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By The Associated Press President Donald Trump arrived in the United Arab Emirates Thursday for the last leg of his first major foreign trip. Air Force One was given a fighter jet escort into the country’s airspace, just as Saudi Arabia and Qatar offered on the first stops of his Mideast trip. Trump was greeted

By KIM CHANDLER AND SAFIYAH RIDDLE Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday approved enhanced legal protections for police officers, changes that Republicans said show support for law enforcement but Democrats called “a green light to kill Black folks.” The Alabama Legislature gave final approval to the legislation that sets legal standards

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A legal challenge against a first-of-its-kind measure that recategorized two widely used abortion -inducing drugs as “controlled dangerous substances” in Louisiana can move forward, a judge ruled Thursday. Baton Rouge-based Judge Jewel Welch denied the Louisiana Attorney General’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed last

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said federal prosecutors tried to “humiliate and degrade” him by making him give his fingerprints and take a mug shot for a second time Thursday after a court appearance on a trespassing charge stemming from his arrest at an immigration detention center

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment’s repeal and instead ban most abortions with exceptions for rape an incest. The newly proposed constitutional amendment would go back to

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would scale back state Medicaid coverage for immigrants without legal status, eliminate coverage for certain weight loss drugs and use money from a key climate program to help fund state fire response under a $322-billion budget proposal announced Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An ethics complaint stemming from Republican Daniel Cameron’s failed run for Kentucky governor has resurfaced as the former state attorney general campaigns to succeed U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in next year’s hotly contested election. The state’s Executive Branch Ethics Commission on Wednesday took another step in

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers put abortion ban on state ballot, seeking to reverse voter-approved abortion-rights measure.

By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal appeals court that already has said private individuals and groups cannot sue under a key part of the federal Voting Rights Act went even further Wednesday toward blocking lawsuits over alleged racial bias in voting in seven Midwest states. But its decisions may not

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan congressman is charging ahead — largely without support from his own party — in his attempt to impeach President Donald Trump, a move that comes as the congressman faces political trouble at home. Second-term U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar has introduced seven articles of impeachment

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired two veteran intelligence officials because they oppose President Donald Trump, her office said, coming a week after the release of a declassified memo written by their agency that contradicted statements the Trump administration has used to justify deporting Venezuelan immigrants.

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s State Election Board voted Wednesday to create a committee to weigh proposed election rules before the board takes them under consideration. Board Chairman John Fervier explained during a public meeting that the purpose of the committee will be to allow “all parties to have a voice

Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas man who made antisemitic threats against Nevada U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen and her family has been sentenced to just under four years in federal prison. Rosen, a Democrat, is Jewish and has maintained a vocal pro-Israel stance. Rosen’s office previously confirmed that she and her family

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has agreed to pay a $329,794 fine to settle an ethics board’s complaint that he misspent public funds on his security detail during his brief, failed run for U.S. president. The deal, announced Wednesday by the city’s Conflicts

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is facing a $12 billion deficit that Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to help close by freezing enrollment in a state-funded health care program for immigrants living in California without legal status. Newsom announced the deficit and his plans to cover it Wednesday as he outlined

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Newsom wants to pause enrollment of more immigrants without legal status in state-funded health program.

NEW YORK (AP) — Responding to complaints from the tech industry and other countries, the U.S. Department of Commerce has rescinded a Biden-era rule due to take effect Thursday that placed limits on the number of artificial intelligence chips that could be exported to certain international markets without federal approval. “These new requirements would have

By STEVE PEOPLES and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Six months after Donald Trump’s presidential victory, Democrats remain deeply pessimistic about the future of their party, although neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party is viewed favorably by a majority of U.S. adults. A new poll conducted earlier this month by

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump met with interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia, the first encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years and one that could mark a turning point for the region as Syria struggles to emerge from decades of international isolation. The meeting marks a major turn

By OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press/Report for America RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republicans engaged in scrubbing the federal government of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are fielding a historically diverse ticket in Virginia in one of the only states holding elections this year. Those two things aren’t inherently incompatible, and some experts say nominating diverse candidates

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Barbara, a Cuban emigre 30 weeks into a high-risk pregnancy, is dealing with the additional stress of not knowing for sure that her baby girl will be an American citizen. “It scares me a lot that my baby will be born without citizenship because she would not

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s first female mayor has conceded the mayoral race to a man who will likely become the community’s first Black mayor. Voters in Omaha were making history Tuesday by either reelecting the city’s first female mayor to a rare fourth term or electing the community’s first Black mayor. The race between

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just the “gesture” of a $400 million luxury plane that President Donald Trump says he’s smart to accept from Qatar. Or that he effectively auctioned off the first destination on his first major foreign trip, heading to Saudi Arabia because the kingdom was ready to

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ed Martin Jr., who will be the Justice Department’s new pardon attorney after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination to be the top federal prosecutor for Washington, said Tuesday that he plans to scrutinize pardons that former President Joe Biden issued on his way out of the

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress are moving with rapid speed to advance President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security funding as leaders work to enact many of his campaign promises. House committees have been laboring for months to draft

By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania voters would get more than a week of early voting and county election officials would have more time to start processing mail-in ballots under an election law proposal that advanced out of the state House on Tuesday by a single vote, with

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A coalition of 20 state Democratic attorneys general filed two federal lawsuits on Tuesday, claiming that the Trump administration is threatening to withhold billions of dollars in transportation and disaster-relief funds unless states agree to certain immigration enforcement actions. According to the complaints, both Secretary of

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in the U.S. Senate and who was state’s the youngest person to be governor, died Tuesday. He was 86. Bond’s family told Gov. Mike Kehoe’s office that Bond died in St.

ATLANTA (AP) — An injunction barring the enforcement of Florida’s drag-show ban will remain in effect after a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the law is likely unconstitutional. A three-judge panel for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to back a lower court decision that described Florida’s law, purportedly aimed at protecting

By JEFF AMY and BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — When Georgia’s governor and a lightning-rod congresswoman decided last week to not run for the U.S. Senate, it seemed like the waiting game was over among Republicans seeking to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff. U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, who represents a district on