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April 26, 2023 at 11:03 am

New AP/ABC film probes white supremacy in law enforcement

The tale of a Ku Klux Klan murder plot, and the FBI's effort to stop it using an undercover informant, is the subject of a...

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Protesters gather on the steps of the Utah State Capitol, at a rally to gain support for removing the clergy exemption from mandatory reporting in cases of abuse and neglect, on Aug. 19, 2022, in Salt Lake City. In a ruling made public Tuesday, April 11, 2023, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under a state law that exempts religious officials from having to report child sex abuse if they learn of the crime during a confessional setting. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

April 11, 2023 at 4:03 pm

Arizona court upholds clergy privilege in child abuse case

The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under...

November 9, 2022 at 10:49 am

CDC to conduct health study at polluted former Army base

Federal health officials are conducting a new study to determine whether veterans once stationed at a now-shuttered California military base were exposed to dangerously high...

October 12, 2022 at 12:37 pm

Lawsuit: Utah firm and lawmaker helped Mormons hide abuse

Three children who were sexually abused by their father are accusing a Utah state legislator and a prominent Salt Lake City law firm of conspiring...

September 27, 2022 at 4:07 am

Senators push to reform police’s cellphone tracking tools

Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow...

Business

FILE – Republican Rep. Merrill Nelson speaks during a special session on April 18, 2018, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. A Utah lawmaker and prominent attorney for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints advised a church bishop not to report a confession of child sex abuse to authorities, a decision that allowed the abuse to continue for years, according to records filed in a lawsuit. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) UTRB101 UTRB101

September 8, 2022 at 9:49 am

Utah rep. told Mormon bishop not to report abuse, docs show

A Utah lawmaker and prominent attorney for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints advised a church bishop not to report a confession of...

August 31, 2022 at 9:13 pm

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’ VIEW

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants,...

Business

August 31, 2022 at 9:09 pm

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’ VIEW

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants,...

Business

FILE – School official Iryna Homenko walks in the hall of a school damaged by an airstrike from Russian forces in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. In Chernihiv alone, the city council said only seven of the cityâ€™s 35 schools were unscathed. Three were reduced to rubble. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File) NY735 NY735

May 16, 2022 at 9:18 pm

War Crimes Watch: Targeting schools, Russia bombs the future VIEW

The AP and the PBS series “Frontline” have independently verified that Russia has destroyed or damaged at least 56 Ukrainian schools in a manner that...

FILE – Nicaraguan migrants walk on the US-Mexico border, in Algodones, Baja California, Mexico, Dec. 2, 2021. The group walked into the U.S. and turned themselves over to the border patrol asking for asylum. The Biden administration has a draft plan to end sweeping asylum limits at the U.S.-Mexico border by May 23 that were put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to people familiar with the plans. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File) WX101 WX101

March 30, 2022 at 10:16 am

AP sources: Asylum limits at border expected to end May 23

The Biden administration is expected to end the asylum limits at the U.S.-Mexico border by May 23 that were put in place to prevent the...