Tag: Social issues
Dems blast Oklahoma lawmaker who compared slavery, abortion
<p>OKLAHOMA CITY — A white Republican lawmaker from southeast Oklahoma is facing criticism for comparing lawmakers' efforts to end abortion to the fight against...
Nassau DA drops more than 1100 warrants after NY laws change
<p>HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Warrants in more than 1,100 Nassau County cases were dropped on Thursday, as the prosecutor's office moved to dismiss them in...
EXPLAINER: Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?
Nearly 19,000 children traveling alone were stopped at...
West Virginia transgender athlete bill wins Senate approval
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Transgender females in West Virginia would be banned from competing in female sports in middle and high schools and colleges under...
AP Sources: El Salvador president snubs visiting Biden envoy
<p>MIAMI — El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele refused to meet with a visiting senior U.S. diplomat this week over what he sees as a...
Trump-loving Alabama county faces uphill vaccination effort
HALEYVILLE, Ala. — Tending a thrift store that displays a faded Trump flag in a nearly all-white Alabama county with a long history of...
Texas church gunman likely planned mass shooting for months
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas — The man who killed more than two dozen people at a Texas church in 2017 appeared to have been planning...
Judge tosses former Rep. Katie Hill’s suit against tabloid
<p>LOS ANGELES — A lawsuit by former U.S. Rep. Katie Hill of California against the Daily Mail was dismissed Wednesday by a judge who...
Court delays execution of inmate who slipped through cracks
<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday delayed the execution of a convicted killer whose case federal public defenders said slipped through...
Ohio city to pay couple $450K to settle police abuse lawsuit
CLEVELAND — A Cleveland suburb has agreed to pay a couple $450,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed after a dashcam video...