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After rocky start, hopes up in Oregon drug decriminalization
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Two years after Oregon residents voted to decriminalize hard drugs and dedicate hundreds of m...
Brooklyn subway suspect tipped off police to his location
NEW YORK (AP) — The man accused of shooting 10 people on a Brooklyn subway train was arrested Wednesday and charged with a federal terrorism offense after th...
Man wanted in Brooklyn subway attack arrested, officials say
NEW YORK (AP) — The man wanted in the shooting of 10 people on a subway in Brooklyn was arrested Wednesday afternoon, a day after the attack on a crowded rus...
White House releases report on Native American voting rights
Local, state and federal officials must do more to ensure Native Americans facing persistent, longstanding and deep-rooted barriers to voting have equal acce...
Jackson pledges to decide cases 'without fear or favor'
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson pledged on Monday to decide cases "without fear or favor" if the Senate confirms her historic nomination as the f...
Ukraine's capital under threat as Russia presses invasion
Russian troops bore down on Ukraine's capital Friday, with explosions and gunfire sounding in the city as the invasion of a democratic country fueled fears o...
Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court
President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the first Black woman selected to serve on a ...
Russia attacks Ukraine; peace in Europe 'shattered'
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops a...
Trudeau mulls invoking emergency powers to quell protests
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government weighed whether to invoke emergency powers Monday to quell the protests by demonstrators who have paralyz...
Canada: 'Freedom Convoy' protests threaten border trade
Canadian lawmakers expressed increasing worry Tuesday about the economic effects of disruptive demonstrations after the busiest border crossing between the U...
Official: Nearly 1K homes destroyed in Colorado wildfire
A Colorado official says nearly 1,000 homes were destroyed, hundreds more were damaged, and that three people are missing after a wildfire charred numerous n...
All 3 men charged in Arbery's death convicted of murder
Jurors on Wednesday convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through ...
Facebook Inc. rebrands as Meta to stress 'metaverse' plan
An embattled Facebook Inc. is changing its name to Meta Platforms Inc., or Meta for short, to reflect what CEO Mark Zuckerberg says is its commitment to deve...
Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in Europe to build ‘metaverse’
Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in Europe to build ‘metaverse’
Pentagon reverses itself, calls deadly Kabul strike an error
The Pentagon retreated from its defense of a drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month, announcing Friday that an internal review...
Crowds gather to protest Biden's Idaho visit
More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Boise, Idaho, on Monday morning ahead of a visit by President Joe Biden to express their displeasure about his coronav...