The U.S. Capitol is photographed Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)2026-04-16T11:02:36Z WASHINGTON (AP) In a rare bipartisan moment, the House has agreed to consider legislation that would extend temporary protections for Haitian immigrants, pushing back against the Trump administrations efforts to end the program.The bill expected for a vote Thursday would require the Trump administration to extend for three years Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, which would allow hundreds of thousands of qualifying immigrants to remain in the U.S. without fear of deportation. House Democrats forced the bill forward Wednesday, joined by a small number of Republicans, over the objections of House Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP leadership. Trumps attempt to end the status for Haiti, Venezuela, Syria, and other nations in crisis is cruel, unlawful, & life-threatening, said Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., on social media. She is co-chair of the House Haiti Caucus and represents one of the largest Haitian communities in the country. The congresswoman said deporting people back to Haiti would be a death sentence in a country ravaged by natural disaster and gang violence. This is common-sense policy that will save lives, she said during Wednesdays floor debate. Congress can help. Congress can do the right thing. Congress races ahead of Supreme Court actionThe outcome is the latest effort by House Democrats to maneuver past the Republican majority using a so-called discharge petition once a rare tool that is being increasingly wielded to form bipartisan coalitions.The effort to help the immigrants from Haiti comes as President Donald Trumps administration is working to end Temporary Protected Status for several groups of immigrants, exposing them to the possibility of deportation. In a matter of days, the Supreme Court is prepared to consider a fast-track case that would end the protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants in a challenge that is widely seen as threatening the broader program. The Trump administration filed emergency appeals after lower courts stopped the immediate end of the program for 350,000 people from Haiti and 6,000 people from Syria. Read More Its part of the administrations efforts to strip certain immigrant groups of legal status as the White House works to fulfill Trumps campaign promise of conducting the largest mass deportation operation in history. Some 1.3 million people fleeing countries around the world have been granted temporary protected status. Protections for Haitians were first granted in 2010 after a devastating earthquake that has displaced more than 1 million people, according to court documents. The protections have been extended multiple times as the country has experienced violence and upheaval.The conservative-majority court has sided with the Trump administration on the issue before and allowed the end of temporary legal status for a total of 600,000 people from Venezuela while lawsuits play out, leaving them to face potential deportation.Trump has described migrants from poorer countries in vulgar terms, and he has falsely accused Haitian migrants in Ohio of eating their neighbors cats and dogs. Rep. Laura Gillen, D-N.Y., whose district includes Long Islands Haitian community, said she promised constituents she would work to protect their status and introduced the legislation as soon as she took office last year.Its cruel to expect Haitians to be forced to return to these deadly, dangerous conditions, she told a press conference. Human lives are at risk.Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., said the hundreds of thousands of Haitian status holders in the U.S. have become an inseparable part of the fabric of the nation.They have built businesses, built families, built up their communities, she said during debate. She hoped the House action would become a blaring beacon against the Trump administrations deportation policies. Once rare, a discharge petition is becoming a powerful tool to force votes The discharge petition process forces the bill to the House floor for consideration. It is the same tool bipartisan lawmakers used to pass legislation that required the Justice Department to release the files of the sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. A discharge resolution needs majority support in the House, where Republicans hold slim control and are typically able to swat back such efforts from Democrats. But increasingly Democrats have pulled a few Republicans to their side.Pressleys effort won support from four Republicans on the initial petition, and several more on Wednesdays vote to consider the measure.If the bill is approved in the House, the measure would next go to the Senate, where the outcome is uncertain.

