Christine Fernando

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  • A young woman outside the Sydney Yates building that houses the Forest ServicePolitics

    Young people say they feel crushed after Trump killed the federal fellows program, cutting off a crucial pipeline for some of the ‘brightest minds in America’

    By Gary Fields, Christine Fernando, and others
  • La secretaria de Seguridad Nacional Kristi Noem se dirige a los empleados del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, el martes 28 de enero de 2025, en Washington. (AP Foto/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Politics

    Homeland Security Secretary Noem names new ICE leaders and vows to ramp up lie detector tests to identify leakers

    By Christine Fernando and The Associated Press
  • FILE – President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk with Jason Hing, chief deputy of emergency services at the Los Angles Fire Department, left, and Capt. Jeff Brown, chief of Station 69, as they tour the Pacific Palisades neighborhood affected by recent wildfires in Los Angeles, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)Politics

    FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts

    By Christine Fernando and The Associated Press
  • LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 26: SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks during an America PAC town hall on October 26, 2024 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Musk has donated more than $75 million to America PAC, which he co-founded with fellow Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech businessmen to support Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)Tech

    Republicans idolize DOGE’s Gen Z techies: ‘The young guns are taking over the country for the better’

    By Christine Fernando and The Associated Press
  • People at a election night watch party react after an abortion rights amendment to the Missouri constitution passed Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Politics

    Abortion rights advocates lose in Florida but win in 7 other states and clear path to overturn Missouri ban

    By Geoff Mulvihill, Christine Fernando, and others
  • FILE – Protesters hold competing signs outside Manhattan federal court during an abortion-rights demonstration in New York, Saturday, May 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)Politics

    Abortion is on the ballot in 9 states as parties aim to motivate voters across the U.S.

    By Geoff Mulvihill, Christine Fernando, and others
  • Melania Trump looks demure next to Donald TrumpPolitics

    Melania Trump breaks with GOP, says she supports abortion rights

    By Christine Fernando and The Associated Press
  • BLETCHLEY, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 01: SpaceX, X (formerly known as Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks with members of the media during day one of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 01, 2023 in Bletchley, England. The UK Government are hosting the AI Safety Summit bringing together international governments, leading AI companies, civil society groups and experts in research to consider the risks of AI, especially at the frontier of development, and discuss how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)Tech

    Elon Musk’s X changes Grok chatbot after states say it spread election misinformation

    By Christine Fernando and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Elon Musk arrives before a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, July 24, 2024. The secretaries of state from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington are urging Elon Musk to fix an AI chatbot on his social media platform X, saying in a letter Monday, August. 5, 2024, that it has spread election misinformation. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)Tech

    5 U.S. states push Elon Musk to fix Grok because they say AI chatbot spreads bogus ballot deadline information

    By Christine Fernando and The Associated Press
  • Howell CodePolitics

    Arizona’s law banning nearly all abortion was written nearly 50 years before it became a state, when under 7,000 people lived in the territory

    By Christine Fernando and The Associated Press
  • Chris SununuPolitics

    ‘This has hit a nerve’: Democrats salivate as Republicans scramble to address Alabama ruling that jeopardizes IVF access

    By Christine Fernando and The Associated Press
  • Oren EtzioniTech

    Top AI expert ‘completely terrified’ of 2024 election, shaping up to be ‘tsunami of misinformation’

    By Ali Swenson, Christine Fernando, and others
  • Worker in the headPolitics

    The Texas ‘Death Star’ law that allows the state to overrule progressive city mayors is unconstitutional, rules Democratic judge from Austin

    By Christine Fernando and The Associated Press
  • Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, speaks during an interview with Sean Hannity, host of the Sean Hannity Show, not pictured, in the spin room following the Republican primary presidential debate hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Republican presidential contenders are facing off in their first debate of the primary season, minus frontrunner Donald Trump, who continues to lead his GOP rivals by a double-digit margin. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Gov. Ron DeSantis told a gripping story about abortion at the GOP debate. The reality is far more complicated than he described

    By Adriana Gomez Licon, Christine Fernando, and others