By ROCIO HERNANDEZ/The Nevada Independent The Nevada Independent A women's rights group is trying to keep a Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo-led proposed ballot initiative, which would limit transgender female student athletes to school sports based on their sex at birth, off the 2026 ...
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The city of Seattle has reached a $29 million settlement with the family of a 23-year-old graduate student from India who was struck by a speeding police officer as she crossed a street in 2023. Jaahnavi Kandula was hit by Officer Kevin ...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation's highest security federal prison, warning that officials cannot employ a "sham" process for ...
By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A man who admitted to killing two men in a drive-by shooting in 2006 was put to death Thursday in Oklahoma's first execution of the year. Kendrick Simpson, 45, was pronounced dead at 10:19 CST following a three-drug injection at the ...
By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining within the historically healthy range of the past few years. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Feb. 7 fell by 5,000 to 227,000 from the ...
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press Prosecutors in Utah have filed a first-degree felony rape charge against Brigham Young University standout wide receiver Parker Kingston, officials said Wednesday. Kingston, 21, is being held without bail in St. George, a city near Arizona, Washington ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A man detained by police for questioning in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has been released while investigators hope that images of a masked person on her Arizona porch still will bring tips from the public to help solve her apparent abduction. The man told several ...
By TY O'NEIL Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Fresh surveillance images from Nancy Guthrie's porch the night she went missing, coupled with intense police activity across Arizona and the detention of a man had raised hopes that authorities were nearing a major break. But then the man ...
By SEUNG MIN KIM, BEN FINLEY, MARY CLARE JALONICK, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and MORGAN LEE Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Pentagon allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use an anti-drone laser earlier this week, leading the Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats took to the Senate floor Wednesday to deliver impassioned speeches denouncing the Justice Department's attempt to indict a group of lawmakers who last year urged U.S. military members to resist "illegal orders," framing the ...
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman during an immigration crackdown last year, according to evidence released Wednesday by attorneys who accused the Trump administration of mishandling ...
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States on Wednesday to pressure the discount retailer into taking a public stand against the 5-week-old immigration crackdown in its home state of ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The maker of a gun accessory tied to a racist shooting that killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo will pay $1.75 million to survivors and victims' families and stop selling the device in New York, state Attorney General Letitia James said Wednesday. The ...
By KEVIN FREKING, MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A disruption in reimbursements to states for disaster relief costs. Delays in cybersecurity response and training. And missed paychecks for the agents who screen passengers and bags at the nation's ...
By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to slap back President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, a rare if largely symbolic rebuke of the White House agenda as Republicans joined Democrats over the objections of GOP leadership. The ...
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans rushed to approve legislation on Wednesday that would impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements ahead of the midterm elections, a long shot Trump administration priority that faces sharp blowback ...
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Investigators in Florida say a double homicide discovered during a well-being check was linked to a shooting rampage hours later in a gated community on the other side of the state, which left five more people dead including the suspected shooter. The suspect had a ...
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is endorsing Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette 's bid to succeed him in office, an attempt to clear the field in the crowded Republican primary that could pave the way for a coveted endorsement from President ...
By STEVEN SLOAN and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump attacked the Republican leader of the National Governors Association on Wednesday as tensions mounted between the White House and the bipartisan group of state leaders ahead of its annual ...
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh has admitted he is a thief, a liar, an insurance cheat, a drug addict and a bad lawyer. But even from behind bars he continues to adamantly deny he is a killer. Murdaugh's attorneys argued Wednesday before the South ...