By DOUG GLASS Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, a liberal icon who lost one of the most lopsided presidential elections after bluntly telling voters to expec…
GOP targets ballot drop boxes in Georgia, Florida, elsewhere
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta-area voters looking to return their ballots using a drop box in next year’s gubernatorial election will have to do some searching. Just …
NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powere…
Prosecutor: FedEx shooter didn’t have ‘red flag’ hearing
By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis never appeared before a judge for a hearin…
Billions spent on coronavirus fight, but what happens next?
By MICHELLE R. SMITH, LAUREN WEBER and HANNAH RECHT Associated Press and KHN Congress has poured tens of billions of dollars into state and local public health departments in response to the coronavir…
Ohio capital city leaders call for protests to stay peaceful
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Politicians, religious leaders and community activists in Ohio’s capital city called Monday for protests to remain peaceful as a verdict nears in the trial in the death of …
Black Americans experiencing collective trauma, grief
By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press Carlil Pittman knows trauma firsthand. As the co-founder of the Chicago-based youth organization GoodKidsMadCity-Englewood, he grieved the loss of Delmonte Johnson, a …
Treatment ban creates uncertainty for trans youth, families
By ANDREW DeMILLO and DAVID CRARY Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Before he began receiving hormone therapy eight months ago, Dylan Brandt felt insecure and out of place. Then the 15-year-ol…
Faith leaders across US join in decrying voting restrictions
By DAVID CRARY, JONATHAN J. COOPER and EMILY LESHNER Associated Press In Georgia, faith leaders are asking corporate executives to condemn laws restricting voting access — or face a boycott. In Arizon…
Some Jan. 6 defendants try to use journalism as riot defense
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press The Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January created a trove of self-incriminating evidence, thoroughly documenting their act…