Arizona's Democratic leaders get enough votes to repeal 19th century abortion ban (apnews.com)
Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police (apnews.com)
A mission of mercy, then a fatal mistake: How an aid convoy in Gaza became Israel's target (apnews.com)
The path to the April 1 attack started months ago, as aid groups desperately looked for ways to feed millions cut off from regular food deliveries. Gaza was sealed off by Israeli forces within hours of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants that ignited the war. Since then, more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed and more...
Why did more than 1,000 people die after police subdued them with force that isn't meant to kill? (apnews.com)
Carl Grant, a Vietnam veteran with dementia, wandered out of a hospital room to charge a cellphone he imagined he had. When he wouldn’t sit still, the police officer escorting Grant body-slammed him, ricocheting the patient’s head off the floor....
Dairy cattle in Texas and Kansas test positive for bird flu (apnews.com)
Milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu, U.S. officials said Monday....
Victims of Catholic nuns rely on each other after being overlooked in the clergy sex abuse crisis (apnews.com)
On Wednesdays, the support group meets over Zoom. The members talk about their lives, their religious families and their old parochial schools. But mostly, they are there to talk about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Catholic nuns....
German police conduct raids against people suspected of posting misogynistic hate speech online (apnews.com)
In Germany, sweeping slurs against women can be punishable as incitement to hatred....
Trillions of gallons leak from aging drinking water systems, further stressing shrinking US cities (apnews.com)
For generations, the water infrastructure beneath this southern Alabama city was corroding, cracking and failing — out of sight and seemingly out of mind — as the population shrank and poverty rose. Until it became impossible to ignore....
The killing of a nursing student out for a run highlights the fears of solo female athletes (apnews.com)
The killing of a 22-year-old nursing student has once again put the spotlight on dangers faced by female athletes who practice sports alone.
Trump says he strongly supports IVF after Alabama court ruling puts new pressure on Republicans (apnews.com)
Jury convicts Iowa police chief of lying to feds to acquire machine guns (apnews.com)
The jury convicted Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt, 47, of conspiring to make false statements to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making false statements to the agency, and illegal possession of a machine gun. He was convicted on 11 of 15 charges....
Senate Republicans block bipartisan border package, scuttling deal they had demanded from Democrats (apnews.com)
A Texas company is suing Chicago after the city began penalizing buses that drop off migrants (apnews.com)
A Texas transportation company is taking the nation’s third largest city to federal court, ratcheting up a legal battle over the migrant crisis that’s left U.S. cities struggling...
AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says (apnews.com)
Baltimore's new approach to police training looks at the effects of trauma, importance of empathy (apnews.com)
A three-minute viral video shows an irate Baltimore police officer berating a teenager because he ignored orders to stop skateboarding and called the officer “dude.”...
The White House is threatening the patents of high-priced drugs developed with taxpayer dollars (apnews.com)
Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, dies at 100 (apnews.com)
Greta Thunberg brushes off interruption at massive Dutch climate march days before election (apnews.com)
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Judge indicates she may delay Trump trial on charges he hid classified documents at Mar-a-Lago (apnews.com)
A federal judge in Florida indicated Wednesday that she may delay the start of the classified documents trial of Donald Trump, pointing to the other criminal cases the former president is facing as well as the mounds of evidence his attorneys need to review....
Oklahoma attorney general sues to stop US's first public religious school (apnews.com)
Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Friday sued to stop a state board from establishing and funding what would be the nation’s first religious public charter school after the board ignored Drummond’s warning that it would violate both the state and U.S. constitutions....
Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism (apnews.com)
Powered by AI models trained on troves of text pulled from the internet, chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard responded to the researchers’ questions with a range of misconceptions and falsehoods about Black patients, sometimes including fabricated, race-based equations, according to the study published Friday in the...
Biden says Hamas attacked Israel in part to stop a historic agreement with Saudi Arabia (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden said Friday he thought Hamas was motivated to attack Israel in part by a desire to stop that country from normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia....
Netanyahu says Israel will ‘crush and destroy’ Hamas; every Hamas member is a ‘dead man’ (apnews.com)
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel would “crush and destroy” Hamas in response to its attack....
A riled Trump sounds off outside the New York fraud trial that accuses him of lying about wealth (apnews.com)
On the brink of a federal shutdown, the House passes a 45-day funding plan and sends it to Senate (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the brink of a federal government shutdown, the House on Saturday swiftly approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open as Speaker Kevin McCarthy dropped demands for steep spending cuts and relied on Democratic votes for passage to send the package to the Senate....
