AP National

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in at least half a dozen states are looking to copy a Texas law…

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Federal marshals have arrested an Ohio man accused of accosting an MSNBC journalist doing a live report by a Mississippi beach…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has agreed to restart 16 defense advisory boards, after…

By MALLIKA SEN and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Many people are asking why no one foretold of the deadly ramifications of…

By TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A woman reluctantly has taken the witness stand against R. Kelly to recount how he struck up a…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The first Afghan refugee to arrive in Utah since the nation’s swift takeover by…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A coalition of abortion rights advocates, clinics and advocacy groups have filed a suit seeking to block recent anti-abortion…

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Family members of the 34 people killed in a fire aboard a scuba diving boat off the California…

By KATHY GANNON Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Sharply conflicting accounts have emerged of a drone strike the U.S. unleashed earlier…

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A new study finds that the warming of the Arctic due to climate change has increased the number of polar vortex…

By JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two of the industry’s biggest poultry companies have agreed to pay nearly $35 million to…

By KRISTIN M. HALL AP Entertainment Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a vocal group at Fisk University whose tradition dates…

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — The operator of a limousine company has pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and…

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a recall election Sept. 14 that could remove him…

By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A hundred years have passed in West Virginia since a mine industry conflict sparked the…

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota prosecutors have filed a more serious charge against the former suburban Minneapolis…

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A former Georgia prosecutor has been indicted on misconduct charges related to the killing of…

By IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press/Report for America A Texas law that bans most abortions has providers and advocates preparing for an increasing…

By REBECCA SANTANA and MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press INDEPENDENCE, La. (AP) — Louisiana health officials say four nursing home residents died…

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a revised settlement with U.S. Steel, more than four years after one of the steelmaker’s…