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How adults’ views on same-sex marriage have changed since 2015 Supreme Court ruling
WASHINGTON — For years, it looked as though the United States was steadily climbing toward a consensus on same-sex marriage. But 10 years after the Supreme Court ruled that there is a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, the split between Republicans and Democrats on the issue is wider than it’s been in decades. Recent polling…
Mississippi set to execute state’s longest-serving death row inmate
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi…
Lawsuit challenges billions of dollars in Trump administration funding cuts
BOSTON — Attorneys general from more than 20 states and Washington, D.C. filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging billions of dollars in funding cuts made by the Trump administration that would fund everything from crime prevention to food security to scientific research. The lawsuit filed in Boston is asking a judge to limit the Trump…
Florida has executed a man convicted of raping and killing a woman outside of a bar
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Sen. Grassley calls delays at a benefits program for deceased officers ‘absolutely unacceptable’
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A powerful U.S. senator on Tuesday called on the Trump administration to fix a growing backlog and longtime management problems at the program that promises benefits when police and firefighters die or become disabled in the line of duty. Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said…
4 charged with hate crimes for destroying LGBTQ+ pride flags, Atlanta police say
ATLANTA — Atlanta police said Tuesday they’re charging three men and a juvenile with hate crimes after they pulled down LGBTQ+ pride flags and cut them up at an intersection known as the center of the city’s LGBTQ+ community. Police say they got calls at 1:40 a.m. Tuesday morning that six males were causing a…
Minnesota lawmaker shot to death at home to lie in state at Capitol ahead of funeral
Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, will lie in state in the state Capitol Rotunda on Friday, a day ahead of their funeral MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were gunned down earlier this month in what authorities say was a politically motivated killing,…
Woman with ties to a cultlike group to appear in court after border agent’s killing
A woman charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont is due in federal court Tuesday in one of multiple criminal cases linked to a cultlike group known as Zizians. Authorities have said Teresa Youngblut fired the bullet that killed agent David Maland during the January traffic stop. Another agent fired…
Trump administration plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands
SANTA FE, N.M. — The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging on national forest lands, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Monday. The roadless rule adopted in the last days of Bill Clinton’s presidency in 2001 long has chafed Republican lawmakers, especially in the West where national forests sprawl across…
Search continues for 2 still missing after 6 killed when boat capsized on Lake Tahoe
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Divers searched a section of Lake Tahoe on Monday for two people still missing after six others were killed when a boat capsized during a powerful weekend thunderstorm that whipped up high waves, authorities said. Ten people were on board the 27-foot (8-meter) gold Chris-Craft vessel when it flipped Saturday…