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University of Michigan campus police block an area Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Mich., where a pro-Palestinian encampment had been set up since late April. Police removed the encampment earlier Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mike Householder)

Police break up pro-Palestinian camp at the University of Michigan

Police have broken up a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Michigan less than a week after demonstrators showed up at the home of a school official and placed fake body bags on her lawn.
 
FILE - This photo provided by the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa shows the screen of a Unitronics device that was hacked in Aliquippa, Pa., Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. Cyberattacks against water utilities across the country are becoming more frequent and more severe, the Environmental Protection Agency warned Monday, May 20, 2024, as it issued an enforcement alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation's drinking water from electronic threats. (Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa via AP, File)

US says cyberattacks against water supplies are rising, and utilities need to do more to stop them

 
FILE - Fans wait in line outside Graceland Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Memphis, Tenn. The granddaughter of Elvis Presley is fighting plans to publicly auction his Graceland estate in Memphis after a company tried to sell the property based on claims that a loan using the king of rock ’n’ roll's former home as collateral was not repaid. A public auction for the estate had been scheduled for Thursday, May 23, 2024, but a Memphis judge blocked the sale after Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough sought a temporary restraining order and filed a lawsuit, court documents show. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill, File)

Elvis Presley’s granddaughter fights company’s attempt to sell Graceland estate

 
Tugboats escort the cargo ship Dali after it was refloated in Baltimore, Monday, May 20, 2024. The vessel struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26 causing it to collapse and resulting in the death of six people. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Tugboats escort ship that caused deadly Baltimore bridge collapse back to port

 
Pro-Palestinian protesters and Philadelphia police have a standoff along 34th Street at the University of Pennsylvania on Friday, May 17, 2024. Authorities say a half-dozen University of Pennsylvania students were among 19 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during an attempt to occupy a building on campus. University police say seven remained in custody Saturday awaiting felony charges from Friday's incident, including one person who allegedly assaulted an officer. (Charles Fox/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Drexel threatens to clear encampment as arrests linked to Israel-Hamas war protests exceed 3,000

 

Timelapse video: Ship that caused deadly Baltimore bridge collapse returned to port

Watch a timelapse video of the Dali, the cargo ship that caused deadly Baltimore bridge collapse, returning to port.
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Family of Black teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration

Investigators return to Long Island home of Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect

Topics

Abortion

Lindsey Harmon, President, Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, speaks during a news conference by Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Las Vegas. Abortion access advocates in Nevada said Monday they've submitted twice the number of petition signatures needed to qualify for a ballot measure aimed at enshrining what they term reproductive rights in the state constitution. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Nevada abortion-rights measure has enough signatures for November ballot, supporters say

 

  1. The Senate filibuster is a hurdle to any national abortion bill. Democrats are campaigning on it

  2. Ohio voters approved reproductive rights. Will the state’s near-ban on abortion stand?

  3. Abortion rights initiatives make the ballot in South Dakota and Colorado

LGBTQ+

Dozens of supporters and opponents of the Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment legislation held signs – green in support, red in opposition – outside the Minnesota House chamber in the State Capitol building in St. Paul, Minn., on Monday, May 13, 2024, ahead of a crucial House floor vote on the legislation. The amendment would guarantee some of the country's most expansive protections of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights if it is approved by both chambers this session and then by voters in two years. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)

Minnesota Equal Rights Amendment fails in acrimonious end to legislative session

 

  1. Pride House on Seine River barge is inaugurated by Paris Olympics organizers

  2. Georgia’s prime minister joins tens of thousands in a march to promote ‘family purity’

  3. He feared coming out. Now this pastor wants to help Black churches become as welcoming as his own

Shootings

FILE - Arizona graduate student Murad Dervish sits in Pima County Superior Court, May 8, 2024, in Tuscon, Ariz. Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday, May 20, in the trial of Dervish, who is accused of killing a professor on campus two years ago. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

Arizona grad student accused of killing professor in 2022 had planned the crime, prosecutor says

 

  1. There was a fatal shooting at this year’s ‘Jeep Week’ event on Texas Gulf Coast. Here’s what to know

  2. San Diego deputy who pleaded guilty to manslaughter now faces federal charges

  3. 11 hurt in mass shooting that marked a weekend of gun violence in Savannah, Georgia

