John Hanna

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  • Cowboys push a cow out of its spot to a veterinarian inspection at a ranch that exports livestock to the U.S., in Zamora, northern Mexico, Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)Economy

    To stop a flesh-eating cattle parasite in Mexico from crossing the border, the U.S. will build a $750 million factory that breeds sterile flies

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • The Boeing logo on a buildingFinance

    Boeing says thousands of union workers will likely go on strike after rejecting ‘the richest contract offer’ that would have upped wages by 20%

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • Two US F/A-18 Hornet jet fighters manuever during the opening ceremony of Cope Thunder, an annual bilateral exercise between the US Pacific Air Forces and the Philippine Air Force, at Clark Air Base near Angeles City on April 7, 2025. The Philippine and US air forces kicked off joint exercises April 7 aimed at boosting operational coordination and enhancing “strategic deterrence”, Manila’s military said. (Photo by TED ALJIBE / AFP) (Photo by TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Boeing expects more than 3,200 fighter-jet workers to strike after they reject contract offer despite union leaders calling for yes vote

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • Texas rancherEnvironment

    Flood-battered Texas braces for another blow: a fast-moving, flesh-eating parasite from Mexico

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • CoreCivic's logo in front of a prisonFinance

    A judge once called Leavenworth’s federal prison a ‘hell hole.’ CoreCivic will get $4.2 million per month to reopen the long-shuttered facility to hold thousands of migrants arrested by ICE

    By Heather Hollingsworth, John Hanna, and others
  • FILE – House Speaker Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, attends a press conference in St. Paul, Minn., June 14, 2021. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP File)Politics

    Melissa Hortman was once a teenager with a job making burritos then became a powerful Minnesota lawmaker who trained service dogs

    By John Hanna, Steve Karnowski, and others
  • FILE – New pumps at Rich Bohnen’s service station at 60th and Penn Ave. S. in Minneapolis are seen in a Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 photo. (Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP, file)Environment

    Is ethanol safe for your car’s engine? The Trump administration is allowing Americans to buy cheaper gas with higher blends

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • FILE – This photo released by the City of Grand Forks shows land purchased by the Fufeng Group in Grand Forks, N.D., on Jan. 23, 2025. (City of Grand Forks via AP, File)Politics

    States have introduced 240 anti-China proposals from banning coffee mugs to ending sister-city ties: ‘Politicians…pay no price for vilifying China’

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Newly-elected President Kennedy posed for first pictures at his White House desk, Jan. 21, 1961, before plunging into a busy round of conferences. (AP Photo/Bill Achatz, File)Politics

    Newly released JFK assassination records show details of covert CIA operations in Cuba but ‘nothing points to a second gunman’

    By John Hanna, Jamie Stengle, and others
  • A Highway Patrol officer assists motoristsEnvironment

    Kansas highway pileup that killed 8 was caused by an impenetrable dust storm like one out of the 1930s ‘Dust Bowl’

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, who’s informally advising President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team, discusses immigration issues during an interview with The Associated Press, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024, in his office in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)Politics

    Key Trump immigration ally explains how mass deportations could work: ‘A lot of people start leaving on their own’

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • Tim Walz claps his handsPolitics

    Tim Walz shakes up the 2024 race: 5 insights on Harris’s new running mate

    By Steve Karnowski, John Hanna, and others
  • Laptop with creative red security alert on blurry backgroundPolitics

    Kansas businessman admits illegally exporting sensitive aviation tech to Russia

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • Flooding from the Big Sioux River damage buildings in North Sioux City, S.D., on Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Josh Jurgens)Environment

    Midwest flooding kills 2 as surging river forces evacuations and rescues: ‘7,000 square feet of very pretty, pretty things. And it’s all gone’

    By Margery A. Beck, Hannah Fingerhut, and others
  • FILE – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Capitol Hill, June 13, 2024, in Washington. Federal judges in Kansas and Missouri ruled on lawsuits brought by state attorney generals on Monday, June 24, blocking much of a Biden administration student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)Politics

    Biden student loan repayment plan that offers a faster path to cancellation and lower payments mostly blocked by Kansas and Missouri judges

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press