Michael Biesecker

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Texas residents cry and mourn the dead after catastrophic floods

Experts worry Trump’s National Weather Service cuts will result in a patchwork system where taxpayers pay private companies for accurate forecasts

By Michael Biesecker, Brian Slodysko, and others

An Israeli tank moves in a staging area in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza

By Michael Biesecker, Garance Burke, and others

FILE – Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addresses attendees at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Nov. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Microsoft hit with worker protest over its sale of AI and cloud services used in bombing target selection by Israeli military

By Michael Biesecker and The Associated Press

A Microsoft building with a large Israeli flag hanging from the exterior

Israel’s use of Microsoft and OpenAI raises questions about what could go wrong with the powerful tech

By Sam Mednick, Garance Burke, and others

A private property sign is attached to a fence outside the old Stauffer chemical plant toxic waste dump site in Tarpon Springs, Fla.

Over 1 billion tons of radioactive waste is in Hurricane Milton’s path

By Michael Biesecker, Jason Dearen, and others

People donate blood for those who were injured by their exploded handheld pagers.

Experts explain how hundreds of pagers exploded at once in Lebanon and Syria

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Michael Biesecker, and others

Ryan Wesley Routh takes part in a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Man accused of trying to kill Trump voted for him once then called on Iran to assassinate him

By Michael Biesecker, Audrey McAvoy, and others

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet

Motive of man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump remains elusive as authorities hunt for clues

By Michael Biesecker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

Secret Service agents

Secret Service investigates how gunman got so close to Trump as Biden orders independent review

By Rebecca Santana, Michael Biesecker, and others

BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA – JULY 13: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is shown covered by U.S. Secret Service agents after an incident during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring former U.S. President Donald Trump, killing one audience member and injuring another in the shooting. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

What we know about the 20-year-old suspect in the assassination attempt of Donald Trump

By Michael Biesecker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

Linemen work on poles Aug. 13, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii, following a deadly wildfire that caused heavy damage days earlier.

A utility company’s decrepit power lines may have sparked deadly blaze in Maui

By Jennifer McDermott, Bernard Condon, and others

Kahana, HI- AUGUST 12: People gets propane tanks and other supplies brought in by boats on Saturday August 12, 2023 in Kahana, HI. The death toll continues to rise for the fires on Maui. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

‘I heard buzz, buzz’: Downed power lines are a prime suspect in at least some of Maui’s devastating wildfires

By Jennifer McDermott, Bernard Condon, and others

FILE – Two Leopard 2 tanks are seen in action during a visit of German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius at the Bundeswehr tank battalion 203 at the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks in Augustdorf, Germany, Feb. 1, 2023. Russia claimed it had “annihilated” eight tanks that NATO countries provided to Ukraine. But a visual analysis by The Associated Press shows a grainy black-and-white video Russia released to prove it had blown up the German-made Leopard tanks actually documented the destruction of a tractor. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Russia claims it blew up 8 Leopard tanks in Ukraine but video shows it was actually just a single tractor

By Michael Biesecker and The Associated Press

David DePape

The man who beat Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer seems to have online history featuring racist remarks, QAnon, election denial

By Michael Biesecker, Bernard Condon, and others

FILE – During a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense, a Russian soldier stands guard atop a military truck as foreign journalists observe farmers at the Voznesenka-Agro farm harvest grain in a field near Melitopol, southern Ukraine, on Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Russia is funding Putin’s war by smuggling stolen Ukrainian grain worth at least $530 million

By Michael Biesecker, Sarah El Deeb, and others

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