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By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawyers for Iowa’s largest abortion provider argued in court documents that there’s no precedent or legal support for bringing back a law banning most abortions. A judge had permanently blocked in 2019, saying it violated the state’s constitution. Planned Parenthood lawyers from the American Civil

By KANTELE FRANKO Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal appeals court is reviving unsettled lawsuits against Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by the late team doctor Richard Strauss. A judge had dismissed most of the unsettled cases last year. The judge acknowledged it’s clear hundreds of young men were abused, but

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge has temporarily blocked Ohio’s ban on virtually all abortions in the state. The state’s abortion ban has been in effect since Roe v. Wade was overturned in June. Hamilton County Judge Christian Jenkins paused the law Wednesday for 14 days. That means abortions

By MICHAEL TARM and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury has convicted R&B star R. Kelly of three child pornography and three child enticement charges in his hometown of Chicago. But the 55-year-old Kelly was was acquitted Wednesday of a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him fixing his state child

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration has accepted nearly $190 million in bids from an offshore oil and gas lease sale that was held nearly a year ago but rejected by a federal judge. Wednesday’s action by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was required under the climate bill

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Abbott Elementary” creator-star Quinta Brunson said she’d rather focus on the show than Jimmy Kimmel’s comedy bit that overshadowed her Emmy acceptance speech and prompted criticism. But Sheryl Lee Ralph, who received her own Emm y for the sitcom with a rousing song and speech,

By AMY TAXIN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press OAK GLEN, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers searched Wednesday for a person missing in a mudslide that swept boulders down fire-scarred slopes and damaged or destroyed 30 homes in the Southern California mountains as firefighters in the northern part of the state tried to contain an explosive week-old

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A onetime aide to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sued him, saying he tried to groom her for a sexual relationship at the start of the pandemic and then later smeared her reputation publicly. The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday by Charlotte

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Federal officials are examining whether the employee who reported an explosion at Northeastern University may have lied to investigators and staged the incident, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. Investigators identified inconsistencies in the employee’s statement and became skeptical because his injuries did not

RAGAN CLARK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion designer Michael Kors says he’s been doing some revenge travel since the pandemic and wants to help dress women who are doing the same. Kors’ spring/summer 2023 collection features business wear and night-out looks with a resort-style sensibility. At his New York Fashion Week show Wednesday,

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A former Texas sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for killing his ex-wife, teenage stepdaughter and the stepdaughter’s boyfriend. Former Travis County sheriff’s deputy Stephen Broderick was automatically sentenced after pleading guilty to capital murder Tuesday in the deaths of 35-year-old ex-wife Amanda Broderick, 17-year-old stepdaughter Alyssa

Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A 20-year-old Tesla driver who died with a passenger in a fiery, high-speed crash on a residential South Florida street last year might have been upset after learning he had lost a scholarship, federal investigators said. The National Transportation Safety Board released new documents Tuesday saying the driver of the

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A new surveys shows nearly one in five U.S. adults bet money on sports over the past year. The report from the Pew Research Center shows that 19% of adults surveyed said they bet on sports. The most common way they did so involved bets

By The Associated Press Car buyers might not get the vehicle they want on time, commuter rail lines could see service disrupted, and shipments from everything from oil to livestock feed could be snarled. Those are just a few of the wide-ranging impacts a walkout by U.S. rail workers would have on the country’s industries

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will transfer $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank funds to benefit the Afghan people as hunger grips every province there. In an announcement Wednesday, a year after the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal, the U.S. said the Taliban government will not have access to the

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers Stock indexes are mixed afternoon trading on Wall Street Wednesday following the market’s worst day in two years on fears about higher interest rates and the recession they could create. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% as of 3:05 p.m. Eastern, after wavering between small gains

By JAN M. OLSEN and VANESSA GERA Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A right-wing bloc that includes a nationalist anti-immigration party has won a narrow majority in Sweden’s parliament. It’s a major political shift in the Scandinavian country that had a decades-long history of welcoming refugees, but is grappling with a crime wave linked

HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say newly tested DNA evidence helped them make an arrest in the killings more than eight years ago of a family, including two boys, who were shot in their suburban Houston home. Feng Lu, 58, who had long been considered a suspect in the case, was arrested on Sunday by police

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s center-left Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has conceded defeat in a weekend election while the leader of a nationalist anti-immigration party declared victory for his right-wing bloc. Jimmie Akesson, leader of the populist Sweden Democrats, said Wednesday his party would be “a constructive and driving force in this work” of rebuilding

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Children are back in school in Seattle following a weeklong teachers strike that delayed the start of classes. Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education Association announced Monday night that they had reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, and late Tuesday they announced that the