By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day is 12 days away. But in courtrooms across the country, efforts to sow doubt over the outcome have already begun. More than 100 lawsuits …
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Low-wage workers bear financial brunt of denied abortions
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writers A Texas mother of a toddler, scraping by on her husband’s income, was desperate to return to work but struggling to afford chil…
‘Kill everyone’: Russian violence in Ukraine was strategic
By ERIKA KINETZ Associated Press ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Even by the standards of the important military officers who came and went in this tiny village, the man walking behind the Kamaz truck stoo…
3 men convicted of supporting plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer
By ED WHITE Associated Press Three men accused of supporting terrorism in the plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor were convicted of all charges Wednesday in a trial that focused on paramilitary drills …
UN weather agency: Greenhouse gases reach new record in 2021
By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The three main greenhouse gases hit record high levels in the atmosphere last year, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday, calling it an “ominous” sign …
Climate Questions: Who are the big emitters?
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Who made the global warming mess the world is now in? More than half of the world’s heat-trapping gases comes from three places: The United States, China and Europ…
Editors at Bartlett’s work to keep up with what’s quotable
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Books and speeches, lyrics and interviews, impulsive tweets and sworn testimony: Keeping up with all the words issued over the past decade might ove…
Conspiracy pushers target races for local election posts
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press SHELTON, Wash. (AP) — Sixteen candidates for local office circled around the atrium of the municipal building on a recent night in Shelton, a logging town near th…
School gunman had AR-15-style weapon, 600 rounds of ammo
By MICHAEL PHILLIS and JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 19-year-old who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at a St. Louis high school was armed with an AR-15-style rifle and what ap…
Test scores show historic COVID setbacks for kids across US
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, sparing no state or region as it erased decades of academic prog…