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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to cut teacher-training money, for now

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration's plea to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money as part of its anti-DEI efforts, while a lawsuit ...

Apr 04, 2025

LA County reaches $4 billion agreement to settle sexual abuse claims at juvenile facilities

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959, officials said Friday. The agreement, which st...

Apr 04, 2025

Judge blocks Trump from dismantling agency that funds community groups in Latin American countries

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge agreed on Friday to block the Trump administration from dismantling an independent agency that distributes grant money to community development groups in Latin Americ...

Apr 04, 2025

Disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died at age 94

WASHINGTON (AP) - Theodore McCarrick, a once-powerful Catholic cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation determined he sexually molested adults and children, die...

Apr 04, 2025

Judge moves legal case of detained Turkish Tufts University student to Vermont

BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday moved the case of a detained Tufts University doctoral student to Vermont, where the Turkish national was briefly held before being moved to an immigration dete...

Apr 04, 2025

The US must return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, judge says

HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) - A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to arrange for the return of a Maryland man to the United States after he was mistakenly deported to a notorious El S...

Apr 04, 2025

North Carolina judges side with colleague in his Supreme Court election dispute over ballots

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina appeals court sided Friday with the trailing candidate in a close state Supreme Court election from November, ruling that tens of thousands of ballots were wrongl...

Apr 04, 2025

Data obtained by AP shows 20% vacancy rates at nearly half of National Weather Service offices

WASHINGTON (AP) - After Trump administration job cuts, nearly half of National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates - twice that of just a decade ago - as severe weather chugs acros...

Apr 04, 2025

Officials say a Russian strike in central Ukraine kills 12 people and injures 50

BRUSSELS (AP) - Ukrainian officials said that a Russian missile strike Friday on the central city of Kryvyi Rih killed at least 12 people, including two children, and injured more than 50. The head of...

Apr 04, 2025

Gretzky set to be at Blackhawks-Capitals game with Ovechkin 3 goals from breaking his NHL record

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Wayne Gretzky is expected to be in attendance Friday night in Washington with Alex Ovechkin two goals from tying and three from breaking the Canadian great's NHL record. The Capi...

Apr 04, 2025