Pastor freed from prison in China weeks after Trump requested his release

July 6, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — A pastor of a prominent underground church who was detained in China in October has been released, less than two months after U.S. President Donald Trump brought up his case when meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, his family and rights advocates said Saturday. Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri arrived in Los Angeles and “is finally reunited with his family,” Frances Hui of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation wrote on X. He and 17 other leaders of the underground Zion Church were detained in October in one of China’s largest crackdowns on a ...

Photo of the Day: Jacksons Victory Tour

July 6, 2026

AP Photo/Cliff Schiappa The Jacksons kicked off their Victory Tour with a performance in Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium, July 6, 1984. From left are Tito, Michael and Jermaine Jackson, with Jonathan Moffett on drums.

Trump’s administration won’t seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

July 6, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Sunday as he faced new questions about the troubled project and the taxpayer money involved. Like President Donald Trump, Burgum said he was ...

Democrat Mallory McMorrow suspends her Michigan Senate campaign

July 6, 2026

Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow suspended her campaign for the U.S. Senate on Sunday, transforming her party’s high-stakes nomination contest just a month before the primary. McMorrow did not explain her unexpected decision in the announcement she posted on social media, but she was under intense pressure from some in her party to help create a two-person race between U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive favorite Abdul El-Sayed. The seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters is one that the party must hold if it hopes to reclaim the Senate majority in this ...

Small businesses say they’re having a good summer as Americans travel closer to home

July 6, 2026

NEW YORK — Small business owners in U.S. tourist destinations say they’re seeing more Americans sticking closer to home this summer, trading overseas travel for road trips, choosing daylong sojourns over extended beach stays, and cooking instead of eating out while on vacation to save ...

Trump admin’s interpretation of slavery under George Washington can be reinstalled

July 6, 2026

An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration can reinstall interpretive panels that critics say whitewash the history of slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home in Philadelphia. The signs would be in the same area where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776. A message seeking comment was left Friday with the National Park Service. The new educational panels were designed to replace ones put up in 2010 that told the story of how nine slaves lived in the home along with George and Martha Washington in the ...