Reports: Rihanna and A$AP Rocky welcome baby boy in LA
By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have welcomed a baby boy, according to multiple reports. The couple, who first…
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US lawmakers urge binding vote on Puerto Rico status
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A group of mostly Democratic congress members is proposing a binding plebiscite to…
Continue ReadingJudge gives Wisconsin GOP leader chance to avoid contempt
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge says the investigator hired by Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to look into the…
Continue ReadingProsecutors detail charges against Trump’s inaugural chair
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have further detailed the allegations against the chair of former President Donald Trump’s inaugural…
Continue ReadingDozens of rescuers help save dolphins stranded on Cape Cod
WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) — Seven dolphins that were stranded in a shallow Massachusetts river have been released in deeper waters after an hourslong…
Continue ReadingAfter Buffalo, civil rights leaders pitch anti-hate plans
By AARON MORRISON and KAT STAFFORD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s oldest civil rights organization said it will propose a sweeping…
Continue Reading6 injured in explosion and fire at Wisconsin pier factory
EAGLE, Wis. (AP) — Six people were hurt, including three firefighters, when an explosion and fire rocked a marine construction company in southeast…
Continue ReadingJan. 6 panel asks GOP lawmaker to testify about Capitol tour
By FARNOUSH AMIRI The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection sent a letter to…
Continue ReadingRelics and militants: Vatican fraud trial sprawls the globe
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s financial trial has taken a surreal turn with a defendant asserting she…
Continue ReadingNavy ship to be named for Filipino sailor Telesforo Trinidad
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced Thursday that a future destroyer will be named the USS Telesforo Trinidad in…
Continue ReadingOz, McCormick tied in Pa. with thousands of ballots to count
By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Vote counting in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate has dragged into a third…
Continue ReadingFiling: Chicago ‘two-faced’ on acknowledging police abuse
By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Community leaders say the city of Chicago pursues a “two-faced” strategy of…
Continue ReadingJohnny Depp was a controlling lover, ex-girlfriend testifies
By BEN FINLEY Associated Press To hear actor Ellen Barkin tell it, Johnny Depp was a controlling, jealous and angry man even back in the 1990s, when…
Continue ReadingArizona prisoner won’t be executed in gas chamber
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona prisoner is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on June 8 for killing an…
Continue ReadingCourt tosses $300,000 hospital bill for promised $1,300 tab
The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a woman who expected to pay about $1,300 for spinal fusion…
Continue ReadingEXPLAINER: ESG investing and the debate surrounding it
By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After starting as a niche corner of the finance world, ESG investing has since exploded to become a…
Continue ReadingGOP directs culture war fury toward green investing trend
By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republicans are coming out swinging against Wall Street’s growing efforts to consider…
Continue ReadingOklahoma passes strictest abortion ban; services to stop
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill prohibiting all abortions with few…
Continue ReadingBlowback as Bush gaffes Iraq war, not Ukraine, ‘unjustified’
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Former President George W. Bush is facing criticism after mistakenly describing the invasion of Iraq — which he led…
Continue ReadingJury hears closing arguments in trial over slain teacher
OCILLA, Ga. (AP) — Closing arguments have ended in the trial of a Georgia man charged with murdering a popular high school teacher whose…
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