Transgender girls go to court over Arizona school sports ban
By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The parents of two transgender girls in Arizona filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a year-old state…
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Neighbor: Man in wrong-turn shooting disliked trespassers
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press When Kaylin Gillis and her friends took a wrong turn into an upstate New York driveway last weekend, they…
Continue Reading Son confronts mom, testifies in doomsday plot murder trial
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The only surviving child of a woman charged in the murders of her two youngest children and a…
Continue Reading Parking garage collapses in NYC, killing 1; 5 injured
By TED SHAFFREY, BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A parking garage collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan’s…
Continue Reading Oklahoma sheriff says recording of killing talk was illegal
By KEN MILLER and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press An Oklahoma sheriff’s office says a newspaper’s audio recording in which the sheriff and other…
Continue Reading After Alabama birthday shooting, hope and frustration
DADEVILLE, Ala (AP) — Three days after gunfire erupted at a Sweet 16 birthday party in Alabama, victims’ relatives and officials are expressing…
Continue Reading Indiana nurse in mask case avoids jail time with plea deal
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana nurse facing a criminal charge for allegedly removing a nursing home resident’s oxygen mask hours…
Continue Reading Iran’s top leader rules out referendums on divisive issues
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader has ruled out the holding of popular referendums on state policies. Iran faced calls for…
Continue Reading DC Health Link data breach blamed on human error
By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The recent data breach of personal information for thousands of users of Washington, D.C.’s…
Continue Reading Planning a trip? Oregon’s magic mushroom experiment advances
By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s pioneering experiment with legalized magic mushrooms took a step closer to…
Continue Reading Mom, son who took zip ties into Senate convicted in 1/6 riot
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Tennessee man and his mother have been convicted of charges that they stormed the Capitol…
Continue Reading Netflix to bring down the curtain on its DVD-by-mail service
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix is poised to shut down the DVD-by-mail rental service that set the stage for…
Continue Reading Iowa’s Senate advances bill to loosen child labor laws
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawmakers in Iowa’s Senate passed a controversial bill Tuesday that would allow minors to work longer hours and work…
Continue Reading Charles Stanley, influential Baptist preacher, dies at 90
ATLANTA (AP) — Charles Stanley, a prominent televangelist who once led the Southern Baptist Convention, died Tuesday at his home in Atlanta at age…
Continue Reading Boeing production problem spills over into summer travel
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Boeing’s latest setback with production issues means airlines will have fewer planes than they expected to…
Continue Reading Trapped by fighting, Sudanese look for ways to survive
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — For the last three days, Howeida al-Hassan and her family have been hunkered down in the first floor of…
Continue Reading Former NFL defensive end Chris Smith dead at 31
By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Former NFL defensive end Chris Smith, who was touched by tragedy while he played for the Cleveland…
Continue Reading Activists demand police reform after Jayland Walker decision
By PATRICK ORSAGOS and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Social justice activists are calling for police reforms and marching through…
Continue Reading Twitter removes policy against deadnaming transgender people
By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or…
Continue Reading FDA clears extra COVID booster for some high-risk Americans
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Tuesday cleared another booster dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19…
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