Month: August 2022

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI investigation into top-secret government information discovered at Mar-a-Lago is zeroing in on the question of whether former President Donald Trump’s team criminally obstructed the probe. A new document alleges that government records had been concealed and removed and that law enforcement officials were misled about

By TOM DAVIES Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that religious freedom rights protect the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis from being sued by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school for being in a same-sex marriage. Joshua Payne-Elliott argued in his lawsuit that

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections agency will be asking the GOP-controlled Legislature to create a new division designed to increase confidence in election results in the face of ongoing conspiracy theories and false claims of widespread fraud. The Wisconsin Elections Commission, which has been under fire from Republicans

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Supporters of expanding voting access in Michigan say they will appeal to the state Supreme Court to put an initiative before voters in November. A state elections board decided Wednesday that the measure didn’t qualify for the fall ballot, voting 2-2 along party

ATLANTA (AP) — A fire broke out on the rooftop of a skyscraper under construction in downtown Atlanta on Wednesday, bringing dozens of firefighters and police officers to the site near Centennial Olympic Park. Flames were visible on the roof of the 32-story tower, sending a dark column of smoke into the sky as more

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Federal prosecutors say the mother of a California teenager conspired with a former Missouri boarding school dean on a plan that resulted in the boy being forced into a car, handcuffed for more than 24 hours and driven to a Missouri school for troubled youths. The indictment accuses Shana Gaviola

By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press A once obscure Michigan elections panel is back in the spotlight after rejecting a ballot initiative seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution and another to expand voting. The Michigan Board of State Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 along party lines on both initiatives Wednesday. Supporters of both proposals plan

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and SARA BURNETT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan elections board on Wednesday rejected an abortion rights initiative after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot. The two Democrats on the Board of State Canvassers voted in favor, but getting the

By ARSENE KABORE Associated Press OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Catholic church officials in the West African nation of Burkina Faso say an American nun has been freed after spending nearly five months in captivity. Sister Suellen Tennyson, who was 83 at the time gunmen kidnapped her from her home, is reported to be in