By JANELLE D. JAMES/Bridge Michigan Bridge Michigan Federal and state lawmakers are calling on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to intervene at Michigan's only women's prison after a third inmate in less than a month died Saturday, intensifying scrutiny over conditions and medical care at the Huron ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Tuesday for crimes including kidnapping a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and providing support that led to the deaths of three American soldiers. Haji Najibullah's ...
By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A state judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by 31 former N.C. State male athletes alleging sexual abuse under the guise of treatment and harassment by the Wolfpack's former director of sports medicine. In orders filed Tuesday, Wake ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After complaints about staffing cuts and long waits to get help at the Social Security Administration, its commissioner says he's ready to make the case to Congress this week that things are getting a lot better at the embattled ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security 's retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year's projections, according to an annual report released Tuesday, while Medicare 's hospital insurance trust fund ...
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — NASA on Tuesday revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in the space agency's plan to eventually land astronauts on the moon. The announcement came two months after Artemis II's record-breaking trip around the ...
By STEVEN GRATTAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Colombia has enacted a landmark law requiring the cattle industry to trace livestock and prove beef supply chains are free from deforestation, a measure environmental groups say makes it the first tropical forest country to adopt such a ...
By GRETA SOLSAA and THEO WELLS-SPACKMAN/VTDigger VTDigger Standing on a dock at a Lamoille River fishing access last week, Andrea Shortsleeve said that ballooning expenses and high demand are making state land and infrastructure harder and harder to manage. Moments later, Shortsleeve, who ...
By HANNAH FLOR/Alaska Public Media Chris Andrews was working the belt at the Anchorage airport last fall, watching international cargo arrive. "An employee said, 'Hey, this box stinks, Chris,'" Andrews recalled. The box was labeled "car parts." Other stinky boxes came down the belt. ...
By MICHAEL CASEY, R.J. RICO and CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Just a mile from Atlanta's stadium, which will welcome tens of thousands of fans to World Cup games this month, dozens of people were camped out on a downtown sidewalk waiting for a homeless shelter to ...
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators on Tuesday signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years, giving Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used in Europe and other parts of the ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Manhattan's original Pennsylvania Station was demolished in 1963, it marked the undignified end to one of America's great public works, a monolithic Beaux Arts train terminal with Roman-style columns and a spacious central waiting ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A man charged in the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina commuter train cannot currently stand trial because of his mental illness and will undergo medical treatment to try to restore his competency, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Decarlos Brown ...
By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press Salt Lake City and its county have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Homeland Security's plan to open a giant warehouse in the city that would be used to detain up to 10,000 immigrants. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court, is the ...
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes accelerated last month to their fastest pace since December, a sharp turnaround in demand after a lackluster start to the spring homebuying season. Existing home sales rose 3.2% in May from the previous month to a ...
By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Reiner's son Nick Reiner is seeking unpaid money from a trust his parents established for him, saying he needs it to help in his defense against charges that he killed them. A petition filed by the 32-year-old Nick Reiner's ...
By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press A Democratic group that previously focused on presidential races is wading into the midterms by targeting more than a dozen House and Senate contests, many of them on Republican turf, in a new advertising campaign that begins Tuesday. American Bridge 21st ...
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside the main cluster in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a resurgent pest that could devastate the nation's cattle industry, the U.S. Department of ...
By DIDI TANG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses, including the tech giant Alibaba, electric car maker BYD and search engine Baidu, to its list of Chinese military companies, preventing them from getting U.S. defense ...
By MATT O'BRIEN AP Technology Writer ChatGPT maker OpenAI filed preliminary paperwork that would open the door to it becoming a publicly traded company, the third in a powerhouse trio of artificial intelligence companies racing to Wall Street debuts. The San Francisco-based company said ...