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By JACK DURA and SARAH RAZA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The nearly 2,700-mile Keystone oil pipeline was shut down Tuesday morning after it ruptured in North Dakota, halting the flow of millions of gallons of crude oil from Canada to refineries in the U.S. and potentially leading to higher gasoline prices. South Bow,

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press MERRICK, N.Y. (AP) — Starting in the 1980s, New York law enforcement and health officials fielded sexual abuse complaints from the young patients of a respected pediatrician who ran his practice out of a basement office in his home on Long Island. But Stuart Copperman was never charged with any

By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The murder trial of a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey, an unarmed black woman, in her Springfield home last summer will be moved out of the capital city to Peoria because of intense publicity, a judge ruled Tuesday. Circuit Judge Ryan Cadagin

By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army has made changes to how its helicopters use a safety system that broadcasts aircraft location and has reduced the number of flights over Washington following a collision with a passenger jet that killed 67 people, the head of Army aviation told The Associated Press on

WASHINGTON (AP) — A waiver issued Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security allows the federal government to bypass environmental regulations and begin construction immediately on stretches of the border wall in Southern California. Homeland Security said in a statement that the waiver signed by Secretary Kristi Noem will “cut through bureaucratic delays” and

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is touting a Supreme Court ruling allowing it to resume deportations under the Alien Enemies Act as a major victory, but the immigration fight is far from over. The divided court found that President Donald Trump can use the 18th

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s $9 congestion toll on drivers entering the most traffic-snarled parts of Manhattan appears likely to remain through the summer and possibly into the fall as a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s authority to end the program moves forward. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who called the toll a “slap

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government. The justices acted in the administration’s emergency appeal of a ruling by a

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Democratic-led states and cities are pushing back on a Trump administration threat to cut education funding over diversity, equity and inclusion programs, creating a standoff that could test how far the White House is willing to go to press its demands on the nation’s schools.

By ASHRAF KHALIL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash over the changes. “Changes to the Underground Railroad page on the National Park Service’s website were made without

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders Tuesday aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline. According to two senior White House officials, Trump will use his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power plants set for

By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Olja Ivanic looked forward to welcoming some cousins from Sweden to her Denver home in June. Ivanic and the four travelers were planning to go hiking in Colorado and then visit Los Angeles and San Francisco. But then President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a February

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was set Tuesday to help plant a young Magnolia tree on the South Grounds to replace a nearly 200-year-old predecessor that was removed due to safety concerns presented by its deteriorating condition. The Republican president had announced March 30 on his social media platform

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former Sen. Joe Manchin has a memoir coming out in September, what the self-styled maverick from West Virginia calls his “declaration of independence from the extremes on both sides.” St. Martin’s Press announced Tuesday that Manchin’s “Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense” will be

By BRUCE SCHREINER, KRISTIN M. HALL and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — After days of deluges overfilled rivers to near-record levels across Kentucky, residents were anxious Tuesday to return to their flooded homes and assess what’s salvageable, even as stubbornly high waters kept some of them waiting even longer. Susan Williams returned

By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer PHOENIX (AP) — For parents who need to work but can’t afford the steep cost of child care, federally funded scholarships can be a lifeline. Delivered through state child care assistance programs, the scholarships can mean the difference between a parent working full time — or not at all.

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of torturing political opponents of Gambia’s former military dictator Yahya Jammeh nearly 20 years ago, the latest international trial tied to his regime. Federal prosecutors invoked a rarely used law that allows people to be

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal magistrate judge is expected to hear arguments Tuesday morning in a lawsuit brought by three news organizations that say Idaho prison officials are unconstitutionally hiding parts of lethal injection executions from public view. The Associated Press, East Idaho News and The Idaho Statesman filed

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — Migrants who were temporarily allowed to live in the United States by using a Biden-era online appointment app have been told to leave the country “immediately,” officials said Monday. It was unclear how many beneficiaries would be affected. More than 900,000 people were allowed in the

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on her lunch break was executed Tuesday evening. Michael Tanzi was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison for the April 2000 strangling of Janet Acosta, a

By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press Clem Burke, whose versatile drumming propelled the iconic rock group Blondie during its decades performing everything from new-wave punk to disco-infused tunes, has died. He was 70. The band said in a statement on its website Monday that he died from cancer but no additional details were provided. “Clem was

By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On a frigid February morning, Vanity Cordero, a Philadelphia police officer, heard a call over the radio for a man threatening to jump from a bridge. The details sounded familiar. When Cordero arrived, she realized she’d met him months earlier on the same bridge, where she talked

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and MIKE STOBBE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide. Kennedy said he’s assembling a task force of health experts to study the issue

By ANNIE MA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Several international students who have had their visas revoked in recent weeks have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly took away their permission to be in the U.S. The actions by the federal government to terminate students’

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. Mahdi’s lawyers said his original attorneys put on a shallow case trying

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Authorities released a woman and her three children from custody on Monday after immigration agents detained them late last month while investigators were making an arrest at an upstate New York farm as part of an unrelated criminal case. President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, told Carthage-based TV station

By SEJAL GOVINDARAO and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Lori Vallow Daybell, who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival, is on trial again Monday. This time, she’s accused in Arizona of conspiring to murder her estranged husband. In opening statements the prosecution said that

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to honor the life and legacy of the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress after she died of brain cancer last month at age 49. The former lawmaker from

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The temporary order comes hours after a Justice Department emergency appeal to the Supreme Court arguing U.S. District

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant that claimed a local news outlet defamed him in public comments about its Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the misspending of $77 million in federal welfare funds. The one-page ruling Friday by Madison County Circuit Court Judge Bradley Mills sided