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Michigan newspapers sue for access to redistricting memos, meeting recording
DETROIT — Three news outlets and the Michigan Press Association filed suit Tuesday in the Michigan Supreme Court to ... Read More
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Details announced for Bob Dole funeral Friday in Washington, DC
The Washington National Cathedral will host the funeral of Bob Dole on Friday, part of a week marking the legacy of the late Kansas senator.
The formal tribute to Dole begins Thursday, when he will lie in state in the ...Read more
NYPD pulls 2,000 bodycams from use after one 'ignited'
NEW YORK — The NYPD has taken 2,000 body cameras out of circulation after one worn by a Manhattan cop “ignited,” police confirmed Tuesday.
The department yanked all of its Axon AB2 cameras for inspection after a cop...Read more
Cutting-edge Space Force radar installed at Alaskan base
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A new milestone has been reached in the creeping militarization of space.
A ceremony at the Clear Space Force Base (formerly Clear Air Force Station) south of Fairbanks celebrated the end of ...Read more
Mexican kidnap-for-ransom ring that operated in Southern California is indicted
LOS ANGELES — Members of a violent kidnap-for-ransom ring based in Tijuana were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury after they were accused of abducting nine people and killing six of them, including three U.S. ...Read more
Biden urges Putin toward diplomacy, not war, with Ukraine
WASHINGTON — President Biden warned Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a videoconference Tuesday that invading Ukraine would result in stiff economic sanctions from the U.S. and several European allies.
The ...Read more
'You've got a great body for Mr. Epstein': Woman says she was 14 when Maxwell hired her
NEW YORK — “You’ve got a great body for Mr. Epstein and his friends,” Ghislaine Maxwell told one of the financier’s accusers when she was an underage teen, the woman testified Tuesday.
The woman, now in her 30s ...Read more
Senate confirms border chief amid record migrant encounters
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday evening confirmed Chris Magnus to head U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Homeland Security law enforcement agency dealing with a record number of migrant crossings at the southern...Read more
Ghislaine Maxwell groped 14-year-old, said victim had 'a great body for Mr. Epstein,' accuser testifies
NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell groped a 14-year-old girl’s bare breast and declared the teen “had a great body for Mr. Epstein,” a Manhattan jury heard Tuesday.
The third accuser to take the stand against Maxwell �...Read more
Compromise defense bill unveiled with big increase in authorized spending
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate Armed Services committees released a compromise version of the annual defense policy bill Tuesday that would authorize $768.1 billion in defense spending.
After the Senate was unable to...Read more
Bank of America aided Murdaugh in his scheme to steal money, new lawsuit claims
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh’s late housekeeper have filed a lawsuit against Bank of America, alleging the bank allowed Murdaugh to set up and use a bank account to launder millions in stolen money.
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Senate votes to allow Saudi 'defensive' arms sale to proceed
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday voted against a path forward for a resolution that would have banned a proposed weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. The Biden administration pushed for the sale, arguing that the arms are “...Read more
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Partisan bickering may doom efforts to regulate social media
WASHINGTON — Industry representatives are accusing Republicans and Democrats of attempting to intimidate social media companies ahead of next year’s midterm...Read more
As survivors die, Pearl Harbor remembrance shifts to sons and daughters
SAN DIEGO — Tuesday's annual Pearl Harbor ceremony aboard the USS Midway Museum on San Diego's Embarcadero included a "missing man" flyover by vintage planes that felt especially poignant.
For the first time in the ...Read more
'I am officially on the run': Daughter testifies against Keith Smith in case of hoax panhandler killers
BALTIMORE — Trying to outrun murder charges in Baltimore, Valeria Smith and her father barreled toward Mexico, stopping only to change clothes, grab a bite or buy a diary so she could record her thoughts.
“Today is ...Read more
Missouri AG demands local governments, school districts end health orders after court ruling
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued a legal threat to school districts and local health agencies on Tuesday, demanding they scrap COVID-19 health orders following a judge’s ruling last month.
In...Read more
Top court expansion clamor resumes as Biden commission wraps
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court study commission bought him a year of cover from progressive calls to expand the court.
Now Biden’s time is up, the court is considering a rollback on abortion and a...Read more
People who take Viagra have lower risk of Alzheimer's, study says
Viagra might help treat Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers who have been using the impotence drug to study the effects it has on the brain.
Though more studies are needed, researchers in Cleveland found that ...Read more
Redistricting: Federal lawsuit says Ohio maps dilute Black voters' say
As the Ohio Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments about whether statehouse maps unfairly favor Republicans, another lawsuit in federal court accuses mapmakers of disenfranchising Black voters.
The lawsuit accuses the ...Read more
Biden vaccine mandate for federal contractors is blocked nationwide
The Biden administration’s mandate for federal contractors’ employees to be vaccinated will be halted nationwide, amid a slew of challenges from states that say the president overstepped his authority in requiring the ...Read more
Florida Gov. DeSantis proposes plan to fight rising seas without any 'left-wing stuff'
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a series of steps to defend Florida against rising sea levels Tuesday, even as he denounced the use of the term “global warming” as a “pretext to do a bunch of ...Read more
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