Group buys Alabama abortion clinic to keep it from closing
An Alabama-based abortion rights group received a flood of donations after state lawmakers in 2019 attempted to outlaw abortion By…
Trump ramps up expulsions of migrant youth, citing virus
HOUSTON — The young migrants and asylum seekers swim across the Rio Grande and clamber into the dense brush of…
Calls grow for probe of shooting that left black woman dead
Calls for an outside investigation into the fatal police shooting of a Kentucky emergency medical technician are growing, two months…
Michigan woman at center of transgender rights case dies
Aimee Stephens, a Detroit-area transgender woman who was fired by a funeral home after she said she wanted to be…
Study: Virus death toll in NYC worse than official tally
NEW YORK — New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus may be thousands of fatalities worse than the tally…
NY to require virus testing for nursing home staffers
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York nursing homes must start twice-weekly coronavirus testing for all staffers and will no longer be…
Trump administration asks court to toss lawsuit over ERA
The Trump administration has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by three Democratic state attorneys general seeking…
N. Carolina principal sorry for racial remark during meeting
A school principal in North Carolina apologized after making a reference to “colored folks” during a staff meeting May 5,…
Consider human costs in economic reopenings, Cuomo urges
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued that officials who are reopening economies need to be upfront about…
AP Courtside: Supreme Court finishes Day 2 of phone argument
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is hearing a second day of arguments by telephone with the audio available live to…
Tiny Montana school to be among first in US to reopen
A tiny public school in Montana will be among the first in the U.S. to resume classroom teaching this week…
Bobby Lee Verdugo, leader of 1968 LA school walkout, dies
Bobby Lee Verdugo, one of the leaders of the 1968 East Los Angeles high school walkout to protest discrimination and…
Court: Proof of citizenship for voter registration unlawful
A federal appeals court panel has ruled that a Kansas law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is…
Trump urges states to consider opening schools before summer
President Donald Trump says states should “seriously consider” reopening their public schools before the end of the academic year, even…
CDC compiles new guidelines to help organizations reopen
WASHINGTON — Businesses should close break rooms. Restaurants should consider disposable menus and plates. Schools should have students eat lunch…
Riots, escapes and pepper spray: Virus hits juvenile centers
Nicole Hingle wasn’t surprised when the call came. Frustrations had been building inside juvenile detention centers nationwide as the number…
Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for minors and floggings
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has ordered an end to the death penalty for crimes committed…
Virus lockdown raises tensions in France’s poorest areas
CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France — Joining more than 1,000 others, Djemba Diatite stood for hours in line to feed her growing family,…
UN food agency chief: World on brink of ‘a hunger pandemic’
The head of the U_N_ food agency is warning that, as the world is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, it…
TV doctors Oz and Phil explaining controversial Fox comments
Two television doctors — Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil — find themselves trying to explain comments made on Fox News…
Company: 4 Georgia poultry workers dead from coronavirus
A major U.S. meat producer says four of its poultry workers in Georgia have died after becoming infected by the…
7 Midwest states to partner on reopening the economy
Seven Midwestern governors announced Thursday that they will coordinate on reopening their state economies, after similar pacts were made earlier…
Workers sue McDonald’s over harassment at Florida stores
Two McDonald’s workers in Florida are filing a $500 million class action lawsuit against the company, claiming a “systemic sexual…
Officials want delay in nation’s head count due to virus
The U.S. Census Bureau wants to delay deadlines for the 2020 head count of all U.S. residents because of the…
Virginia gov seeks to delay minimum wage hike due to virus
Citing economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has proposed an amendment to a bill increasing…
Report: Stockpile of 39 million masks exposed as fake
A major California labor union that claimed to have discovered a stockpile of 39 million masks for health care workers…
New York area walloped as global virus deaths pass 100,000
NEW YORK — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 Friday as the epidemic in the U.S.…
US death toll closes in on Italy’s as Midwest braces
CHICAGO — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus briefly overtook Italy‘s for the highest in the world Saturday, according…
Virginia governor signs gun-control bills into law
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed several new gun restrictions he championed during this year’s legislative session, cementing gains by…
ACLU seeks release of federal prison inmates where 5 died
