By SAFIYAH RIDDLE Associated Press/Report For America MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers approved a slew of bills on Thursday that would expand the use of Christian texts in public schools and limit protections for LGBTQ+ students, in lockstep with a national conservative agenda ...

By JAIMIE DING and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik and Lyle Menendez's bid for shorter sentences and a shot at freedom has again been delayed due to disputes among prosecutors and the brothers' lawyers. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic on Thursday ...

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Thursday provided new details about the arson fire early Sunday that prompted his family's evacuation from the governor's official residence in Harrisburg, recounting how wife and four kids and ...

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The arsonist who broke into the Pennsylvania governor's residence while Gov. Josh Shapiro and his extended family slept upstairs on the first night of Passover encountered little resistance as he scaled a ...

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The student who shot four students when he opened fire at a Dallas high school this week was in and out of the building in less than two minutes and is believed to have been targeting a specific student, the school district police chief ...

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A draft budget proposal circulating among federal officials would dramatically deepen cuts at the nation's top health agency, eliminating some public health programs entirely and serving as a roadmap for more mass firings. The document ...

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump attacked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday for not cutting interest rates and said he could fire him if he wanted to, renewing a threat from his first term that ...

By RODRIQUE NGOWI and BEN FINLEY Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — University professors and students led protests on campuses across the U.S. on Thursday against what they say are broad attacks on higher education, including massive cuts to funding, the expulsion of international ...

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Supreme Court decided last week that ballots from two categories should have been left out of the tally of an unresolved November election for a seat on the court because state laws otherwise makes the voters ...

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor repeatedly referred to Nadine Menendez as the "partner in crime" of her husband — former Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez — while asking a jury in a trial's closing argument Thursday to convict her of bribery ...

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press BROOMFIELD, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man was convicted Thursday of killing his wife after stalking her while posing as her ex-boyfriend. Jurors reached the verdict against Daniel Krug, 44, a day after beginning deliberations. They found him guilty of ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Philadelphia prosecutor who became a campaign trail punching bag for Republicans amid rising crime in U.S. cities during the coronavirus pandemic is running for reelection on the back end of a withering effort to oust progressive district attorneys ...

Harvard University is the latest in a growing list of higher education institutions that had its federal funding targeted by the government in order to comply with the Trump administration's political agenda. The series of threats — and subsequent pauses in funding — to some of the top ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A political battle fit for the gridiron is underway in Ohio, where state Republican leaders are clashing over whether to single out the Cleveland Browns for help building a new suburban domed stadium or impose tax hikes to fund stadium upgrades for the Cincinnati Bengals ...

By ANNIE MA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Several international students who have had their visas revoked in recent weeks have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly took away their permission to be in the ...

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force Gen. Dan Caine has been sworn in as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after a flurry of paperwork was finished to allow him to fill the job nearly two months after President Donald Trump fired his predecessor. A formal ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The municipal clerk in Wisconsin's capital city has quit amid investigations into how she failed to count nearly 200 absentee ballots in the November elections. Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway's office announced City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl's resignation on Monday. ...

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday to close a $2.8 billion budget gap in the state's Medicaid services and ensure coverage through June for 15 million people, including immigrants, who receive health care ...

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — For the first time in over a decade, Chicago's public school teachers have a new contract without a strike or threat of a walkout. The four-year agreement includes pay hikes, hiring more teachers and class size limits. While negotiations ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — The search has been suspended for five people missing after a boat capsized during a "failed suspected smuggling venture" off of Florida's Atlantic Coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said Monday. On Sunday, Coast Guard crews rescued four people from the ocean some 29 ...