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Former Honduran president sentenced to 45 years for helping traffickers get tons of cocaine into US 06/26/2024 06:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in New York Wednesday to 45 years in prison for teaming up with some bribe-paying drug traffickers for over a decade to ensure over 400 tons of cocaine made it to the United States. Judge P. Kevin Castel sent Justices seem set to allow emergency abortions in Idaho for now, a prematurely posted opinion says 06/26/2024 05:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, according to a copy of the opinion briefly posted on the court's website Wednesday and obtained by Bloomberg News. The document suggests the court will fi Swollen river claims house next to Minnesota dam as flooding and extreme weather grip the Midwest 06/26/2024 05:30pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam collapsed into the river in the latest jarring example of extreme weather gripping the upper Midwest. Video shows the white frame house falling into the flood-swollen Blue Earth River near M What is the federal law at the center of the Supreme Court's latest abortion case? 06/26/2024 04:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears ready to rule that hospitals in Idaho may provide medically necessary abortions to stabilize patients at least for now, despite the state's strict abortion law, according to a copy of the opinion that was briefly posted on Wednesday to the court's websit Few have flood insurance to help recover from devastating Midwest storms 06/26/2024 04:07pm • SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — Rick Satterwhite’s house backs up to the Missouri River, but flood insurance hadn’t really seemed necessary – until this week, when he had to pump water out of his basement after a round of destructive storms. It’s not the first time he’s had to dry out his US surgeon general declares gun violence a public health crisis 06/26/2024 03:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nation's top doctor, came as the U.S. grappled with another The collapse of a cable car in Colombia kills 1 person and injures 20 06/26/2024 03:36pm • MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A cable car in the Colombian city of Medellin failed and plunged onto a sidewalk next to a station platform Wednesday, killing at least one person and injuring 20 others, officials said. It was not immediately clear if the person who died was on the ground or was a pass Former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger endorses Biden, whose campaign wants to flip anti-Trump Republicans 06/26/2024 03:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger endorsed President Joe Biden on Wednesday, giving the Democrat a prominent new ally in his high-stakes campaign to win over moderate Republicans and independents this fall. Kinzinger, a military pilot who emerged as a fierce critic of former Pr Transgender prison inmate assaulted by cellmate in Arizona gets $10K judgment in civil rights suit 06/26/2024 02:26pm • TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A transgender woman who was assaulted by a male inmate while housed in a men’s unit at an Arizona penitentiary has won a $10,000 judgment in a federal civil rights lawsuit. Grace Pinson, 38, was listed as Jeremy Pinson in court documents and represented herself in a four-day The Supreme Court seems poised to rule emergency abortions are allowed in Idaho, a Bloomberg News report says 06/26/2024 01:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems poised to rule emergency abortions are allowed in Idaho, a Bloomberg News report says. Loudoun Co. school board passes tighter student cellphone policy, set to start this fall 06/26/2024 10:09am • When public school students return to classes in Loudoun County, Virginia, this fall a new, tighter cellphone policy will be in place, which could also affect how parents communicate with their children during the school day. The Loudoun County School Board approved a new policy Tuesday that deta Health officials tell US doctors to be alert for dengue as cases ramp up worldwide 06/26/2024 09:43am • NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Tuesday warned doctors to be alert for dengue cases as the tropical disease breaks international records. The virus, which is spread by mosquitoes, has been surging worldwide, helped by climate change. In barely six months, countries in the Americas have al Saipan, placid island setting for Assange's last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss 06/26/2024 07:31am • SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually tourists — attracted by laid-back resorts, snorkeling, diving and golf — and the furthermost reach of t NATO appoints outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general 06/26/2024 04:42am • BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general on Wednesday, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world’s biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine. Rutte’s appointment was sealed by NATO ambass As Iran's presidential vote looms, tensions boil over renewed headscarf crackdown 06/26/2024 12:59am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Seemingly every afternoon in Iran's capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares and intersections to search for women with loose headscarves and those who dare not to wear them at all. The renewed crackdown comes not quite two years since mass protests ove