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LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — A Christian web designer who contends her religious beliefs prevent her from making wedding websites for gay couples said her legal battle in the U.S. Supreme Court next month is about protecting everyone's right to free speech. Lorie Smith spoke about her case, which is the latest clash over religion and [...]
As Sharon Wilson pulled up to the BP site in Texas last June, production tanks towered above the windblown grass roughly 60 miles southeast of San Antonio. Cows and pumpjacks lined the roadsides. All looked placid, but when Wilson flipped on a high-tech video camera, a disquieting image became visible: A long black plume poured [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The call went out from leaders in the medical marijuana industry: Money was needed for a Missouri ballot initiative to legalize recreational cannabis for adults. Their colleagues responded. Marijuana farms, manufacturers and retailers provided millions of dollars that footed a petition drive to put the proposal on the November ballot and [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Liberty McCoy was out on a recent Saturday urging voters to pass a Nov. 8 ballot measure to limit rent increases in Pasadena because she's afraid she'll be priced out of the city where she grew up and where her aging parents live. The librarian and her husband, a freelance consultant, [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Republicans in Ohio are promoting a measure on the Nov. 8 ballot that would prohibit noncitizens from voting in local elections, fighting back at what they see as a push from cities such as San Francisco and New York City allowing noncitizens to vote. It would make Ohio the seventh state to [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The online commercials in a state Senate race in some Raleigh, N.C., suburbs make an ominous claim, similar to one repeated across the country ahead of the Nov. 8 election: The Republican candidate "wants to strip away our reproductive rights." The Republican, Mark Cavaliero, says the Planned Parenthood-affiliated political action committee [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated many children's well-being, not just by closing their schools, but also by taking away some of their parents' jobs, sickening some family members and teachers, and adding chaos to their daily lives. The scale of the disruption to kids' education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day is eight days away, but in courtrooms across the country, more than 100 lawsuits have been filed this year around the upcoming midterm elections. The suits target rules over mail-in voting, early voting, voter access, voting machines, voting registration, the counting of mismarked absentee ballots and access for partisan poll [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — They dodge. They hedge and, yes, they sometimes even fib — or at least flip-flop. Presidential aspirants dreaming of the White House while running for re-election to congressional or state posts often face an uncomfortable question: Whatever your higher hopes — and the timing they might demand — will you commit to [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Stephanie Terrell bought a used Nissan Leaf this fall and was excited to join the wave of drivers adopting electric vehicles to save on gas money and reduce her carbon footprint. Terrell quickly encountered a bump in the road on her journey to clean driving: As a renter, she doesn't have [...]