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June 24, 2019 at 10:13 pm

Judges question basis for Alabama minimum wage suit

ATLANTA (AP) — Several federal appeals court judges appeared skeptical Tuesday of a lawsuit by fast-food workers and civil rights groups accusing Alabama lawmakers of...

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June 9, 2019 at 7:35 am

Jimmy Carter, after hip surgery, back teaching Sunday school VIEW

ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter talked about his recent health setback and his conversation with President Donald Trump, as he returned to...

May 29, 2019 at 10:29 pm

Prosecutors push back on enforcing new state abortion laws

ATLANTA (AP) — New state abortion laws likely to become bogged down in legal challenges face another potential obstacle: prosecutors who refuse to enforce them....

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May 21, 2019 at 8:46 am

At abortion clinics, new laws sow confusion, uncertainty VIEW

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Abortion clinics are facing protesters emboldened by a flurry of restrictive new state laws as they reassure confused patients that the...

May 20, 2019 at 1:34 pm

Nationwide liver transplant policy caught up in court case

ATLANTA (AP) — Organ transplant officials are rolling back a new nationwide policy over how to allocate scarce livers amid a legal fight in federal...

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May 13, 2019 at 12:58 pm

Former US President Jimmy Carter has surgery for broken hip

ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter broke his hip Monday at his south Georgia home when he fell while leaving to go turkey...

April 8, 2019 at 2:21 pm

Judge blocks Trump's wait-in-Mexico asylum policy but delays enforcement

A U.S. judge decided Monday to block the Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for an immigration court to...

March 30, 2019 at 10:01 am

Judge restores Obama-era drilling ban in Arctic

President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in...

March 28, 2019 at 10:59 am

California justice calls death penalty system dysfunctional

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The death penalty system in the nation's most populous state is dysfunctional and expensive, and a ballot measure approved by voters...

March 27, 2019 at 3:12 pm

Monsanto ordered to pay $80 million in Roundup cancer case

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. jury on Wednesday awarded more than $80 million in damages to a California man who blamed Roundup weed killer...

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