Gov vetoes North Carolina bill limiting K-12 racial teaching
By BRYAN ANDERSON Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has rejected a bill to limit how teachers…
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Appeals court blocks Tennessee Down syndrome abortion ban
By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A panel of federal judges has reversed course and block a Tennessee restriction that…
Continue ReadingArizona sells Unilever bonds over Ben & Jerry’s Israel move
By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The state of Arizona has sold off $93 million in Unilever bonds and plans to sell the remaining $50…
Continue ReadingAt least 1 dead, 10 missing in landslide near Mexico City
By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico (AP) — A section of mountain on the outskirts of Mexico City has given way, plunging rocks…
Continue ReadingBiden’s vaccine rules ignite instant, hot GOP opposition
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are blasting President Joe Biden, threatening lawsuits and going as far as to call…
Continue ReadingJudge: Hastert’s sexual abuse accuser to be named at trial
YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A man who accused Dennis Hastert of child sexual abuse then sued the former U.S. House speaker for refusing to pay $1.8m in…
Continue ReadingEXCERPT: On 9/11, reporting from Taliban-controlled Kabul
By KATHY GANNON Associated Press In the late afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, Associated Press correspondent Kathy Gannon, on assignment in Afghanistan,…
Continue ReadingCalifornia may impose toughest rules on recycling labels
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have approved what advocacy groups say are the nation’s strongest…
Continue ReadingBen Affleck, Jennifer Lopez make romance official in Venice
By LEANNE ITALIE AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — After weeks of smooching on yachts and holding hands on intimate walks, Jennifer Lopez and…
Continue ReadingUS gives 1st public look inside base housing Afghans
By FARNOUSH AMIRI Report for America/Associated Press FORT BLISS, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration is giving the first public look inside a…
Continue ReadingFederal judge acquits Tennessee professor with ties to China
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press A federal judge has thrown out all charges against a University of Tennessee professor accused of hiding his…
Continue ReadingMemoir by Philip Roth biographer to be reissued next week
NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey will be reissued this fall after publisher W.W. Norton and Company dropped it amid…
Continue ReadingSaudi Arabia, 20 years after 9/11: ‘A country in the making’
By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — All but four of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi citizens and the Saudi…
Continue ReadingFDA official hopeful younger kids can get shots this year
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine chief is pledging to rapidly evaluate COVID-19 vaccines for…
Continue ReadingRussia complains of ‘election interference’ to US ambassador
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry has summoned US Ambassador John Sullivan to complain about alleged interference by what it called…
Continue ReadingIsraeli media: 4 Palestinian escapees captured, 2 at large
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media reports say two more of the six Palestinians who broke out of a…
Continue ReadingAlbanian parliament sworn in following April Socialist win
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s new parliament members have been formally sworn in and elected a new speaker, in the house’s first session…
Continue ReadingGroups seek federal help with lead in Michigan city’s water
By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer Advocacy groups want the Biden administration to help provide safe drinking water in Benton Harbor, Michigan.…
Continue ReadingJudge unimpressed by latest argument in Abu Ghraib case
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge expressed skepticism about a military contractor’s latest legal arguments…
Continue ReadingWigged out: A Venezuelan spymaster’s life on the lam
By ARITZ PARRA and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Wigs, a fake moustache and a new safehouse every three months are just some of the…
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