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Indictment accuses former Uvalde schools police chief of delays while shooter was "hunting" children

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The police chief for schools in Uvalde, Texas, failed to identify an active shooting, did not follow his training and made critical decisions that slowed the law enforcement respo...

Jun 28, 2024

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors Friday, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to seek medical care for their...

Jun 28, 2024

Justice John Roberts says the Supreme Court's last decisions of this term are coming on Monday

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will issue the final opinions of its terms on Monday. Chief Justice John Roberts made the courtroom announcement on Friday. Four cases remain to be decided, includi...

Jun 28, 2024

Supreme Court makes it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, charge Trump faces

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge that also has been brought against former President Donald Trump. The justices...

Jun 28, 2024

Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court decided on Friday that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outdoors in West Coast areas where shelter space is lacking. The case is the most signifi...

Jun 28, 2024

Iowa’s Supreme Court tells lower court to let strict abortion law go into effect

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that put a temporary block on the state's strict abortion law, and is telling the lower court to let the law take effec...

Jun 28, 2024

Iranians vote to replace president killed in a helicopter crash, but apathy remains high

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iranians were voting Friday in a snap election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month, as public apathy has become perv...

Jun 27, 2024

Trump and Biden spar on economy after skipping handshake at start of debate

PHOENIX (AP) - President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump opened their first 2024 president debate without shaking hands and went right to mixing it up on policy Thursday night. Some key mo...

Jun 27, 2024

Voting is underway in an election in Mongolia for an expanded 126-seat parliament

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) - Voters in Mongolia are electing a new parliament on Friday in their landlocked democracy that is squeezed between China and Russia, two much larger authoritarian states. A...

Jun 27, 2024

Former Uvalde school police chief and officer indicted over Robb Elementary response, reports say

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The former Uvalde schools police chief and another former officer have been indicted over their role in the slow police response to the 2022 massacre in a Texas elementary school ...

Jun 27, 2024