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Judge orders Trump administration to temporarily allow funds for foreign aid to flow again

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a three-week funding freeze that has shut down U.S. aid and development programs abroad. Judge Amir Ali issue...

Feb 13, 2025

Texas executes man for 2004 double killing in a dispute with his strip club manager

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled onto death row t...

Feb 13, 2025

Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who stepped down in the wake of Whitewater, dies at 81

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Jim Guy Tucker, who became Arkansas' governor when Bill Clinton was elected president but was later forced from office after being convicted during the Whitewater investigatio...

Feb 13, 2025

Texas judge fines New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A Texas judge on Thursday fined a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas in one of the first challenges in the U.S. to "shield laws" enacted in Democ...

Feb 13, 2025

Florida man is executed for the 1997 killing of a couple whose toddler witnessed the attack

STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm as the couple's toddler looked on was put to death Thursday in the state's first execution of the year. James...

Feb 13, 2025

Man to plead guilty to 2023 shooting of Black teen Ralph Yarl, 2 people familiar with case tell AP

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - An 86-year-old Kansas City man will plead guilty Friday to the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who rang the man's doorbell by mistake, two people familiar with th...

Feb 13, 2025

Injuries are reported in a more than 100-vehicle pileup near Portland in whiteout conditions

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A more than 100-vehicle pileup in whiteout conditions has closed part of a major interstate along the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon, authorities said Thursday. The Multnomah ...

Feb 13, 2025

DeSantis signs sweeping immigration bills after a feud with Florida Republicans

Associated Press/Report for America (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a sweeping package of immigration bills aimed at carrying out President Donald Trump 's mass deportation agenda. Republi...

Feb 13, 2025

DeSantis signs sweeping immigration bills after a feud with Florida Republicans

Associated Press/Report for America (AP) - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approved a package of sweeping immigration bills on Thursday, helping settle a bitter showdown with state Republican legislative le...

Feb 13, 2025

Russian crypto expert Alexander Vinnik returns to Moscow in Russia-US prisoner swap, reports say

MOSCOW (AP) - Alexander Vinnik, a Russian cryptocurrency expert who faced Bitcoin fraud charges in the United States, returned to Russia on Thursday after being freed in a swap that saw Moscow release...

Feb 13, 2025