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By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments on whether it should overturn a lower court’s ruling that permanently blocks a restrictive abortion law passed in Georgia in 2019. A federal judge ruled last year that the law cannot take effect because it’s unconstitutional. The state

By BOB CHRISTIE and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican-backed election review in Arizona’s largest county has failed to come up with proof to support former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election. The result Friday is the climax of a widely criticized quest to find evidence that Trump

By MARÍA VERZA and JUAN LOZANO Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — Federal and local officials say an encampment in a Texas border town where thousands of Haitian migrants gathered in recent days is now empty. Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano said at a news conference Friday that it was “phenomenal news” that all

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long-suffering California Republicans are assessing another election disappointment and looking for a way forward. Party leaders and delegates are holding a three-day convention in San Diego, shortly after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom soundly defeated an attempt to remove him from office in a recall

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — The top U.S. military officer says America should explore ways to expand its military contacts with the Russians, potentially to include allowing observers from each country to watch the other’s combat exercises. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed four advisers and associates to former President Donald Trump who were in contact with him as hundreds of his followers violently broke into the building and tried to overturn

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation passed by the House on Friday would guarantee a woman’s right to an abortion. But it’s a largely symbolic gesture because Republican opposition will doom the measure in the Senate. The House vote is part of an effort by Democrats to circumvent

By AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has met with other leaders of an Indo-Pacific alliance known as “the Quad” as he wraps up a week of diplomacy with both allies and adversaries. The White House meeting Friday with leaders from India, Japan and Australia gave Biden a

By MATTHEW LEE and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Liberty and Fraternity, sure, Equality, not so much. Born of a revolution fought for liberty, ties between the United States and its oldest ally, France, have long been fraternal. But they’ve also been marked by deep French unease over their equality. French concerns

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press ABOARD THE OCEAN WARRIOR in the eastern Pacific Ocean (AP) — It’s 3 a.m., and after five days plying through the high seas, the Ocean Warrior is surrounded by an atoll of blazing lights that overtakes the nighttime sky. “Welcome to the party!” says third officer Filippo Marini as the

By JONATHAN LEMIRE, LISA MASCARO and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The time has come for President Joe Biden to close the deal if he has any hope of delivering on his domestic policy ambitions. The president’s mission is to unite progressive and centrist Democrats as the House and Senate chase endless deliberations

By MALLIKA SEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Only five women addressed the United Nations General Assembly in the first half of its session this year. That total was set to more than double Friday, when three female vice presidents and five prime ministers are expected to speak. Despite women making up a small