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UN assembly suspends Russia from top human rights body

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the world organization's leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldi...

Apr 07, 2022

Judge tosses Girl Scouts' recruitment suit vs. Boy Scouts

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday rejected Girl Scouts' claims that the Boy Scouts created marketplace confusion and damaged their recruitment efforts by using words like "scouts" and "scout...

Apr 07, 2022

Top Pakistan top court rules against PM, restores Parliament

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying his move to dissolve Parliament and call early elections was illegal and ordering that the house b...

Apr 07, 2022

Pelosi positive for COVID-19, was at White House with Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19, a day after appearing unmasked at a White House event with President Joe Biden. Pelosi received a positive test result fo...

Apr 07, 2022

Michigan governor sues to secure abortion rights, vacate ban

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sued Thursday to protect abortion rights, asking a Michigan court to recognize a right to abortion under the state constitution and to overturn a 176-year-o...

Apr 07, 2022

Turkey suspends trial of Saudi suspects in Khashoggi killing

ISTANBUL (AP) - A Turkish court ruled Thursday to suspend the trial in absentia of 26 Saudis accused in the gruesome killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and for the case to be transfe...

Apr 07, 2022

Scavino, Navarro held in contempt of Congress in 1/6 probe

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino were held in contempt of Congress on Wednesday for their monthlong refusal to comply with subpoenas rendered by the House committe...

Apr 06, 2022

Texas orders new border action, migrant bus charters to DC

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state troopers on Wednesday to begin stopping and inspecting commercial vehicles coming across the U.S-Mexico border and said bus charters would be of...

Apr 06, 2022

3rd day ends with no verdict yet in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A jury in Michigan still has no verdict to deliver after three days of deliberations in a trial that centers on a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. U.S. Distric...

Apr 06, 2022

Texas lawmakers to meet with woman facing execution

HOUSTON (AP) - A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers planned on Wednesday to visit a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old ...

Apr 06, 2022