Immigration

Dallenis Martinez talks about her journey to American while waiting to attend an orientation session for recent immigrants Monday, May 20, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Denver launches ambitious migrant program, breaking from the short-term shelter approach

 

  1. Taxpayer costs for profiling verdict over Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns to reach $314M

  2. Mexican and Guatemalan presidents meet at border to discuss migration, security and development

  3. The latest hot spot for illegal border crossings is San Diego. But routes change quickly

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FILE - The United States Steel Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant in Clairton, Pa., is shown on Feb. 26, 2024. President Biden and Donald Trump agree on essentially nothing, from taxes and climate change to immigration and regulation. Yet on trade policy, the two presumptive presidential nominees have embraced surprisingly similar approaches. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Trump or Biden? Either way, US seems poised to preserve heavy tariffs on imports

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree on essentially nothing, from taxes and climate change to immigration and regulation.
 
President Joe Biden speaks during a Jewish American Heritage Month event, May 20, 2024, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Biden, intent on selling his legislative accomplishments this election year, will travel to New Hampshire to detail the impact of a law that helps veterans get key benefits as a result of burn pit or other toxic exposure during their service. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Over 1 million claims related to toxic exposure granted under new veterans law, Biden will announce

President Joe Biden, intent on selling his legislative accomplishments this election year, will travel to New Hampshire to detail the impact of a law that helps veterans get key benefits as a result of burn pit or other toxic exposure during their service.
 
The New York Stock Exchange is shown on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in New York. Stocks on Wall Street were mixed in quiet premarket trading as more retailers report solid results at the tail end of earnings season. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Stock market today: US markets mixed in quiet premarket trading, Macy’s rises on big profit beat

Stocks on Wall Street were mixed in quiet premarket trading as more retailers report solid results at the tail end of earnings season.
 
FILE - This undated photo provided by Kira Dunn shows Christopher Dunn. A hearing begins Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in St. Louis to determine if a murder conviction should be vacated for the Missouri inmate. Dunn has spent more than three decades in prison on a life-without-parole sentence for a 1990 killing, but St. Louis prosecutors now are convinced that he is innocent. (Kira Dunn via AP, File)

Hearing to determine if Missouri man who has been in prison for 33 years was wrongfully convicted

Christopher Dunn has spent 33 years in prison for a murder in Missouri he has always claimed he didn’t commit.
 
FILE - Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, holds a press conference at the Maricopa County Elections Department in Phoenix on Nov. 18, 2020. Ward, who led the state GOP from 2019 until early 2023, was scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, on felony charges in Arizona’s fake elector case for her part in the effort to overturn Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Former Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward and others set to be arraigned in fake elector case

Former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and at least 11 other people are scheduled to be arraigned in a Phoenix courtroom on felony charges for their role in the effort to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Arizona to Joe Biden.
 
FILE - Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux speaks during a news conference in Visalia, Calif., Feb. 3, 2023. Boudreaux and State Assembly member Vince Fong, both Republicans, are vying for the vacant 20th Congressional District seat in the state's Central Valley farm belt. That's the seat formerly held by Kevin McCarthy. (Ron Holman/The Times-Delta via AP, File)

Trump-backed legislator, county sheriff face off for McCarthy’s vacant US House seat in California

A California legislator backed by former President Donald Trump and a county sheriff promising to fight for tougher border security are facing off in a special election to decide who will complete the remainder of the term of ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
 
Children color at the KinderCare Child Development center on April 18, 2024, in Las Vegas. Just under 100 children of employees were enrolled at the The Venetian Las Vegas' center as of mid-April. (Jackie Valley/The Christian Science Monitor via AP)

More companies offer on-site child care. Parents love the convenience, but is it a long-term fix?

They operate in places like an airport, a resort, and a distribution center, tucked away from the public eye but close enough for easy access.
 
