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Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana has become the eighth state in which voters will decide this year whether they want to legally protect the right to an abortion. Montana’s Secretary of State’s Office on Tuesday certified that the November general election ballot will include the initiative on amending the state constitution. The measure

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A southwestern Montana county has recounted its primary ballots after a member of the public questioned the number of votes tallied following the June 4 primary. Tuesday’s recount in Butte-Silver Bow County did not change who advances to the general election in a races for a state judge and the city-county

AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japan racked up a 621 billion yen, or $4.3 billion, trade deficit in July, as prices of imports surged. The Finance Ministry said Wednesday that Japan’s imports grew nearly 17% from a year ago to 10.2 trillion yen, or $70.6 billion. Exports grew 10% to 9.6 trillion yen, or

Associated Press HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump pledged Tuesday to “Make America Safe Again” while campaigning in Michigan as the Democrats who gathered in Chicago to nominate Kamala Harris branded him a career criminal. As part of a battleground campaign swing designed to counter the Democratic National Convention, Trump stood alongside sheriff’s

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the city of Medford, saying its police department has been unlawfully monitoring progressive political activists who aren’t suspected of criminal activity. City officials insist they have not monitored the groups because of their views or constitutionally protected activities. Officials say

Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Voters in Arizona and Montana will be able to decide in November whether they want to protect the right to an abortion in their state constitutions. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 200-word summary that abortion advocates used to collect signatures for a ballot measure is valid, clearing

Associated Press CHIREDZI, Zimbabwe (AP) — Tembanechako Mastick and a group of men scanned bushes near their village in southeast Zimbabwe, on the hunt for the den of hyenas that had recently attacked livestock. Scattered fragments of goat bones showed the way, and Mastick peeped cautiously into a deep hole in the earth. “They are

CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of Democratic delegates have officially made Vice President Kamala Harris their party’s presidential nominee, after a rollercoaster month that saw President Joe Biden shutter his campaign and boost her to the top of the ticket. That high-level switcheroo meant a lot of changes for party officials, delegates and speakers alike heading

Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Incumbent school board members in what’s historically been one of Florida’s largest swing counties appear to have held off challenges by “parental rights” candidates backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. That’s according to preliminary election results Tuesday. Activists had hoped that three challengers endorsed by the local chapter

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — A small plane crashed in a West Texas neighborhood Tuesday, killing the pilot and a passenger and setting off a large fire on the ground that injured a woman, authorities said. Witnesses said the plane struggled to gain altitude after taking off from an Odessa airport and then struck a power

Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s attorney general says he’s asked to file a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging federal control over public lands run by the Bureau of Land Management. Those lands make up about one-third of the state. The legal challenge is considered a long-shot attempt to assert state

Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — U.S. Senate candidate West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is in a mad-dash legal fight to keep a historic hotel at his luxury resort before it’s auctioned off next week due to unpaid debts. An official with the Workers United Mid-Atlantic Regional Joint Board confirmed Tuesday that resort employees received

Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local officials in western Congo say that a weekend boat accident on the Lukeni river has left at least 20 people dead and hundreds missing. Jacques Nzenza Mongie, the administrator of Kutu territory, says that the motorized wooden boat was carrying around 300 passengers and navigating by night when

Associated Press An expelled Yale University student who was acquitted of sex assault charges in 2018 is suing 15 women’s advocacy groups and an attorney for defamation after they called him a “rapist” in a court brief filed in a separate proceeding. Saifullah Khan, a 31-year-old Afghanistan native, said the organizations, including the National Alliance

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has been active on his social accounts as Democrats gather for their convention in Chicago, but some of his posts don’t have much to do with reality. Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, he posted a fake image of someone who looks like Vice President Kamala

Associated Press A suburban Detroit doctor has been arrested after authorities found scores of nude photos and videos of children and adults taken while the victims were changing at a swim school, lying in hospital beds and undressed elsewhere. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard says 40-year-old Dr. Oumair Aejaz was arrested Aug. 8 at his

Associated Press IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A key crossing in Syria between an area held by the government and one held by the opposition has been closed again after violence followed its brief reopening this week. A local activist and a war monitor said on Tuesday that opposition groups protested its reopening and that it