Favre asks to be dismissed from Mississippi welfare lawsuit
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is asking to be removed from a lawsuit by the…
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Braun, protester of Dakota Access pipeline, dies at 53
EAGLE BUTTE, S.D. (AP) — A woman who long advocated for Native American rights and was known for organizing protests against the Dakota Access and…
Continue ReadingJury selection starts in murder trial of Forth Worth officer
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jury selection is underway in the the murder trial of former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean, who fatally shot a…
Continue ReadingUtah to challenge decision overturning death row conviction
By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah plans to challenge a judge’s decision overturning the 1985 murder conviction of a man…
Continue ReadingAttorneys: ‘Botched’ execution caused pain and torture
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Attorneys say an Alabama inmate was “subjected to ever-escalating levels of pain and…
Continue ReadingVirginia football team to attend 3rd funeral in 5 days
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s football team will travel to its third funeral in five days to honor the life of Lavel Davis Jr., who was…
Continue ReadingBodies in suitcases suspect extradited to New Zealand
By KIM TONG-HYUNG and NICK PERRY Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea extradited a 42-year-old woman to New Zealand, two months…
Continue ReadingBiden calls on Congress to head off potential rail strike
By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday asked Congress to intervene and block a railroad strike before…
Continue ReadingUK’s Rishi Sunak says ‘golden era’ with China over
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has declared that the U.K.’s “golden era” of ties with China…
Continue ReadingUK waters down online restrictions after free speech outcry
By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government has abandoned a plan to force tech firms to remove internet content that is…
Continue ReadingUS rule would limit methane leaks from public lands drilling
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department on Monday proposed rules to limit methane leaks from oil and gas…
Continue ReadingGrand jury: Deputies escalated standoff with man in crisis
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — Grand jury indictments allege two Colorado sheriff’s deputies needlessly…
Continue ReadingEx-Border Patrol agent accused of killing 4 goes on trial
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The capital murder trial of a former U.S. Border Patrol agent who confessed to killing four sex workers in South Texas in 2018…
Continue ReadingJury deliberates for 2nd day in Oath Keepers sedition case
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal jury has weighed seditious conspiracy charges against Oath Keepers founder…
Continue ReadingChina’s ‘zero-COVID’ limits saved lives but no clear exit
By CARLA K. JOHNSON and MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writers China’s strategy of controlling the coronavirus with lockdowns, mass testing and quarantines…
Continue ReadingMissouri Supreme Court weighs fate of death row inmate
By JIM SALTER Associated Press Attorneys for a Black man on Missouri’s death row say he might not be facing execution if he were white. Lawyers…
Continue ReadingKentucky AG avoids talk of more exceptions to abortion ban
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is standing firm in his support for the…
Continue ReadingProtester with rainbow flag runs onto field at World Cup
By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — A protester ran onto the field carrying a rainbow flag and wearing a blue Superman T-shirt…
Continue ReadingFidelity Charitable launches NFT raffle amid crypto downturn
By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fidelity Charitable, the nation’s largest grantmaker, is getting into NFTs or nonfungible tokens…
Continue ReadingFBI confirms remains in landfill belong to Georgia toddler
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The FBI has confirmed that the bones found in a Georgia landfill are those of a toddler who had been reported missing last…
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