By JANELLE D. JAMES/Bridge Michigan Bridge Michigan Federal and state lawmakers are calling on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to intervene at Michigan's only women's prison after a third inmate in less than a month died Saturday, intensifying scrutiny over conditions and medical care at the Huron ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Tuesday for crimes including kidnapping a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and providing support that led to the deaths of three American soldiers. Haji Najibullah's ...
By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A state judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by 31 former N.C. State male athletes alleging sexual abuse under the guise of treatment and harassment by the Wolfpack's former director of sports medicine. In orders filed Tuesday, Wake ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After complaints about staffing cuts and long waits to get help at the Social Security Administration, its commissioner says he's ready to make the case to Congress this week that things are getting a lot better at the embattled ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security 's retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year's projections, according to an annual report released Tuesday, while Medicare 's hospital insurance trust fund ...
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — NASA on Tuesday revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in the space agency's plan to eventually land astronauts on the moon. The announcement came two months after Artemis II's record-breaking trip around the ...
By STEVEN GRATTAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Colombia has enacted a landmark law requiring the cattle industry to trace livestock and prove beef supply chains are free from deforestation, a measure environmental groups say makes it the first tropical forest country to adopt such a ...
By GRETA SOLSAA and THEO WELLS-SPACKMAN/VTDigger VTDigger Standing on a dock at a Lamoille River fishing access last week, Andrea Shortsleeve said that ballooning expenses and high demand are making state land and infrastructure harder and harder to manage. Moments later, Shortsleeve, who ...
By HANNAH FLOR/Alaska Public Media Chris Andrews was working the belt at the Anchorage airport last fall, watching international cargo arrive. "An employee said, 'Hey, this box stinks, Chris,'" Andrews recalled. The box was labeled "car parts." Other stinky boxes came down the belt. ...
By MICHAEL CASEY, R.J. RICO and CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Just a mile from Atlanta's stadium, which will welcome tens of thousands of fans to World Cup games this month, dozens of people were camped out on a downtown sidewalk waiting for a homeless shelter to ...