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A woman with a dog walks among the rubble of a house damaged after a Russian strike on residential area in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)2026-04-16T07:22:19Z KYIV, Ukraine (AP) Russia hammered civilian areas of Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in an attack that stretched for hours from daytime into the night, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 100 others as terrified residents cowered in their homes, officials said Thursday.Russia launched nearly 700 drones and dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles, primarily targeting civilians, in its biggest aerial barrage in almost two weeks, authorities said. Tetiana Sokol, a 54-year-old resident of Kyiv, said two missiles hit near her home and she took cover with her dog in the hallway as flashes lit up the night and windows shattered from the blast wave.On the third attack everything broke, everything flew, we were shocked, we didnt know where to run. I grabbed whatever came to hand and ran away with the dog, she told The Associated Press. I still cant find the cats in the house, they climbed out somewhere, I dont even know. No windows, nothing, the dog is still walking around in stress. Moscows forces have hit civilian areas almost daily since its all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, with the regular assaults occasionally punctuated by massive attacks. More than 15,000 Ukrainian civilians have died in the strikes, the United Nations says. The Russian Defense Ministry said the operation was launched in retaliation for Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia, where long-range drones and missiles have hit Russian oil refineries and war-related manufacturing plants. The Russian barrage was aimed at facilities associated with the Ukrainian armed forces, the Defense Ministry claimed.European Council President Antnio Costa described it as yet another horrendous attack while people slept in their homes. Read More Zelenskyy on a mission to improve air defenses The latest bombardment came in the wake of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyys 48-hour trip this week to Germany, Norway and Italy in an urgent search for more air defense systems that can stop Russian missiles. Ukraine has developed a significant domestic arms industry, especially in the production of drones and missiles, but it cant yet match the sophistication of U.S. Patriot air defense systems. Ukraines top diplomatic priority is securing allies help to buy and build more and better air defenses, Zelenskyy said this week. Cash-strapped Ukraine also needs the speedy disbursement of a promised loan from the European Union of 90 billion euros ($106 billion) that has been blocked by Hungary.Ukraine fears the Iran war is burning through stockpiles of the advanced American-made systems it needs, and has argued against a U.S. temporary waiver on Russian oil sanctions that Kyiv says is helping finance the Kremlins war effort. Sign up for Morning Wire: Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Email address Sign up By checking this box, you agree to AP's Terms of Use and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our Privacy Policy. Another night has proven that Russia does not deserve any easing of global policy or lifting of sanctions, Zelenskyy said on X.He thanked Germany, Norway and Italy for new agreements this week on supporting Ukraines air defense. Officials are also working with the Netherlands on additional supplies, he said. At the same time, he noted that some partner countries havent followed through on pledges of military support.I have instructed the Commander of the Air Force to contact those partners who earlier committed to providing missiles for Patriot and other systems, Zelenskyy said.Other areas of Ukraine and Russia were also hit The bombardment was the biggest in weeks. Last month, Russia fired 948 drones and 34 missiles in the space of 24 hours in the largest assault of the war on civilian areas. At least four people were killed overnight in Kyiv, including a 12-year-old, with more than 50 others injured, according to authorities. Officials said the attack damaged 17 apartment buildings, 10 private homes, as well as a hotel, office center, car dealership, gas station and a shopping mall in the capital.Nine people were killed and 23 injured in the southern port city of Odesa, three women were killed and around three dozen injured in the central Dnipro region, and one person was killed in Zaporizhzhia in the south. Such attacks cannot be normalized. These are war crimes that must be stopped and their perpetrators held to account, Ukraines Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X.Ukraines air force said air defenses shot down or disabled 667 out of 703 incoming targets, including 636 Shahed-type drones and other uncrewed aerial vehicles.It said 20 strike drones and 12 missiles hit 26 locations.Meanwhile in Russia, Krasnodar regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev reported that a 14-year-old girl and a woman were killed in Ukrainian strikes in the Black Sea port of Tuapse.He said that attacks damaged six apartment buildings, 24 private houses and three schools. Drone fragments also fell near Tuapse.Russias Defense Ministry said that its air defenses downed 207 Ukrainian drones overnight.___Follow APs coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine HANNA ARHIROVA Arhirova is an Associated Press reporter covering Ukraine. She is based in Kyiv. twitter instagram mailto

