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Trump’s new conditions on DEI, immigration could cut off states’ wildfire funding
A new effort to force states to affirm the Trump administration’s views on DEI, transgender athletes and immigrati…
GOP's Sen. Scott suggests Dems use race as political weapon
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott accused Democrats on Wednesday of dividing the country and suggested they're wielding race as “a political weapon," using the official Republican response to
US eyes major rollback in Iran sanctions to revive nuke deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is considering a near wholesale rollback of some of the most stringent Trump-era sanctions imposed on Iran in a bid to get the Islamic Republic to return to compliance wit…
Young women, grown up without Taliban, dread their return
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Inside Ms. Sadat’s Beauty Salon in Afghanistan’s capital, Sultana Karimi leans intently over a customer, meticulously shaping her eyebrows. Make-up and hair styling is the 24-year-old’s pa…
Analysis: Biden pitches big government as antidote to crises
WASHINGTON (AP) — Forty years ago, a newly elected American president declared government the source of many of the nation's problems, reshaping the parameters of U.S. politics for decades to come. On Wednesday nig…
Deadly California arrest carries echoes of George Floyd case
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Police in Alameda, California, are under fire over the death of a Latino man who was pinned to the ground face down for more than five minutes on the same day a jury in Minneapolis began deli…
Louisiana bill would grant image rights to student athletes
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana state senators Thursday moved forward with legislation that would allow college student athletes to earn money for use of their name, image or likeness, a bill prompted by the NCAA…
An unusual coalition as Supreme Court rules for immigrant
WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual coalition of Supreme Court justices joined Thursday
'Fetal heartbeat' in abortion laws taps emotion, not science
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dr. Michael Cackovic has treated his share of pregnant women. So when Republican lawmakers across the U.S. began passing bans on abortion at what they term “the first detectable fetal heartb…
US Navy fires warning shots in new tense encounter with Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An American warship fired warning shots when vessels of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard came too close to a patrol in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy said Wednesday. It wa…
Biden's declaration: America's democracy 'is rising anew'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden declared Wednesday night that “America is rising anew” as he called for an expansion of federal programs to drive the economy past the pandemic and broadly extend the social sa…
Rudy Giuliani defiant, a day after FBI raid of home, office
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani sought to discredit the federal investigation into his dealings in Ukraine on Thursday, a day after agents raided his home and office.
EXPLAINER: No ransomware silver bullet, crooks out of reach
BOSTON (AP) — Political hand-wringing in Washington over Russia’s
The Latest: In GOP response, Scott says US isn't racist
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on
Arizona vote recount contractor releases privacy policies
PHOENIX (AP) — A contractor overseeing the Arizona Senate's unprecedented recount of 2.1 million ballots from the November election complied Thursday with a court order and released its policies for ensuring voter …
'I'm still exhaling': Swing-state voters on Biden's 100 days
ELM GROVE, Wis. (AP) — Standing on the sidelines of her son's soccer practice in this