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By Dan Merica, CNN It isn’t often that Democrats look to deep-red Kansas for resounding affirmation. But on Tuesday night, when Kansans overwhelmingly voted to keep protections for abortion rights in their state constitution, that is exactly what happened. The size and scope of the result were a shock to even the most optimistic Democrats.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal oversight board is ordering the United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company where members have been on strike for more than a year. The National Labor Relations Board says Warrior Met Coal Mining is due some $13.3 million
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal oversight board is ordering the United Mine Workers of America to pay more than $13 million in compensation to an Alabama coal company where members have been on strike for more than a year. The National Labor Relations Board says Warrior Met Coal Mining is due some $13.3 million
Continue Reading By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are moving toward what’s expected to be an overwhelming bipartisan vote ratifying NATO membership for Finland and Sweden. Lawmakers ahead of Wednesday’s vote called expansion of the Western defensive bloc a “slam-dunk” for U.S. national security and a day of reckoning for Russia’s
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department has filed suit against Peter Navarro, claiming the former adviser to Donald Trump used an unofficial email account while working in the White House and wrongfully retained presidential records. The lawsuit in federal court in Washington claims Navarro used at least one “non-official”
Continue Reading By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota government ethics board on Wednesday pressed forward in its investigation of two complaints against Gov. Kristi Noem. It resisted an effort from the Republican governor to see them dismissed and extended the time it has to examine the allegations. Noem is under
Continue Reading By SEUNG MIN KIM and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed in part at making it easier for women seeking abortions to travel between states to obtain access to the procedure. One of the directives will allow states that have not outlawed abortion to apply
Continue Reading By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says it will conduct helicopter overflights to look for methane “super emitters” in the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region. EPA’s Region 6 headquarters in Dallas, Texas, issued a news release about a new enforcement effort in the Permian
Continue Reading By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin are making the case for overhauling the 1800s-era Electoral Count Act. The two senators pushed Wednesday for quick passage of their bipartisan compromise that would make it harder for a losing candidate to overturn the legitimate results
Continue Reading By BRUCE SCHREINER and BRYNN ANDERSON Associated Press HINDMAN, Ky. (AP) — The long days searching debris-clogged creekbanks are taking a toll on search teams in flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky. Phillip Dix is leading a team from Memphis, Tennessee. He says his crew is used to the stifling heat and humidity. But he says they’re tired
Continue Reading By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden traveled to Saudi Arabia almost three weeks ago on the possibility that he could get some additional oil production out of OPEC+. But the cartel and other nations announced a scant increase of 100,000 barrels a day on Wednesday. The White House is responding
Continue Reading The Associated Press Stocks closed higher on Wall Street Wednesday as investors reviewed a mostly encouraging batch of earnings from big companies. The S&P 500 rose 1.6% to an almost 2-month high. The Nasdaq and Dow Jones industrials also rose. Starbucks and CVS closed higher after reporting solid quarterly results. PayPal shares soared on a
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona and Clare Foran, CNN Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski has died in a car accident that also killed two of Walorski’s staffers, House Republican leaders announced Wednesday. The news came as a major shock on Capitol Hill and immediately sparked an outpouring of grief and remembrances from lawmakers and aides who paid
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By BRIAN DULIK Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Amed Rosario hit a mammoth three-run homer and rookie Oscar Gonzalez added a solo shot, sending the Cleveland Guardians to a 7-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday. Rosario’s career-long, 450-foot drive to dead center was the longest of the season at Progressive Field, topping the
Continue Reading By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was killed Wednesday in a car accident in her northern Indiana District, according to her office. “Jackie’s husband, was just informed by the Elkhart County Sheriff’s office that Jackie was killed in a car accident this afternoon. She has returned home to
Continue Reading By REBECCA BOONE and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In deeply conservative Idaho, it’s expected that abortion will be banned eventually, but abortion rights advocates are continuing their legal challenges. They were before the state’s top court Wednesday to ask the justices to continue blocking enforcement of three laws intended to restrict
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In a highly unusual move that rattled Hollywood, Warner Bros. axed the “Batgirl” film planned for HBO Max, opting to shelve the $90 million film as the reorganized studio revamps its approach to streaming and DC Comics films. The studio ultimately decided the nearly completed
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In a highly unusual move that has rattled Hollywood, Warner Bros. axed the “Batgirl” film planned for HBO Max, opting to shelve the $90 million film as the reorganized studio revamps its approach to streaming and DC Comics films. The studio ultimately decided the nearly
Continue Reading JIM SALTER Associated Press (AP) — Republican leaders got their wish with the defeat of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens in the U.S. Senate primary. Now, they face another complication — a well-funding, right-leaning political newcomer who could splinter some of the Republican and independent vote in November. Attorney General Eric Schmitt pulled off a
Continue Reading MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — The driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed the father of rapper Nicki Minaj last year was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail, in keeping with a promise the judge made when the man pleaded guilty in May. Charles Polevich, who pleaded guilty to leaving the scene and tampering with
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