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By SAM METZ AP / Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada-based technology company that had lobbied state lawmakers to let it form a semi-autonomous smart city in the rural desert has withdrawn its proposal. Blockchains said on Thursday that it no longer planned to construct a smart city that revolved around

By PADMANANDA RAMA and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal is pushing President Joe Biden to hold the line. The head of the influential Congressional Progressive Caucus wants Biden to keep his ambitious social spending plan closer to $3 trillion instead of the $2 trillion range that he has

By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Glenn Youngkin has not talked much lately about the 2020 election, President Donald Trump’s lies about fraud and the insurrection on Jan. 6. But when he has, it has not gone smoothly. The GOP nominee for governor of Virginia argued this week that the state’s

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Newly released video that shows Minneapolis police officers talking about “hunting people” during unrest following the death of George Floyd has become an issue in the upcoming citywide election. Mayor Jacob Frey says body camera footage that also shows officers kicking and beating a man who had surrendered is “galling.” But some

By BOB CHRISTIE Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic members of a U.S. House committee questioned Arizona officials on the potential damage that a partisan review of the state’s 2020 election results had on trust in American elections. Two Republican leaders of the county subjected to the recount testified in Washington on Thursday that they

By PATTY NIEBERG, THOMAS PEIPERT AND COLLEEN SLEVIN The Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman has been denied a kidney transplant because she won’t be vaccinated against COVID-19 due to her religious views. Leilani Lutali faces the possibility of dying without a new kidney. However, the born-again Christian objects to the

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortions in Texas can resume under a federal judge’s ruling, but for how long? A conservative federal appeals court, and ultimately the Supreme Court, might take a more skeptical look at the Biden administration’s lawsuit over Texas’ six-week abortion ban. The state law had been in effect

W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — It took some time, but the Las Vegas Raiders have finally become a bona fide threat on the defensive front since trading star linebacker Khalil Mack to the Chicago Bears just nine days before the start of the 2018 season. Defensive ends Maxx Crosby and Yannick Ngakoue

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Officials say two human feet that washed ashore months and miles apart in South Carolina belonged to the same person. Charleston County Coroner Bobbi Jo O’Neal said Wednesday that her office determined that they belonged to Janet Robinson, a 57-year-old woman who went missing. Her cause of death is still

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — Another armed Indigenous vigilante group has appeared in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. In a video posted on social media Thursday, a group of about 30 masked men are seen holding mainly hunting rifles and shotguns in the woods. The group say it is made up of members of