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By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health. The cuts include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders,

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There are just two Planned Parenthood clinics in South Carolina, but every year they take hundreds of low-income patients who need things like contraception, cancer screenings and pregnancy testing. The organization has long been at the center of the debate over abortion, but its clinics across the

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has declined to block the use of Georgia’s electronic voting system in a long-running lawsuit alleging that the system is vulnerable to attack and has operational issues that could deprive voters of their constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg found that the activists

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film “JFK” portrayed President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, is set to testify to Congress on Tuesday about thousands of newly released government documents surrounding the killing. Scholars say the files that President Donald Trump ordered to

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will be decided Tuesday in a race that broke records for spending and has become a proxy battle for the nation’s political fights, pitting a candidate backed by President Donald Trump against a Democratic-aligned challenger. Republicans including Trump and

By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voted Tuesday for Jill Underly to remain as the state’s top education official during President Donald Trump’s second term, choosing the Democratic-backed incumbent over a Republican-supported critic. Wisconsin voters also decided to enshrine the state’s voter ID law in the state constitution.

By STEPHANY MATAT, KATE PAYNE and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Republicans Jimmy Patronis and Randy Fine won special elections Tuesday in two Florida congressional districts, bolstered by President Donald Trump’s endorsement to fill vacant seats in reliably Republican strongholds. Patronis, the state’s chief financial officer, fended off a challenge

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers won’t change state policies allowing transgender kids and teens to play on sports teams consistent with their gender identities amid heated nationwide debates over the participation of trans youth in athletics. Democratic lawmakers on the state Assembly’s Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports

By AMANDA SEITZ and MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As they readied to leave work Monday, some workers at the Food and Drug Administration were told to pack their laptops and prepare for the possibility that they wouldn’t be back, according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. Nervous employees — roughly

By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades. The “reciprocal’’ tariffs that he is expected to announce Wednesday are likely to create chaos for global businesses and conflict with America’s allies and adversaries alike.

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers said repeatedly that a student-tracking database had been removed from a school safety bill, but parts of that plan survive. The Senate and House gave final approval to House Bill 268 on Monday, sending the response to September’s deadly shooting at Apalachee High School to

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday paused plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, a week before they were scheduled to expire. The order by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco is a relief for 350,000

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to overhaul the nation’s elections faced its first legal challenges Monday as the Democratic National Committee and a pair of nonprofits filed two separate lawsuits calling it unconstitutional. The Campaign Legal Center and the State Democracy Defenders Fund brought the

By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Scientists who want to learn more about a tiny flower recently discovered in West Texas are hoping it will bloom again in a couple of weeks after rain finally fell in the area. Dubbed the wooly devil, the flower with furry leaves, purplish-striped petals and pops of

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up investigation found scores of missteps in several executions. The lawsuit was filed March 14 in

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As the trade wars launched by U.S. President Donald Trump continue to escalate, all eyes are on Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly called April 2 “Liberation Day,” with promises to roll out a set of tariffs, or taxes on imports from other countries, that he says

BISHOP, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters stopped the forward spread of a wildfire tearing through a remote area of eastern California, but evacuation orders for residents of hundreds of homes remained in place, officials said Monday evening. The Silver Fire erupted Sunday afternoon along Route 6 in Inyo County, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) northeast of

DETROIT (AP) — About a dozen people have been injured, including six children, following an apparent explosion and fire Monday morning at a 2-story apartment building in Detroit. The explosion was reported about 4 a.m., according to fire officials. When firefighters arrived, some people were in windows of the building “kind of hanging off ready

By AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration remains a strength for President Donald Trump, but his handling of tariffs is getting more negative feedback, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About half of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s approach to immigration, the survey

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A court on Monday cleared the way for the release of investigative records from the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, as long as depictions of the deceased couple are blocked from view. The ruling from a New Mexico judge allows the

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating a fire early Sunday that damaged the entryway to the headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Agents working with local authorities recovered unspecified “incendiary materials” at the scene, said Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesperson Cody Monday. He declined to

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Maxim Naumov came to a stop in the middle of the ice, looked up at the sky and patted his heart. Then he mouthed a few words, in Russian, to his parents: “This is for you guys. You guys are with me. I love you both.”