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Prosecutors: 'Tiger King' star trafficked endangered animals

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - "Tiger King" star Bhagavan "Doc" Antle has been charged with buying or selling endangered lemurs, cheetahs, and a chimpanzee without the proper paperwork, federal prosecutors in ...

Jun 30, 2022

US official: Migrants who died cleared inland checkpoint

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Migrants were inside a tractor-trailer when it cleared an inland Border Patrol checkpoint, later ending up in San Antonio where 53 people were found dead in the deadliest known smug...

Jun 30, 2022

COVID-19 at Wimbledon: 3 top-20 men out after positive tests

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) - Reigning Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic famously decided not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 - which prevented him from playing at the Australian Open in January follow...

Jun 30, 2022

Feds open sweeping probe into work of NYPD sex crimes unit

NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the New York Police Department's treatment of sex crime victims after concluding there is "significant justification" to do so and after re...

Jun 30, 2022

Jackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) - Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation's highest court. The 51-year-old Jackson is the court'...

Jun 30, 2022

Texas woman accused in cyclist death captured in Costa Rica

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas woman suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson at an Austin home has been arrested in Costa Rica, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday...

Jun 30, 2022

Supreme Court: Biden properly ended Trump-era asylum policy

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Biden administration properly ended a Trump-era policy forcing some U.S. asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico. The justices' 5-4 decision for...

Jun 30, 2022

Judge temporarily blocks Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A judge cleared the way Thursday for abortions to resume in Kentucky, temporarily blocking the state's near-total ban on the procedure that was triggered by the Supreme Court ru...

Jun 30, 2022

Supreme Court limits EPA in curbing power plant emissions

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation's main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from ...

Jun 30, 2022

Biden says transatlantic alliance has adapted to new threats

MADRID (AP) - President Joe Biden said Thursday that transatlantic alliance has transformed itself by adapting to a rapidly changing security situation around the globe. "I think we can all agree that...

Jun 30, 2022