Texas investigates hospital over care for transgender minors
By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas hospital’s care for transgender minors is being investigated by state Attorney…
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States add laws on pronouns, sports for transgender students
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb this week signed into a law a requirement that schools notify a parent when their…
Continue Reading Sudan’s warring sides send envoys for talks in Saudi Arabia
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — Sudan’s two warring generals sent their envoys on Friday to Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at…
Continue Reading 19 horses to tangle in wide-open 149th Kentucky Derby
By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The cast of characters for the 149th Kentucky Derby was rewritten in the days before the…
Continue Reading Wearing red, Indigenous families honor missing relatives
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Native Americans whose relatives have gone missing or been killed wore red on…
Continue Reading Maryland police: Attackers tried to shoot boy on school bus
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland say three masked attackers boarded a school bus earlier this week and one tried multiple times to shoot a…
Continue Reading Expelled GOP lawmaker fails to regain Arizona House seat
PHOENIX (AP) — Republican lawmaker Liz Harris who was previously expelled will not be sent back to the Arizona House of Representatives, Maricopa…
Continue Reading Denali National Park worker dies after triggering avalanche
DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska (AP) — Officials in Alaska say a Denali National Park and Preserve employee died when he was caught in an…
Continue Reading Supreme Court blocks Richard Glossip’s execution in Oklahoma
By MARK SHERMAN and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked Oklahoma from executing death row inmate…
Continue Reading Hundreds of pounds of pasta dumped near New Jersey stream
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities in a central New Jersey town say they’re no longer noodling over the mystery of how hundreds of pounds of…
Continue Reading Vermont gun bill creating 72-hour waiting period passes
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Legislature has passed a bill that requires a 72-hour waiting period for the purchase of guns, as well as other…
Continue Reading Sign of the times? History marker for communist draws anger
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A historical marker dedicated to a New Hampshire labor activist who championed women’s…
Continue Reading Germany: Man rescued from woods after sex game goes awry
BERLIN (AP) — German police say a 51-year-old man who was left tied up in the woods when a sex game went awry had a lucky escape after a cyclist…
Continue Reading Italian ex-leader Conte attacked by man protesting lockdowns
MILAN (AP) — Former Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has been physically attacked during an official appearance in Tuscany by a man protesting…
Continue Reading Why is Russia’s Wagner threatening to withdraw from Bakhmut?
A threat by the leader of private Russian military company Wagner to withdraw his fighters from the battle to seize a city in eastern Ukraine is…
Continue Reading Don’t miss this week: Jonas Brothers, Muppets, Zelda and a Bennifer double feature
By The Associated Press New music from the Jonas Brothers, a double feature of Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez films and the latest installment in the…
Continue Reading 4 Cambodians die in accident at unlicensed gold mine
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Four Cambodian prospectors who were digging for gold in a central province have died when earth collapsed into the pit…
Continue Reading Over-the-counter birth control pill faces FDA questions
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are weighing the first-ever request to make a birth control pill…
Continue Reading ‘Yellowstone’ to end in November, sequel starts in December
By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The popular television western “Yellowstone” with Kevin Costner will end this fall and be…
Continue Reading Biden said to pick Air Force general as Joint Chiefs chair
By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to announce Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. to…
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