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NCAA changes transgender policy to limit women's competition to athletes assigned female at birth

The NCAA changed its participation policy for transgender athletes on Thursday, limiting competition in women's sports to athletes assigned female at birth only. The move came one day after President ...

Feb 6, 2025

2nd federal judge in 2 days blocks President Trump's birthright citizenship order

SEATTLE (AP) - A second federal judge in two days has blocked President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally. U.S. Dis...

Feb 6, 2025

Judge temporarily blocks Trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to resign

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives. The ruling came hours before the midnight deadl...

Feb 6, 2025

Minnesota House Democratic and GOP leaders reach power-sharing agreement to end partisan stalemate

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Democratic and Republican leaders of the Minnesota House reached a power-sharing agreement Wednesday night to end a three-week stalemate that the state's chief justice said left...

Feb 6, 2025

At least 4 killed after US military-contracted plane crashes in southern Philippines

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A U.S. military-contracted plane crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines Thursday, killing all four people on board, U.S. Embassy and Philippine officials said. ...

Feb 6, 2025

Swedish police say mass shooter was connected to school where he opened fire, had weapon licenses

OREBRO, Sweden (AP) - Swedish police said the gunman in the country's worst mass shooting was connected to the adult education center where he opened fire Tuesday, killing 10 other people. Authorities...

Feb 6, 2025

Jimmy Butler is headed to the Golden State Warriors, Andrew Wiggins to Miami Heat, AP source says

Jimmy Butler got what he wanted. He's being traded out of Miami and got a new contract in the process. The Heat and the Golden State Warriors have agreed on a deal that sends Butler to the Bay Area, a...

Feb 5, 2025

The US is freezing and La Nina usually eases warming. Earth just set another heat record anyway

WASHINGTON (AP) - The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less hot 2025, according t...

Feb 5, 2025

US is freezing and La Nina usually eases warming. Earth just set another heat record anyway

WASHINGTON (AP) - The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less hot 2025, according t...

Feb 5, 2025

A Texas man is executed for the killing of a pastor during a robbery at a church

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas man convicted of beating and suffocating a Dallas area pastor in his church during a robbery was put to death Wednesday evening, the second execution in the U.S. this ...

Feb 5, 2025