The Latin phrase "E Pluribus Unum" is seen on a one dollar coin, Monday, April 13, 2026, in Portland, Maine.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)2026-04-16T04:02:13Z NEW YORK (AP) The aspirations cut a wide swath through American history since 1776 from the All men are created equal of the Declaration of Independence and the We the people of the Constitution, to the indivisible, with liberty and justice for all of the Pledge of Allegiance. One can find it in the countrys name the UNITED States of America and in the sentiment of the motto written in Latin on its coins and one-dollar bills: E Pluribus Unum, or out of many, one.The effort has been optimistic and unrealistic, successful and a failure, enduring as an American ideal during moments when citizens struggled and struggle today to practice it. How has the notion of unity in American society evolved in 250 years and more? What does it mean and what doesnt it mean, particularly in fraught and troubled moments? Its a question, says one scholar, that every society has to answer. A large wall mural showing the signing of the Declaration of Independence is seen over visitors at the National Archives, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell, File) A large wall mural showing the signing of the Declaration of Independence is seen over visitors at the National Archives, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell, File) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More I. The beginnings of these United StatesFrom the milestone moment of the nations beginning, the founders emphasized that unity would be a vital component of the new country, where government would be based not on a king and monarchy as in Europe but instead, as the Declaration says, on the consent of the governed.It is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, George Washington said as he stepped down from two terms as the first American president. Read More At the start of the experiment, the fabric of a nation first stitched together from 13 original colonies, defining what unity meant was far from settled. Thirteen United States flags representing the 13 original colonies are seen at Liberty State Park with 1 World Trade Center, bottom left, and the Statue of Liberty, bottom right, in the background, Sept. 11, 2014, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) Thirteen United States flags representing the 13 original colonies are seen at Liberty State Park with 1 World Trade Center, bottom left, and the Statue of Liberty, bottom right, in the background, Sept. 11, 2014, in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Even as the founders spoke of high-minded ideals, they put limits on who they allowed to take part, who had rights and freedom and who didnt. All these years later, determining the meaning of unity can still be a challenge. Do we interpret that Latin motto to mean a blending of different perspectives to create a country that is greater than the sum of its parts, or does it mean there can only be one, that unity requires sameness? Either way, heres the thing about aspirations, as anyone whos ever quit on a New Years resolution can tell you: They dont turn into reality without effort and commitment, or come out of just a sole moment, no matter how singular. Our individual lives are built not just from the milestones but from the everydays in between. How could the life of a nation be any different? II. Aspiration vs. reality Even as unity has stood among the ideals, the on-the-ground experience of life in America for the last 2 centuries has reflected the reality that in this created nation, theres never been just ONE America, where everyone lived in the same way or had the same access to power and prosperity. It wasnt there at the countrys inception. And in the moment the U.S. is living now, it certainly isnt either.I think the United State has had a more volatile history in terms of how it deals with questions of inclusion and exclusion, how it draws the line and polices the line of whos in and whos out, says Daniel Immerwahr, a professor of history at Northwestern University. Its a question that every society has to answer whos on the inside, whos on the outside, he says. I would say that whats interesting about the United States in this regard is how changeable and nonobvious some of the answers to those questions are. Sometimes the differences have been straightforward like geography (rural vs. urban, plains vs. mountains) and climate (heat vs. snow, wildfires vs. flooding). Sometimes they were, and remain, cultural people from different countries of origin, newcomers vs. generations deep, speaking different languages, following different denominations of Christianity or other religions entirely. And of course, the differences have been economic; rich and poor have always lived differently. But sometimes, the differences have been travesties like enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants, forced to live under the lash as they worked in the fields and elsewhere for the benefit of white owners. Even after slavery was outlawed, they were subject to discrimination and worse under racism that was legalized in systemic ways into the 20th century and that echoes still. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his I Have a Dream speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963, in Washington. (AP Photo/File) The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his I Have a Dream speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963, in Washington. (AP Photo/File) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More The Indigenous tribes whose populations were decimated by death and disease as the American experiment moved westward and newly arrived settlers hankered after their tribal lands, and whose cultures were stripped from generations as the U.S. government tried to force unity through brutal efforts at assimilation. Communities of people barred from possibility because of gender, sexual orientation or other characteristics. There have also been persistent efforts across eras to create a country where the opportunities available to some say, voting, economic growth, or access to education would be made available to all. That came gradually through protest movements, legal action, and callbacks to those same American founding ideals and aspirations of unity and equality.It provided a language for the groups that were challenging these exclusions to draw on invoking the ideals of the Revolution and the Declaration and saying, Look, this is what the nation is supposed to be about, says Eileen Cheng, a professor of history