By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Idaho officials to temporarily enforce a strict statewide ban on gender-affirming care for most minors, in one of the first such cases to reach the nation’s highest court. In an emergency request filed in February, Idaho asked the justices to
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine is going to become the latest to join a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote with the governor’s announcement that she’ll let the proposal become law without her signature. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills said she finds merits in arguments made for and
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities have confirmed the deaths of two Kansas women who went missing on a trip to pick up children for a birthday party. Two bodies were recovered in rural Oklahoma, a day after four people were charged with murder and kidnapping. Authorities say
Continue ReadingMANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Jury selection has started in the retrial of a former corrections officer charged in the death of an inmate at a county jail in northern Ohio. Mark Cooper faces a reckless homicide charge and two counts of involuntary manslaughter. The charges stem from Cooper’s alleged role in the September 2019 death
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell and Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — The first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump is here. The opening day of the first criminal trial of a former US president began Monday, hitting home the reality that the presumptive Republican nominee for president will be sitting in a Manhattan courtroom as
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer Chiefs coach Andy Reid says wide receiver Rashee Rice will participate in the team’s voluntary offseason program beginning this week. Rice is facing one count of aggravated assault, one count of collision involving serious bodily injury and six counts of collision involving injury as the result of a sports
Continue ReadingBy STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is leaving uncertain his plan for advancing wartime aid for Ukraine. It put the future of the funding in doubt as lawmakers returned to Washington on Monday for a crucial week of foreign policy work. Iran’s missile and drone strike
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ, MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The historic hush-money trial of Donald Trump got underway Monday with the arduous process of selecting a jury to hear the case charging the former president with falsifying business records in order to stifle stories about his sex life. The
Continue ReadingBy HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four members of a rural Iowa family have pleaded not guilty in the abduction and abuse of an 18-year-old relative who had allegedly showed up at a hospital so badly beaten that his brain was bleeding and so malnourished that he weighed just 70 pounds
Continue ReadingBy TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Paris Hilton joined California state lawmakers Monday to push for legislation aimed at cracking down on the industry that cares for troubled teens by requiring more transparency from youth treatment facilities. The bill supported by the Hilton Hotel heiress and media personality aims to pry open
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called on the House to immediately take up the Senate-passed supplemental legislation for Ukraine and Israel funding on Monday as he hosted Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala in the Oval Office. Biden aimed to highlight the efforts other nations are making to support Ukraine. His comments followed the Czech
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks slumped after higher yields in the bond market cranked up the pressure on Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell 1.2% Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 1.8%. Stocks had been up earlier in the day, rising
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The dying words of an Oregon man who had an asbestos-linked cancer are being replayed in a federal courtroom for a jury hearing a wrongful death case against Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway. Attorneys for the estates of Thomas Wells and a second
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The biggest moments for many of this generation’s Olympic athletes came in front of mostly empty stands. That was three years ago at the COVID-19 Summer Olympics or two years ago at the COVID-19 Winter Olympics. Now that they’re preparing for the Paris Olympics, the
Continue ReadingBy SOPHIKO MEGRELIDZE Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Lawmakers in Georgia’s legislature have scuffled as the parliament started debating a divisive new law dubbed the foreign agent bill. Hours later, hundreds of people protested against the legislation outside the parliament in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The draft — proposed by the ruling party
Continue ReadingBy JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military chief said Monday that his country will respond to Iran’s weekend attack, but he did not elaborate on when and how as world leaders urged against retaliation, trying to avoid a spiral of violence in the Middle East. The Iranian attack on Saturday came in
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys with Wisconsin’s largest business lobbying group have asked the state Supreme Court =to strike down Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ use of a partial veto to lock in a school funding increase for the next 400 years. The Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Litigation Center filed the
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California officials on Monday sued Huntington Beach over a new law that lets the city require voters to provide identification to cast ballots at the polls starting in 2026. State Attorney General Rob Bonta said the measure approved by voters in the Southern California city
Continue ReadingBy AMY TAXIN Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — California officials on Monday sued Huntington Beach over a new law that lets the city require voters to provide identification to cast ballots at the polls starting in 2026. State Attorney General Rob Bonta said the measure approved by voters in the Southern California city
Continue ReadingBy SEAN MURPHY and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities have confirmed the deaths of two Kansas women who went missing on a trip to pick up children for a birthday party. Two bodies were recovered in rural Oklahoma, a day after four people were charged with murder and kidnapping. Authorities say
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