Month: April 2022

By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday called for a response from a Virginia school system regarding a controversial admissions policy at a highly selective high school and efforts by a coalition of parents to overturn it. Roberts was responding to an emergency application from the group

By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has vetoed a measure that would expand access to abortion in the state. The bill would end a restriction that only physicians can provide abortions and require most insurance plans to cover abortion care without cost. Democrats who control the General Assembly

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a new state law that would ban abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and allow it to be enforced through lawsuits. Idaho last month had become the first state to enact a law modeled after the Texas statute banning abortions after about six

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart and Kohl’s are paying a combined $5.5 million in settlements after he Federal Trade Commission said the retailers falsely marketed dozens of sheets and other home textile products as made of environmentally friendly bamboo. In fact, the textiles were actually made of rayon. Kohl’s

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ordered Peru to “refrain” from releasing imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori despite a ruling by the South American country’s Constitutional Court that he be freed. The regional human rights court said that “the sentence issued by the Constitutional Court on March 17, 2022, which