Michael Balsamo

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  • A visitor looks at the warden’s house at Alcatraz Island on Monday, May 5, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)Politics

    Federal Bureau of Prisons has a $3 billion repair backlog. Now it’s expected to reopen Alcatraz too

    By Michael R. Sisak, Michael Balsamo, and others
  • New York Police community affairs officers enter the HI New York City Hostel, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in New York, where police say the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson may have stayed. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)Health

    The gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare’s CEO may have already left New York on a bus, as police search for backpack in Central Park

    By Michael Balsamo, Michael R. Sisak, and others
  • A photo handed out by the NYPD of the suspect in the Brian Thompson shooting.Finance

    New clues emerge in hunt for gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

    By Michael Balsamo, Jake Offenhartz, and others
  • Police officers surround a crime scene in New York City - the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian ThompsonLifestyle

    The bullet casings used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson reportedly had a secret message written on them

    By Michael Balsamo, Jake Offenhartz, and others
  • Diddy wearing a pair of sunglassesLifestyle

    The jail where Diddy and Sam Bankman-Fried reside is now the target of a federal clean-up operation because it’s so dangerous there

    By Michael Balsamo, Michael R. Sisak, and others
  • Donald Trump steps out of carPolitics

    Donald Trump is safe after assassination attempt; suspect is identified

    By Alanna Durkin Richer, Colleen Long, and others
  • Former U.S. President Donald TrumpPolitics

    FBI investigating Trump campaign claim that sensitive documents were hacked by Iran

    By Zeke Miller, Michael Balsamo, and others
  • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bulletPolitics

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

    By Michael Biesecker, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others
  • Donald Trump is helped off stagePolitics

    FBI says suspected shooter acted alone but motive still unclear while Trump arrives in Milwaukee for Republican National Convention

    By Julie Carr Smyth, Jill Colvin, and others
  • Donald Trump surrounded by Secret Service agentsPolitics

    Trump injured but ‘fine’ after assassination attempt; FBI identifies gunman as 20-year-old Pennsylvania man

    By Jill Colvin, Julie Carr Smyth, and others
  • Joe Biden, Benjamin NetanyahuPolitics

    White House report criticizes Israel but draws no conclusion about breaking international law, sources say

    By Aamer Madhani, Ellen Knickmeyer, and others
  • Jonathan KanterTech

    Yale antitrust scholar likens Apple case to epic Microsoft battle: ‘It’s a really big deal to go up and punch someone who is acting like a bully and pretending not to be a bully’

    By Michael Liedtke, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others
  • Israel embassyPolitics

    25-year-old Air Force member livestreams setting himself on fire in protest of war in Palestine, dies of his injuries

    By Michael Balsamo and The Associated Press
  • Derek ChauvinPolitics

    Former gang leader who stabbed Derek Chauvin in prison 22 times charged with attempted murder, prosecutors say

    By Michael R. Sisak, Michael Balsamo, and others
  • Dianne FeinsteinPolitics

    Dianne Feinstein, oldest sitting senator, elected in 1992’s ‘Year of the Woman,’ dies at 90

    By MIchael R. Blood, Mary Clare Jalonick, and others