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By GENE JOHNSON and ED KOMENDA Associated Press A federal judge has ruled that it would violate Idaho medical providers’ free speech rights to sanction them for referring patients to out-of-state abortion services, rejecting the state attorney general’s interpretation of Idaho’s abortion ban.. Republican Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador wrote a letter to a conservative

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah law requiring adult websites to verify the age of their users will remain in effect after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from an industry group challenging its constitutionality. The dismissal poses a setback for digital privacy advocates and the Free Speech Coalition,

ATLANTA (AP) — A man accused of shooting and killing one woman and injuring four others at an Atlanta medical practice has been indicted on charges including murder. A Fulton County grand jury indicted Deion Patterson on Thursday in the May 3 shooting. A 38-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Patterson is charged

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Police say they have made an arrest in connection with a weekend shooting that left one person dead and 17 others wounded in a central Indiana city. Deputy Muncie Police Chief Melissa Criswell said Tuesday a 36-year-old Muncie man had been preliminarily charged with several felonies and that evidence would be

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge assigned to the election fraud case against former President Donald Trump stands out as one of the toughest punishers of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Judge Tanya Chutkan often has handed down prison sentences in Jan. 6, 2021, riot cases that are harsher

By MANUEL RUEDA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The son of Colombia’s president has been charged with money laundering and illicit enrichment. Prosecutors at a hearing Tuesday said  he took tens of thousands of dollar from drug traffickers and used the money to buy luxurious homes and expensive cars. Nicolas Petro, 36, pleaded innocent

By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware (AP) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden took a break from their beach vacation to see summer blockbuster “Oppenheimer.” After a quick dinner at Matt’s Fish Camp in nearby Lewes, the Bidens went to an early evening showing of the three-hour movie about the

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A slew of new Louisiana laws, recently passed by the Republican-dominated Legislature and signed by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards have gone into effect. Among the new laws in effect Tuesday are those that increase punishments for fentanyl-related crimes, require every public school classroom to

By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union will present a long list to General Motors, Ford and Stellantis when it delivers economic demands to the companies this week, the union’s president says. And the message from newly elected chief Shawn Fain is that the companies are making big

GRAND CANYON WEST, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say one person has died in a tour bus rollover involving over 50 people in northern Arizona near the Grand Canyon West Skywalk. Tribal police on the Hualapai Indian Reservation say the bus rolled over just before 10 a.m. Tuesday at Grand Canyon West, which is tribal-run with

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press Donald Trump for years has promoted baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. In truth, Trump was the one who tried to steal the election, federal prosecutors said Tuesday in a sprawling indictment that paints the former president as desperate to cling to power he knew

PLATTE COUNTY, Mo. (AP) — A transgender former student is suing a Missouri school district for forcing her to use the boys’ bathrooms or the high school’s only single-stall bathroom. The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri sued Platte County R-3 School District on behalf of the transgender female former student on Monday. The lawsuit

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Ace pitcher Justin Verlander was shipped from the New York Mets to Houston ahead of the trade deadline, returning to the Astros after he helped them win the World Series last year. The retooling Mets acquired minor league outfielders Drew Gilbert and Ryan Clifford in the

By DANIEL POLITI Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It was an unusually scorching winter day in Buenos Aires Tuesday, with thermometers in Argentina’s capital crossing the 30-degree Celsius mark, the hottest start of August in 117 years of records, according to Argentina’s National Meteorological Service. Temperatures in the South American country’s capital reached

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press A Jewish security organization says information from video surveillance cameras, a close relationship with police and years of work to bolster safety measures kept a man with a gun out of a Jewish school. The organization said Tuesday each of these also helped police find the man. Memphis police said

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A helicopter belonging to a county sheriff’s office crashed near the Charleston International Airport in South Carolina, causing flights to be cancelled for around two hours. The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday’s crash in a post on social media. Authorities said the pilot was the only person aboard and suffered

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota State Patrol says troopers tried to take a man into custody for allegedly violating a restraining order before fatally shooting him as he fled by car. Ricky Cobb II was pulled over Monday for a traffic stop when troopers found that the

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States government’s credit rating, citing rising debt at the federal, state, and local levels and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance” over the past two decades. The rating was cut Tuesday one notch to AA+ from AAA, the highest

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Environmentalists have filed a lawsuit to prevent the construction of a new potash mine they say would devastate a lake ecosystem in the drought-stricken western Utah desert. The complaint filed Monday against the Bureau of Land Management is the latest development in the battle over