Appeals court says US downplayed coal mine’s climate impacts
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court says U.S. officials improperly downplayed the climate change…
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Israeli firm’s spyware used on Jordan activists, report says
By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Digital-rights researchers have concluded that the mobile phones of four Jordanian human rights…
Continue ReadingGeorgia legislature drifts right in 2022 election year
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The 2022 session of the Georgia General assembly saw some bright moments of bipartisan cooperating,…
Continue ReadingUS: Discrimination based on opioid treatment violates law
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The U.S. Department of Justice is warning employers, healthcare providers and others not to discriminate against…
Continue ReadingAfter Trump backed her foe, SC’s Mace says she raised $1M
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina raised more than $1 million in the first quarter of this year. The Republican…
Continue ReadingCops: Home-invasion defendant left homework in getaway car
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police say an 18-year-old man arrested in a home-invasion robbery in which a woman was killed left his high school…
Continue ReadingWomen watch Costa Rica’s president-elect warily
By JAVIER CÓRDOBA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — The election of conservative economist Rodrigo Chaves to be Costa Rica’s next…
Continue ReadingAnalysis: 3 GOP senators buck party to back Biden court pick
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Republican senators are breaking from their party to support Judge Ketanji…
Continue ReadingWhite House to extend student loan pause through August
By COLLIN BINKLEY and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through…
Continue ReadingEPA rule would finally ban asbestos, carcinogen still in use
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a rule to finally ban asbestos, a carcinogen…
Continue ReadingA hit man’s last job? Killer tells judge he’s a changed man
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A 73-year-old hit man who recently pleaded guilty to the contract killing of a political…
Continue Reading2 killed in Georgia, Texas as damaging storms strike South
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say one person is dead in Georgia and another in Texas amid damaging storms, high…
Continue ReadingWhite House: US, allies to ban new investments in Russia
By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and its European allies will impose stiff new sanctions Wednesday,…
Continue ReadingAt Masters, some come to see golfers, others to see gnomes
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The boxes weren’t flying off the shelves. They weren’t even making it onto the shelves.…
Continue ReadingLawyer for NYC fired after grilling mayor over kid mask rule
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for New York City was fired after she crashed a Monday news conference to confront Mayor Eric Adams about the city’s…
Continue ReadingFungus that causes fatal bat disease found in Louisiana
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A fungus that has killed millions of bats nationwide has been found in Louisiana but has…
Continue ReadingNurse indicted in custody death, no indictment for officers
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a nurse on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the 2019 death of a Black man at at a North…
Continue ReadingAustralia, UK, US alliance to develop hypersonic missiles
By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States, United Kingdom and Australia have announced that they will work together via…
Continue ReadingLate Iowa man linked to 1980s killings in Indiana, Kentucky
By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana State Police say they used genealogical data and crime scene evidence to link an…
Continue ReadingTop general urges more US troops in eastern Europe
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer says the United States should look at the…
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