By JACK DURA Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Abortion is again illegal in North Dakota after the state's Supreme Court on Friday couldn't muster the required majority to uphold a judge's ruling that struck down the state's ban last year. The law makes it a felony crime for anyone ...

By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press Nevada gaming regulators voted to fine Caesars Palace $7.8 million Thursday over failing to comply with anti-money laundering rules, settling a case that centered on an illegal bookmaker with ties to the former interpreter for the baseball star Shohei ...

By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center said Friday that it is being paid $7.4 million to hold the draw for the World Cup at the performing arts venue on Dec. 5. FIFA is donating $2.4 million to the Kennedy Center as it prepares to host one of the biggest ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Four prison guards involved in the death of an incarcerated Black man whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison last year was captured on body camera videos were each sentenced Friday to prison terms. The four had pleaded guilty in September, just two weeks before ...

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's attorney general announced Friday that she is appealing a ruling that has stalled the criminal case against President Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy ...

BOSTON (AP) — The information needed to decipher the last remaining unsolved secret message embedded within a sculpture at CIA headquarters in Virginia sold at auction for nearly $1 million, the auction house announced Friday. The winner will get a private meeting with the 80-year-old artist ...

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff's deputy was killed while attempting to serve an eviction notice Friday in a beachside residence on the state's Atlantic coast, a county sheriff said. The accused shooter, another deputy and a locksmith working for law enforcement were all wounded, ...

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, JOSH BOAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press The two had called each other "fascist" and "communist," but when President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani faced reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, they were just two iconoclastic New York ...

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Sports Writer NCAA athletes and athletic department staff will not be allowed to bet on professional sports after the organization's membership voted Friday to rescind a rule change that would have permitted those bets. The move follows a string of high-profile ...

By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer The fiery crash of a UPS plane shortly after its left engine flew off its wing and sparked a massive fire during takeoff could spell the end of the 109 remaining MD-11 airliners that have been exclusively hauling cargo for more than a decade. The fate ...

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press A Missouri judge who wore an Elvis Presley wig in his courtroom and played the singer's music from his phone during court proceedings has agreed to a deal that would cut his career on the bench short. Judge Matthew Thornhill in suburban St. Louis ...

By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced on Friday that it will allow women to serve missions starting as young as 18, lowering the minimum age by one year and making the age requirement the same for men and women. The change, one of the ...

By TERRY TANG Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Last week, Oakland's new mayor found herself consoling the friends and family of a beloved community college football coach who was shot on campus. The day after her visit, Barbara Lee sat with The Associated Press for an hour at her ...

SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Three former Georgia sheriff's deputies have been found not guilty of murder in the death of a Black man who raised a white homeowner's suspicions by asking for a drink of water while walking through a small Georgia town. Eurie Martin, 58, was repeatedly shocked with ...

By ALAN MILLER/The Reporting Project Deep inside a report on the future of water in central Ohio is this warning: Industrial demands for water will skyrocket at the same time experts expect farmers will need to regularly irrigate their fields during the critical growing period of July ...

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a Chicago commuter train has a decades long criminal history and was on court-ordered electronic monitoring in an unrelated battery case at the time of the unprovoked attack, ...

By MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to end the deployment of National Guard troops to the nation's capital. But the ruling is unlikely to be the final word by the courts, the president or local leaders in the ...

By PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS and JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio police officer who shot and killed Ta'Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother who had been accused of shoplifting, was acquitted on all counts Friday, including murder. Blendon Township police ...

By STEPHEN GROVES and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The widow of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi called Friday for the release of the transcript of a 2019 phone call that President Donald Trump had with Mohammed bin Salman, joining Democratic lawmakers who ...

By ALI SWENSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don't cause autism, he told The New York Times in an ...