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A push to expand Medicaid has Kansas governor embracing politics and cutting against her brand 01/06/2024 12:43am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is more aggressive and openly political in pushing to expand Medicaid in Kansas as the Republican-controlled Legislature prepares to open its annual session Monday following five years of failed efforts to provide state health coverage to another 150 Texas Tech says Pop Isaacs is 'in good standing' after report of lawsuit alleging sexual assault 01/05/2024 11:28pm • LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) ��� Texas Tech basketball player Pop Isaacs ���remains in good standing��� after a report of a civil lawsuit accusing the team's leading scorer of sexual assault of a minor, the school said in a statement Friday night. The lawsuit accuses Isaacs of assaulting a 17-year-old girl w New Mexico legislators back slower, sustained growth in government programs with budget plan 01/05/2024 09:50pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� Leading New Mexico lawmakers on Friday recommended a 5.9% increase in general fund spending for the coming fiscal year amid a windfall in oil-related income, while also sounding a cautionary note on the future of the state's petroleum bonanza and setting aside more money in s Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies 01/05/2024 09:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, while a legal fight continues. The justices said they would hear arguments in April and put on hold a lower court ruling that had blocked the Idaho law in hospital emergenci School safety a top priority, Montgomery Co. schools superintendent says 01/05/2024 08:13pm • When students fight in Montgomery County Schools in Maryland, the incidents are considered serious, school system Superintendent Monifa McKnight said. "My top priority as superintendent is to ensure that every student that comes into a school feels safe," McKnight said Friday. When she introdu The Perry school shooting creates new questions for Republicans in Iowa's presidential caucuses 01/05/2024 06:56pm • CUMMING, Iowa (AP) ��� Friday looked like a typical January morning in Iowa ��� gray skies, a brisk breeze and a restaurant crammed with voters munching on breakfast pizzas while listening to a presidential candidate speak. Introduced by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie as ���the most pro-Second Amendm A group representing TikTok, Meta and X sues Ohio over new law limiting kids' use of social media 01/05/2024 06:29pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� A trade group representing TikTok, Snapchat, Meta and other major tech companies sued Ohio on Friday over a pending law that requires children to get parental consent to use social media apps. The law was part of an $86.1 billion state budget bill that Republican Gov. Mike D Ohio governor signs order barring minors from gender-affirming surgery as veto override looms 01/05/2024 03:47pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� A week after vetoing legislation that would have banned all forms of gender-affirming care for minors in Ohio, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed an executive order Friday barring Ohioans from receiving transgender surgeries until they���re 18. The bill passed by both chamber Illinois man charged in Fourth of July parade shooting rehires lawyers weeks after dismissing them 01/05/2024 03:45pm • WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) ��� The man charged with killing seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago asked to again be represented by public defenders after firing them last month and insisting on handling his own case. Robert Crimo III is charged with 21 counts of first-degree murder �� Nashville is reassigning 10 officers following the leak of a school shooter's writings, police say 01/05/2024 02:12pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Ten officers with the Nashville police department's specialized investigative unit will be reassigned following an unauthorized release of writings from the shooter who killed six people, including three children, at The Covenant School last year. A spokesperson for Metro N Family of Landon School student files wrongful death suit, claims bullying went unaddressed 01/05/2024 12:54pm • The family of a 16-year-old student who died by suicide in 2022 has filed a lawsuit against The Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, claiming the private school failed to protect the teen despite knowing he had endured recent trauma, was repeatedly bullied and was demonstrating well-known signs of m NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 01/05/2024 11:39am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Images made to look like court records circulate online amid Epstein 17-year-old kills sixth grader, wounds five others in Iowa school shooting, police say 01/04/2024 11:08pm • PERRY, Iowa (AP) ��� A 17-year-old opened fire at a small-town Iowa high school before classes resumed on the first day after the winter break, killing a sixth-grader and wounding five others Thursday as students barricaded in offices, ducked into classrooms and fled in panic. The suspect, a student Panarin scores, Trocheck adds 3 assists as Rangers down Blackhawks 4-1 01/04/2024 10:54pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Artemi Panarin scored his team-best 24th goal, Vincent Trocheck added three assists and the New York Rangers defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1 on Thursday night. Chris Kreider, Jacob Trouba and Jimmy Vesey also scored for the Rangers, who rebounded from Tuesday���s 6-1 home loss Glynis Johns, 'Mary Poppins' star who first sang Sondheim's 'Send in the Clowns,' dies at 100 01/04/2024 10:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie ���Mary Poppins��� and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be ���Send in the Clowns��� by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 100. Mitch Clem,