FILE - The exterior of the Kentucky State Capitol is pictured in Frankfort, Ky., April 7, 2021. Ten jurisdictions have yet to weigh in on the presidential primaries even though Joe Biden and Donald Trump locked in their parties' nominations months ago. Voters in two of them, Kentucky and Oregon, will get their chance on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. They will make symbolic decisions that provide a few more delegates to the national conventions and a gut check on where the Democratic and Republican bases stand toward their standard bearers. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Tuesday’s primaries include presidential races and the prosecutor in Trump’s Georgia election case

Ten jurisdictions have yet to weigh in on the presidential primaries even though Joe Biden and Donald Trump locked in their parties’ nominations months ago.
 
A car drives by a ballot drop box on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Sherwood, Ore. In Oregon's Multnomah County, home to Portland, the progressive district attorney who took office during the historical social justice movement of 2020 is being challenged by a more centrist candidate vowing to be tough on crime, highlighting the growing pressure on liberal prosecutors across the U.S. amid voter concerns over public drug use and disorder. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Progressive prosecutor in Portland, Oregon, seeks to fend off tough-on-crime challenger in DA race

The progressive district attorney in Portland, Oregon, took office during the social justice movement of 2020, but now he’s being challenged by a more centrist candidate vowing to be tough on crime.
 
FILE - Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks during a TV news interview at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. Fresh off his role in a failed attempt to topple the House speaker, Republican Rep. Massie downplayed any political fallout back home in Kentucky as he looked to maintain his dominance in his solidly conservative district as Bluegrass State voters headed to the polls Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Kentucky congressman expects no voter fallout for his role in attempt to oust House speaker

As Kentucky voters go to the polls, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie is downplaying any political fallout for his role in the recent failed effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.
 
Judge Juan Merchan, left, castigates witness Robert Costello about his "decorum" in the courtroom in Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 20, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Defense witness who angered the judge in Trump’s hush money trial will return to the stand

A defense witness in Donald Trump’s New York hush money case whom the judge threatened to remove over his behavior will return to the stand as the trial nears its end.
 

Voters to decide whether prosecutor and judge in Georgia Trump election case keep their jobs

Voters will decide whether two key players in the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump will keep their jobs.
 
FILE - Supreme Court Justice Andrew Pinson poses, April 17, 2024, in Atlanta. Voters are deciding the race between Pinson and Democratic former congressman John Barrow in a nonpartisan general election on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

State Supreme Court and Republican congressional primary elections top Georgia ballots

A state Supreme Court race that’s grown unusually heated by the sleepy standards of the state’s nonpartisan judicial elections tops Georgia ballots on Tuesday.
 
FILE - Supporters of President Donald Trump hold signs as they stand outside of the Clark County Elections Department in North Las Vegas,Nov. 7, 2020. As former President Donald Trump makes a comeback bid to return to power, Republicans in Congress have become even more likely to cast doubts on President Joe Biden's 2020 victory.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Election deniers moving closer to GOP mainstream, report shows, as Trump allies fill Congress

As Donald Trump makes a comeback bid to return to power, Republicans in Congress have become even more likely to cast doubts on President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
 

‘Justice demands’ new trial for death row inmate, Alabama district attorney says

An Alabama district attorney on Monday asked a judge to order a new trial for a death row inmate. Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr filed a brief expressing his support for Toforest Johnson’s bid to receive a new trial.
 
FILE - Wayne LaPierre arrives at court in Lower Manhattan on Jan. 24, 2024, in New York. The National Rifle Association, which has had its image sullied by former leader LaPierre’s spending excesses, elected Doug Hamlin as executive vice president and CEO on Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

NRA names new leadership to replace former CEO found liable for wrongly spending millions

The National Rifle Association has elected Doug Hamlin as its executive vice president and CEO. Hamlin, who recently served as director of NRA publications, replaces Wayne LaPierre.
 

Judge orders man accused of opening fire outside Wrigley Field held without bail

A federal magistrate judge has ordered a man accused of opening fire on a busy street outside Wrigley Field to remain in custody without bail.
 

Climber found dead on Denali, North America’s tallest peak

Authorities say a climber has been found dead on North America’s tallest peak after a family member told rangers they had not heard from them in days.
 

Over $450K recovered for workers of California mushroom farms that were sites of fatal shootings

Federal officials say that the owners of two Northern California mushroom farms where a farmworker killed seven people in back-to-back shootings last year will pay more than $450,000 in back wages and damages to 62 workers.
 

