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As state lawmakers moved to ban transgender kids from girls’ sports, Kansas’ most visible LGBTQ-rights lobbyist recently said during an interview in a Statehouse corridor that conservatives don’t mind if kindergartners “have their genitals inspected." The politically needling comment was bold...

Mourners will gather Friday at the funeral for Patrick Lyoya, a Black man who was fatally shot in the back of the head after a traffic stop and struggle with a white police officer in Michigan. The Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy at the family's request. Their lawyer, Ben Crump, also...

Cesar Quintana agonized for weeks that his 2-year-old son wouldn't make it out of the battered Ukrainian coastal port Mariupol as Russian troops encircled the city. Thankfully, he did. But Alexander and his mother are now Russia, where Quintana, who has full legal custody of the boy in...

Firefighters are bracing for the return of ferocious winds in the Southwest after a brief reprieve allowed them to attack flames from the air for the first time in days as a half-dozen large wildfires continue to grow in Arizona and New Mexico. More than 500 firefighters were manning fire lines...

Formula 1 racers are gearing up to race at Hard Rock Stadium in a few weeks. But residents of Miami Gardens said their fight isn’t over. The city of Miami Gardens has yet to comment on any permit approval for a race, but we do know that residents that live in and around the area are split on...

There’s a new chief patrol agent for U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami Sector headquarters, arriving from the Texas-Mexico border during a surge in maritime migration from Cuba and Haiti. The U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami Sector safeguards 1,200 miles of coastal border with six Border Patrol Stations...

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection that he would urge then-President Donald Trump to resign, according to an audio recording posted Thursday night by The New York Times. The Times reported that the audio was a...

Philadelphia is ending its indoor mask mandate, city health officials said Thursday night, abruptly reversing course just days after city residents had to start wearing masks again amid a sharp increase in infections. The Board of Health voted Thursday to rescind the mandate, according to the...

New York state Democrats engaged in gerrymandering when drawing new congressional district boundaries for the next decade, a panel of five mid-level appellate judges ruled Thursday. In a divided 3-2 ruling, the majority found the congressional map was unconstitutional — a decision that, if...

The leaders of the rival Koreas exchanged letters expressing hope for improved bilateral relations, which plummeted in the past three years amid a freeze in nuclear negotiations and North Korea’s accelerating weapons development. North Korea’s state media said leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday...

The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the state's voters do not have the right to reject a massive income tax cut approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov, Doug Ducey last year. The decision that means a nearly $2 billion cut that mainly benefits the wealthy is in...

Mike Tyson was heading to Miami from San Francisco to speak at a cannabis conference at a Miami Beach hotel on Thursday. But on Wednesday night, just before take-off of a JetBlue flight, an overzealous fan got under Iron Mike’s skin and ended up getting attacked by the former boxer. The...

The co-founder of the “We Build The Wall” project aimed at raising money for a border wall pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in a case that once included former President Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon. Brian Kolfage admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars while promising...

Two former brokers from Broward County were awaiting sentencing after a jury found them guilty of fraud charges on Thursday at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. Prosecutors accused Omar Plummer, 54, of Margate, and Jeffrey Horn, 47, of Coral Springs, of raising about $1.6 million by...

The Supreme Court said Thursday that a federal appeals court was wrong when it ordered Michigan to retry or release a convicted murderer because his rights were violated when he was shackled at trial. In a decision that split the court 6-3 along ideological lines, the court's conservative...

The Palm Beach County Sheriffs’ Office released an image on Thursday of a man who is accused of attacking a woman while she was working at a Burger King in Lake Park. The man was a drive-thru customer at first, then while unhappy with his service he ran inside the fast-food restaurant, and...

California workplace regulators on Thursday extended mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022, acting more than two months after state lawmakers restored similar benefits through September. The decision again pitted management against labor as the...

Climate change is worsening the already significant threat of flooding in California’s farm country, and state officials said Thursday that as much as $30 billion may be needed over three decades to protect the region, an increase from five years ago. Every five years, flood protection plans...

Deputies are asking the public for help with finding a woman who vanished from central Broward County on Monday. The Broward Sheriff’s Office released a picture of Shauna Allen who was last seen driving an orange Volkswagen Tiguan near the intersection of Northwest 30th Terrace and Northwest...

Authorities were investigating Thursday after former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson was recorded on video punching a fellow passenger on board a plane at San Francisco International Airport. The video shows Tyson leaning over the back of his seat repeatedly striking the unidentified man in the...