By MICHELLE L. PRICE and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is having early discussions about a grand military parade in the nation’s capital this summer, something that is a long-held dream of President Donald Trump. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that the administration had reached out to the
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By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor division administered to combat child labor and slave labor around the world. The Bureau of International Labor Affairs helped reduce the number of child laborers worldwide by 78 million over
Continue Reading By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor division administered to combat child labor and slave labor around the world. The Bureau of International Labor Affairs helped reduce the number of child laborers worldwide by 78 million over
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that a special election to fill the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner’s seat won’t be held until November and defended the timing by renewing criticism of past Houston-area elections. Abbott’s announcement that the special election will be on
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By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press A former Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice who spread election conspiracies and led an investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss in the swing state agreed Monday to surrender his law license to settle multiple misconduct violations. The state Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a 10-count complaint in November against
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By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Denis Arndt, a character actor and favorite of TV writer and producer David E. Kelley, getting cast in “L.A. Law,” “Picket Fences” and “Chicago Hope,” and later earning a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut at age 77 in a play about mismatched lovers, has
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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
Continue ReadingMezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili sued the Metropolitan Opera and her union, alleging the company unlawfully terminated her contracts because of a vocal issue that developed after she gave birth. She also accused the union of failing to pursue a grievance against the company. In a complaint filed March 27 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the
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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’
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Supreme Court temporarily halted enforcement on Monday of an appeals court decision that favored a Republican candidate in a close and unresolved November election for a seat on the state’s highest court. In a pair of one-sentence statements without objections, the Supreme Court
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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
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law preempts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. Bayer’s new request to the nation’s highest court comes as it
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law preempts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. Bayer’s new request to the nation’s highest court comes as it
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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law preempts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. Bayer’s new request to the nation’s highest court comes as it
Continue ReadingBy 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
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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
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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
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By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The appointment of a junior foreign service officer to serve as the senior official in the State Department’s personnel office is facing opposition and concern from current and former U.S. diplomats and their union. The American Foreign Service Association, which represents U.S. diplomats, the American Academy
Continue Reading By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The appointment of a junior foreign service officer to serve as the senior official in the State Department’s personnel office is facing opposition and concern from current and former U.S. diplomats and their union. The American Foreign Service Association, which represents U.S. diplomats, the American Academy
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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
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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a challenge to gun laws in New York that ban firearms from certain “sensitive” locations and require that handgun owners be of “good moral character.” The high court did not give an explanation on why it chose not to
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Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump administration to return man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison.
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By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military, according to a group representing the workers. Microsoft accused one of the workers in a termination letter Monday of misconduct “designed to gain notoriety and
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By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The sex abuse trial of former “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse in Nevada has again been postponed. A judge on Monday moved the start of the trial in state court in Las Vegas to Aug. 4. The 48-year-old had been scheduled to stand trial
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