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Planned Parenthood wins partial victory in legal fight with Trump administration over funding cuts
BOSTON — Planned Parenthood won a partial victory Monday in a legal fight with President Donald Trump’s administration over efforts to defund the organization in his signature tax legislation. A provision in that bill ends Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from Medicaid...
Florida lawmaker refers Jerome Powell perjury claim to Justice Department
WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida has asked the Department of Justice to consider investigating and prosecuting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for allegedly lying under oath in testimony before a congressional committee. In a July 19 letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Florida Republican accused...
Banishing a reporter: Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story
President Donald Trump on Monday followed up his lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over last week’s Jeffrey Epstein story by banishing one of the newspaper’s reporters from Air Force One for an upcoming Scotland trip. The moves reflect Trump’s aggressiveness toward media who displease him — even a media...
Federal judge gives ex-officer nearly 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 deadly Breonna Taylor raid, declining a U.S. Department of Justice recommendation that he be given no prison time. Brett Hankison, who fired 10...
Budget office says Trump’s tax law will add $3.4 trillion to deficits, leave 10 million uninsured
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, a slight increase in the projection that takes into account the final tweaks that Republicans made before getting the legislation over the finish line. More than...
Lawsuit to halt ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ filed in wrong court, Florida official says
Florida’s top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction. Even though the property is owned by Miami-Dade...
Pentagon withdraws 700 Marines from Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The Pentagon ordered U.S. Marines to leave Los Angeles on Monday, more than a month after President Donald Trump deployed them to the city against the objections of local leaders. The 700 Marines were deployed June 9 on the fourth day of protests in downtown L.A. over...
Trump administration releases FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. The digital document dump includes more than 240,000 pages of records that had...
More than 5.2 million pools sold across the U.S. and Canada are under recall after reports of 9 deaths
NEW YORK — More than 5.2 million aboveground swimming pools sold across the U.S. and Canada over the last two decades are being recalled after nine drowning deaths were reported. The recall covers a range of Bestway, Intex Recreation and Polygroup pools that were sold by major retailers as far...
Pilot made sharp turn to avoid a B-52 bomber over North Dakota, then took to the mic to explain
BISMARCK, N.D. — The pilot of a regional airliner flying over North Dakota carried out an unexpected sharp turn and later apologized to passengers, explaining that he made the move after spotting a military plane in his flight path. The Friday incident is detailed in a video taken by a...
Appeals court orders new trial for man convicted in 1979 Etan Patz case
NEW YORK — The man convicted in the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz was awarded a new trial Monday as a federal appeals court overturned the guilty verdict in one of the nation’s most notorious missing child cases. Pedro Hernandez has been serving 25 years to life in prison...
Israeli forces push into parts of central Gaza city that the war had largely spared
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli ground troops for the first time Monday pushed into areas of a central Gaza city where several aid groups are based, in what appeared to be the latest effort to carve up the Palestinian territory with military corridors. Deir al-Balah is the only Gaza...
Father arrested in New York in death of 9-year-old daughter he had reported missing
LATHAM, N.Y. — A Canadian man whose 9-year-old daughter was found dead after he reported that she had been abducted while they were vacationing in upstate New York was charged Monday with murder. Luciano Frattolin is charged with murder and concealing of a corpse in the death of his daughter,...
U.K., France and 23 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’
LONDON — Twenty-five countries including Britain, France and a host of European nations issued a joint statement on Monday saying the war in Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law. The foreign ministers of countries including Australia, Canada and Japan said “the suffering of civilians in...
Japan’s Ishiba says he’ll stay in office to tackle inflation and U.S. tariffs despite election loss
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday he will stay in office to tackle challenges such as rising prices and high U.S. tariffs after a weekend election defeat left his coalition with a minority in both parliamentary chambers and triggered calls for his resignation. Ishiba’s ruling Liberal Democratic...
Russia launches a major aerial attack on Kyiv hours before high-level talks on support for Ukraine
Russia unleashed one of its largest aerial assaults on Ukraine in recent months, only hours before the U.K. and Germany are to chair a meeting to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for NATO allies to provide Ukraine with weapons. The attack killed two people and wounded 15, including a...
Harvard seeks billions in funding restored at pivotal hearing in its standoff with Trump
BOSTON — Harvard University appeared in federal court Monday in a pivotal case in its battle with the Trump administration, as the storied institution argued the government illegally cut $2.6 billion in federal funding. President Donald Trump’s administration has battered the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university with sanctions for months...
A Bangladesh Air Force jet crashes into a Dhaka school and kills 18
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka, shortly after takeoff on Monday, killing at least 18 people including the pilot and injuring 164 others, the military said. According to the military and a fire official, the Chinese-made F-7 BGI...
UN concerned by Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for dress code violations
ISLAMABAD — The United Nations on Monday expressed concern about the Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for their alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress code. In May 2022, the Taliban government issued a decree calling for women to show only their eyes and recommending they wear...
Trump threatens to hold up stadium deal if Washington Commanders don’t switch back to Redskins
CLEVELAND — President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not restore its old name of the Redskins, which was considered offensive to Native Americans. Trump also said Sunday that he wants Cleveland’s baseball team to revert to its...
Off-duty border patrol agent shot in a Manhattan park in apparent botched robbery, police say
NEW YORK — An off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was shot Saturday in a Manhattan park following an apparent robbery gone wrong, New York City police and federal officials say. The 42-year-old officer was in stable condition Sunday and expected to survive. A spokesperson for the NYPD said...
Man dies after heavy weight-training chain around neck pulls him into MRI machine
WESTBURY, N.Y. — A man who was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large weight-training chain around his neck has died, according to police and his wife, who told a local television outlet that he waved goodbye before his body...
Request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts likely to disappoint, ex-prosecutors say
NEW YORK — A Justice Department request to unseal grand jury transcripts in the prosecution of chronic sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend is unlikely to produce much, if anything, to satisfy the public’s appetite for new revelations about the financier’s crimes, former federal prosecutors say. Attorney Sarah...
3 people are still missing from deadly July 4 floods in Texas county, down from nearly 100
KERRVILLE, Texas — Just three people remain missing — down from nearly 100 at last count — since the Texas Hill Country was pounded by massive flooding on July 4, officials said Saturday. Officials praised rescuers for the sharp reduction in the number of people on the missing list: Just...
Texas Republicans aim to redraw House districts at Trump’s urging, but there’s a risk
AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat who represents a slice of the Rio Grande Valley along the border with Mexico, won his last congressional election by just over 5,000 votes. That makes him a tempting target for Republicans, who are poised to redraw the state’s congressional...
