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FILE - Demonstrators gather at the Supreme Court as the justices finish the term with key decisions on gerrymandering and a census case involving an attempt by the Trump administration to ask everyone about their citizenship status in the 2020 census, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 27, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Q&A: Can Trump hold a census in the middle of a decade and exclude immigrants in the US illegally?

1:04 PM on Thursday, August 7

President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census that would exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally from the head count which determines political power and federal spending

Trump orders federal regulators to probe alleged bank discrimination against conservatives

1:02 PM on Thursday, August 7

President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into whether banks have discriminated against conservatives and industries like gun manufacturers and cryptocurrency companies

FILE - A boy rolls kush at the Baghdad Den in Freetown, Sierra Leone, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly, File)

Liberian women are leading the charge against the country's drug crisis

12:32 PM on Thursday, August 7

Women in Liberia are leading the charge against the rampant drug abuse ravaging youths in the West African nation

FILE - Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin speaks, Feb 3, 2025, in East Palestine, Ohio. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

EPA cancels $7 billion Biden-era grant program to boost solar energy

11:54 AM on Thursday, August 7

The Environmental Protection Agency has terminated $7 billion in funding for solar programs approved under the Biden administration, including projects for nearly 1 million households in low-income communities

A top Republican in the Georgia governor's race is suing his rival over campaign financing

11:10 AM on Thursday, August 7

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is suing Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over how Jones is financing his campaign as both Republicans run for governor in 2026

Clearance home appliances are displayed at a retail store in Vernon Hills, Ill., Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

What US consumers can expect from new tariffs on imported goods

11:01 AM on Thursday, August 7

American businesses and consumers soon will have a better idea of how President Donald Trump’s foreign trade agenda might affect them

Paramount and Skydance close their $8 billion merger, kicking off reign of new entertainment giant

10:54 AM on Thursday, August 7

Skydance and Paramount officially closed their $8 billion merger on Thursday — kicking off the reign of a new entertainment giant after a contentious, over year-long endeavor to get the transaction over the finish line

FBI forces out more leaders, including ex-director who fought Trump demand for Jan. 6 agents' names

9:02 AM on Thursday, August 7

The FBI is forcing out more senior officials, including a former acting director who resisted Trump administration demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigations and the head of the bureau’s Washington field office

In this handout photo released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry press service, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, left, sits with Syria's interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (Turkish Foreign Ministry via AP)

Turkey reaffirms support for Syria's stability and reconstruction

7:45 AM on Thursday, August 7

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has reaffirmed Ankara's support for Syria's stability and reconstruction

In this photo, released by the Lebanese Presidency press office, Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, centre, leads a Cabinet meeting which supposed to discuss the disarmament of Hezbollah, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency press office via AP)

Lebanese Shiite ministers walk out of a Cabinet meeting over plan to disarm Hezbollah

6:07 AM on Thursday, August 7

Four Shiite members of Lebanon's Cabinet have withdrawn from a government meeting to protest a plan to disarm Hezbollah

FILE - A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Trump seeks to change how census collects data and wants to exclude immigrants in US illegally

5:02 AM on Thursday, August 7

President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change how the Census Bureau collects data, seeking to exclude immigrants in the United States illegally

Takeaways from AP’s report on Alaska Natives’ response to oil and mining proposals

4:10 AM on Thursday, August 7

President Donald Trump’s administration and its allies have pushed aggressively for drilling, mining and logging in Alaska

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