Category Archives: World

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - After a critical vote Wednesday, the Ohio House agreed to send to voters in August a measure making it more difficult to amend the state's constitution, just months before an ame...

Vermont's Republican governor signed abortion and gender affirming shield bills into law Wednesday that include protecting access to a medication widely used in abortions even if the U.S. Food and Dru...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Transgender minors in Missouri no longer will have access to puberty blockers, hormones or gender-affirming surgery under legislation passed by the Republican-led legislatur...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting an armed protester during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Texas in July 2020. Republi...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Billboards across Iran's capital proclaim that women should wear their mandatory headscarves to honor their mothers. But perhaps for the first time since the chaotic days following...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - U.S. Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican infamous for fabricating key parts of his life story, was arrested on federal criminal charges on Wednesday ahead of an expe...

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan appeared in court Wednesday, a day after he was dragged from another court and arrested in Islamabad, setting off clashes between his suppo...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli authorities say Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have launched rockets toward southern Israel. Air raid sirens are going off across the area, warning reside...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - A Tunisian naval guard shot and killed a colleague and two civilians Tuesday as he tried to enter a synagogue on the island of Djerba during an annual Jewish pilgrimage, the Tuni...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Minors seeking gender-affirming care in Washington will be protected from the intervention of estranged parents under a measure Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law Tuesday. The new l...