AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday asked a federal appeals court to block a San Antonio judge's order that gave state officials 45 days to correct an online voter registration system that was found to violate federal law.

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia on Monday ordered officials to create a process that lets ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has nominated a staunch anti-immigration activist to head the State Department agency that oversees refugee and immigration issues.

Ronald W. Mortensen, a former foreign service officer and longtime fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates against legal and illegal immigration, is Trump'...Read more

Hartford police officer injured in stabbing attack released from hospital

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Hartford Police said Friday that Officer Jill Kidik, who was severely injured in a stabbing attack last week, has been released from Hartford Hospital.

Kidik, a 12-year department veteran, was wounded during a call to a landlord-tenant dispute at an ...Read more

CHICAGO -- The teacher who subdued a suspected gunman during a shooting Friday at a middle school in Noblesville, Ind., is a former Southern Illinois University football player and Mahomet, Ill., native.

Jason Seaman, 29, played defensive end for the Salukis from 2007 to 2010 and graduated with a degree in elementary education. Seaman played 47...Read more

The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri is suing the Independence School District on behalf of a senior who was banned from his graduation ceremony for, in jest, listing his high school for sale on Craigslist.

The ACLU claims that Kylan Scheele's free speech rights were violated when he was suspended for three days and denied ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- When the 34-year-old woman saw the news Thursday morning, she couldn't help but smirk.

The world had been holding its breath for the unprecedented summit between a sitting U.S. president and North Korea's leader, but she knew better than to get her hopes up. Many were caught off guard when President Donald Trump abruptly called ...Read more

DUBLIN ––Ireland voted Friday 68 percent to 32 percent to liberalize the country's restrictive abortion laws, an exit poll conducted for the Irish Times showed late Friday.

Though the votes will not be counted until Saturday, the poll predicted an overwhelming victory for the "yes" campaign in a referendum that divided the traditionally ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri House committee investigating Gov. Eric Greitens has sent a subpoena to the governor, committee chairman Rep. Jay Barnes announced Friday afternoon.

Barnes said the subpoena asks Greitens to testify on June 4, a Monday. One of Greitens' attorneys, Michelle Nasser, told the committee Friday afternoon that she ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- After the death of seven inmates at Lee Correctional Institution during a gang-related riot, two more lawsuits -- including one suing for wrongful death -- have been filed against the South Carolina Department of Corrections, according to Lee County court records.

A relative of Eddie Gaskins, a 32-year-old man incarcerated at ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Hartford Police said Friday that Officer Jill Kidik, who was severely injured in a stabbing attack last week, has been released from Hartford Hospital.

Kidik, a 12-year department veteran, was wounded during a call to a landlord-tenant dispute at an apartment building on Constitution Plaza on May 17.

Although police said it ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- When it began, with a South Korean official standing outside the White House announcing that the leaders of the United States and North Korea would meet for an unprecedented summit, President Donald Trump believed he had accomplished a historic breakthrough -- an accomplishment, he told friends, that would secure his legacy and his...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The website promises that audio recordings can cure dozens of ailments -- among them diarrhea, anxiety, labor pains, malaria, even a pet's infection.

Dr. William Edwin Gray III, a homeopathic doctor who practices in the Bay Area, sells these so-called eRemedies for $5 on his website. Each recording is 13 seconds long and consists...Read more