Portland scraps Texas boycott, allocates abortion funds
PORTLAND, Ore. — The City Council in Portland, Oregon, has scrapped a plan to boycott Texas businesses because of a new law that prohibits...
Committee wants to file own plan in Boy Scouts bankruptcy
DOVER, Del. — A committee charged with representing tens of thousands of alleged victims of child sex abuse in the Boy Scouts of America...
Tesla builds 1st store on tribal land, dodges state car laws
NAMBÉ, N.M. — Carmaker Tesla has opened a store and repair shop on Native American land for the first time, marking a new approach...
Appeals court sides with Biden’s deportation priorities
NEW ORLEANS — An federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed the Biden administration's selective criteria on who should be deported to remain in effect,...
Some abortion foes question tactical wisdom of new Texas ban
The new Texas law that bans most abortions in the state has been welcomed by many of the religious leaders who help bolster the...
Texas company to pay nearly $3M for Clean Air Act violations
POINT COMFORT, Texas — A Texas plastics company has agreed to pay nearly $3 million in civil penalties for violating the Clean Air Act,...
Hurricane battered Louisiana braces for Nicholas drenching
POINTE-AUX-CHENES, La. — Residents of southern Louisiana still recovering from Hurricane Ida just weeks ago were bracing Wednesday for expected heavy rains as Nicholas...
US grants license for temporary nuclear waste dump in Texas
WASHINGTON — Federal officials have cleared the way for construction of a dump in West Texas that could hold spent nuclear fuel for up...
Boys Scouts settlement reached with primary insurer
DOVER, Del. — One of the primary insurers of the Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday that it has reached a tentative settlement agreement...
Wrongly convicted man who escaped death row dies of COVID-19
MINNEAPOLIS — A man who escaped death row in Louisiana in 2012 after he was exonerated by DNA evidence for a murder he didn’t...