DENVER — The Boulder Abortion Clinic, one of the relatively few options for third-trimester pregnancy terminations and a frequent target of anti-abortion demonstrators, has closed after 50 years.

Dr. Warren Hern, the clinic’s outspoken director, said Wednesday that he’d run the practice for 50 years as of January, and saw his final ...Read more

ATLANTA — Researchers and community workers in Georgia are speaking out against deep cuts to work on maternal and infant mortality that appear in a draft budget proposal for federal health funding.

The cuts, if enacted, would add significantly to the staff cuts at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the Trump ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro wrote that there is a “shared responsibility to do better” in an opinion piece published Wednesday in the New York Times, continuing his call for society to reject political violence after an arsonist attacked the governor’s mansion last week.

Shapiro, a first-term Democratic governor, ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration last year gave an extra $5 million to a network of anti-abortion crisis pregnancy clinics and asked it to run advertisements opposing a proposed abortion amendment, the group confirmed Wednesday.

But the Florida Pregnancy Care Network’s board chose not to run those types of ads, the ...Read more

A Colombian man being held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a local jail in central Missouri died earlier this month, the agency said.

The man, Brayan Rayo-Garzon, died April 8 after he was found unresponsive at the Phelps County Jail, in Rolla — which is about 100 miles west of St. Louis — the agency said.

ICE said ...Read more

Nearly two months after hundreds of prospective California lawyers complained that their bar exams were plagued with technical problems and irregularities, the state's legal licensing body has caused fresh outrage by admitting that some multiple-choice questions were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence.

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LONDON — President Donald Trump ratcheted up pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept a peace deal that critics fear will favor Moscow, accusing the Ukrainian president of prolonging the war that’s now in its fourth year.

Trump’s latest broadside against Zelenskyy, made on Truth Social, comes even as Ukraine and its European allies have ...Read more

An accused “serial” police impersonator has been arrested for the fourth time in Florida, after investigators said his latest victim started to get suspicious.

Albert Dolan, 60, was pretending to be a cop April 21 when he pulled over the driver on suspicion of speeding in the Orlando area, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in an ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has created a new office to consolidate all the city’s arts offerings from the festivals to film.

The Mayor’s Office of Arts, Culture, and Entertainment follows the example of cities such as Atlanta, Chicago and Austin, which groups together different genres under one big tent, Scott said ...Read more

Michelle Obama addressed her decision not to attend President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.

The former First Lady got candid about the controversial move while talking with her brother Craig Robinson on their podcast, “IMO With Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson.”

“My decision to skip the inauguration — or my decision to make...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is looking for an off-ramp from the trade war it started with China earlier this month, calling its tariffs on Chinese goods unsustainable as major retailers warn the White House that U.S. consumers will begin seeing supply shortages and higher prices within weeks.

Markets soared on comments from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The retiring Sen. Richard J. Durbin has been a mainstay on the Judiciary Committee, where the Illinois Democrat became a leading voice on immigration and criminal justice issues and ushered President Joe Biden’s judicial picks through the confirmation process.

He served on Judiciary for more than two decades and got a chance to...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In 2021, attorney Shawn K. Page received a rare public reprimand from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's disciplinary board for mishandling a client's case.

This year, the Philadelphia Bar Association rated Page, who is running to be a Philadelphia Municipal Court judge, as "not recommended" when evaluating judicial candidates.

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A forest wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey, just miles from the Shore had ballooned to 11,500 acres as of Wednesday morning and was still spreading, according to state officials.

The fire could become New Jersey’s largest in 20 years, Shawn LaTourette, the commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection, said at a news ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Confronted with fresh warnings from financial markets, business leaders and top advisers, President Donald Trump this week eased off on two of his frequent punching bags: Jerome Powell and China.

Trump entered office with a steadfast desire to reshape the global economy. But his resolve has appeared to waver in the face of ...Read more

NEW YORK — An Army veteran single mother from Brooklyn was publicly identified Wednesday as the homicide victim whose dismembered body was discovered nearly 30 years ago in a Long Island park — in a case linked with the Gilgo Beach murders because of where her remains were found.

Investigators revealed the name of Tanya Denise Jackson, 26, ...Read more

NEW YORK — An elderly Long Island man was arrested and accused of vandalizing five Teslas in a mall parking lot in Nassau County, police said Wednesday.

Victor Divergilio, 83, took a sharp object and made deep scratches on the five vehicles Sunday at Roosevelt Field mall in Garden City, Nassau County police said in an alert.

The damage was ...Read more

MIAMI — In a first such decision, a Miami federal jury has found that travel booking company Expedia Group owes $29.85 million to a Cuban American family in damages for having promoted and sold bookings to Floridians at hotels in land confiscated by the Cuban government during the early days of Fidel Castro’s revolution.

The case was filed ...Read more