AP Top U.S. News at 12:42 p.m. EDT

NASA's newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universeAn officer is dead and a second was injured in a shooting at South Carolina park, police chief saysAs jurors deliberate in the Lindsay Clancy trial, here are key moments they may be consideringWhat we know about Trump's deal giving US access to vast oil reserves in VenezuelaInvestors prosper and consumers pay as the Iran war exacts an uneven economic toll 6 months inVolunteers rescue climber stranded on small ledge in California's Sierra NevadaMeep, meep. ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ opens with $15.5 million, 'Spider-Man' stays No. 1 for fifth weekendFar-right British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported after his immigration arrest in USWas Dolly Parton a feminist? She wouldn’t say it, but fans heard it — in h