Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire Texas installed on US-Mexico border (apnews.com)
Blinken begins Africa tour in Cape Verde, touting the US as a key security and economic partner (apnews.com)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a tour of four African countries on Monday, meeting with the leaders of Cape Verde and Ivory Coast and touting America as the continent’s key economic and security ally at times of regional and international crises....
New York City plans to wipe out $2 billion in medical debt for 500,000 residents (apnews.com)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams says the city intends to wipe out more than $2 billion in medical debt for up to 500,000 residents.
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...
7.1 magnitude quake rattles western China, killing at least 3 people and collapsing 47 homes (apnews.com)
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, killing three people and causing extensive damage in freezing cold weather, officials said. It was the latest in a series of temblors and natural disasters to hit the country’s west....
Hearing complaints over property taxes, some Georgia lawmakers look to limit rising values (apnews.com)
With a runup in home values sparking higher property taxes for many Georgia homeowners, there is a groundswell among state lawmakers in this election year to provide relief....
Saudi Arabia won’t recognize Israel without a path to a Palestinian state, top diplomat says (apnews.com)
US government rejects complaint that woman was improperly denied an emergency abortion in Oklahoma (apnews.com)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says an Oklahoma hospital did not violate federal law when doctors told a woman with a nonviable pregnancy to wait in the parking lot until her condition worsened enough to qualify for an abortion under the state’s strict ban....
Ex-Army soldier charged in Capitol riot was convicted of manslaughter for killing Iraqi man in 2004 (apnews.com)
A former U.S. Army soldier who was convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a handcuffed civilian in Iraq was arrested Monday on charges that he attacked police officers with a baton during the U.S. Capitol riot three years ago....
Iran is 'directly involved' in Yemen Houthi rebel ship attacks, US Navy's Mideast chief tells AP (apnews.com)
Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks that Yemen’s Houthi rebels have carried out during Israel’s war against Hamas, the U.S. Navy’s top Mideast commander told The Associated Press on Monday....
Dexter Scott King, son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies of cancer at 62 (apnews.com)
Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died Monday after battling prostate cancer....
California State University faculty launch weeklong strike across 23 campuses (apnews.com)
Nearly 30,000 professors, librarians, coaches, and other workers at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., walked off the job Monday in a weeklong strike to demand higher wages....
Israeli military says it found traces of hostages in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip (apnews.com)
A makeshift ladder led to the narrow underground pathway, about 2.5 meters (8 feet) below. The tunnel was hot and humid, with walls lined with concrete and electrical wires. Farther inside was a bathroom, where the military said it found evidence that hostages had been there, including their DNA....
What to know about overdraft fees as the White House cracks down on them (apnews.com)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed new rules that would lower overdraft fees, with President Joe Biden calling the charges “exploitative.” Currently, the fee for overdrawing a bank account averages more than $26....
Cameroon starts world's first malaria vaccine program for children (apnews.com)
Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa....
A Hindu temple built atop a razed mosque in India is helping Modi boost his political standing (apnews.com)
Three decades after Hindu mobs tore down a historical mosque, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the consecration of a grand Hindu temple at the same site on Monday in a political move to boost his party ahead of a crucial national vote....
Kansas couple charged with collecting man's retirement while keeping his body in their home 6 years (apnews.com)
A Kansas couple has been charged with fraudulently collecting more than $215,000 in retirement benefits on behalf of a dead relative while they concealed his body inside their home for six years....
DNA proves a long-dead man attacked 3 girls in Indiana nearly 50 years ago, police say (apnews.com)
A man who died in a Texas prison decades ago has been identified as the person who abducted and stabbed three Indiana girls and left them in a cornfield nearly 50 years ago, police said, citing DNA evidence....
No joke: Feds discourage humorous electronic messages on highways (apnews.com)
Feds look to drastically cut recreational target shooting within Arizona's Sonoran Desert monument (apnews.com)
Father of American teen killed in West Bank by Israeli fire rails against US support for Israel (apnews.com)
The father of an American teen killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank has railed against Washington’s military support for Israel.
Frigid weather can cut electric vehicle range and make charging tough. Here's what you need to know (apnews.com)
For nearly a week, frigid temperatures from Chicago to northern Texas have made life painful for electric-vehicle owners, with reduced driving range and hours of waiting at charging stations....
In small-town Wisconsin, looking for the roots of the modern American conspiracy theory (apnews.com)
The decades fall away as you open the front doors....
A Colorado town's newspapers were stolen after a story about rape charges at the police chief's house (apnews.com)
Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher...
Angst over LGBTQ+ stories led to another canceled show. But in a Wyoming town, a play was salvaged (apnews.com)
Oliver Baez spent two months rehearsing a scene for a school play in which his character confronts another student about bullying a gay student who takes his own life....
