Judge stops Texas execution after questions raised in case
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has stopped next week’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate who has long…
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Minn. Senate protects gender-affirming care, abortion rights
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Senate has waded into the culture wars. It has passed bills Friday to make…
Continue Reading Canada’s Trudeau hails VW plant as ‘generational’ investment
By JIM MORRIS Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a massive Volkswagen electric battery…
Continue Reading Montana transgender lawmaker silenced: What to know
By MATTHEW BROWN, AMY BETH HANSON, and SAM METZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana transgender lawmaker has sued to get back onto the…
Continue Reading Coast Guard suspends search for missing boater after 3 die
HAMPTON, N.H (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a fisherman after his boat was found capsized and three companions later…
Continue Reading Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright to be freed
By STEVE KARNOWSKI and JIM SALTER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A white former police officer convicted of manslaughter after mistaking her…
Continue Reading California researchers attempt ocean climate solution
By JULIE WATSON Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Atop a 100-foot barge tied up at the Port of Los Angeles, engineers have built a kind of…
Continue Reading Court upholds ban on South Africa’s apartheid-era flag
By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the…
Continue Reading Peru ex-leader Toledo surrenders to be extradited from US
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique surrendered to U.S. federal agents Friday to be extradited to Peru,…
Continue Reading Fatal crash sparks fire on major Connecticut highway bridge
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press A crash involving a fuel delivery truck and a car sparked a fire on a major Connecticut highway bridge Friday, with…
Continue Reading Minister: Ukraine will beat Russia in war of technologies
By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukrainian and Russian troops fight conventional battles on the front lines, Europe’s…
Continue Reading It’s Met Gala time again — here’s what we know so far
By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Last year, it took 275,000 bright pink roses to adorn the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the…
Continue Reading Vienna nudists oppose plans for cable car over their beach
BERLIN (AP) — Nudists in Austria are up in arms about plans for a cable car that would pass over a popular beach on the northern edge of Vienna…
Continue Reading Feds get first guilty plea in Michigan marijuana board probe
By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Friday to bribing the head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board, the…
Continue Reading Canadian professor convicted in 1980 Paris synagogue bombing
PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in…
Continue Reading NFL suspends 5 players for violating gambling policy
By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Three NFL players were suspended indefinitely Friday for betting on NFL games in the 2022 season, while two…
Continue Reading Frequent shootings put US mass killings on a record pace
By STEFANIE DAZIO and LARRY FENN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the…
Continue Reading On the brink: The scenario facing Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham
By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer The champagne is on ice for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Soccer is the new love of the Hollywood celebrities…
Continue Reading Austin: US troops ready to support possible Sudan evacuation
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, MATTHEW LEE and TARA COPP Associated Press RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Friday that the…
Continue Reading Early morning fire destroys wing of Idaho high school
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — An early morning fire destroyed part of a large high school in the southern Idaho city of Pocatello on Friday. No one was…
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