North Carolina governor files lawsuit over LGBT rights law
By GARY D. ROBERTSON and EMERY P. DALESIO North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration sued the federal government Monday in a fight for a state law that requires transgender people…
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Once unthinkable in US, drug shoot-up rooms get serious look
By DAVID KLEPPER Across the United States, heroin users have died in alleys behind convenience stores, on city sidewalks and in the bathrooms of fast-food joints — because no one…
US government: North Carolina LGBT law violates civil rights
By EMERY P. DALESIO and GARY D. ROBERTSON A North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights laws and can’t be enforced, the U.S. Justice Department…
AP sources: Kasich to end bid for Republican nomination
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE The last man standing in Donald Trump’s path to the Republican nomination, Ohio Gov. John Kasich will end his campaign Wednesday, making Trump the party’s presumptive nominee.…
In Indiana, Cruz faces make-or-break moment to stop Trump
By THOMAS BEAUMONT and JILL COLVIN Facing a make-or-break moment for his slumping campaign, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was blitzing through Indiana on Monday in a desperate bid to overtake…
Trump bristles at Cruz-Kasich collaboration
By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Donald Trump says an extraordinary collaboration between Ted Cruz and John Kasich aimed at unifying the anti-Trump vote in some remaining primaries is a…
3 charged with several crimes in Flint water crisis
By MIKE HO– USEHOLDER and ED WHITE Two state regulators and a Flint employee were charged Wednesday with evidence tampering and other felonies and misdemeanors, for the first time raising…
Freddie Gray, 1 year later: What has changed in Baltimore?
By JULIET LINDERMAN When Freddie Gray died April 19, 2015, and riots erupted, Baltimore and its residents were forced to confront issues that had plagued them for decades, community leader…