Nearly 396,000 customers across the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama remained without power early Sunday as remnants of Isaias moved north, where widespread moderate to heavy rainfall was expected across the central Appalachians and mid-Atlantic region. Heavy rainfall was expected to be the “primary hazard” as the storm moves north, said Philippe Papin, a senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Parts of the southeastern U. S. and mid-Atlantic could see...

NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe President Donald Trump really does believe that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. Despite higher prices, criticism from trade experts and displeasure among voters, Trump holds fast to his belief that imposing the highest import duties on U. S. trading partners since the Great Depression is a winner. A recent poll suggests that is a big gamble with less than a month before the Nov. 3 midterms. Most U. S. adults disapprove of his trade policies, A...

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program and later in life was celebrated as a powerful symbol of women in technology, has died. She was 90. Hamilton died Sept. 30 at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, her daughter, Lauren Hamilton, told The Associated Press on Thursday. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said on the social platform X that her work helped make humanity’s first a...