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By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that would let the U.S. designate nations as state sponsors of wrongful detention, using the threat of associated sanctions to deter Americans from being detained abroad or taken hostage. The designation, similar to the state sponsors of

By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will not end his reelection campaign.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department prosecutors are dropping their federal case against a woman who was charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump — the latest in a string of self-inflicted setbacks for prosecutors during President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. A grand jury refused to

Associated Press Now that Florida is taking steps to be the first state to get rid of school vaccine mandates, some states are looking at following its lead while others are promising to protect vaccines for children and adults. Florida’s announcement Wednesday along with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s attempts to advance anti-vaccine policies

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Federal officials on Friday said they are taking steps that will give state and federal prisons the right to jam the signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates, devices they argue allow prisoners to plot violence and carry out crimes. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said Friday during

By JACK BROOK and SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry agreed Friday to pay a $900 fine for failing to disclose a free plane ride to Hawaii and other free flights, ending a yearslong ethics investigation into his travels. The Republican also revealed he accepted nearly 20 complimentary

By MATT O’BRIEN and THALIA BEATY Associated Press The attorneys general of California and Delaware on Friday warned OpenAI they have “serious concerns” about the safety of its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens. The two state officials, who have unique powers to regulate nonprofits such as OpenAI, sent the letter to the

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Washingtonians are responding with protests during the fourth week of National Guard troops and federal agents patrolling D.C.’s streets. See photos of week one, two and three of the Trump administration crime and homelessness crackdown in D.C. and read what the law allows. This is a photo gallery curated by