By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City can't use an unconstitutional, two-century-old "anti-pauper" law to block the state of Texas from offering migrants free bus rides to the city from the southern border, a state judge has ruled.
The court on Thursday ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case canceled any remaining court deadlines Friday while prosecutors assess the "the appropriate course going forward" in light of the Republican's presidential ...
By AYANNA ALEXANDER and MATT O'BRIEN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several federal and state agencies are investigating how racist mass texts were sent to Black people across the country in the wake of the presidential election this week.
The text messages invoking slavery were ...
By JOHN O'CONNOR and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday overturned Illinois' ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that strictly interpret the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms.
U.S. ...
By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Republican Don Bacon has been elected to a fifth House term representing Nebraska's Omaha-based 2nd District, following the latest vote results in the tight race released nearly three days after the polls closed.
Bacon fended off a ...
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Army awarded a $435 million contract on Friday to build a TNT production plant in western Kentucky that will become the first domestic source for the explosive material in decades, officials said.
Senate Republican ...
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A woman and a child are dead after an officer fired a weapon while responding to a domestic disturbance at an apartment in the Kansas City suburb of Independence, Missouri.
"Heartbreaking" is how Independence Police ...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration on Friday proposed tighter restrictions on oil, solar and wind energy development across more than 6,500 square miles of federal land in the U.S. West to protect a declining bird species.
However, it is doubtful the changes would ...
DUNCANNON, Pa. (AP) — Three people were killed and two others wounded on Friday when a suspect opened fire in an apartment in central Pennsylvania, then led police on a 40-mile high-speed chase through two counties that ended with an exchange of gunfire with state troopers, police ...
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a romance turns sour and the wedding is called off?
That's what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of the dispute.
The court ultimately ruled ...