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FILE - Vehicles drive along a highway July 30, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

FACT FOCUS: Trump said weaker gas mileage rules will mean cheaper cars. Experts say don't bet on it

10:41 AM on Friday, December 5

President Donald Trump this week announced plans to weaken strict gas mileage requirements for automakers set under former President Joe Biden

Trump is awarded new peace prize from FIFA, as soccer's governing body continues embrace of Republican US president

10:31 AM on Friday, December 5

Trump is awarded new peace prize from FIFA, as soccer's governing body continues embrace of Republican US president

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference at Harry Reid International Airport, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill)

Trump administration will expand travel ban to more than 30 countries, Noem says

10:18 AM on Friday, December 5

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to more than 30 countries

US vaccine advisers recommend ending longstanding advice that all babies get a hepatitis B shot at birth

8:32 AM on Friday, December 5

US vaccine advisers recommend ending longstanding advice that all babies get a hepatitis B shot at birth

Fed's preferred inflation measure cooled slightly, increasing the chances the central bank will cut a key rate next week

8:04 AM on Friday, December 5

Fed's preferred inflation measure cooled slightly, increasing the chances the central bank will cut a key rate next week

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seated left and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, seated left. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump's security strategy slams European allies and asserts US power in the Western Hemisphere

6:59 AM on Friday, December 5

President Donald Trump has come out with a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere

Syrian refugee Mohammed Dawood, 30, left, poses for a photo with his parents, Hayat Fatah, 65, center, and Abdulilah Amin Dawoud, 73, at their home in Irbil, Iraq, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)

Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump's new policies

5:36 AM on Friday, December 5

When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program, he left thousands stranded worldwide

EU regulators hit Elon Musk's X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc's digital rulebook

4:26 AM on Friday, December 5

EU regulators hit Elon Musk's X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc's digital rulebook

Pope Leo XIV talks to reporters aboard an airplane as he returns from a six-day visit to Turkey and Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope cancels Holy See fundraising commission announced under questionable circumstances

3:33 AM on Friday, December 5

Pope Leo XIV has taken his biggest step yet to correct one of Pope Francis’ more problematic financial moves

German parliament approves a plan to attract more military recruits that stops short of reintroducing conscription

3:26 AM on Friday, December 5

German parliament approves a plan to attract more military recruits that stops short of reintroducing conscription

Edinburgh Airport says no flights are currently operating due to an IT issue

3:15 AM on Friday, December 5

Edinburgh Airport says no flights are currently operating due to an IT issue

St. Louis Cardinals' Victor Scott II, bottom, scores against the San Francisco Giants on Brendan Donovan's double during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Sept. 23, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

The top sports photos of 2025 by AP’s photojournalists

1:04 AM on Friday, December 5

FILE - Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to halt grants for school mental health workers

11:25 PM on Thursday, December 4

A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump ventures deeper into anti-immigrant language by calling people from Somalia 'garbage'

10:00 PM on Thursday, December 4

President Donald Trump has intensified his anti-immigrant rhetoric, calling Somali immigrants in the U.S. “garbage” during a Cabinet meeting

FILE - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa appears at the 22nd annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., on Dec. 11, 2016. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor who performed in 'Mortal Kombat,' has died at 75

9:24 PM on Thursday, December 4

Tokyo-born actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has died at 75

FILE - An aerial view shows Friant Dam which holds back Millerton Lake in Friant, Calif., Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Trump administration to direct more water to California farms

7:03 PM on Thursday, December 4

The Trump administration will start sending more water to California farmers in the state's crop-rich Central Valley

A Springdale, Ark., police officer waits to pull over speeding drivers along Old Missouri Road, Nov. 18, 2025, in Springdale, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

How one Arkansas county helps ICE make hundreds of arrests and spreads fear among immigrants

7:40 AM on Thursday, December 4

Northwest Arkansas has emerged as a hot spot in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration

Ernesto, an immigrant from Venezuela, poses for a photograph in his home, Nov. 18, 2025, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

A county jail in Arkansas produces hundreds of ICE arrests under a program surging across the US

7:39 AM on Thursday, December 4

A corner of Arkansas best known as home to Walmart headquarters has emerged as a little-known hot spot in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown

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