It’s been a week since aircraft collided over the Potomac, killing 67 and leaving questions and some answers. My article takes you from the minutes before the crash to the ensuing days. apnews.com/article/plane-…

Leaked documents: Trump administration's plan to cut HUD staff in half will target employees who support disaster recovery, rental subsidies, discrimination investigations and first-time homebuyers. How would it affect Americans? w/Sally Ho & michael casey apnews.com/article/doge-h…

Document obtained by AP: Trump admin to cut HUD staff who help local officials, congresspeople and those facing eviction navigate federal housing programs and aid. It's some of the first cuts in the admin's plan to halve the HUD's workforce. apnews.com/live/trump-pre…

SCOOP: Trump admin is slashing funding for enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. It's nixing nearly half the grants to nonprofits that field most fair housing complaints (a majority around disability), investigate and litigate cases for Americans. apnews.com/article/trump-…

SCOOP: The Trump admin has stalled at least $60 million in funding largely for affordable housing developments after cutting two contracts. It's thrown hundreds of projects nationwide into a precarious limbo. Per info and documents obtained by the AP. apnews.com/article/afford…

SCOOP: The Trump admin halts a $1 billion program that helps preserve affordable housing after the money was promised for the rehab of some 26,000 units across the U.S. Per a document obtained by the AP and two sources inside the federal housing agency. apnews.com/article/trump-…

From 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to using hemp — the marijuana cousin — to make building blocks for walls: The innovations that could help assuage backbreaking rents and home prices. apnews.com/article/3d-pri…

At least 60,000 Americans fleeing homelessness or domestic violence are expected to lose their rental assistance by the end of next year. It'd be among the largest one-time losses of rental aid and could churn people back onto the street, per analysts. apnews.com/article/trump-…

When four rock climbers' anchor popped out of the mountain Saturday evening, they plummeted roughly 400-feet down. There were killed. One was knocked out. Anton Tselykh awoke in the dark. Then he trekked out and drove some 40 miles to call for help. apnews.com/article/washin…

NEW: AP obtained the recording of the 911 call placed by the rock climber who survived a roughly 400-foot fall that killed three others. “The whole team went down," said Tselykh. “My face is very well beaten, hands and my ribs, I can hardly breathe." apnews.com/article/washin…

Kohberger admitted to a tense courtroom that he stabbed to death four University of Idaho students, capping a mystifying case that’s captured the nation’s attention. I sat in court not far from Kohberger, who was impassive as he pleaded guilty. apnews.com/article/univer…

After flash flooding tore Texas Hill Country asunder July Fourth weekend -- killing at least 100 people -- the communities' desire to help search for the missing is butting up against officials' need for structure and safety. apnews.com/article/texas-…

Huddled in the attic, the family watched the floodwater silently rise beneath them in the kitchen. Then they heard the eerie clinking of plates and glasses as it swirled around the cabinets, nearing the ceiling. They took videos and photos of it all: apnews.com/article/texas-…

In a Catholic school's church in Minneapolis, children listened to a psalm: “For you darkness itself is not dark." Light streamed through a stained glass window as they prepared to proclaim "Alleluia." Then a bullet punctured the glass. And another. apnews.com/article/minnea…

Trump wants to ax an affordable housing program that's a lifeline for rural communities across America. The vast majority of those communities voted for Trump, an AP analysis of federal data found. w/ Charlotte Kramon apnews.com/article/trump-…

I'm in Orem, Utah, covering the assassination of Charlie Kirk -- latest update is that the suspect is expected to be in court Tuesday at 3pm for a virtual hearing. Here's the latest: apnews.com/article/charli…

The campus where Charlie Kirk was shot offered less security than other venues he'd toured through: w/ Claudia Lauer and Jack Brook apnews.com/article/charli…

Those who witnessed the assassination of Charlie Kirk reckon with the trauma -- some didn't eat for days, others didn't speak. “The memory, it just replays," said one student. apnews.com/article/charli…

NEW: Prosecutors release text messages sent by Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin right after the shooting: apnews.com/article/charli…

Clicking into skis on the summit of Mount Everest, Jim Morrison breathed in, then dropped in. Below him plunged 9,000 sheer feet of snow, ice and rock — the most merciless ski run on planet Earth. It had never been skied. I spoke with him & Jimmy Chin. apnews.com/article/mounta…