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Freeze! Police ice cream trucks seek to portray officers in a positive light 09/07/2025 01:16am • NORWICH, Conn. (AP) ��� The puns are plentiful as police departments around the country buy their own ice cream trucks and roll into neighborhoods to hand out frozen treats for free. ���Copsicle Patrol��� is written on the one in Danbury, Connecticut. ���Freeze! You have the right to remain frozen,� Greek prime minister unveils broad tax-cuts package in keynote policy speech 09/06/2025 04:14pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis unveiled a 1.6 billion-euro ($1.87 billion) tax cuts package Saturday that includes a number of reductions affecting some 4 million citizens. He announced the package in a keynote speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair. The head Postal traffic to US sank 80% after Trump administration ended exemption on low-value parcels 09/06/2025 12:09pm • Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday. The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around Trump's job market promises fall flat as hiring collapses and inflation ticks up 09/06/2025 12:01am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. job market has gone from healthy to lethargic during President Donald Trump���s first seven months back in the White House, as hiring has collapsed and inflation has started to climb once again as his tariffs take hold. Friday's jobs report showed employers added a mere Someone could win $1.8B Powerball jackpot Saturday. Odds are their identity will remain a mystery 09/05/2025 09:02pm • After Iowa gas station employee Timothy Schultz won a $29 million lottery jackpot in 1999, he decided to hold a press conference. Lottery officials told him it would help him avoid being ���hounded by media" since state law required his name to be disclosed anyway. But the then-21-year-old soon fel Judge temporarily blocks Alabama rule saying voucher students can't play sports for a year 09/05/2025 07:33pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� A judge on Friday sided with Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and blocked a policy that prevented school voucher recipients from playing on sports teams this fall. Montgomery Circuit Judge J.R. Gaines issued a temporary restraining order barring the Alabama High School Athletic Associ McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies 09/05/2025 05:58pm • McDonald���s is criticizing the restaurant industry for allowing tipped wages, which let managers pay servers less than the minimum wage as long as customer tips make up the difference. McDonald���s Chairman and CEO Chris Kempczinski said in an interview on CNBC Tuesday that he supports President Do Former Boston city councilor sentenced to prison over kickback scheme 09/05/2025 05:50pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� A former Boston city councilor, who was the first African immigrant and Muslim American elected to the body, was sentenced Friday to a month in prison after she plead guilty to federal corruption charges. Tania Fernandes Anderson pleaded guilty in May to one count each of wire fraud McDowell County, West Virginia, birthplace of food stamps, faces a disappearing safety net 09/05/2025 05:41pm • For nonprofits in McDowell County, West Virginia, the federal cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act threaten a lifeline. Many of McDowell���s 17,000 residents rely on federal programs and the nonprofits they fund to get by. The county���s tax base and population have significantly declined since 19 Takeaways from AP's report about cuts to government grants for nonprofits 09/05/2025 05:21pm • President Donald Trump's policies are poised to upend decades of partnerships the federal government has built with nonprofits to help people in their communities. Since the 1960s, presidential administrations from both parties have used taxpayer dollars to fund nonprofits to take on social problems The government was once a steady partner for nonprofits. That's changing 09/05/2025 05:02pm • Dawn Price signs rent checks worth about $160,000 every month for 79 people that her nonprofit helps house in Laguna Beach, California. Usually, she logs into an online portal to withdraw enough from an account funded by a grant from the federal housing agency. But in February, she couldn't. Access US hiring stalls with employers reluctant to expand in an economy grown increasingly erratic 09/05/2025 04:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The American job market, a pillar of U.S. economic strength since the pandemic, is crumbling under the weight of President Donald Trump���s erratic economic policies. Uncertain about where things are headed, companies have grown increasingly reluctant to hire, leaving agonized j Google hit with $3.5 billion fine from European Union in ad-tech antitrust case 09/05/2025 03:39pm • European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc���s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, but the bloc's latest move to crack down on Big Tech companies drew outrage from President Donald Trump. The Eur Starmer overhauls his government after his deputy prime minister resigns over a tax error 09/05/2025 01:02pm • LONDON (AP) ��� U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer shook up his Cabinet Friday after his top deputy stepped down over a tax error on a home purchase, leaving a big hole in the center-left Labour government. Starmer carried out a major reshuffle, a forced government reboot after a rocky 14 months in of Trump administration investigates Medicaid spending on immigrants in Democratic states 09/05/2025 09:11am • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� The Trump administration is taking its immigration crackdown to the health care safety net, launching Medicaid spending probes in at least six Democratic-led states that provide comprehensive health coverage to poor and disabled immigrants living in the U.S. without perma