By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A draft budget proposal circulating among federal officials would dramatically deepen cuts at the nation's top health agency, eliminating some public health programs entirely and serving as a roadmap for more mass firings. The document ...

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump attacked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday for not cutting interest rates and said he could fire him if he wanted to, renewing a threat from his first term that ...

By RODRIQUE NGOWI and BEN FINLEY Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — University professors and students led protests on campuses across the U.S. on Thursday against what they say are broad attacks on higher education, including massive cuts to funding, the expulsion of international ...

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Supreme Court decided last week that ballots from two categories should have been left out of the tally of an unresolved November election for a seat on the court because state laws otherwise makes the voters ...

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor repeatedly referred to Nadine Menendez as the "partner in crime" of her husband — former Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez — while asking a jury in a trial's closing argument Thursday to convict her of bribery ...

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BROOMFIELD, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man was convicted Thursday of killing his wife after stalking her while posing as her ex-boyfriend. Jurors reached the verdict against Daniel Krug, 44, a day after beginning deliberations. They found him guilty of ...