Tag: United States government
Supreme Court rejects appeal over pickup seized at border
<p>WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Kentucky man whose pickup truck was seized at the Mexican border and...
Illinois National Guard activated ahead of Chauvin verdict
<p>CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker activated the Illinois National Guard Monday ahead of an expected verdict in the trial of a former Minneapolis police...
Supreme Court likely to bar some ‘green card’ applicants
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready Monday to prevent thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons from applying to become...
Citing security, GOP lawmakers zero in on ballot drop boxes
<p>ATLANTA — Atlanta-area voters looking to return their ballots using a drop box in next year’s gubernatorial election will have to do some searching.</p>
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Underwriter withdraws from Alabama prison lease project
<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The underwriter for a project to build two prisons in Alabama announced that it is pulling out following criticism that it...
US under Biden will no longer call migrants ‘illegal aliens’
WASHINGTON — Employees of the two main U.S. immigration enforcement agencies were directed Monday to stop referring to migrants as “aliens,” a dated term...
A look at high-profile cases over killings by US police
<p>MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin i <a href="https://apnews.com/article/derek-chauvin-trial-live-updates-e1d714c68ab5b067b101af7c6d486c6c">s charged with murder and manslaughter</a> in George Floyd's death after pressing his knee...
Judge in Chauvin trial calls Waters’ comments ‘abhorrent’
<p>MINNEAPOLIS — The judge overseeing the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/derek-chauvin-trial-live-updates-e1d714c68ab5b067b101af7c6d486c6c">trial</a> of former Officer <a href="https://apnews.com/article/8b486c2622de5504f1e65a606b0eac7f">Derek Chauvin</a> in the death of <a href="https://apnews.com/article/a55d2662f200ead0da4fed9e923b60a7"> George Floyd</a> on Monday...
High court won’t hear Tennessee prisoners’ hepatitis C case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is leaving in place an appeals court decision that upheld Tennessee’s rationing of life-saving hepatitis C drugs to prisoners...
Gaetz, Greene, flaunt new paths to power, trying GOP leaders
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders have always faced rebels in their ranks. But Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are presenting top House Republicans...