A class-action lawsuit filed Monday seeks the release of hundreds of high-risk inmates at a federal lockup in Louisiana where…
Australian court dismisses cardinal’s sex abuse convictions
Australia’s highest court has dismissed the convictions of the most senior Catholic found guilty of child sex abuse By ROD…
Counties without coronavirus are mostly rural, poor
SANTA FE, N.M. — As the coronavirus rages across the United States, mainly in large urban areas, more than a…
Civil rights leader, MLK aide Joseph Lowery dies at 98
ATLANTA — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a veteran civil rights leader who helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.…
Mexican man dies in ICE custody; 10th since October
A 42-year-old Mexican man died in a South Texas hospital while being held pending his deportation March 23, 2020, 5:43…
Muslim officials: Al-Aqsa mosque, third holiest site in Islam, closes over virus
Muslim officials: Al-Aqsa mosque, third holiest site in Islam, closes over virus concerns, prayers to continue outside Source link
Georgia 2nd state to postpone pres. primaries over virus
Georgia election officials are postponing the state’s March 24 presidential primaries until May because of fears over the coronavirus By…
Pope goes on Roman walkabout, prays for end to pandemic
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis left the Vatican to make a surprise visit Sunday to two churches in Rome to…
Iditarod mushes on; fans being urged to skip finish in Nome
Officials with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race are encouraging fans, especially those from out-of-state, not to travel to Nome…
A hospitalized Weinstein ‘has not given up,’ his lawyer says
Harvey Weinstein is in the hospital with the next chapter of his legal saga in limbo By TOM HAYS Associated…
Omar marries political consultant, months after affair claim
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has married a political consultant who worked for her, months after the two were…
Pregnant 19-year-old, child die trying to climb US wall
Authorities say a 19-year-old pregnant woman from Guatemala died this week from injuries suffered when she fell trying to climb…
St. Paul teachers continue strike, no classes for a 2nd day
Some 36,000 public school students have another day off in St. Paul while their teachers walk the picket line in…
Mother sues hospital over drug test that led to abuse probe
A mother sued a Pittsburgh hospital Wednesday, saying it collected and tested her urine for drugs without her consent while…
Afghans set to release 1,500 Taliban; US wants less violence
After a series of delays, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has agreed to release 1,500 Taliban prisoners as a goodwill gesture…
Suit: Website sold ammo to underage accused Texas shooter
A lawsuit alleges that a teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school in 2018 was…
Homeless at ‘double risk’ of getting, spreading coronavirus
SALEM, Ore. — They often don’t have places to wash their hands, struggle with health problems and crowd together in…
Med student charged with research smuggling freed on bond
A medical student from China who U.S. authorities say tried to smuggle cancer research material out of the country has…
AP Exclusive: NRA firearms auction at country museum nixed
For weeks the NRA has been publicizing plans to auction off firearms at a fundraising dinner at the Country Music…
University of Michigan won’t change investigation into abuse
ANN ARBOR, Mich, — University of Michigan leaders said Friday that they plan to stay the course with their own…
Turkey, Syria fighting escalates; refugees mass at EU border
KASTANIES, Greece — Thousands of migrants and refugees massed at Turkey’s western frontier Sunday, trying to enter Greece by land…
NH-based bus company stops warrantless immigration checks
Concord Coach Lines is the latest bus company to announce it will no longer allow Border Patrol officers onto buses…
Trump seeks high court approval to speed deportations
WASHINGTON — The man slipped into the U.S from Tijuana, Mexico, and made it just 25 yards from the border…
Court halts Trump asylum policy, then suspends its own order
SAN DIEGO — A Trump administration immigration policy that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases wind…
Biden looks for first 2020 victory in South Carolina primary
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Democrats’ 2020 nominating fight turned to South Carolina on Saturday for the first-in-the-South primary, with Joe…
Towson student group: Rename buildings honoring slave owners
A group of Towson University students wants school officials to rename two dormitories that honor Maryland politicians who owned slaves…
About 40% of US adults are obese, government survey finds
A new government survey finds that about 40% of American adults are obese By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer February…
Fired Kansas City school worker blames bosses for faked data
A fired Kansas City Public Schools secretary who was among seven employees accused of falsifying attendance data in a bid…
Crackdown on immigrants who use public benefits takes effect
PHOENIX — Pastor Antonio Velasquez says that before the Trump administration announced a crackdown on immigrants using government social services,…
Girl, 11, brings AR-15 to Idaho hearing on gun legislation
An 11-year-old girl toting a loaded AR-15 assault weapon appeared Monday with her grandfather, who is supporting legislation that would…