Associated Press

U.S. center / wire-service news (generally mainstream, center-left in critics' ratings)

Stories

• 2 S&P 500 Rises 0.6% to 7,811.54 Friday and 1.15% for the Week; Brent Settles at $104.72 as Hurricane Isaias Shuts 71.5% of U.S. Gulf Oil Output
• 2 Israel Marks Three Years Since Oct. 7 Attack as Gaza Truce Stalls Over Hamas Disarmament and Israeli Withdrawal
• 4 Trump Says 70 Million Children Now Have Trump Accounts After Treasury Auto-Enrolled More Than 60 Million
• 2 Tillis Memoir 'How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents' Goes On Sale; He Calls His Hegseth Vote His 'Biggest Regret'
• 2 Siberian Plague-Institute Technician Dies; Russia Cites 'Pneumonia of Unknown Cause' as About 200 Contacts Are Isolated
• 2 Thousands of Imran Khan Supporters March Toward Islamabad After Talks Collapse; Capital Under Section 144 as PTI Says About 2,000 Detained
• 3 GOP Super PAC Drops Its Remaining North Carolina Senate Ads After Spending More Than $30 Million for Whatley, Starts a Kansas Buy
• 3 Ukraine Says It Downed 131 of 157 Russian Drones Overnight as Strike Hits Kyiv's Northern Bridge
• 1 Accenture Stock Closes Up 15.6% After Quarterly Earnings of $3.29 a Share Top Analyst Forecasts
• 3 26 States, Cities and Counties Sue Over NHTSA Rule Lowering the 2031 Fuel Economy Target to 34.9 MPG
• 2 Taiwan Receives First Two of 66 F-16V Fighter Jets Ordered From the U.S. in 2019
• 3 Burhan Adviser Says U.S. 90-Day Sudan Truce Plan Risks 'Libya-Style' Partition, Seeks Monitored RSF Pullout From Cities
• 2 Police Arrest Texas Man Accused of Threatening to 'Shoot Up' State Capitol; Federal Charge Covers a Revolver With a Filed-Off Serial Number
• 2 Pakistani Airstrikes in Kunar and Helmand Kill 9, Afghan Taliban Say; Pakistan Says It Killed 22 Militants
• 2 Trump Says 'We Blow Them Up, Make a Deal' on Iran as Tehran Weighs Official U.S. Reply to Its Hormuz Offer