By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL and MICHAEL TACKETT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and ...

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon on Monday signed ban on abortions after embryotic cardiac activity can be detected, generally at about six weeks' gestation and often before women know they're pregnant. The signing makes Wyoming the fifth state to bar abortions ...

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., (AP) — A former Missouri House speaker was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud for misusing federal COVID-19 relief funds for his personal benefit. Former Republican House Speaker John Diehl ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police took a woman into custody after she fired gunshots outside Rihanna 's gated home, according to authorities and news reports on Monday. No one was injured, police said. It wasn't immediately clear whether the singer was at home when the shooting happened ...

PAOLI, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania State Police trooper was shot and killed by a man he had pulled over in a traffic stop Sunday night, authorities said. Cpl. Tim O'Connor was killed as he approached the car when the driver fired from inside the vehicle, the state's acting police commissioner, ...

By JESSICA PRIEST/The Texas Tribune After two legislative sessions in which Republican lawmakers hammered universities as bastions of liberal indoctrination, campuses across Texas are restricting how race and gender can be taught and requiring instructors to present controversial subjects in ...