WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, imported medicine has mostly been allowed to enter the United States duty free. That’s starting to change. American and European leaders recently detailed a trade deal that includes a 15 percent tariff rate on some European goods brought into the United States, including pharmaceuticals. President Donald Trump is threatening duties [...]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A simmering feud over management of one of North America’s longest rivers reached a boiling point when the U.S. Supreme Court sent western states and the federal government back to the negotiating table last year. Now the battle over the waters of the Rio Grande could be nearing resolution as New [...]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Democratic National Committee is seriously considering scrambling the party’s 2028 presidential primary calendar. South Carolina — the state that hosted the Democrats’ first-in-the-nation contest in 2024 — is far from a lock to go first. That’s according to several members of the DNC’s new leadership team, including Chair Ken Martin. “The [...]

Shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot airport, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Investigators released their preliminary report last week on the July 18 incident that [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump this week signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag, an activity that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled is legitimate political expression protected by the U.S. Constitution. The order the president signed in the Oval Office acknowledged the [...]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The nation’s production of crucial components in electric vehicles, smartphones and fighter jets is set to expand rapidly in the coming years, as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to build up the critical mineral industry in the United States to work to break the chokehold that China has on the global [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced this week that his department is taking management of Union Station, the main transportation hub in Washington, away from Amtrak, in another example of how the federal government is exerting its power over the nation’s capital. Duffy made the announcement before he joined Amtrak President Roger Harris [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Earlier this year, several environmental groups sent a petition to the federal government with a message: Ensure that water from the Colorado River is not wasted and only being delivered for “reasonable” and “beneficial” uses. The organizations urged the Bureau of Reclamation to use its authority to curb water waste in [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — As armed National Guard troops patrol the nation’s capital as part of a federal takeover of Washington’s police department, handling crime is now a relative strength for President Donald Trump, according to the latest AP-NORC poll. Americans are generally not happy about the president’s handling of issues such as immigration and the [...]