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Russia blocks final document at nuclear treaty conference

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia late Friday blocked agreement on the final document of a four-week review of the U.N. treaty considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament which criticized its takeove...

Aug 26, 2022

Missouri to ban sexual images in school library books

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A new Missouri law outlawing books with sexually explicit images from school libraries is about to take effect. Starting Sunday, it will be a misdemeanor punishable by up to...

Aug 26, 2022

Justice Dept. releases redacted Mar-a-Lago search affidavit

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department on Friday released a partially blacked-out document explaining the justification for an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate earlier th...

Aug 26, 2022

Testimony of Meadows, Powell sought in Ga. election probe

ATLANTA (AP) - The prosecutor who's investigating whether Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking to compel testimony from more allies of the f...

Aug 25, 2022

Judge puts hold on North Dakota trigger law banning abortion

FARGO, N.D. (AP) - A judge on Thursday again blocked a trigger law banning abortion in North Dakota as he weighs arguments from the state's lone abortion clinic that the law violates the state constit...

Aug 25, 2022

Judge orders unsealing of redacted affidavit in Trump search

WASHINGTON (AP) - A judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former President...

Aug 25, 2022

2 plead guilty in scheme to sell Biden's daughter's diary

NEW YORK (AP) - Two people have pleaded guilty in a scheme to peddle a diary and other items belonging to President Joe Biden's daughter to the conservative group Project Veritas for $40,000, prosecut...

Aug 25, 2022

Court: Arkansas can't ban treatment of transgender kids

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A federal appeals court on Thursday said Arkansas can't enforce its ban on transgender children receiving gender affirming medical care. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Ci...

Aug 25, 2022

Oklahoma executes James Coddington for 1997 hammer killing

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for a 1997 killing, despite a recommendation from the state's Pardon and Parole Board that his life be spared. James Coddington, 50, received a...

Aug 25, 2022

Ukrainian nuke plant near fighting cut off from power grid

NIKOPOL, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine's nuclear power operator says the Zaporizhzhia plant has been cut off from the electricity grid for the first time after fires damaged the last remaining transmission l...

Aug 25, 2022