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Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg leaves after the conclusion of ...
MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press

Trump Organization CFO pleads guilty in tax evasion case

Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty on Thursday to tax violations in a deal that would require him to testify about business practices at the former president’s company.
2 years ago
Signs left by abortion-rights supporters line the security fence surrounding The Supreme Court on J...
REBECCA BOONE Associated Press

Medical groups, 20 states weigh in on Idaho abortion lawsuit

Medical groups and states across the U.S. are watching as a legal battle over abortion rights pits the deep-red state of Idaho against the Department of Justice.
2 years ago
[File] Pride Flag...
Associated Press

Wisconsin school board votes in favor of pride flag ban

A Wisconsin school board has voted in favor of a policy that prohibits teachers and staff from displaying gay pride flags and other items that district officials consider political in nature.
2 years ago
Bangkok. Thailand. March 1,2019 Facebook social media app logo on log-in, sign-up registration page...
BARBARA ORTUTAY and AMANDA SEITZ, Associated Press

U.S. midterms bring few changes from social media companies

Social media companies are sharing their plans for safeguarding the U.S. midterm elections, although they have offered scant details.
2 years ago
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a rally at the Boulder City Airport on October 8, 2020 in ...
HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press

Pence tells GOP to stop lashing out at FBI over Trump search

Former Vice President Mike Pence is urging fellow Republicans to stop lashing out at the FBI over the search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last week.
2 years ago
A sign hangs in the offices of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America(Photo by Mario Tama/Get...
BRIAN SLODYSKO, Associated Press

Planned Parenthood to spend record $50M in midterm elections

The nation's leading abortion rights advocacy organization, Planned Parenthood, plans to spend a record $50 million ahead of November’s midterm elections.
2 years ago
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 28: Rudy Giuliani appears in support of his son, New York Republican gube...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press

Rudy Giuliani set to testify in Georgia 2020 election probe

Rudy Giuliani is scheduled to appear in an Atlanta courthouse to testify before a special grand jury in an investigation into possible illegal attempts to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.
2 years ago
The NBA is encouraging players, staff and fans to vote on November 8. (NBA Photos/Getty Images)...
Ben Church, CNN

NBA won’t play games on November 8 to encourage fans to vote in the midterm elections

The NBA will not play games on November 8 in the US this year in order to encourage fans to vote in the midterm elections.
2 years ago
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Vice Chairwoman of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6t...
STEVE PEOPLES and MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press

Trump foe Liz Cheney defeated in Wyoming GOP primary

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, Donald Trump’s fiercest Republican adversary in Congress, has been defeated in a GOP primary.
2 years ago
A West High School employee holds a Pride flag and an updated Pride flag that includes colors for t...
Cary Schwanitz

Judge cancels preliminary injunction hearing on ban of high school trans athletes law

The presiding judge has cancelled a Tuesday hearing about a motion for a preliminary injunction against the law that bans transgender athletes from participating in girls high school sports in Utah.
2 years ago
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 16: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks before signing The Inflation ...
Associated Press

Biden signs massive climate and health care legislation

President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing with voters less than three months before the midterm elections.
2 years ago
UNITED STATES - MARCH 15:  This is the campus of ITT Technical Institute in Anaheim, California, Mo...
Katie Lobosco, CNN

Biden administration cancels another $3.9 billion in student loan debt 

The Department of Education said Tuesday that it will cancel $3.9 billion in student loan debt for 208,000 students who attended the now-defunct for-profit ITT Technical Institute.
2 years ago
Jill Biden hand-delivered chocolate chip cookies to National Guard members who blanketed Washington...
ZEKE MILLER, AP White House Correspondent

Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19, has ‘mild’ symptoms

First lady Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing “mild symptoms.”
2 years ago
The lower reaches of the Whanganui River flow near the Kaiwhaiki settlement in New Zealand on June ...
NICK PERRY Associated Press

New Zealand river’s personhood status offers hope to Māori, against river’s degradation

WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and yellowed from the earth and clay that has collapsed into its sides. Logs and debris hurtle past as dusk looms. Sixty-one-year-old Tahi Nepia is calmly paddling his outrigger canoe, called a waka ama in his […]
2 years ago
FILE: Rudy Giuliani (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)...
KATE BRUMBACK and JILL COLVIN, Associated Press

Giuliani is target of election probe, his lawyers are told

Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer says prosecutors in Atlanta have said Giuliani is a target of their criminal investigation into possible illegal attempts to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia.
2 years ago
FILE: Outside the decommissioned Draper Prison. (KSL TV)...
Karah Brackin

Utah officials tour the Draper prison before its demolition

Utah officials give a final tour around the decommissioned Draper prison before its eventual demolition.
2 years ago
The Antelope Point launch ramp is closed due to dropping water levels at Lake Powell. (National Par...
SAM METZ and FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press

Deadline looms for drought-stricken states — including Utah — to cut water use

Seven Western U.S. states face a deadline from the federal government to come up with a plan to use substantially less Colorado River water in 2023.
2 years ago
Brittney Griner is pictured here leaving a Russian court after apologizing ahead of a verdict in he...
JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press

WNBA’s Brittney Griner appeals her Russian prison sentence

Russian news agencies reported that lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner have filed an appeal of her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession.
2 years ago
In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen pose for ...
JOHNSON LAI, Associated Press

China announces new drills as US delegation visits Taiwan

China has announced more military drills around Taiwan as the self-governing island’s president met with members of a new U.S. congressional delegation.
2 years ago
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 12: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers brief remarks whil...
MARIA VERZA, Associated Press

Mexico president to bypass congress to keep army in streets

Mexico's president has begun exploring plans to sidestep congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army.
2 years ago
Senate Minority Caucus Manager Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City, speaks at a press conference outlining...
Associated Press

Utah Democrats call for Sen. Gene Davis to step down

A week and a half after a former intern publicly accused state Sen. Gene Davis of sexual misconduct, the Utah Democratic Party is suspending the lawmaker from all party-related activities.
2 years ago
In this still image from video, author Salman Rushdie is taken on a stretcher to a helicopter for t...
JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press

Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York

Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" drew death threats from Iran in the 1980s, has been stabbed in the neck and abdomen by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York.
2 years ago
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the American Freedom Tour at the Austin Convention...
LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press

Timeline: Events leading up to FBI search of Trump’s home

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate has already sent reverberations across the country even as new details emerge about what federal agents were looking for in the investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence.
2 years ago
The notice filed by the Justice Department to the U.S. District Court South District of Florida inf...
MICHAEL BALSAMO, ZEKE MILLER and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press

FBI seized ‘top secret’ documents from Trump home

Court papers show that the FBI recovered documents labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
2 years ago

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