By LISA MASCARO, BEN FOX and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — From a secure room in the Capitol on Jan. 6, as rioters pummeled police and vandalized the building, Vice President Mik…
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In GOP strongholds, a big push on ‘culture war’ legislation
By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An ardent abortion foe who once opposed allowing gay couples to be foster parents, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is the unlikeliest figure to…
Siblings find closure a year after COVID-19 thrashed choir
By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. (AP) — With dish soap, brushes and plastic water jugs in hand, Carole Rae Woodmansee’s four children cleaned the gravestone their mother shares w…
Philip, defined by role of husband to British queen, dies
By JILL LAWLESS and GREGORY KATZ Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Prince Philip, the irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wife in a r…
No region in the world spared as virus cases, deaths surge
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hospitals in Turkey and Poland are filling up. Pakistan is restricting domestic travel. The U.S. government will send more help to the state with…
Biden budget seeks more for schools, health care and housing
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden released a $1.5 trillion wish list for his first federal budget Friday, asking for substantial gains for Democratic priorities inclu…
Steep decline in giant sea turtles seen off US West Coast
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Scientists were documenting stranded sea turtles on California’s beaches nearly 40 years ago when they noticed that le…
Expert: Lack of oxygen killed George Floyd, not drugs
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd died of a lack of oxygen from being pinned to the pavement with a knee on his neck, medical experts te…
EXPLAINER: Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?
By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press Nearly 19,000 children traveling alone were stopped at the Mexican border in March, smashing previous highs set during periods of heavy child migration in 2014 and 20…
‘Leave no Tigrayan’: In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased
By CARA ANNA Associated Press HAMDAYET, Sudan (AP) — The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled …