By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press
Six months after a deadly mass shooting by an Army reservist, Maine lawmakers this week passed a wide-ranging package of new gun restrictions.
Three months after a fatal school shooting, Iowa lawmakers this week passed legislation allowing trained teachers ...
By TOM KRISHER, STAN CHOE and MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writers
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is asking shareholders to restore a $56 billion pay package for CEO Elon Musk that was rejected by a Delaware judge this year, and to shift the company's corporate home to Texas.
The changes, to be ...
By COLLIN BINKLEY and ANNIE MA Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Columbia University's president took a firm stance against antisemitism in a congressional hearing on Wednesday, but she faced bruising criticism from Republicans who say her actions haven't supported her words, ...
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats in the Arizona Senate cleared a path to bring a proposed repeal of the state's near-total ban on abortions to a vote after the state's highest court concluded the law can be enforced and the state House blocked efforts to undo ...
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press
Pennsylvania utility regulators must turn over inspection records to the National Transportation Safety Board as part of the federal agency's probe into a fatal explosion at a chocolate factory last year, a federal judge ruled this week.
U.S. District ...
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro and his top human services official said Wednesday that the administration has a plan to end a waiting list of thousands of families who are considered to be in dire need of help for an intellectually disabled adult ...
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Joe Biden suggested to cheering, unionized steelworkers on Wednesday that his administration would thwart the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company, and he called for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese ...
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
Uber is helping investigators look into an account that sent a driver to the Ohio home where an 81-year-old man allegedly shot the woman to death because he erroneously believed she was part of a scam that targeted him, the ride-hailing company said ...
MADISON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia mother has been charged in the death of her 14-year-old daughter, who was found "emaciated to a skeletal state," according to officials and court documents.
The mother was arrested Wednesday and charged with child neglect causing death, Boone County ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's transgender sports ban violates the rights of a teen athlete under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law ...