By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press SOMBOR, Serbia (AP) — It was barely dawn when Nikola Jokic’s hardcore fans in his Serbian hometown of Sombor chanted “MVP! MVP!” and celebrated the Denver Nuggets’…
30,000 Haitian kids live in private orphanages. Officials want to shutter them and reunite families.
By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAINT-LOUIS-DU-SUD, Haiti (AP) — Mylouise Veillard was 10 when her mother dropped her off at an orphanage in southern Haiti and promised her a better life. For three ye…
What to know about Trump’s appearance in federal court in Miami to face felony charges
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press Donald Trump made a first appearance in federal court in Miami on Tuesday facing 37 counts related to the mishandling and retention of classified documents at his Mar-a…
Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he illegally kept classified documents
By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as he pleaded not guilty in…
August ballot language tweaked after Ohio Supreme Court ruling
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A state panel in Ohio voted on Tuesday to tweak language describing an upcoming statewide ballot proposal, while stopping short of making add…
Often sidelined at Pride, transgender and nonbinary people move front and center
By SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kara Murphy, a transgender woman helping to organize the Union County Pride in a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, is heartened to see Pride c…
2 active-duty Marines plead guilty to Capitol riot charges
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Two men who were active-duty members of the Marines Corps when they stormed the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty on Monday to riot-related criminal charges. Joshua Aba…
New voting districts could change again in some states before the 2024 elections
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The 2022 elections marked the first using new voting districts drawn from updated census data. Those districts typically last for a decade, but they could be short-li…
Voices from the violent civil rights era see attacks on voting rights as part of ongoing struggle
By GARY FIELDS Associated Press They are part of a small, vanishing group who lived at the epicenter of the struggle for voting rights six decades ago, an era driven by segregation, violence and the y…
The story behind Juneteenth and how it became a federal holiday
Americans will soon celebrate Juneteenth, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of …