Texas prosecutor drops charges against 17 Austin police over tactics used during 2020 protests

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor whose office oversaw indictments against more than 20 Austin…

Court ‘justice stations’ open in New Mexico, Navajo Nation, allowing more remote appearances

GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico officials are setting up “justice stations” in the northwestern part…

Plan to add teaching of Holocaust, genocide to science education draws questions from Maine teachers

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Teachers and science advocates are voicing skepticism about a Maine proposal to…

Send-offs show Carlton Pearson’s split legacy spurred by his inclusive beliefs, rejection of hell

Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was once…

Las Vegas man accused of threats against Jewish US senator and her family is indicted

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a Las Vegas man arrested last…

Georgia county seeking to dismiss lawsuit by slave descendants over rezoning of their island homes

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — County commissioners in Georgia are asking a judge to throw out a…

Native American storytellers enjoying a rare spotlight, a moment they hope can be more than that

NEW YORK (AP) — The financial crisis of 2008 hit Mary Kathryn Nagle differently. As a…

Defense digs into Manuel Ellis’ drug use at trial of Washington officers accused in man’s death

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A lawyer for one of three Washington state police officers charged in…

Vivek Ramaswamy’s approach in business and politics is the same: Confidence, no matter the scenario

ATLANTA (AP) — A political novice and one of the world’s wealthiest millennials, Vivek Ramaswamy has…

U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes

U.S. regulators say they will review the use of a chemical found in almost every tire…