Juneteenth proclaimed state holiday again in Alabama, after bill to make it permanent falters

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has again authorized Juneteenth as a state holiday this year. Ivey’s office said Monday that June 19 will be a state workers’ holiday coinciding with the federal holiday.
 
Railroads rely on trackside detectors like this one along a Union Pacific line in western Iowa, seen Dec. 15, 2023, to help spot mechanical problems on trains before they can cause derailments. The Federal Railroad Administration finalized new rules Monday, May 20, 2024, that will establish training and certification standards for the workers who install and maintain these detectors and other signals along the railroads. (AP Photo/Josh Funk)

New safety rules set training standards for train dispatchers and signal repairmen

New federal certification rules have been finalized for train dispatchers and signal repairmen will set minimum standards for those jobs to counteract the investor pressure on railroads to continually cut costs while making sure those employees have the skills they need to operate all the high-tech
 
FILE - The morning sun illuminates the Grand Tetons, Aug. 26, 2016, in Grand Teton National Park, north of Jackson Hole, Wyo. A grizzly bear attacked and seriously injured a man in western Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, prompting closure of a mountain there Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Surprise grizzly attack prompts closure of a mountain in Grand Teton

A mountain in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park is closed to visitors after a grizzly bear attacked and seriously injured a man from Massachusetts.
 

Woman pleads guilty to shooting rural Pennsylvania prosecutor, sentenced to several years in prison

A Pennsylvania woman will serve four to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to shooting a county prosecutor after a confrontation about a property transfer he handled as a private lawyer.
 
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., leaves federal court Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Testimony at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial focuses on his wife’s New Jersey home

A lawyer testifying at Bob Menendez’s bribery trial says a New Jersey businessman rescued the Democrat’s then-future wife’s home from foreclosure just as the senator allegedly helped him secure a lucrative business relationship with Egypt.
 
FILE - Pistols sit on display during the first day of the Silver Spur Gun and Blade Show, Jan. 22, 2022, in Odessa, Texas. On Monday, May 20, 2024, a federal judge blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule in Texas that would require firearms dealers to run background checks on buyers at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)

Judge blocks Biden administration from enforcing new gun sales background check rule in Texas

A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a new rule in Texas that would require firearms dealers to run background checks on buyers at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores.
 
FILE - Michael Jones operates his drone, April 2, 2021, in Goldsboro, N.C. A North Carolina board that regulates land surveyors didn't violate the drone photography pilot's constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services because he lacked a state license, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Drone pilot can’t offer mapping without North Carolina surveyor’s license, court says

A federal appeals court says a North Carolina regulatory board didn’t violate a drone pilot’s constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services because he lacked a surveyor’s license.
 
Frankie Beverly performs at the 2019 Essence Festival at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on Sunday, July 7, 2019, in New Orleans. (Photo by Donald Traill/Invision/AP)

2024 Essence Festival to honor Frankie Beverly’s ‘final performance’ with tribute

Organizers of the Essence Festival of Culture have revealed that legendary soul group Maze featuring Frankie Beverly will be recognized during this summer’s gathering with “a star-studded tribute” that will “honor their final performance.”
 
FILE - The download screen for Truth Social app is seen on a laptop computer, March 20, 2024, in New York. Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of former President Donald Trump's social networking site Truth Social, lost more than $300 million last quarter, according to its first earnings report as a publicly traded company Monday, May 20. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Trump Media and Technology Group posts more than $300 million net loss in first public quarter

Trump Media and Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, lost more than $300 million last quarter.
 
Homer, Alaska, and the Homer Spit, jutting out into Kachemak Bay, is seen on June 9, 2021. Alaska State Troopers say a 70-year-old Homer man attempting to take photos of newborn moose calves was attacked and killed by the calves' mother in Homer on Sunday, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Moose kills Alaska man attempting to take photos of her newborn calves

Authorities in Alaska say a moose has killed a 70-year-old man in the community of Homer. Two men were walking through the brush trying to take photos of two newborn calves when authorities say the mother moose attacked one of the men.
 

Tennessee professor swept away by wave during Brazil study-abroad trip has died

A Tennessee community college says one of its professors who was swept away by an ocean wave during a study-abroad trip in Brazil has died.