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The United Auto Workers faces a key test in the South with upcoming vote at Alabama Mercedes plant

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — After 20 years at the Mercedes-Benz factory in Alabama, Brett Garrard said h...

Honolulu agrees to 4-month window to grant or deny gun carrying licenses after lawsuit over delays

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu has agreed to grant or deny applications to carry guns in public within fou...

Federal judge temporarily halts Biden plan to lower credit card late fees to $8

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge in Texas temporarily halted a plan by the Biden administration to...

The Flores agreement has protected migrant children for nearly 3 decades. Changes may be coming.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Biden administration wants to partially end a 27-year-old agreement that...

Hawaii officials outline efforts to prevent another devastating wildfire ahead of a dry season

HONOLULU (AP) — As Maui continues to recover from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century,...

California has a multibillion-dollar budget deficit. Here's what you need to know

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has a huge budget problem that could force thorny decisions fro...

Billy Graham statue for U.S. Capitol to be unveiled next week

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham set to stand inside the U.S. Capitol t...

Alleged Rushdie attacker, awaiting trial in New York, could still face federal charges, lawyer says

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The lawyer for the New Jersey man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie...

Police: Theft suspect stole 2 police vehicles while handcuffed, survived 11 officers' gunfire

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A man who crashed a stolen police vehicle, survived gunfire from 11 police officers...

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes painful cuts to close California's growing budget deficit

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's budget deficit is at least $45 billion, a shortfall so large...

Bodies of 2 backcountry skiers buried by Utah avalanche recovered from mountain, names released

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Search crews on Friday recovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept...

How West Virginia's first transgender elected official is influencing local politics

WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — When Rosemary Ketchum gets introduced as the first openly transgender person...

At least 1 dead in Florida as storms continue to pummel the South. DeSantis declares emergency

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Powerful storms packing hurricane-force winds killed at least one woman Friday...

Police arrest dozens as they break up pro-Palestinian protests at several US universities

Police made dozens of arrests as pro-Palestinian protest encampments were dismantled Friday at the...

'Where's Ronald Greene's justice?': 5 years on, feds still silent on Black motorist's deadly arrest

FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — Mona Hardin has been waiting five long years for any resolution to the federal...

Pro-Palestinian protesters demand endowment transparency. But it's proving not to be simple

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — On college campuses across the country, a rallying cry of pro-Palestinian protesters...

Airman shot by deputy doted on little sister and aimed to buy mom a house, family says

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Just two days before a sheriff's deputy in Florida shot him dead, U.S....

Iowa law lets police arrest migrants. The federal government and civil rights groups are suing

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department sued Iowa on Thursday over its new law that would...

Maine man sentenced to 27 years in prison in New Year's Eve machete attack near Times Square

NEW YORK (AP) — A Maine man who admitted trying to kill three police officers with a machete in a terrorist...

Several people detained as protesters block parking garage at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Police detained several people Thursday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

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