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New York's 'equal rights' constitutional amendment restored to ballot by appeals court

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A proposed amendment to New York's constitution barring discrimination based on "gender identity" and "pregnancy outcomes" was restored to the November election ballot Tuesday by a...

Jun 18, 2024

GOP contest between Bob Good and John McGuire highlights primary slate in Virginia

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - One of America's most conservative congressmen is facing a serious primary challenge after his opponent was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, while voters in two othe...

Jun 18, 2024

Wayne Johnson beats Jan. 6 offender Chuck Hand for GOP nomination in Georgia congressional district

ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Republicans were settling two congressional nominations in Tuesday runoffs, with a former Donald Trump aide bidding for an open seat and a man convicted for illegally demonstrat...

Jun 18, 2024

Texas megachurch pastor resigns after woman says he sexually abused her in the 1980s

DALLAS (AP) - The pastor of a Texas megachurch has resigned after a woman said he had sexually abused her on multiple occasions in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12. Gateway Church's board of elder...

Jun 18, 2024

Wildfire damages hundreds of structures in New Mexican village after residents flee

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergency in southern New Mexico on Tuesday after wildfires destroyed or damaged hundreds of structures in the mountainous village...

Jun 18, 2024

US government, for the 1st time, details how Northwest dams devastated the region’s Native tribes

SEATTLE (AP) - The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have cause...

Jun 18, 2024

Massachusetts suffers statewide outage of its 911 services

BOSTON (AP) - The 911 system across Massachusetts went down Tuesday afternoon, making it impossible for anyone to reach emergency services through the call number. It was unclear how many communities ...

Jun 18, 2024

The shooter who killed 5 at a Colorado LGBTQ+ club pleads guilty to 50 federal hate crimes

DENVER (AP) - The shooter who killed five people and injured 19 others at a nightclub in Colorado Springs pleaded guilty to 50 federal hate crime charges on Tuesday. Anderson Lee Aldrich, 24, is alrea...

Jun 18, 2024

New York's top court declines to hear Trump's appeal of gag order in hush money case

NEW YORK (AP) - New York's top court declined on Tuesday to hear Donald Trump's gag order appeal, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month. The Court of Appeals fou...

Jun 18, 2024

Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under new plan from Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden is taking an expansive, election-year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. - aiming to balance...

Jun 18, 2024