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FILE - The fire-damaged Wellspring Health Access clinic is cordoned by tape, May 25, 2022, in Casper, Wyo. Lorna Roxanne Green, who says anxiety and nightmares led her to set fire to Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)
Judge sentences a woman who investigators say burned a Wyoming abortion clinic to 5 years in prison
A judge has sentenced an abortion opponent to five years in prison for burning a Wyoming abortion clinic. She also has been sentenced to three years probation and has been ordered to pay restitution. … more
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Kathleen Boleyn, mother of Johnny Hurley who was fatally shot by a police officer from the Arvada, Colo., Police Department in June 2021, speaks near a photograph of her while discussing the $2.77-million settlement reached with the northwest Denver suburban city Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, in Denver. Boleyn's son was shot after he had killed an active shooter who had killed an Arvada officer in the city's Olde Town area on June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Mom of Colorado man killed by police after taking ‘heroic’ actions to stop gunman settles with city
A Colorado city has reached a nearly $2.8 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by the mother of a man killed by police after taking heroic actions to stop a gunman who had shot another officer. A … more
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An ethnic Armenian boy from Nagorno-Karabakh, looks out from a car window upon his arrival in Goris, Armenia's Syunik region, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov)
AP PHOTOS: Tens of thousands of Armenians flee in mass exodus from breakaway region of Azerbaijan
More than half the population of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled the breakaway region recently reclaimed by Azerbaijan, creating a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians. The migration began Sunday. By … more
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019 file photo, a Brightline passenger train passes by in Oakland Park, Fla. Florida's high-speed passenger train service suffered the first fatality on its new extension between West Palm Beach and Orlando on Thursday, Sept. 28 2023 when a pedestrian was struck. Overall, it was Brightline's 99th death since it began operations six years ago. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, file)
Florida high-speed train headed to Orlando fatally strikes pedestrian
Florida's high-speed passenger train service has suffered its first fatality on its new extension to Orlando. St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara said a 25-year-old stepped in front of a Brightline … more
This undated photo provided by the sheriff's office of Chaffee County, Colo., shows Suzanne Morphew, who went for a bike ride on Mother’s Day 2020 and never returned. Authorities announced Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, that investigators discovered Morphew's remains the previous Friday near Moffat, Colo., about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of the Salida area, where she was reported missing. (Chaffee County Sheriff's Office via AP)
Remains found of Colorado woman Suzanne Morphew, who went missing on Mother's Day 2020
The discovery of Suzanne Morphew’s remains three years after the Colorado woman went missing is raising new questions about what happened to her. The remains were found last week about 40 miles … more
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FILE - Plaintiff Rhonda Grayson speaks outside of the Muscogee Nation court building after a hearing challenging the Muscogee citizenship board on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, in Okmulgee, Okla. A tribal court judge for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma has ruled in favor of two descendants of Black slaves once owned by tribal members. District Judge Denette Mouser, based in the tribe's headquarters in Okmulgee, ruled late Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, in favor of two Black Muscogee Nation freedmen, Grayson and Jeff Kennedy, who had sued the tribe's citizenship board for denying their applications. (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File)
Muscogee Nation judge rules in favor of citizenship for slave descendants known as freedmen
A judge for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma has ruled in favor of two descendants of Black slaves once owned by tribal members. The decision Wednesday by Judge Denette Mouser could help pave … more
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This satellite image provided by NOAA on 11:11 am EST Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 shows Tropical Storm Rina forming in the Atlantic Ocean. Rina had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and was centered 1,190 miles (1,915 kilometers) east of the Northern Leeward Islands. No coastal watches or warnings are in effect for the storm, and there were no hazards affecting land. (NOAA via AP)
Tropical Storm Rina forms in the Atlantic Ocean, trailing Tropical Storm Philippe
The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Rina has formed in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters said Thursday the storm had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was centered almost 1,200 miles … more
In this photo released by Uzbekistan's Emergency Ministry Press Service on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a site of a warehouse in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A massive explosion followed by a large blaze occurred early Thursday morning at a warehouse in the Uzbekistan capital Tashkent. (Uzbekistan's Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)
An explosion following a lightning strike in the Uzbek capital kills 1 person and injures 162
An explosion in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, has killed a teenage boy and injured at least 162 people. Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Health said a fire broke out after a lightning strike. The Ministry … more
The Capitol is seen late Tuesday night, Sept. 26, in Washington, as lawmakers work to advance appropriations bills on the House floor. The Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate are starkly divided over very different paths to preventing a federal shutdown.
What would a government shutdown mean for me? 
NEW YORK (AP) — With gridlock persisting in Washington, a government shutdown is looking more and more likely ahead of Saturday night’s deadline. As the Senate marches ahead with a … more
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Nebraska’s Republican Gov. Jim Pillen delivers his State of the State, Jan. 25, at the the state Capitol in Lincoln, Neb. Lower-income new mothers will get a full year of Medicaid health-care coverage in Nebraska under an order issued on Wednesday, Sept. 27.
