to NYC mayor among 7 facing new charges in City Hall corruption probe 08/21/2025 04:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams was hit Thursday with a second wave of bribery charges, with prosecutors alleging she exchanged political favors for cash, home renovations and a speaking role on a TV show. Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Adams��� closest confidant and form Jaylen Brown's father arrested in Las Vegas in parking lot stabbing incident 08/21/2025 04:29pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� The father of Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with attempted murder after reportedly stabbing another man in a parking lot. According to TMZ, Quenton Marselles Brown admitted dinging the victim���s car with his door when he got out of his Li Fatal Florida crash fuels immigration fight between DeSantis and Newsom 08/21/2025 04:11pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis dispatched his top deputy to California to oversee the handover of a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida last week. Sending Florida's new Lt. Gov. Jay Collins underscores Republicans' pus NFL has increased security at its offices following a shooting that killed 4 people last month 08/21/2025 03:37pm • The NFL has increased security at its offices following a shooting last month at a Manhattan building by a gunman authorities say was targeting league headquarters. ���We are working with the building and the other tenants within the building on building security,��� NFL executive Jeff Miller said T Police investigation continues into death of Hulk Hogan 08/21/2025 03:32pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) ��� Police in Florida are still investigating the death last month of professional wrestling icon Hulk Hogan from what the medical examiner concluded was a heart attack. The Clearwater Police Department said in a statement Thursday that the ���unique nature of this case has More than 100 Chilean fans arrested after violence in the stands during soccer match in Argentina 08/21/2025 03:20pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� More than 100 fans were arrested after violence erupted in the stands during a Copa Sudamericana match between Independiente and Universidad de Chile and left at least 20 people injured, one of them in critical condition, local authorities said Thursday. Images showe Gymnast who sparked FBI sex abuse inquiry into coach tells AP she���s proud to come forward 08/21/2025 03:07pm • IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ��� Recalling the damage her now-arrested coach inflicted on her and many of her gymnast friends, Finley Weldon said she feels a sense of pride. Free from the grip that Sean Gardner had during her years of training at an Iowa academy known for producing Olympians, Weldon told Th