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Extreme heat without AC in Texas prisons is unconstitutionally cruel punishment, judge rules

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditionin...

Mar 26, 2025

Ex-North Dakota lawmaker gets 10 years for going to Europe with intent to pay for sex with a minor

A once-powerful former North Dakota lawmaker was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor. Holmberg's attorney, Mark Friese, confir...

Mar 26, 2025

Appeals court won't halt order barring Trump administration from deportations under wartime law

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law. A spl...

Mar 26, 2025

Macron says a proposed European force for Ukraine could 'respond' if attacked by Russia

PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that a proposed European armed force for possible deployment in Ukraine in tandem with an eventual peace deal could "respond" to a Russian ...

Mar 26, 2025

Sudan’s army says it has recaptured Khartoum's airport as it seeks to liberate the capital

CAIRO (AP) - Sudan's military says it has retaken the international airport in the capital, Khartoum, after nearly two years of fighting against a notorious paramilitary group. The military says its c...

Mar 26, 2025

4 American soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have been killed, NATO leader says

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Wednesday that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have been killed, but that he did not yet know the details. ...

Mar 26, 2025

Strong Democratic performance in Pennsylvania's election is seen as a light in the party's darkness

MANHEIM, Pa. (AP) - Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an ups...

Mar 26, 2025

Trump asks Supreme Court for OK to cut teacher-training money as part of anti-DEI push

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration is at the Supreme Court with a new emergency appeal Wednesday, this time seeking approval to go ahead with cuts of hundreds of millions of dollars for teache...

Mar 26, 2025

Majority of Brazil's Supreme Court panel accepts coup charge against ex-President Bolsonaro

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A majority of a panel of justices of Brazil's Supreme Court has accepted charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 ...

Mar 26, 2025

Captured Ukrainians convicted on terrorism charges by Russia in what Kyiv called a sham trial

Russia on Wednesday convicted 23 captured Ukrainians on terrorism charges stemming from the war in Ukraine in a military court trial that Kyiv denounced as a sham and a violation of international law....

Mar 26, 2025