Month: February 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers have begun a process to remove racist language from the state’s 121-year-old Constitution. The Alabama…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Democrats in Oregon’s Legislature have proposed a $400 million investment…

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Before a 2-month-old critically endangered orangutan can be reunited with his mother at…

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina sheriff’s office says a third person has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a man…

By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In the opening hours of Russia’s assault on Ukraine, ballistic missiles by the…

By MICHAEL CASEY and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department concluded that more than 80% of the billions of…

By The Associated Press Canada has become the first country to authorize use of a plant-based COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine is made by Medicago of…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The governors of four Rocky Mountain states say they will cooperate on developing ways to…

By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller says dramatic increases in the price of farm fertilizers…

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ Supreme Court of Justice has denied the appeal of former President…

HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — Officials say an encounter between a New Mexico officer and two suspects left the officer wounded, one of the suspects dead and…