at Sarah Lawrence College. They could challenge the system and yet claim that they were being the true Americans. III. What could unity even look like?One of the things about ideals, though, is that they can be somewhat abstract. What does it mean for a country to be united? Does unity mean uniform? Is it, to borrow a reference from one of satirist Terry Pratchetts books, that people are on the same side, or can they be on different sides that happen to be side by side. Is unity overall even a good thing in the context of a raucous democracy?A look around the globe and through the history books shows theres no single answer. There have been countries with a single official language, others that have recognized multiple languages, and some, like the United States, that for generations have never officially designated any. At times, countries have chosen official religions. Nations have different standards and processes for naturalizing new citizens.There are always tensions between the unity and the separateness, said Paul Wachtel, a psychology professor at the City College of New York. Theres no society that is just one or just the other whats really most essential is that we learn how to negotiate those tensions.The United States experienced that firsthand in its infancy. The Constitution we live under is the second attempt at a framework for government. The first, the Articles of Confederation, kept the federal government weaker and the individual states stronger. It quickly became clear that having such a weak central government i.e., less unity wasnt effective for the new country, leading to the Constitution.For some countries, like many in Europe, those negotiations have taken place under the weight of centuries of history and geography, and other established backdrops like the existing form of government, which impacted the direction they decided to go. The U.S., from the founders perspective, was a new entity.What it is to be of the United States is to adhere to a set of principles rather than to have a certain kind of lineage, Immerwahr says. Sometimes that makes the United States remarkably open, and then sometimes that gets the leaders of the United States in all kinds of weird contradictions as they try to explain why theyre doing some forms of inclusion and not others.The United States has a decidedly mixed history when it comes to dealing with those tensions. Things have fluctuated. Take migration, for example. There have been eras when the influx of people coming to these shores was seemingly a never-ending stream, but also times when much of the world was barred. In politics, the idea that there would be different factions represented by different parties was loathed by some, even as it became embedded in the political culture. Groups that were once looked down on are later brought into the fold, and vice versa. New citizen Ivette Lagos, originally from Brazil, wears a stars and stripes scarf while reciting the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony where nearly 200 people from more than 50 different countries became United States citizens at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Nov. 18, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) New citizen Ivette Lagos, originally from Brazil, wears a stars and stripes scarf while reciting the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony where nearly 200 people from more than 50 different countries became United States citizens at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Nov. 18, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More What have we learned over the last 250 years is that things change, says Cindy Kam, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. We are inclined to be social animals, but what those groups are is culturally constructed. So political elites, social elites, cultural elites, they do that work in identifying what the groups are, who is part of us and who is a part of the other.By no means is it settled; if anything, the demographic, technological, economic and other changes of the last several decades are making discussions about unity more relevant than ever. In recent years, Americans have lived in a country where polarization is rampant, and serious sometimes dire questions abound over what the future holds. Thats probably more in line with the countrys beginnings than people realize. This polarization, people talk about it like its a new thing. But I think its really a return back to the way that we were at the beginning of the country, Cheng says. Its not like this kind of linear development where were growing more and more accepting of difference. I think its up and down.___This story is part of an Associated Press package looking at the United States at age 250. For more stories, click here. DEEPTI HAJELA Hajela writes about the ways in which America is changing as part of the APs Trends+Culture team. She is based in New York City.

The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)2026-04-16T04:01:38Z The same ChatGPT chatbot that gave OpenAIs chief financial officer Sarah Friar a tilapia recipe for a recent Sunday night dinner at home is also now doing her most mundane tasks at work like summarizing her emails and Slack messages. Friar and other company executives are banking OpenAIs future on more of the latter as it shifts its focus to business-oriented products while shedding some of its consumer offerings as a pathway to profitability. OpenAI says it will introduce a new artificial intelligence model for high-value professional work as the company faces heightened competition with rival Anthropic in attracting corporate customers to adopt AI assistants in their workplaces.Youll see a new model coming from us in short order. We feel very excited about it, Friar said in an interview with The Associated Press.OpenAI boasts of more than 900 million weekly users of its core ChatGPT product, and Friar said about 95% of them dont pay anything for the popular chatbot. But while all those interactions build habits and reliance, they also strain the costly computing resources needed to power