PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris visited the bloodied classroom building Saturday where 2018 Parkland High School Massacre happened, then announced a program to help states that have laws allowing police to temporarily seize guns from people judges deem dangerous. Harris saw bullet-riddled walls and floors still covered in dried blood and broken …
Authorities said Friday they believe the deaths of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs and a 72-year-old man who lived in a remote cabin are linked to the escape of A member of a pro-white prison gang in Idaho and an accomplice after an ambush at a Boise hospital. The escaped inmate, Skyler …
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas medical panel on Friday rejected calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S., which doctors say is dangerously vague and has forced women with serious pregnancy complications to leave the state. The head of the Texas Medical Board also said that broader …
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SANDERSON, Texas (AP) — During the nine hours that Texas was allowed to arrest and deport people who enter the US illegally., Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland never changed his tactics with migrants in his remote border county. Not because I oppose the idea. There’s just no practical way to do it, said the sheriff of Terrell …
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Rod Blagojevich, the former governor and ex-convict who often dusted off ancient and sometimes puzzling quotes to make his points, found himself on the other end Thursday when a federal judge threw out his lawsuit trying to return to public life, quoting Dr. Seuss: “Just go.” The Chicago Democrat, impeached and …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation Thursday designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. The move makes Tennessee, long known as the birthplace of country music and a launching pad for musical legends, the first US state to introduce such measures. …
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A Nebraska Republican lawmaker who sparked a firestorm of controversy by repeatedly name-checking a fellow senator while reading graphic account about rape from a best-selling memoir on the floor of the Legislature is now under investigation for sexual harassment. The investigation into state Sen. Steve Halloran of Hastings by the Legislative Executive Council was announced …
An Idaho white supremacist prison gang member and an accomplice remained at large Wednesday after the accomplice staged a brazen overnight raid to free the inmate while he was being transported from a Boise hospital, police said. Three corrections officers were shot and wounded — two by the accomplice and one by responding police — …
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ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend three decades ago is scheduled to be sentenced to death Wednesday in what would be a state first performance in over four years. Willie James Pye, 59, was convicted of murder and other crimes in the November 1993 killing of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. The …
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DENVER (AP) — A proposed rewrite of the law governing the United States Olympics calls for public funding for the stalled U.S. Center for Safe Sports while forming a new government office to oversee the grassroots sports long associated with the Olympics themselves . The Associated Press obtained a copy of the legislation, which is …
