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Ex-Patriot Matt Light loses bid for school committee seat

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Former New England Patriots offensive lineman Matt Light has been blocked in his bid to win a seat on the Foxborough School Committee. Light, who had been critical of school m...

May 03, 2022

Report: Supreme Court draft suggests Roe could be overturned

WASHINGTON (AP) - A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report. A d...

May 03, 2022

Live updates | Putin: Russia ready for talks with Ukraine

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has told French President Emmanuel Macron that Moscow is ready for talks with Ukraine. The Kremlin said in its readout of Tuesday's call that "despite Kyiv's ...

May 03, 2022

Report: Draft opinion suggests high court will overturn Roe

WASHINGTON (AP) - A draft opinion circulated among Supreme Court justices suggests that earlier this year a majority of them had thrown support behind overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legali...

May 02, 2022

Jury awards $15M in damages in UVA lacrosse player's killing

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A former University of Virginia lacrosse player is liable for fatally beating his girlfriend in 2010 and must pay $15 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit, a jury found ...

May 02, 2022

Judge lets Tulsa Race Massacre reparations lawsuit proceed

OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can proceed, bringing new hope for some measure of justice for three survivors of the...

May 02, 2022

Amazon tribes turn the tables on intruders with social media

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - It was dusk on April 14 when Francisco Kuruaya heard a boat approaching along the river near his village in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. He assumed it was the regular delivery boa...

May 02, 2022

NYPD veteran convicted of assaulting officer in Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal jury on Monday convicted a New York Police Department veteran of assaulting an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot, rejecting his claim that he was defending himself when ...

May 02, 2022

Arrest warrant issued in Alabama for missing jail official

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) - An arrest warrant has been issued for a jail official who disappeared while escorting a prisoner last week in Alabama. Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton said a warrant was...

May 02, 2022

Jan. 6 panel wants interviews with Brooks, Biggs, Jackson

WASHINGTON (AP) - Three more House Republicans received requests Monday to voluntarily appear before the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection, weeks after investigators ...

May 02, 2022