By CHRIS MEGERIAN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has begun making one of the controversial personnel changes for government employees that was spelled out in the conservative Project 2025 blueprint for his second term. He's starting the ...

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday that she's not in a rush to resume executions after signing legislation allowing the use of nitrogen gas to put inmates to death. Sanders made the comments during a ...

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press CHIMAYÓ, N.M. (AP) — A unique Holy Week tradition drew thousands of Catholic pilgrims to a small adobe church in the hills of northern New Mexico, in a journey on foot through desert badlands to reach a spiritual wellspring. For generations, people of the ...

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A federal court has ruled against a Republican lawmaker from Maine who sued the state's Democratic House speaker after being censured for a social media post about a transgender athlete. Rep. Laurel Libby posted about a high ...

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump 's attempt to fire nearly everyone at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was paused on Friday by a federal judge, who said she was "deeply concerned" about the plan and issued an order ...

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Indiana is taking a first step toward acquiring parts of Illinois, though a last step appears rather unlikely. Indiana's Legislature this week gave final approval to a bill that would create the Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission to recommend ...