Nebraska to expand Medicaid to cover postpartum care for low-income mothers
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lower-income new mothers will get a full year of Medicaid health care coverage in Nebraska under an order issued Wednesday by Republican Gov. Jim Pillen. The move … more
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FILE - Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Department of Education, Sept. 20, in Washington. A new federal rule threatens to cut federal money to college programs that consistently leave graduates with low pay or unaffordable debt. The gainful employment rule finalized by the Biden administrations on Wednesday applies mostly to for-profit colleges, along with certificate programs at traditional universities.
New rule will cut federal money to college programs that leave grads with high debt, low pay
WASHINGTON (AP) — College programs that consistently leave graduates with low pay or unaffordable loans will lose access to federal money under a new rule being finalized by the Biden … more
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Timothy Kinyua unloads sacks of onions from Ethiopia at an open market in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Restrictions on the export of the vegetable by neighboring Tanzania has led prices to triple. The prices for onions from Tanzania were the highest in seven years, Kinyua said. Some traders have adjusted by getting produce from Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Food prices are rising as countries limit exports. Blame climate change, El Nino and Russia's war
Restrictions on food exports are spilling over from rice and wheat to other essentials. This ranges from Tanzania's limits on shipping onions to its neighbors and Morocco's restrictions on tomatoes … more
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FILE - Police and other first responders work the scene where officials say dozens of people have been found dead and multiple others were taken to hospitals with heat-related illnesses after a tractor-trailer containing suspected migrants was found on June 27, 2022, in San Antonio. One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in the sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty for his role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling attempt from Mexico, federal prosecutors said Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Man pleads guilty to smuggling-related charges over Texas deaths of 53 migrants in tractor-trailer
One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in a sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty to smuggling-related charges. Prosecutors said Monday that Christian Martinez … more
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Chaffee County Sheriff's Office shows Barry Morphew in Salida, Colo. Agents with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation found the remains of Suzanne Morphew, 49, during an unrelated search near the small southern Colorado town of Moffat on Friday, and she was positively identified Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. Morphew's husband, Barry Morphew, was charged in her presumed death, but prosecutors dropped charges against him last year just as he was about to go on trial. (Chaffee County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
Remains found of Colorado woman Suzanne Morphew, who went missing on Mother's Day 2020
Searchers have found the remains of a woman who was reported missing on Mother’s Day in 2020 after she did not return from a bike ride near her home in southern Colorado. Agents with the Colorado … more
Actor and SAG-AFTRA negotiator Frances Fisher, middle, raises her sign on a picket line outside Netflix studios on Tuesday, Sep. 26, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
In Hollywood writers' battle against AI, humans win (for now)
After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence in one of the first major labor battles over generative AI in the workplace. … more
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FILE - Residents, landowners and supporters of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island fill a courtroom, Sept. 12, 2023, in Darien, Ga. Two weeks after local officials weakened restrictions that for decades protected the tiny Georgia island community populated by the descendants of enslaved people, its Black residents hope to force a vote that would give them a chance to override the zoning changes at the ballot box. Hogg Hummock residents and their supporters launched a petition drive Tuesday, Sept. 26, aimed at forcing a referendum on the zoning changes. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum, File)
Slaves' descendants seek a referendum to veto zoning changes they say threaten their Georgia island
Lifelong residents of a tiny Georgia island who are descended from slaves are pushing to give voters a chance to override local zoning changes that they say threaten one of the last Gullah-Geechee … more
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Rex Heuermann appears with his lawyer Michael J. Brown, left, at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. Heuermann was charged last month in the deaths of three women and is the prime suspect in a fourth. (James Carbone /Newsday via AP)
Prosecutors say cheek swab from Gilgo Beach murder suspect adds to evidence of guilt
Prosecutors say DNA from Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect Rex Heuermann’s cheek swab matches the DNA that authorities had previously collected from a pizza crust and used to link Heuermann to one … more
FILE - Union Pacific's Englewood rail yard is seen, Aug. 12, 2022, in Houston. On Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, Houston officials approved $5 million for a fund to help relocate residents from neighborhoods located near the rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an increase in cancer cases. Creosote, which has been associated with an increased risk of contracting cancer, was used for more than 80 years at the site until the 1980s. City officials say the contamination has reached the groundwater in the neighborhoods. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
Houston approves $5M to relocate residents living near polluted Union Pacific rail yard
Houston officials have approved $5 million for a fund to help relocate residents from neighborhoods located near a rail yard polluted by a cancer-linked wood preservative that has been blamed for an … more
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Jai Paul performs at the Mayan Theatre, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
At Jai Paul's kickoff show, an elusive pop phenomenon proves his stardom in a live arena
On Tuesday night, the elusive pop producer Jai Paul opened his tour leg at the Los Angeles' Mayan Theater. He’d only performed a handful of times before, and never before this year. Paul’s been … more
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FILE - Protesters rally at the Ohio Statehouse in support of abortion rights after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, June 24, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Supreme Court justices vigorously questioned the state's lawyer Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, about a legal strategy that Ohio is attempting in hopes of resuming enforcement of a ban on abortion except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy. (Barbara J. Perenic/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File)
Ohio wants to resume enforcing its abortion law. Justices are weighing the legal arguments
Ohio Supreme Court justices have questioned the state’s lawyer about a legal strategy that Ohio is attempting in hopes of resuming enforcement of a ban on abortion except in the earliest weeks of … more
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