NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Saturday in a social media post that after talking to President Donald Trump, he has agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a 15-year-old immigrant from Ghana who was shot to death earlier this week. The White House did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press confirming the administration would be issuing the visa. The teen, Javits Frimpong, was on his way to school in a Bronx neighborhood shortly before 9:30 a...

Texas was not expected to be an epicenter of midterm elections that could reshape the final chapters of Donald Trump's second presidency. But Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico began making closing arguments Saturday in a tossup U. S. Senate race that has become a key measure of voters' frustration with Trump's leadership and his loyalists in the Republican Party. Talarico hammered Paxton, the longtime state attorney general who has weathered indictment and impeachment and as an...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An aging NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower. The U. S. Space Force predicts the Swift Observatory will come crashing down on or around Friday. Most of the 1 ½-ton telescope is expected to burn up in the atmosphere. But a handful of pieces made of denser-than-lead tungsten and some mirror parts could survive reentry, according to NASA's Brad Cenko, the mission’s chief scientist. Any surviving...