Harris says Trump shouldn’t be an exception for Jan. 6 accountability

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that those responsible for the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and the ensuing violence at the U.S Capitol must be held accountable - even if that means Donald Trump. "Let the evidence, the facts, take it where it may," Harris said in an interview with The Associated Press in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she was attending

A look at the 20 articles of impeachment against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces an impeachment trial in the state Senate starting Tuesday on articles overwhelmingly approved by the House of Representatives. Paxton, a Republican and star of the conservative legal movement, was suspended from office in May when the GOP-controlled House voted 121-23 to impeach him on 20 articles ranging from bribery to abuse of public trust. Most of the articles deal with Paxton

Conservative book ban push fuels library exodus from national association that stands up for books

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure on librarians to pull books they considered harmful to youngsters, the local library board obliged with new policies making such books a higher priority for removal - and keeping out of collections. But that's not all the library board has done. Campbell County also withdrew from the American Library Association, in what's become

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio faces sentencing in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced on Tuesday for a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to stop the transfer of presidential power after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Tarrio will be the final Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to receive his punishment. Three fellow Proud Boys found guilty by

Information theft is on the rise. People are particularly vulnerable after natural disasters

NEW YORK (AP) - Information theft is on the rise. Over 1.1 million people in the U.S. alone reported the crime to the Federal Trade Commission in 2022. When a thief opens accounts in your name or otherwise uses your data, you might feel powerless. But there are steps you can take to prevent the worst outcomes. Colleen Tressler, a senior project manager for the FTC, has tracked consumer issues

Court revives doctors’ lawsuit saying FDA overstepped its authority with anti-ivermectin campaign

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal appeals court Friday revived a lawsuit by three doctors who say the Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority in a campaign against treating COVID-19 with the anti-parasite drug ivermectin. Ivermectin is commonly used to treat parasites in livestock. It can also be prescribed for humans and it has been championed by some conservatives as a treatment for COVID-19. The FDA has not approved

US will regulate nursing home staffing for first time, but proposal lower than many advocates hoped

NEW YORK (AP) - The federal government will, for the first time, dictate staffing levels at nursing homes, the Biden administration said Friday, responding to systemic problems bared by mass COVID-19 deaths. While such regulation has been sought for decades by allies of older adults and those with disabilities, the proposed threshold is far lower than many advocates had hoped. It also immediately drew ire from the nursing home industry,

Medicines360’s long and winding, $82 million road to create and distribute $50 birth control

(AP) - Drugs and medical devices rarely come from the nonprofit world. There are more than 2,600 for-profit pharmaceutical companies in the United States, but only three nonprofits have products on the American market. One of them is Medicines360, which in 2015 became the first nonprofit to introduce a medical device - an IUD. The genesis of the device came from an anonymous foundation that saw one of the most effective

Teen arrested in fatal shooting of 16-year-old during Oklahoma high school football game

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old at an Oklahoma high school football game, the authorities said Wednesday. Deputies working with other law enforcement agencies took the boy into custody without incident early Wednesday in the Oklahoma City suburb of Spencer, Oklahoma County Sheriff Tommie Johnson III said. The boy's name was not released because he is a juvenile, Johnson

States at the forefront of fights over wetlands protections after justices slash federal rules

(AP) A month after the U.S. Supreme Court severely restricted the federal government's power to oversee wetlands, the Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature handed state agencies an order: Don't give the ecologically crucial waters any more protection than newly weakened federal rules provide. It might seem ironic that Republicans who often complain about the federal government would tether their state's policy to one crafted in Washington, D.C. But this time, doing