the companys AI systems and highlight the need for big business customers to help pay the bills. OpenAI, valued at $852 billion, and Anthropic, valued at $380 billion, both lose more money than they make, putting the privately-owned San Francisco-based AI research laboratories in a fierce competition to generate more revenue as they race toward becoming publicly traded on Wall Street. A push to improve performance and sales of OpenAIs business-oriented products already Anthropics bread and butter has driven OpenAI to abandon some consumer initiatives, like the AI video generator app Sora. Read More I think it was a little heartbreaking, but were like, OK, its not the main event right now, Friar said. We need to make sure that our new model thats coming has enough compute. Codenamed Spud, OpenAI says its smartest model yet offers stronger reasoning, better understanding of intent and dependencies, better follow-through and more reliable output in production. Its part of OpenAIs answer to Anthropics new Claude Mythos, which Anthropic claims is so strikingly capable that it is limiting its use to select customers because of its apparent ability to surpass human cybersecurity experts in finding or exploiting computer vulnerabilities.Friar, the former CEO of neighborhood social platform Nextdoor, said business customers accounted for about 20% of OpenAIs revenue when she was hired in 2024 as chief financial officer. She said its now 40% and expected to account for half of OpenAIs sales by the end of the year. Sign up for Morning Wire: Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Email address Sign up By checking this box, you agree to AP's Terms of Use and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our Privacy Policy. Its a sharp turnaround from late last year, when OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was promoting a now-shuttered Sora partnership with Disney, launching a plan to sell ads on ChatGPT and floating the idea of letting ChatGPT engage in erotica with paid adult users.Altman said on the Mostly Human podcast earlier this month that a sharper focus was needed and Friar agrees. Tech companies, when theyre growing, its just this natural thing that happens. Theres so many cool things you could do, she said, adding that companies can end up doing really badly if they do too many things, while great companies are very good at, in a reasonable period of time, kind of doing that winnowing down and refocusing and its super painful.Signaling that shift was the hiring three months ago of Slack CEO Denise Dresser to be OpenAIs first chief revenue officer. Dresser said in a recent AP interview that she has been laser-focused on meeting with corporate leaders and positioning OpenAI as the go-to platform for workplaces employing AI agents to automate a variety of computer-based job tasks.Its really clear to me that companies are past the experimentation phase and theyre into using AI to do real work, Dresser said. Leaders at companies are recognizing that AI is probably the most consequential shift of their lifetime.But those leaders also have a choice, namely Anthropics Claude that has become widely used by software professionals. Founded in 2021 by a group of ex-OpenAI leaders who said they wanted to prioritize AI safety, Anthropic has positioned itself as the more responsible AI vendor. The distinction drew attention when President Donald Trumps administration punished the startup after a contract dispute over AI use in the military, and Altman used the opportunity to cement OpenAIs own deal with the Pentagon. Consumer interest in Anthropic surged and the company said its annualized revenues hit $30 billion, a higher number than what OpenAI has reported, though they measure it differently. Friar and Dresser declined to reveal OpenAIs latest sales but both have suggested that Anthropics number is inflated because it doesnt account for revenue it must share with cloud computing providers Amazon and Google. Even so, it remains a tight competition thats also tied to the health of the stock market and the future of the economy.Theyre likely quite close, said Luke Emberson, a researcher at nonprofit institute Epoch AI. Certainly the trends show Anthropic is growing much faster than OpenAI. If that continues, theyre likely to cross soon.The urgency led Dresser to send a memo to OpenAI employees on Sunday, first reported by The Verge, that asserted that Anthropics coding focus gave them an early wedge but expressing confidence that OpenAI has the real structural advantage as AI usage expands beyond software developers and OpenAI builds enough computing capacity to operate its AI systems.Their story is built on fear, restriction, and the idea that a small group of elites should control AI, Dressers memo said of Anthropic. Our positive message will win over time: build powerful systems, put in the right safeguards, expand access, and help people do more.But for skeptics of the financial viability of AI products like ChatGPT and Claude, the trajectory of both money-losing companies is alarming as smaller startups increasingly become dependent on their AI tools. Anthropic has already imposed rate limits on heavy users, forcing some to wait for hours to use Claude, and both companies have set up service tiers that reward premium payers, said author and AI critic Ed Zitron.Its what I call the subprime AI crisis, Zitron said. People built their lives and they built their businesses on top of these companies that, as they try and save money, will start turning the screws.One thing that both AI leaders and critics agree on is that it is an expensive technology, though whether it is worth the cost in electricity-hungry AI computers remains to be seen. People will say, well, Once they go public, theyre safe. Thats not true, Zitron said. Public companies can and will die, especially ones that are dependent on $100 billion to $200 billion every year or so, just to keep breathing. MATT OBRIEN OBrien covers the business of technology and artificial intelligence for The Associated Press. mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site