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By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The right to an abortion is back before the highest court in South Carolina as Republicans try to restore a ban that was overturned by the court earlier this year. The court’s makeup has since changed and an all-male panel will hear the matter

By RIAZAT BUTT Associated Press MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — For Zainab Abdu, the holiest sites in Islam were the backdrop for her weekends growing up. Raised in Mecca, Abdu remembers roller-skating with friends near the Grand Mosque where the Kaaba is located. The desert plains and valleys that throng with pilgrims every year are

By ED KOMENDA Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington next month will become the first U.S. state to deduct taxes from workers’ paychecks to finance a new long-term care benefit for residents who can’t live independently due to illness, injury or aging-related conditions like dementia. Advocates say that when the benefit becomes available in 2026,

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. judge is set to hear arguments Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s attempt to move his criminal case in New York out of the state court, where he was indicted, to a federal court where he could potentially try to get the case dismissed. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein will listen

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Videos circulating online show a fire tearing through a high-rise residential building in the United Arab Emirates. There were no immediate reports of injuries from the blaze early Tuesday in Ajman, one of the seven emirates that makes up the UAE, which also includes the futuristic cities of Dubai

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press HOLLIS, N.H. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold dueling campaign events Tuesday in New Hampshire after some squabbling over the close timing of the appearances. DeSantis, who released an immigration and border security policy proposal on Monday, was set

By MARC LEVY and JOSH FUNK Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Spurred on by train derailments, some states with busy criss-crossing freight railroads are pursuing their own safety remedies rather than wait for federal action amid industry opposition and questions about whether they even have authority to make the changes. The activity comes after

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and DIANE JEANTET Associated Press CARATINGA, Brasil (AP) — The emerald-green canopy shifts and rustles as a troop of willowy, golden-gray monkeys slides through a tropical ecosystem more threatened than the Amazon. Karen Strier started studying the biggest monkey in the Americas four decades ago, when there were just 50 of the

By SEUNG MIN KIM and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the surface, the turmoil in Russia would seem like something for the U.S. to celebrate: a powerful mercenary group engaging in a short-lived clash with Russia’s military at the very moment that Ukraine is trying to gain momentum in a critical counteroffensive.

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press An unexpected culprit toppled beach chairs along the sand at normally calm Clearwater Beach, Florida, last Wednesday. West Coast surfers might snicker at the cause, but the National Weather Service confirms the rare 4-foot (1.2 meter) wave was caused by a kind of tsunami, just not the kind you usually

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Now that the PGA Tour and European tour have a deal with the Saudis, one step is deciding how players can return from LIV Golf if they so choose. That’s part of the framework agreement that was signed last month. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the agreement.

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said Monday the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.” The investigator, Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, said at a news

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalans have sent two presidential candidates from opposite sides of the political spectrum to an Aug. 20 runoff, giving hope to many disenchanted voters that change may be possible. With 98% of the votes counted from Sunday’s election, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Leftist candidate Olivia Chow has become the mayor of Canada’s largest city. Chow is Toronto’s new mayor after more than a decade of conservative rule. She is the first woman of color to lead Canada’s most populous city.  John Tory stepped as mayor after acknowledging he had

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The United States has seen five cases of malaria spread by mosquitos in the last two months — the first time there’s been local spread in 20 years. There were four cases detected in Florida and one in Texas, according to a health alert issued

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peg Yorkin, who donated $10 million to the feminist foundation she co-founded and pushed to bring the most common method of abortion to the United States, has died. Yorkin died Sunday night after a long illness, her daughter Nicole Yorkin said. Peg Yorkin was 96. Yorkin was chair of the Feminist

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Authorities announced late Monday that they had arrested a 41-year-old man in the weekend killing of a Massachusetts couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, along with another family member, in the small city outside Boston. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said police took Christopher Ferguson, of Newton,