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Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond stands during the playing of the national anthem at the inauguration ceremonies, Jan. 9, 2023, in Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, June 25, 2024, that the approval of the nation's first state-funded Catholic charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual Charter School, is unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Federal judge temporarily stops Oklahoma from enforcing new anti-immigration law

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Demonstrators march and gather near the Texas Capitol following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022, in Austin, Texas. A Texas man is petitioning a court to use an obscure legal action to find out who helped his former partner in an alleged out-of-state abortion, setting up the latest test to the limits of statewide abortion bans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

How a Texas man is testing out-of-state abortions by asking a court to subpoena his ex-partner

By Acacia Coronado - Associated Press

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, speaks during a hearing of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2024, in Washington. In a statement released Friday, May 3, Cuellar denied any wrongdoing amid reports of pending indictments related to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

Former aide and consultant close to Rep. Henry Cuellar plead guilty, agree to aid investigation

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

Nippon Steel delays closing of acquisition of U.S. Steel until late this year after DOJ request

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks during a news conference, Jan. 31, 2024, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. It will be a state crime for a person to be in Iowa if previously denied admission to or removed from the United States under a bill signed into law by Reynolds on Wednesday, April 10. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Justice Department warns Iowa it plans to sue over state’s new immigration law

By Hannah Fingerhut - Associated Press

Pages from the United Healthcare website are displayed on a computer screen, Feb. 29, 2024, in New York. UnitedHealth says files with personal information that could cover “a substantial portion of people in America” may have been taken in the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare business. The company said Monday, April 22, 2024, after markets closed that it sees no signs that doctor charts or full medical histories were released after the attack. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

UnitedHealth says patient files may have been taken in Change cyberattack

By Tom Murphy - Associated Press

Jeffrey Reed, who experienced persistent sinus infections and two bouts of pneumonia while using a Philips CPAP machine, poses with the device at his home, Oct. 20, 2022, in Marysville, Ohio. The company responsible for a global recall of sleep apnea machines will be barred from resuming production at U.S. facilities until it meets a number of safety requirements under a long-awaited settlement announced Tuesday, April 9, 2024 by federal officials. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, file)

Company that made millions of defective sleep apnea machines ordered to overhaul manufacturing

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

FILE - John Weare of Free the Vote Coalition speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee could lift its requirement that people with a felony conviction must get their gun rights restored if they want the ability to vote again under a bipartisan bill that has begun progressing late in the legislative calendar. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Tennessee bill untangling gun and voting rights restoration advances, but faces uncertain odds

By Jonathan Mattise - Associated Press

The Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge, which has been closed indefinitely since October 2023 after the Federal Highway Administration raised safety concerns, is shown Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Tacoma, Wash. Nearby business owners say they have noticed a decrease in customers as traffic has slowed on their street due to the closure. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Closed bridges highlight years of neglect, backlog of repairs awaiting funding

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Mother RowVaughn Wells, right, and stepfather Rodney Wells, center, speak at the Tennessee Capitol on Thursday, March 14, 2024 in opposition to a bill that would rescind some policing changes made in Memphis after their son, Tyre Nichols, died following a police beating in January 2023. Rep. Justin Pearson, left, introduced them at the news conference. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise)

Bill to undo Memphis’ traffic stop reforms after Tyre Nichols death headed to governor’s desk

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The Matthew J. Perry, Jr. Courthouse in Columbia, S.C., is seen on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity is set to begin at the courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 20, where Daqua Lameek Ritter faces charges that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

First federal gender-based hate crime trial starts in South Carolina over trans woman’s killing

By James Pollard - Associated Press

Former FirstEnergy CEO Charles Jones, right, walks with his lawyer Carole Rendon toward the courtroom at the Summit County courthouse in Akron, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

Two fired utility execs, former top Ohio regulator plead not guilty in bribery scheme

By Julie Carr Smyth - Associated Press

RowVaughn Wells, second from left, the mother of Tyre Nichols, flanked by family members of Nichols, speaks during a candlelight vigil on the anniversary of her son's death Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. Nichols lost his life following a violent beating by five Memphis Police officers in January 2023. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht)

Tyre Nichols’ family gathers for vigil 1 year after police brutally beat him

By Adrian Sainz - Associated Press

FILE - The Fulton County Jail is shown, April 11, 2023, in Atlanta. Authorities said one of five people who’s currently on trial along with rapper Young Thug has been stabbed at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Natalie Ammons confirmed that Shannon Stillwell had been stabbed but did not immediately provide any further details. Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville dismissed the jury for the day Monday, Dec. 11, 2023 saying one of the defendants had “a medical issue.” (AP Photo/Kate Brumback, File)

Young Thug trial on pause until January after co-defendant is stabbed in jail

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Released Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Abu Al-Humus, 17, hugs his mother after arriving home in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023. Eleven Israeli women and children, freed by Hamas, entered Israel Monday night in the fourth swap under the original four-day truce, which began Friday and had been due to run out. Qatar said Israel was to release 33 Palestinians from its prisons, mostly teenagers. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Live updates | Israel releases 30 prisoners after Hamas frees 12 hostages in extended truce deal

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In a still frame from video law enforcement officers investigate the scene of a shooting, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, in Burlington, Vt. Burlington Police Department arrested Jason J. Eaton, suspected in the shooting of three young men of Palestinian descent, who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering near the University of Vermont campus Saturday evening. (Wayne Savage via AP)

3 young Palestinian men were shot in Vermont. Their families thought the U.S. would be safer.

By Lisa Rathke and Holly Ramer - Associated Press

Former Louisville Police officer Brett Hankison describes what he saw in the apartment of Breonna Taylor during testimony, March 2, 2022, in Louisville, Ky. A federal judge on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 declared a mistrial in the trial of the former Louisville police officer who fired stray bullets in the deadly Breonna Taylor raid. Hankison was charged with using excessive force that violated the rights of Taylor, her boyfriend and her next-door neighbors. The 12-member jury struggled over several days to reach a verdict. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, Pool)

Mistrial declared after federal jury deadlocks in trial of ex-officer in deadly Breonna Taylor raid

By Dylan Lovan - Associated Press

Surrounded by family members and holding hands with civil rights attorney Ben Crump, center right, Bettersten Wade, center, mother of Dexter Wade, a 37-year-old man who died after being hit by a Jackson, Miss., police SUV driven by an off-duty officer, watches her son's body transferred to a mortuary transport in Raymond, Miss. Nov. 13, 2023. An independent pathologist says the deceased Mississippi man had a wallet in the front pocket of the jeans he was buried in that contained his home address. Crump says the finding came from Dr. Frank Peretti’s autopsy report. Peretti was hired to perform an autopsy after Wade’s body was exhumed. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

Mississippi man had ID in his pocket when he was buried without his family’s knowledge

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

Bettersten Wade, mother of Dexter Wade, a 37-year-old man who died after being hit by a Jackson, Miss., police SUV driven by an off-duty officer, wipes away tears as she watches her son's body transferred to a mortuary transport, after being exhumed from a pauper's cemetery near the Hinds County Penal Farm in Raymond, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Monday he is asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate why authorities waited several months to notify the family of his death. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Officials exhume the body of a Mississippi man buried without his family’s knowledge

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

FILE - An attendee at Planned Parenthood's Bans Off Our Bodies rally for abortion rights holds a sign reading outside of the Idaho Statehouse in downtown Boise, Idaho, on May 14, 2022. A federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice this week of Nov. 10, 2023 said that states are going too far by trying to block people from helping others cross state lines for abortion. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

Things to know about efforts to block people from crossing state lines for abortion

By Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press