Only 1 Black rep gets role in talks on Mississippi policing
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One Black lawmaker and nine white ones have been chosen to work on final versions of…
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Arkansas restricts school bathroom use by transgender people
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender…
Continue ReadingMexican man pleads guilty in smuggling crash where 13 died
EL CENTRO, Calif. (AP) — A Mexican man has pleaded guilty to coordinating a smuggling effort that left 13 people dead when their overloaded SUV was…
Continue ReadingUN: 26% of world lacks clean drinking water, 46% sanitation
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A report issued on the eve of the first major U.N. conference on water in over 45 years…
Continue ReadingMilwaukee shooting kills teenage boy, injures 5 women
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police say a 15-year-old boy has died and five young women have been injured in a shooting in the latest violence to…
Continue ReadingUkrainian soldiers near finish of Patriot missile training
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press FORT SILL, Okla. (AP) — A group of 65 Ukrainian soldiers are wrapping up their training on the Patriot…
Continue ReadingMuslim authorities say Ramadan fasting to begin Thursday
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Muslim authorities in Saudi Arabia and several other Middle Eastern countries say this year’s fasting month of…
Continue ReadingDeputies: Alabama player drove 141 mph to evade traffic stop
BONIFAY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say suspended Alabama freshman defensive back Tony Mitchell drove over 141 mph while trying to evade deputies…
Continue ReadingFamilies of Montreal fire victims facing agonizing wait
MONTREAL (AP) — Family and friends of the presumed victims of a deadly fire in Old Montreal are facing an agonizing wait as a recovery team works…
Continue ReadingLawsuit seeks to block abortion pill ban in Wyoming
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion-rights supporters filed an amended lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block Wyoming’s…
Continue ReadingOfficials: 8 dolphins dead after stranding in New Jersey
SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. (AP) — Marine animal welfare officials say eight dolphins have died after they became stranded on a beach in New Jersey. The…
Continue ReadingOfficials: Deputy Tased video-recording man, took cell phone
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida deputy accused of using a Taser stun gun on a man and taking his cell phone while the man was trying…
Continue ReadingCouple faces murder charges in Crow girl’s 2019 death
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana couple faces charges of murder and tampering with evidence in the 2019…
Continue ReadingPence seeks ‘common sense’ Social Security, Medicare reform
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press As he mulls a 2024 presidential bid, former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called for “common sense and…
Continue ReadingTrump’s potential indictment caps decades of legal scrutiny
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For 40 years, former President Donald Trump has navigated countless legal investigations without…
Continue ReadingLead Derek Chauvin prosecutor appointed to be state judge
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the state’s lead prosecutors who helped convict Derek Chauvin of murder in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd has…
Continue ReadingEx-judge rejects free speech defense in Project Veritas case
NEW YORK (AP) — A former judge has decided the First Amendment protection for journalists should not keep prosecutors from seeing most evidence…
Continue ReadingNorfolk Southern supports some new regs after Ohio disaster
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Norfolk Southern’s CEO is offering support for some parts of a bipartisan Senate bill to put…
Continue Reading‘Don’t Say Gay’ lawmaker pleads guilty to COVID relief fraud
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The former Florida lawmaker who sponsored the controversial law critics call “Don’t Say Gay” has pleaded guilty to…
Continue ReadingSpringsteen, Kaling, Louis-Dreyfus among 22 honored by Biden
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden welcomed a high-wattage collection of singers,…
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