Brazil: UN regional group has endorsed Amazon city to host 2025 climate conference
Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government has announced that a U.N. Latin America regional group has endorsed a Brazilian city in the…
Continue ReadingAP National
Phoenix faces dueling lawsuits over homeless crisis as advocates scramble for more shelter
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix is facing dueling lawsuits as it tries to manage a crisis of homelessness that has converted…
Continue Reading Iowa governor signs bill loosening child labor laws
By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa teenagers could work more jobs and for longer hours under a…
Continue Reading US has treaty duty to fund policing on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, judge rules
By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that the U.S, government has a treaty obligation to support law…
Continue Reading EU official says Twitter abandons bloc’s voluntary pact against disinformation
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a…
Continue Reading Court monitor warned of medical care issues at Border Patrol stations before girl’s death
By VALERIE GONZALEZ and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A court-appointed monitor said in January that child migrants held in…
Continue Reading Oregon, awash in treatment funds after decriminalizing drugs, now must follow the money
By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Funding for drug treatment centers in Oregon, financed by the state’s pioneering drug decriminalization…
Continue Reading Miami zoo apologizes for treatment of threatened kiwi bird
MIAMI (AP) — Officials at a South Florida zoo have apologized and promised to end “Kiwi Encounter” after a viral video showed humans petting…
Continue Reading Biden celebrates LSU women’s and UConn men’s basketball teams at separate White House events
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — All of the past drama and sore feelings associated with Louisiana State’s invitation…
Continue Reading Judge: School district can bar student from wearing Mexican and American flag sash at graduation
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America DENVER (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday that a rural Colorado school district can bar a high…
Continue Reading Another deceased Jesuit priest accused of sex abuse in Bolivia as pedophilia scandal grows
By PAOLA FLORES Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Spanish Jesuit priest who died in 2012 has been accused of sexually abusing a minor in…
Continue Reading Lawsuit brought by man who said he was sexually abused by Roman Catholic bishop settled
By MARK PRATT Associated Press A lawsuit brought by a former altar boy who said he was raped as a child in the 1960s by a now-deceased Roman Catholic…
Continue Reading Farmer-turned-policeman is Mexico’s eyes and ears at Popocatepetl volcano
By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press SANTIAGO XALITZINTLA, Mexico (AP) — When the Popocatepetl volcano reawakened in 1994, Mexican scientists needed…
Continue Reading Mother of man who killed Gabby Petito said in letter she would help son ‘dispose of a body’
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The mother of the man who killed Gabby Petito told her son in an undated letter that she…
Continue Reading Parents described as ‘monsters’ in horrific abuse that killed 10-month-old in England
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An English couple who fought to get their baby son back from child services and then abused him so…
Continue Reading Guatemala’s top court ends candidacy of leading presidential hopeful 1 month before vote
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s top court has blocked the candidacy of yet another presidential hopeful, this time ending the campaign of poll…
Continue Reading Presidential hopeful DeSantis inspires push to make book bans easier in Republican-controlled states
By ANDREW DeMILLO, ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — As he vies for the Republican presidential…
Continue Reading Stepfather of murdered Delaware 3-year-old pleads guilty to child endangerment
By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — The stepfather of a 3-year-old girl whose burned remains were found on a softball field…
Continue Reading North Dakota Gov. Burgum expected to announce GOP campaign for president, Republican allies say
By JOHN HANNA and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press Two Republican operatives with knowledge of the plans say that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is…
Continue Reading U.S. cities reporting fewer killings hope crime strategies prevent a summer surge
By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An expected bump in violent crime this summer has mayors and police officials around the U.S.…
Continue Reading